Glad I spent the past 3 months suffering through ranked to get replica rewards that were supposedly going away only to see those rewards be available for people who can just buy the new PvP season levels to get them. 🤡

Do you think you'll PvP more or less than you did before the update? The same or less depending if the previous ranked rewards are being offered or not. Do the rewards on the reward track make you want to PvP specifically to earn them? No, I pretty much exclusively play this game for pvp. I would pvp whether or not there is a rewards track or not. Do you think you'll queue for 8v8 Warzones or 4v4 Arenas equally? No, I will mostly que for 8v8 as I enjoy it more. Do you feel the new Warzone medals will encourage objective play? I do not care about medals, I care about pvping. Is it clear how to earn PvP points and progress the Season reward track? So from what I believe there will be season objectives, daily and weekly that will progress towards the track. I am not sure if just completing a pvp match will progress the track so it is not very clear for me. What is your overall impression of the changes to the PvP season system? The removal of ranked seasons is a sign that BioWare gave up on trying to improve it. I do think the new pvp season system is good as it gives a reason to play unranked but ranked did not need to be removed. What do you like the most about the changes to the PvP season system? Actual rewards for doing unranked. What do you like the least about the changes to the PvP season system? Offering previous ranked rewards on the new season vendor. Please do not do this BioWare. What is one change or adjustment you would like to make on the new PvP Season system, what would it be, and why? Currently on the PTS old ranked rewards are on the season vendor for purchase with the new season currency. I absolutely hate this. I worked so hard to grind the ranked rewards I wanted. Putting them on the new season vendor devalues those rewards as it makes them super easy to obtain with the new season. Those ranked rewards should stay exclusive to ranked and no longer be obtainable. If they remain on the vendor when the patch goes live BioWare is spitting in the face of those ranked players who put in the time and effort to get better at pvp in ranked. Typically if you see someone with ranked pvp rewards you know they are at least decently skilled pvpers. The ranked rewards are a sign of prestige and a rough indication of skill. That would be lost if everyone could now easily obtain the rewards with the new season. I beg you BioWare please do not put the old ranked rewards on the new season vendor.

What a joke. Does BioWare even know what PvP is? This is a terrible change.

They have needed to merge the servers for a while now. Considering both servers are located in the same place it would make sense to merge them. It would certainly benefit the players if a already small population was not split between 2 servers that are technically no different from each other. My theory for why Bioware hasn't merged them yet is so they can continue to make money off character server transfers.

Sooo any updates on when we will be receiving our payouts? Its been almost a month...

As other people have mentioned in this thread keybinding abilities and learning each class helps a lot. I would suggest leveling each class to become familiar with there abilities and play styles. In terms of utilities you can try out the ones that interest you or look up guides. Looking up guides for rotation and other things can also improve your game play. Good positioning and learning to use LOS also helps. As a sentinel it is import to know when you can and cannot jump into a group of enemies. LOS'ing ranged classes will help you live longer. Learning how to KITE (keeping range on a melee while they are chasing you) is an important thing to do when playing a ranged class. Learn how to uses your DCD's properly. By properly I mean by not blowing all of your DCD's at once. For example using Guarded by the Force and Saber Ward at the same time is a waste of Saber Ward as you take 99% less damage while Guarded by the Force is active. Learning when to uses your CC's is also important, do not waste them as they can win a fight if used well. Dueling various classes can help but this game was not designed or balanced around 1v1's so it is not the best way of improving as most classes have advantages over others. But my number one way of improving is just keep on playing and you will get better.

So I hear the granked meta is 3 tanks and a healer, nothing broken about that

Well I'm glad I didnt bother queing this season besides you can barely get to 1500 on JC nonetheless be able to grind to 1750 lol.

Or you could simply get good at the game but that is difficult for many people for some reason.

What I dont understand is why people dont want a server merge. The point of a MMO is to be playing with other. Low pop servers are lonely and have extremely long que times. Whats wrong with playing will more people? So what if some people are say **** it gen chat just turn it off it really bothers you. You could also just face the fact that it is a chat on the internet and people are going to stay stupid stuff in it. People don't want to play MMOs that have low pop servers, it completely defeats the point of a MMO.

Lol might want to check the dates on that proof btw first one isnt a hack, used to be able to get up there using force speed and other abilities, not sure if it is still possible

Just because a team has 3 heals and 2 tanks and nothing dies doesn't make those heals and tanks "good". It is easy to win when you have that many healers and tanks. Most of the time the pub dps is terrible not being able to kill the imps that only have one healer so all those pub heals and tanks just make the wz last even longer. I don't have anything against pubs I just dislike every single wz where I am hitting a training dummy the whole time, it gets boring. They do provide a nice dps farm for imps which I appreciate though.

lol of course the only platinum item i have ever got out of a pack goes on the CM. Looks like I will have to wait for a while till the price goes back up on the GTN again to sell it. But there is hope that people will realize how stupid it is to buy a single saber for that much, gonna cross my fingers

Name: Bacon'cat Class: Jugg Record Broken and Spot: DPS Number: 6892.1 Guild: LD-Fifty http://imgur.com/a/4wery

Name: Bacon'cat Class: Jugg Record Broken and Spot: Overall Damage Number: 4,748,622 Guild: LD-Fifty http://imgur.com/a/h4GpT

This ^

My main server is JC and it can take 15 mins or more to get a 70 pvp reg pop even during peak times. Don't even try to play mids or lowbies since they take 30 mins if at all. Ranked doesn't pop often and when it does there is only one game going. I don't understand how people do not see a major population problem that has been around since mid 3.0. Server merges have been needed for a long time now. Due to slow pops on JC I find myself forced to play on Harb which saddens me because I would rather play my mains on JC. Bioware is just concerned with milking the player base for every last coin it has and not concerned with the game itself. I used to play this game every day but now I find myself struggling to log on at least once a week. I know that I would play much more frequently if I could actually get pops quickly. Playing a multiplayer game without the multi is depressing. Please merge the servers bw.

Just a screenshot from a couple weeks ago in midbies. Bolster is seriously broken lol Name: Bacon'cat Class: Jugg Midbies Record Broken and Spot: Damage Done #1 Number: 4924784 Guild: LD-Fifty Link: http://imgur.com/uIlZPCN Name: Bacon'cat Class: Jugg Midbies Record Broken and Spot: DPS #1 Number: 6955.91 Guild: LD-Fifty Link: http://imgur.com/uIlZPCN

Guess I didn't get the memo of how squishy juggernauts are...

^ this

RIP the old ravage and master strike animations, some of the coolest animations in the game D: Oh and the "new" gore animation is the same as the old one that was removed a while ago.

Why did you separate melee and ranged into different brackets? Does one have an advantage over the other that I do not know about? Sure Sorcs and Mercs can heal but where does that leave snipers? Melee can simply burst sorcs and mercs down before they can heal. Merging the two brackets together would add some variety to the 1v1s. I would say even try to merge sins/shadows with the non stealth and see how it goes. Just my 2 cents

I believe the current system of gearing for pvp is the best system this game has ever had. It is really easy to get gear which allows only a couple hours of pvp to get gear. You can even do it on you lowbie alts to trade comms to your 65. Gearing alts is super easy as well. The new system in 5.0 will make it much more difficult. I don't play as much as i used to and it will take me a very long time to gear just one toon in 5.0. All I want to do is pvp and not have to worry about being beat by some bad because hes got better gear than me. I don't feel a sense of reward when I get a new piece of gear. I don't pvp to get the gear, I get the gear so I can pvp. All I care about is that gear will make me be able to compete in pvp. Its funny they finally make gearing for pvp almost perfect only to move in the opposite direction and screw everything up.

Welcome to the internet.

Yes we need server merges, unless waiting in 30 mins pub 65 pvp ques at 4:00pm est on JC is acceptable. Don't even try queing mids or lowbies cuz you will sit the with a finger in your nose of a while. Not to mention having a max of 30 people on imp fleet on PoT5 at 6:00pm est. Sad thing is it has been like this for a long time and merges still haven't happened yet. I hope that they merge servers by 5.0 but I doubt it will happen. /sadface