and for 200 games you probably focused on damage and completely ignored objectives. that tunnel vision would make you the worst player on the team.

i,'ll be honest. didn't read entire post BU I have an operative. while I easily break 100k on damage there are some games when i don't. you are saying iI am playing bad? i am working objectives either babysitting nodes. using stuns to control healers. maybe stalking a door in voidstar or keeping teams off civil war nodes using stuns. vanish and my othee tools until help arrives. if your using ONLY damage to assess peoples skill. your doing it wrong i can easily ignore actual objectives and top dps charts. But is that the best use being a team member?

the game is not made for solo players. dude get a pocket tank get guarded and everything will work!! everyone sez so!

Ok so if i understand you are looking for an animation to announce a rail shot? Not sure about republic version, howeve BH version the avatar will raise its left arm move left leg back and "lock" into place as if bracing to fire a wrist rocket. You see that. Railshot inc.

I have not seen many sorc healers. In the lower brackets i have seen a ton of OPs/scoundrel. While its true sorcs if un molested can heal effectively, they can be effectively shut down by 1 experienced DPS. Most sorcs left have gone dps or hybrid to try and be effective. I believe most rated teams will carry 3 OP healers and a sorc hybrid for some utility and round out with heavy burst fotm characters. Its a given that OPs healers can heal while kiting and have superior defensive capabilities. Unless your team is facing a really bad team sorcs just wont have the ability to survive.

Depending upon make up of the other team, you might have been grouped with decent pvpers who watched out for you or you faced poorly geared or inexperienced players. Expertise makes ahuge difference in WZ's.. do a bit more reading and the general concensus is to get at least the main gear set recruit pieces

When healer survivability was questioned. All dps. Replied "find a tank, get guarded, make friends or play dps" since it appears EA/Bioware thinks healers are balanced due to their spreadsheet numbers it seems your wrong and need to L2P? Not that i agree but that seems to be the general thought.

Actually there was alot of world pvp around daily areas! It was great

Gonna go totally off topic! Awesome name shagg. Used the name shagnasti many years ago on bbs boards (before internet gasp!)see playing muds and tradewars...awesome memories!

M. Your time will come. I actually had a 15 que to long in. It was awesome! Went straight to pvp and stayed till 2a ! Was almost late to work.

My account expires on the 18th. However i must say after last night i will probably resub. The pvp was awesome and it was nice to see 300 on dock and a decent market. Even though my original server had a decent pop that regularly did pvp. It was nice to see new players and have fast almost instant ques with close games that contained exciting pvp.. well done bioware. I still dont agree with some decisions. Last night gave me renewed hope. In more changes to come.

Forgive me if this has been posted before i just logged on and to honest i dont feel like reading 13 prior pages. The issue that has been discussed in many threads regarding mara/sents are the damage they are able to dish out WHILE their defensive cd's are in effect. Now i have a mara lvl 50 among other alts. I will not attempt to speak to other maras playing style but if i am forced to use a defensive CD i will almost immediately use adrenals and relics to tilt the fight into my favor. With the change i expect to see maras burst to be brought into line and be a bit more balanced. I do not know how this will effect maras long term until its brought live and tested but with proper use of CC's and stuns mara's will be a bit more manageable.

I decided to start playing my low level scoundrel. I have noticed recently that it seem to ignore resolve. Now i have read the threads that say resolve is broken but it seems his stuns ignore resolve? I an really curious if anyone else has noticed this effect.

If RWZ's are used to inflate their epeen, then they are barking up the wrong tree. Ratings can be either watered down or inflated very easily. Our guild doing arenas would "sell" spots often to players to get titles and better ratings. You can log onto any server in WoW and find people selling spots on rated teams to players to boost them. I see this system will be no different. You will have players running around in rated gear professing their pro pvp skills while being mediocre at best in any given game. So fight to preserve your precious team rating. You will be no different than the rest of the medioccre palyers standing around professing your leet non exsistant skills.

Reread the post. I stated it was related to pvp not inclusive of the solo ques. Most of the republic guild came from a wow server and have played in multiple mmos as a guild. Yes some have started playing D3 and most went back to arenas. I logged onto vent to find out the issues and the reponses were varied but were all pvp related.

The basic issue is Bioware is making decisions based around pvp that are causing some hardcore and casual pvpers to rethink their subscriptions. I myself unsubbed my account, my spouses, and my 2 children. I spoke to 2 of my coworkers who have also unsubbed and went back to another MMO. I posted in another thread a week or so ago where i loggen to find a message that the GM, all officers and most of the members had unsubbed on my republic side guild. That is around 33 total members. A few moved to a differnt guild but most quit. Last night i logged onto my marauder after 2 weeks only to find a message that only 4 members were still playing and the rest of the guild had quit. See the domino effect? Everyone has stopped playing the game due to deecisions that have effected pvp. By my count that is almost 60 subs dropped between the last week and a half. A small number to be sure however every domino that drops creates a larger imbalance as others will follow.

And personal stats are never discussed or used to develop say their player contracts. Oh wait. They are.

And i believe any rank should be awarded based off of MY performance. On MY character instead of being tied to someone elses ability to be able to log on and play. Should i be punished and forced to group with people i do not k now to earn rank cause i have to play of f peak hours? Oe having you team be punished because 3having people couldnt log in. The scenarios are endless on both sides of the discussion. How would you feel if your raise, bonus, or promotion was denied at your job because your coworker decided to go fishing for the week instead of working.

Actually i will disagree. If you have a very skilled pvper in bm gear against a "clicker" or semi skilled pvper wwho was carried by a group wearing WH gear. The skilled player will win the majority of the time. Now if the same situation arose and the skilled player was wearing say lvl 49 blues there is a very good chance he will have his head handed to him almost every time. Not that i want to agree with khorj but it is what it is

They could easily fix this by balancing the gear to be identical "stat" wise but change graphics to highlight the ranked version. Example normal pvp gear wirh normal views. Ranked pvp with enhanced graphics/ colors maybe add glowing effects while keeping the stats equal. I would imagine if they do make that change the "ranked" pvp gods might get mad and scream why are rateds around if i can do regular games for same stats

Almost all MMOs are a gear driven system. Its expected for them to put the "shineys" into the game. The issue here seems to be they are. Making decisions based off theory crafting spreadsheets before viewing the effects in a live situation. All it takes is for one smart. Player to find a way to exploit that change and create even more imbalance. Once "rated" geared guilds start rampaging through the regular queing system, people will stop queing altogether. With limited end game content and pvp being trashed no one will want to play.

I was looking forward to the ranked warzones. There have been some disappointing changes in the direction Bio seems to be taking the game (influenced by EA no doubt) i should not be forced into joining a guild just to pvp. With the low population already games will be fewer with most doing rated. Then once geared they enter regular games just to smash all opposition which will force even more players to unsub. The downward spiral seems to be increasing and picking up speed.

Actually you are wrong as was proven by the thread issue on fatman where a GM interceded with an entire guild and threatened action only to have bioware get involved and eventually had to apologize to that guild for the interference. I dont condone farming lowbies. But pvp issues require pvp solutuons. If you had a GM intercede then you got lucky. If reported like the fatman issues were the outcome would have been differnt.

Wait i see your problem!! YOUR a SORC Per bioware and every other dps in the game your expected to only play with a group dedicated to protecting you and ignoring all other objectives. Bioware says sorcs are balanced. Must be so. So either learn to en joy sitting in GY or roll something else. Most have just rerolled

So not only did you roll on a pvp server, but the highest active pvp server and get mad cause you got killed? If you wish to quest quietly. Roll on a pve server. As for attacki ng bases. If i could use my OP or assassin to get abord the opposing spaceport. He would be perma parked to create mayhem. Anything red would be dead until idied. To the zerg looking for revenge. I usually kept a stealth toon in southwind or ironforge just to start epic hide and seek games. Watching entire packs hunt you while you killed stragglers was always good fun