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Well YOU might not have any desire to do that content, which is fine. But I was speaking to the OP who obviously does. I'm not trying to convince you or declare any incentives to play any style. If you don't like raiding, then don't raid. If he wants to learn and experience that part of the game, then good for him! I hope he gets to experience it.

Most of those threads are the same regulars that always post on the forums. Imagine all of the people who don't visit the forums at all. You will never get an accurate consensus from the forums. I wish Bioware would send out polls and surveys to each account to get REAL feedback and rate content.

Raiding is probably the most fun part of the game in my personal opinion, especially if you raid with irl friends or a great group of people that make it fun. It is really the only reason i play since i quit pvp. Don't get discouraged man. I see guilds recruiting all the time on gen chat. take a chance with some of them. You might find a group of people that you really connect with. With all of the operations being boosted to level 60 and 65 soon, it will be a great time to experience the classics if you have never done them. good luck!

Lets see what happens, they just announced an expansion ... I'm sure more details will come out soon.

man I saw a paragraph and I my first thought was "uggh here we go" .. but I started reading and you are pretty much right about a lot of things. there are plenty of wannabe champions in these forums that will say "its your fault for not doing your research" and cant be bothered with new players blah blah. but there are also a lot of good people scattered in game in almost every guild that would generally help new players if they somehow found each other in guild. I have met some great friends here that will probably last longer than this game. the guilds have changed, merged, ended, reformed, etc, but we still hang out everyday on various games. I also see people get discouraged and leave all together. don't get discouraged man.

^^Agree totally. If a class is deemed "overpowered" that usually means it is over performing what it should be. That doesn't mean the other classes can't do the job if played properly. When snipers were at the top, people rushed to level a sniper because they thought they would instantly be great. It doesn't work that way. As far as the original post, making 2 separate balancing systems, they have already said "not going to happen". If I'm not mistaken they even said it again in the "Bad Feeling Podcast" with Alex and Eric. I feel your pain, and you absolutely get to express your dislike for the changes, but they are not going to split them up. Just send them ideas you like and hope for the best. I play sorc/sage and merc/commando heals mostly in PVE and I will wait to see how they play before I get all upset.

Changes: I like it. Send it to print!! BoL Titles: Yes! If I earned it I should be able to show it. Just like the Manhunter title (which we need a newer and larger title since lots of us have passed this a long time ago) that I earned on my legacy. AOE change: I can see where it would encourage spam caps on voidstar where you could be outnumbered on one side since the defending team has to send people to each door and the attackers could just zerg one side. But I would be willing to see how it goes. It should not effect Ranked since there are no nodes or capping involved. Suggestions: Make PVP gear sets look completely different from PVE gear sets. This would encourage people who PVE that like the look of the PVP gear to go and earn the gear if they want it. Adds some encouragement for participating. Makes no sense to have them look identical. It just makes sense to see a gear set and recognize that the player earned it from PVP or that he/she earned it from doing the hardest raids. I do both and I would love to know that I didn't do all of that work for 2 sets that look exactly the same (excluding color). Thanks!!!

dude, THANK YOU for the "warzone comm transfers" and "revamped comm system and costs". THANK YOU SIR!!!! I quit PVP all together since the current system was too restrictive and I was less inspired to roll alts on the opposite faction or to roll new toons. This is truly great news for me personally. I know you will never make EVERYONE happy and there will always be haters, but you guys are appreciated more than you know. Thanks!!!!

I have been on a pvp strike since 3.1.2 dropped. No more ranked, no more regs, no more lowbie or mids for me at all. I have been raiding and making new raiding toons on different servers.. I even started a couple of toons on Euro servers. No pvp is a pretty radical change for me.

awesome. finally a pack that has the complete set in one shot. i would totally pay more if i knew that when a gear set drops i was getting the whole set. nothing worse than getting 20 wrist pieces or belts in a row.

I want 12xp because it will allow me to roll alts faster on other servers to play with different people in endgame. I have already been through each story several times so I would like the option to have it. It is not mandatory either from what I understand. I think it is a buff or something that you can remove if you do not want it so not sure why that would effect you if someone else gets it. It is also going away around the fall season, so it is not permanent.

yeah, plenty of people will play MMO's ... but the ones that have been released lately all have design flaws that make people lose interest. I have searched around and they are all Anime and ... well crappy. I was so excited for ESO and Wildstar to come out ...but they both have major issues that I can't seem to get passed. This game has issues but I still like it more than the others. But if Bioware doesn't meet my personal list of demands though ... I will be forced to hold somebody's teddy bear ransom and possibly shoot somebody with a rubber band ... on the elbow.

Exactly. The problem is that "gankers want to gank". All they really want to do is gank undergeared players as they load into the area (before someone says "NOT TRUE!!" ... shhhh yes you do ... stop with the "I want to fight other pvp'ers!! and the best competition! " ... just staahhp.) The unfortunate truth is that OWPVP is dead in this game already. There are plenty of places that people can go to participate, yet these areas are barely used in proportion to the rest of the game. I would love to see some OWPVP grow and more people participate. It is truly fun, but casual players aren't going to enter Ziost if they get attacked when they load in (which is what gankers really want when they cry for OWPVP). Gankers cried when they fixed Yavin, you hear "omg!!! you ruined the game!!! how are we supposed to OWPVP??!!". As if that one little area defines the entire OWPVP lifeblood. You can still flag on Yavin, and you can still fight the other faction if you want, just not at the load in area and yet most people choose not to. Participation is extremely low, and gank areas will not increase participation it will drive casual players away from those areas (*coughcough*OutlawsDen*cough*Ilum*cough).

fair and handled like a boss ... well done.

THIS all day ^^^ It is amazing and freaking hilarious that some people have to be "told directly" the difference between right and wrong and then we have to wade through floods of tears when punishments get mentioned. I know its just a video game but c'mon, some people need to grow up already. You accepted the "Terms of Service" just like everyone else. If you don't understand the words in that agreement, then it is a YOU issue, not a Bioware issue.

a .... sisteerrrr ... Obi Wan was wise to hide her from me .... (sorry couldn't resist)

LOL im still laughing as I keep reading through. Great stuff.

I get what you are saying bro, not trying to create an argument.. I am saying that it really takes both. Nobody is winning very many ranked matches or topping leader boards in 162 gear. But my main issue is that something needs to change with the current comm system and how to acquire gear. I would love to see the PVP community grow, but I know too many people playing that won't queue because they are tired of the grind. If gear doesn't matter then BW should loosen up on the WZ comms. Allow comm transfers between alts, and raise the cap that you can hold. I think we all agree that 2750 is not enough.

Yes it is possible, but that usually means the guy in full Dark Reaver is not very good. You ABSOLUTELY have the advantage having full DR against 162 gear. You are doing more damage and taking less. The 2018 expertise might be the same, but the stats that go with it are a huge difference. Otherwise nobody would be grinding for the DR at all .... nobody would care if it didn't make a difference. I entered 3.0 with crap 162 gear on a fresh lvl 60 and went up against a guild that came out of the gates in full DR and they did so much more damage to me than I was doing to them. As I started getting my DR pieces, things started to change and I was taking them down just as much as they took me down. Same skill ...just better gear.

I agree 100%. I am totally fine with having a grind. The grind from tier 1 to tier 2 is completely fine and keeps the hard core pvp'ers happy that top gear is not "given" away. The problem could easily be solved if they allowed us to transfer comms to other alts. 1. you are still earning them through pvp 2. you are still having to grind for that top gear. which is extensive enough having to convert ranked at a 3 to 1 ratio takes forever. And that is okay with me. 3. it will get more people doing pvp in all brackets (which is a good thing), because your comms are actually worth something and not wasted on medpacs (that most of us already have collecting in our storage) or crappy low level pvp gear that does nothing for you in warzones. 4. it gets rid of having people enter 60 pvp with crappy pve gear to get 2018 expertise. 5. Those old pve alts that I started with that have been collecting dust can be given some coms to get some gear. Content alone will not save PVP from the low participation that is sees now. It just isn't enough to throw in a map here or there. I don't like arenas as it is and so I do ranked mostly as an unhappy participant. I stopped queuing completely since 3.1.2 dropped and took away the stronghold title thing. New content wont get me to come back to it, I want the comm system to be changed to make this process more fun. I love the pvp here, and I want to participate but something needs to change to make me want to pvp again. I'm just raiding until that happens. If it never happens then pvp will not be interesting to me at all.

Still no response on this. It makes no sense to waste WZ coms that I earned on medpacs, low level pvp gear that does nothing for you in WZ's, or basic coms. I have plenty of that stuff already. 60 pvp is fun on the 2 geared alts I have, but I wanted to roll on other servers as well, and not really going to go through all of that now. Ranked queues are slow as is, and it is mostly the same people over and over in the matches. I keep seeing "C'MON!! PLS QUEUE TEAM RANKED!!" or "Is solo ranked popping?" all night in chat. Something needs to change in order to get more people interested in queuing. The transfer of coms would encourage more people to play low and mid pvp as well as help get more people into 60 pvp with the correct gear (which EVERYBODY wants to see). I'm done with pvp for now. I will just keep raiding with my raid teams. The day I can transfer my coms that I earned is the day I might be interested to make more alts and get back in there. The pvp in this game is so much fun, but the current blockade on WZ coms is not.

Yeah don't worry too much about the votes. People usually vote for their mates first. Make no mistake ... you will get noticed and appreciated for healing. People always notice you if you are keeping them alive. When you see "great heals man!" or "thanks for the heals!" whispered to you, that is really all it takes to feel appreciated. I know after a match I hit the vote button so fast sometimes that I forget "oh man I should have gave it to that healer who was doing a great job, oh well i'll get him next time." it happens a lot.

absolutely 100% THIS. rock>scissors and math>silliness

I agree, Eric takes a lot of heat for being the messenger. but that comes with being the messenger. lol