Lvled a tactics vanguard to 70 mostly via PVP. Switched to tank spec but kept my dps gear and mods and omg it was the best. Most of the squishiness is gone. IMO the tank spec makes your 10m attacks much more viable. No more dying in 3 hits, guarding actually works, feels like I am finally making an impact on wzs. PVP is fun again even when I lose. I know skank tanks are frustrating to play against but when the alternative is basically getting one-shotted it's an easy choice.

Tonight was rough. Won the first wz and PVP turned into a dumpster fire after that. I just stopped queuing after 3 matches haha.

Sorry to hear it. Endgame PVP does seem to be more frustrating lately.

OP makes a lot of good points. I don't go into ranked for those reasons. Regs are great with heals though. My tactics vanguard had top dps and protection in 2 wzs tonight. But I have been on the other side of heal imbalances and premades a million times. I found tactics vanguard easy to learn but tough to master. Some tips for PVP regs that could help you: - Get used to alternating between shoulder cannon and attacks. It's like you don't have the global cd. - use the utility that increases the range of cell burst, railshot, flak shell, and artillery blitz to 30m while your battle focus is on. This is crucial to getting more dps when your teammates are wearing toilet paper armor and getting mowed down. Also, spend a utility point to increase Hold the Line speed by 45% - if your team sucks, try to fight on the edges of a battle instead of charging into the middle. Especially if you have no heals. Otherwise you die in about 5 seconds. Sorry but it sucks haha. - Save hold the line for when you need to haul ***** out of a battle. I found that your aoe stun + HtL works well to escape bad situations. - Use gut on stealthers early in the fight. It's DoT will cancel their escape spells early. Hope some of these help in regs. I don't know how to beast ranked. Vanguard has deep flaws but I really enjoy the burst and believe it's worth the headache .

Went 6-1 as a pub the last two nights. We had 2-3 heals in every match and the other team had none. It was a beatdown and I felt for the imps. I have been on the wrong end of that smacking many, many times. Depends on the night I guess.

Won 3/4 WZs tonight. Imps really sucked and couldn't play objectives. Guess it does go back and forth.

The one night I don't play and pubs get a winning streak going. It is possible that I'm so bad that I bring down a team. Still going to que though, playing as a vanguard is too much fun.

It's not so much carrying as it would be nice to have a balanced team. I noticed that pubs win more in mornings and afternoons. I believe the imp premades roll in the evenings. The other day I played 6 matches and won 1. That one win was a Yavin WZ where I was the only pub with 7 imps. The 5 losses were with pubs. Like I said though, pubs are much more competitive early in the day.

I don't understand the point of a gun with a range of 10m. And no, there will be no buffs for vanguards (but the mercs will probably get the shoulder cannon and sorc bubble in the next patch.)

I spend all day playing vanguard and win one match. Always top dps for my team despite being in 230 gear and being a glass cannon with no heals. Most pubs average 400k dps per match and are blissfully happy to suck. As a whole, we pubs are wretched. I can't remember jedi covenant ever being so bad. Night after night of losses. Maybe some imps could come over and make the wzs more balanced now that cross faction don't pop as much <end nerdrage>

I play both imp and pub on SF and found imps win 90 percent of regs.

I find vanguard to be borderline unplayable at lvl 70. I've done Sniper, sage, and op at 70 and this is the worst by far. Shame on you BW.

I miss the frequent cross-faction war zones because they were more competitive. At least if there were no premades. Now it's back to getting rolled by imps.

Anyone have any advice or thread links? I searched the boards and didn't find anything pvp 5.0 or later. Threads are mostly PvE or warnings not to PvP with the class haha. Need a better rotation because the imps are mowing us down in star forge.

I was accused of hacking when my vanguard used hold the line (45% utility buff). It happens every once in a while.

Wow thanks for all the replies. I've gotten better in recent matches. Struggles were mainly caused by poor positioning and some really crappy teams. I try to avoid duels when possible...easier to do dps when you are 30-35m away.

Weird to hear sorc/sages are struggling. I play a madness (balance?) sage with 230 gear and usually get between first and third dps. Positioning is key. Kiting helps, use your self-heal spells on cd. You can cast two of them while running.

I have played as a Marksman Spec Sniper for 4 years and this is the worst I can recall. It seems like other classes have reflects, bubbles, electro nets, stun immunity, interrupt immunity, knockback immunity, etc. that completely negate my rotation. By the time all their defensive abilities are exhausted I am long dead. I mainly play my healer and DoT sorc now. Any MM snipers willing to give advice beyond the usual L2play? I do reasonably well when grouped with a healer but solo ques are a beatdown.

Is it possible to get an orange level curved-hilt LS for a sith jugg? Most of the curved-hilt sabers I've seen are bound on pickup for sorcs and marauders. I read somewhere that it's a rare drop on tat and alderaan but I have no idea where. Any tips?

really, you guys suck.

Overseer Harkun when you return to Korriban to pick out an apprentice: OH: You know, I really enjoy training these monstrous freaks.

If you want to feel unheroic and insignificant then keep playing as an SI. You're basically the red-headed stepchild that nobody likes while the SW is off collecting praise and conquering the galaxy. The mightiest sith lords to the lowliest sith janitor all hate you. So why do I keep playing SI? Lightning. I love zapping enemies and frying them. It's also funny to see your SI bumble through the story. One whole act is you trying to fix an epic mistake that nearly kills you. The SI is a great example of incompetence rising to the top.

So yeah, I thought that was a pretty neat plot twist, definitely unexpected.

willydapimp, and the character was a fat black guy with the sith robes, his "pimp robes" as he called them.