Does anyone have an idea on how to beat a Mercenary in a duel that is immuned to interrupts for 12 seconds because of the Power Shield feat in the Bodyguard tree? I can get him below 50% real quick with both stuns and interrupt before he pops a stim that gives him most of his life back and then he uses Power Shield. Once he uses Power Shield I have to race him and I havent been able to against the endless Tracer Missles. I'm Valor rank 59 in all Champ gear and speced 4/6/31. Any ideas?

There are numerous topics going around discussing this right now. People are finding out through testing that only a few damage times are mitigated by armor at all and that shields protects from even less then armor does. Right now the best defense ability seems to be the bubble that Sorc/Sages get since it protects from everything until the threshold is met plus it is not on a 2 min cd like most of the other defense ones.

The real problem with Force Lightning is that it is not mitigated by armor at all. So basically it hits someone with Heavy Armor as hard as it hits someone with Light Armor. This is why Op/Scondrels can take down a tank as fast as a squishy. Most of Op/Scondrels attacks are not effected by armor just like Sorc/Sage.

Well the real answer is to roll a OP/Scondrel is what your really trying to say. So bascially roll a OP/Scondrel or go home thing. And there may be some truth to this if those two classes become numerous in WZ's.

I wear heavy armor too and these guys destory me in 1v1 unless their far below my level. Even out of stealth and with me trying to kite them, they still hit hard. they will almost always get first attack on you and the damage is too much to overcome even if your able to stand up in time from the opener. A few times they have done double stuns on me, so basically I blow trinket to be able to stand up right away and fews secs later when resolve isn't full anymore they stun again FTW. I believe something will have to be done about this, or people may stop queuing for WZ's.

Yep, most people vote for their bros regardless how good/bad their bro did in the match.

The problem with your WOW example is it creates a double whammy for most pvpers if not the best. They have a chance at beating a more skillfull pvper but with the gear factored in too, they have zero chance at winning. So that system makes the most skillful invincible based on two factors, having more skill plus access to the best gear that most can never get. That kind of system would eventually kill PVP in the game.

I find that it's quite difficult to effectively pass the ball in Huttball. Normally by the time I line up a pass with the whole aoe targeting, I die from focus fire. Also the AOE targeting is very difficult to do when your target is on a higher elevation (Or I'm just doing it wrong).

This isn't true at all. There really isn't counter classes in this game. Also I liked to point out that in WZ's, it's not often that 1v1 happen. Normally you are focusing someone down with team mates or their doing it to you. Skill is more important in PVP then classes.

Come on guys, can you leave the virgin alone?

But it sounds like they can still hit Heavy Armor wearers for 6k since their main ability reduces armor by 50%. I really don't know if their OP and all but they do seem pretty impressive the times I've seen the higher level ones in WZ. Also there may be some truth to some of these tales based on all the new Operatives being created. I would definatly give them the new FotM tag unless some drastic changes happen during January. Last night I found out that Scondrels can do a 8 sec stun from stealth without being revealed. This is most likely old news for most but that is a very handle tool nonetheless. Maybe what BW needs to do is implement some more ways to increase Stealth detection and that could cause alot of the OP cries to go away.

And he beat me to it..

Powertechs to me are more of a Mid-Range class then Melee unless ST Speced. Sure they do have some close up abilites like Rocket Punch, Flamer Thrower but they also have more abilities that are in 10-30 Meter range. Of course your spec as a Powertech will determine which of their abilites are a part of your standard rotation.

You really think Powertechs don't have much utility? They definatly have more then Mercs while maintaining mobility and damage on par with them if DPS speced. To me, it looks like Pyro Powertechs can DPS with the best of them so I'm not sure where the 2nd rate DPSer stuff is coming from.

Sorc/Sages were last months FotM. This month has a new one and its the Operative. Just give it a couple weeks and people will notice all the Operatives in WZ. I've already been noticing alot more in WZ's the past couple days. If they become to numerous, BW will take notice and see why so many are switching to the least played class, then the nerfs will start if they find any evidence to back the whiner's claims.

This is NOT a rock, paper ,scissors game. In that kind of world, healers can't kill DPS or tanks can't kill healers but they can in TOR. TOR is more about skill then class and is even more about spec then class. People need to stop with the Rock, Paper, Scissors nonsense. Because your last MMO was based around that and the trinity system doesn't mean every MMO is especially this one.

The last sentence is true at least on my server. I've been noticing alot more Operatives in warzones now and In a game of Huttball (Go figure) 50% of our team was Operatives. The word is getting out about how OP Operatives are and many people want to be apart of the OP class.

I'm not sure it even matters on how much resolve you get if your dead or nearly dead by the time you stand up from the intial KD.

Why do people keep saying Operatives/Scondrels are squishy? They wear Medium Armor, not light armor. Marauders/Sentinels wear Medium Armor, are they squishy too? I've seen level 50 Juggs/BH's get killed by Operatives/Scondrels on their opening KD moves, does that make them Squishy too? Anyways my only real concern with them are; the ability to burn someone down before they can react. And I don't care if they need crits to be able to do it too. As a stealth class they can get away easily enough to keep trying until they get the favorable crits to make the fight no effort.

I think the problems of Operative come from the fact that they and the Smugglar classes are the least played classes in beta/launch. Most player's eyes were on the Jedi/Sith and most of the balancing were directed at the high profile classes. Now I could be totally wrong in this assessment but something was overlooked when a class can kill any other within it's first chain of openers. There is no Rock, Paper, Scissors here, it is; Op/Scondrel > rest in 1v1 situations and some 2v1 situations with the ultimate escape mechanic to flee and try again if not successful the first time.

Because most of the people in beta were rolling Empire at launch plus alot of folks made a big deal of Lightning/Pebbles comparisons. And now look, Sith Inquistors are the majority that is played.

That was the funniest video I've seen in awhile. This BH would literaly use the warzones as an escape ability everytime he was about to die. Did you guys notice the music everytime he jumped into the Warzone (Huttball) too? I was actually thinking this guy is actually clowning, he doesn't really think he's all elite. But then again he could really think he's super elite with moves like jagger. Regardless of his intent, he's getting his name out there.

All I can say is WOW!! I wanted to roll an Operative after watching that video. This guy was burning down 50 tanks in short order....geez. This guy was killing two players by himself. He would kill the first one before he could stand up from the opener then take care of the next one.

This is not the case at all since this game doesn't have the Rock, Paper, Scissors like other MMOs do. Skill in this game is far more important then the class your playing and what class your up against.

Did you use the name because of a Stephen King book - Eyes of the Dragon? Which is a good book for anyone who hasn't read it. Now if they'll only make a HBO Gunslinger series.