Some people like huttball, some people don't Some people like PvP, some people don't Why must everyone force their preference on others? I personally dislike huttball but if it pops up I'll just play it like any other warzone. Here's hoping BW would just make more warzones and let people choose which one they'd play, especially for regular warzones (population issues aside).

1. Because only 3 people in our guild (maybe 4) constantly do PvP 2. Because I already have full War Hero gear 3. Because I'm a Commando 4. Because I always thought ranked PvP is nothing but an e-peen measurement that hits most people on their face

Probably because of words like current, torrent, etc. People like me especially since English is not my first. On topic: There is the fact that some people advise the undergeared people to stick to the ones that are better armed (which even if not told, is the better option to do unless it means leaving a spot undefended), but since those people are usually better off where the action is, the lesser geared will of course follow. Just a thought.

Disadvantage of backpedalling: slower speed. Advantage of backpedalling: slower speed. That easy. But I'm sure a lot of people will still get it the wrong way.

About the gear... Wouldn't it make more sense to propose it the other way around (make gear matter in unranked and world pvp, but make it level in ranked)? I mean, if ranked WZs are where people test their leet skillz, make it so that gear doesn't matter. After all, the incentive of doing ranked (aside from e-peen) is ranked warzone comms, which is kinda backwards since I saw a lot of people here suggesting that you should keep doing unranked to "fix" your gear, and most people who do it already don't have a need for those.

Probably he meant mobility as in the ability to move from one place to another, while most of you meant the ability to move around freely in combat. Just a misunderstanding of the term involved.

You should try playing a DPS commando/mercenary then. It'll be good for your health.

Not sure if you'd be disappointed or encouraged, but I have a very similar specced laptop as yours (mine's Toshiba Qosmio F750: i7, GT540M 2GB, but only 4GB DDR3), and I run SWTOR just fine, as in not too laggy (didn't really use any FPS indicator, but pretty sure it's well above 30 fps, even in warzones). I'm even running it on default settings, with only shadows disabled. Sadly I really can't give you any advice or anything, since I don't know what caused the problem in yours. However, I do have some observations that after playing some other game or browsing, SWTOR can sometimes run with dreadful FPS (GPU lag), and the only way to fix it is to restart my laptop. Maybe it has something to do with other programs running on your system? Or maybe some settings in the NVIDIA control panel, especially the preferred graphics processor and stuff like that (but I'm sure you've tried those already, and have the drivers up-to-date since you mentioned tweaks). I hope it's not a defective card, if it's really GPU lag...

Bounty Hunters (or Trooper)... If Mercenary/Commando: Knockback ASAP, sure. Then... snare? what snare? the one on gunnery / arsenal that we had to talent way up the tree to get a snare that roots ourselves? The one on the assault / pyro that happens only 16% when we use our standard attack? All the while feeling abit slower... probably something hit us? Or maybe we should use that other thing that people keep saying helps us to kite, which is what, a long-range stun for 4s that we can only use once every three fights. Except that after the first knockback, using it would mean full resolve and is pointless if they can then break out of CC (full resolve, why not?). And I think by then that guy can already use his charge again. Oh and cleanse? Again, how?

Except that there IS a class that can't do any of them... well, except 'move'.

For biggest proving effect, roll an Arsenal Merc / Gunnery Commando. While you're at it, record some vids of you owning pvp with that. Even better, do it in a ranked warzone.

Yea, there needs to be some advantage, like what Artifice do... wait...

And make the pvp vendor sell reusable stims and adrenals.

This is why so many people have acute tunnel vision

This. The fact is that there are some practically useless classes that aren't doing anything good either 1v1 or in a team, and some classes do much better than others 1v1 and in a team. It's more like there are rock, paper, scissor, dynamite, and cheese. That's not balance. Stop playing your FOTM classes for once and try these other classes out.