I'm a returning player and trying to RESUBSCRIBE for myself and my wife's account. I've had so much trouble with trying to give Bioward/EA my money via the web side one time passwords take for ever to arrive, sometimes never the "maintenance" issue mentioned in another thread on multiple days. credit card payment failing at the last moment with mysterious error. Finally worked a few days later (for me) On the plus side, the actual game servers has been up when ever I've wanted to logon. At this point I am dreading having to logon to the website for anything given how regularly terrible the experience is. I'm pretty sure my complaining here is not going to result in the issue getting fixed but it makes me feel better. kthxbai

Well, if you played at the highest level then you should know to join a guild that uses voice, get in voice, group up and queue together. obviously you should learn the rules.

truth. the better alternative is to group up yourself (and get in voice chat). It is simply more fun. In some alternate universe where SWTOR is more popular, BW has implemented a lot of slicing and dicing of PvP queues (e.g. a unranked WZ with only solo queued players) but that ain't happening in our universe.

I think a PT/VG tank named "tar-baby" would be a good followup. (carbonize FTW)

BrerRabbit is an awesome name for a scoundrel. Wish I had thought of that

Why is line of sight NOT a problem for MM in team ranked?

I've seen the scoreboard report a "biggest hit" for me that is bigger than the biggest hit seen in my combat log. I agree it is most likely is a scoreboard bug.

How much dueling did you do leading up to and during your excursion in to ranked? My observation is that people who duel a lot do much better in ranked than those who do not. If you have not mastered the basics of 1v1 you are at a serious disadvantage to those who have.

The obvious solution is that rock shouldn't attack paper. Let scissor attack paper. No scissor on your team? CC the hell out of paper and kill paper last. If you are in voice chat have a ranged pop the bubble target reapplies bubble (and now has bubble application debuff what is the lockout? 20s? ) ranged pops bubble again melee switches (leaps) to target.

Shorter. People complain. There is no cmobat balancing change that will fix human nature.

Thanks. I played on Fatman a while back. 120ms is definitely playable but less than 35ms is so much nicer. I'll stick on the west coast thank you very much.

I think what happened is some players whined that operative needed a buff so a few good ranked players took up the gauntlet and started playing DPS operative in ranked. Once they demonstrated that "DPS operative is not viable" complaints were a L2P issue, many folks read the secret operative guide (exfiltrate. the end) and L2P-ed. You have to admit it is great fun to play a team of stunlocking operatives™. In one WZ I had a group of 3-4 operative focus me every time they saw me. I could have gotten mad but I just laughed it off. After all it was only regs and I was queuing solo. Later I got that same team of operatives on my side. They were pretty funny in chat with their Gollum like conversations about finding and killing sorcs.

simple strat for beating a good operative: don't hit them during exfiltrate buff don't dot them while exfiltrate is on CD or near CD ??? profit!!! (or die)

<grunch> how about separate rewards for grouped ranked? It takes more work to make group ranked happen so most people do solo ranked because that is the easiest path to the same rewards. As always, mounts, armor, weapons, emotes and titles are all good rewards as they allow the best players a chance to flaunt the results of their hard work.

I LOLed.

By shouting down everyone that warned the devs the 2.0 changes would wreck sin tanks in pvp. Couple theorycrafters that turned out to be very, very wrong. Krea's excellent shadow PvP guide implies shadow tanking is just fine for ranked. If it is fine for ranked it is clearly fine for regs. It does seem to be universally accepted that shadow is a hard class to play to its full potential.

FYP /5char

tangent: is server transfer for 90cc a limited time offer or permanent (until further notice)? It might be fun to do a tour de west coast servers. I expect to keep Bastion j(where my guilds, guild banks, guild ships, et cetera) as my home.

I'm bad at PvP and this shows when I play ranked. You need to guard switch quickly in ranked. I suspect experience and playing a good number of ranked matches in which you have a guildmate in voice chat helps so that you can quickly discuss between rounds and do a post mortem afterwards. Good players know the current meta so while they watch the raid frame to see health and the enemies on the screen, they also expect a fixed number of plays from the opposition so they can anticipate when a switch is needed. I don't have the knowledge yet so my guard switches are nearly always late (compared with a decent ranked tank). I've seen good tanks on the other side switch so quickly our DPS can't change targets and get more than 1 GCD worth of damage on an unguarded target. You also need to do decent DPS while exerting control on the opposition. It takes more awareness to play tank (and heals) well in PvP. NOTE: I haven't tanked or played ranked this season but I played last season.

I'll add the caveat that I've experimented a lot with different bindings (quite a while ago) and my recollection is that some things like focus target modifier may not work if you bind it to certain keys. I don't remember which now but if it does not work for you, try a few other bindings -- not necessarily the binding you want, just a binding to see the ability work on a dummy.

FYP /5char

I hope this means you've been reporting him/her...

don't worry about the difference until you get to level 60. For now just make sure you have items in every slot possible (implants, relics). Learn to play your class. I highly recommend dueling regularly. Tank isn't good for winning duels but you can have other goals like lasting a very long time or getting the opponent below 50% before he wins. The heart of PvP play is knowing your abilities, your opponents defensive counters, your opponents abilities and your defensive counters. Most people don't know all their opponents abilities but they learn the big hitters as these are the ones you want to counter with your DCDs and CC.

and after several million years evolved into humans.

gear matters but bolster shrinks the difference between gear compared with open world PvP where there (usually) is no bolster. Some people have done a lot of experimenting on how to maximize stats under bolster but this is mostly for endgame PvP.