Yup said so before, adding 8 man premades to the regular queue is just a bad idea

Ranked was pretty much infested with wintrading, q-syncing, match throwing etc etc Elo only really worked for the first two seasons, without cross server it was pretty much dead on arrival. (after the population was just too little to make elo work) The system basicly put people with a similar rating together, so after a few days you had high rated people just farming low rated ones. Because the game would put them together because how the system worked, fun fun.

very much doubt a third party will put as much funding into voice acting as EA did. Then again they should have dropped the German and French dub ages ago. So most likely maintenance mode is coming after 7.4. But guess we have been in semi maintenace mode for the last 2 years already

Hamster isn't running the wheel again

Merc is in a pretty weak state at the moment as dps in PvP. Current meta is Hatred assassins, Pyro powertechs, Vengeance juggernaut, Leth operatives, Madness sorcerer. Basicly dot specs are parsing the highest in single target and have dot spread potential on top of that, so they are outperforming Arsenal is the lowest parsing spec.

Like especially in the early mornings when the ain't many PvP pops going on, the game gives priority to making warzones happen, specially in those sitatuations you can get easy 8 man group pops against pugs. Doesn't seem to be working as intended, but maybe it's a futile attempt but the game would be better off with the old style 4 man premades bopping around. Like I am not completely against grouping even in regs, but 8 man versus pugs is just taking it too far. Or as alternative make 8 man pops only happen if the are other 8 man groups in queue, so they would always face eachother.

Like I am totally okay with 4 man premades, but 8 man against a bunch of pugs? Doesn't seem too healthy for the game does it. Or you know, you can just put 8 v 8 ranked back in the game, if you want to encourage teamplay with 8 man groups.

I agree remove this from the groupfinder it's just too frustrating to get this several times in a row or cutdown the cutscenes by a lot.

Bioware please think about reworking resolve in PvP. The increase in hardstuns and slows is going to make Warzones/Arenas a big CC/stun spamfest. Please consider increasing either the duration on resolve or make it build up quicker, if you intend on going with the current changes.

Processor is way more important then the GPU in this game, you could probably run it with a gtx 660 2gb if you wanted to. Remember it's a 5 year old game that came out in 2012 somewhere and 8gb of memory is fine also.

They just nerfed bolster, going to be harmful to casual PvPers and new players. Specially a few months from now when a large amount of people have BiS 242 gear. You need to go full Korean grind mode to keep up or fall behind

To be honest I reallly think, they just don't care.

I think they changed it so it goes with the component rate; 5 - Warzone Win 2 - Warzone Loss 3 - Arena Win 1 - Arena Loss 5 - Solo Ranked Win 2 - Solo Ranked Loss 8 - Group Ranked Win 3 - Group Ranked Loss 8 - GSF Win

For screwing over casual PvPers. Patch notes: Bolster now improves players up to 232 Item Rating (down from 250). Seems the will be a massive gear difference in PvP which is a bad development for any casual or new players that PvPs. Seeing how big the actual gear grind is right now.

TOFN Imp side right now 9 people on Tatooine 2 people on Yavin 4 42 on Dromund Kaas only 10 people above level 50 by the way. 15 on Nar Shaddaa And no PvP pops at all, it's not a healthy server situation specially for a PvP server. This was one of the biggest and most populated servers around for years with multiple instances on fleet and pretty much every planet.

Bioware can you guys already close down all the PvP servers out there? Seeing ranked is happening on the Harbringer and Red Eclipse anyways. Even though it's kinda being ruined by the lovely neighborhood hackers and the wintraders on the small populated servers #SWTORPVPPROBLEMS. But seriously just shut them down, it only scares away new players that roll on those graveyards. TOFN European Primtime population on fleet, Imperial side: 13 (This is including myself by the way and one was a goldspammer... ) TOFN European Primtime population on fleet, Republic side: 10 (Again including myself.) JUNG MA American Primetime population fleet Imperial side: 9 (Without me) JUNG MA American Primetime population fleet Republic side: 5 (Without me) And the other PvP servers are not off any better. As you can see, the expansion didn't re-populate them. Please just get rid of them! Merry Christmas and take care!

Anybody else just got a mail from Bioware about doing a Survey over 5.0? Just curious is all.

Seems they just announced a live stream this thursday on twitter, quite surprised about this development.

Well that is the whole point, make the gearing a incredible grind, to lure people into buying the CXP boosts from the cartel market. It's pretty obvious right.

The only thing you can do is basicly unsub, play another MMO for a couple of months or just go free 2 play for a while. Seeing EA only cares about money.

I agree it is a scam, becaus you have to sub in the first place to acces the Galactic command system to earn CxP and seeing how low the rates are to earn CxP in game. It almost like they had this in mind all along while developing the system, trying to piss people off with the slow gearing to sell these boosts. Seeing you can't acces CxP without subbing it looks rather suspicious and it's kind of a middel finger to the most loyal part of the playerbase.

CxP boosts are a insult becaus you need to be subbed to the game in the first place to acces this content, It just seems like a really cheap way to get even more money out of the loyal playerbase that actuelly subs to the game. Instead of giving a passive 25% boost to CxP activities they decided to introduce boosts that only subs can use, becaus you basicly have to sub to acces the system. I really don't get the logic here at all.

Sooo why am I subbing to this game is my question...... to acces the galactic command system right. Then why the hell are they introducing boosts that only subs can use? To milk microtransactions out of the few remaining subs? I imagine they just introduced this new system so they could milk even more money from subs, using these new boosts in the Cartel Market. How about you they just increase a passive 25% boost to CxP, instead of introducing these just stupid Cartel market boosts, It just shows that they don't care at all about subs.

So any announcements about changes to this CxP system? Or making it alt-friendly. One can dream right.....

Is there even any guilds left doing NiM operations? I doubt that the is any semi hardcore raiding guild left, that is still bothering, but I can be wrong ofcourse.