[Warzone Stat Padding]

Recently I have noticed many healer types, intentionally cutting their health so they can pad their healing stats during a warzone, why is it that healers that are doing this are getting rewarded as much as those that are healing other team mates. This is not limited to Sorcerer/Sage cutting for force, but healers jumping off of high ledges or standing in obstacles as well, to intentionally inflict damage for them to heal. From what I understand by lurking in other threads here is that the dev team uses these statistics to determine which classes receive buffs or nerfs respectively, so why should the system continue to award this behavior?

[Five steps to make PvP more enjoyable and rewarding]

1 - No, the "recruit" set should always be upgraded to keep in par with the current sets. So right now it should be the old Centurion sets. When the full set of E-WH comes out, then the recruit set should be upgraded to BM.

 

2 - No to free BM, just upgrade recruit gear to stay in line and a "Hell no!" to your "hidden stat". PvP armor is already at a disadvantage in PvE settings, there is no point in making it even worse. Unless of course you want to apply a similar "hidden stat" to do the same for PvE armor used in PvP...

 

3 - No, getting commendations is quick and easy. If you do nothing but the dailies and weekly, you will gain 1k of each. Then average in about 75 a game over 21 games (figuring in some wins for weekly) and you get another 1500ish commendations. You can get two BW and 1 WH every two weeks doing almost nothing.

 

Agreed, it is too easy to get Battlemaster gear even if you only do your dailies. The moment you remove the reward for participation is the moment you lose 99% of the PvP players, at which point we will have to constantly see "Que up for WZ" in the fleet, and thread whining about how few people are actually playing in the warzones.

[Let us skip Huttball]

If you queue for random war zones play the game you get, or leave. This is not Call of Duty or Halo, where if you do not like something you get to vote to get out of it, otherwise everyone else would be forced into only ever playing Novarre Coast and Civil War.