http://imgur.com/wVkhVxE Mainly the "Eternal Empire Recon Walker". How much does this go for on the GTN?

Used to play a sentinel and always had problems not being targeted. Even now on my tank guardian, i always see those 2 flashy glowsticks of fury and just feel the need to abandon my healer to slow , root,and cc him. In a team fight most of the time you want to attack targets that are already being attacked, dont jump into a fight first, and always make sure you take those ranged dps down. When you burn somebody low, others will target that person too. Doing this you can trickyour dumb PUG team into focus firing. Like moths to a light.

+1 do this. Make it hard to turn in your quest. Deny the other faction Comms. LOL

My NovaDive seems to think otherwise

Ive noticed alot of people who are complaining about the opness of certain ship classes in galactic starfighter so im going to clear a few things up about the classes by comparing them to the ground classes we already have. Scout For the scout you can think of them as a vigilance guardian, OK damage and high mobility. For a scout your job is to be the first to your teams objective and secure it so it will be safe for your gunships to stand at the turret and blast away.The only way to counter a good scout is to double team him. Many scouts like to charge in guns blaring as if they where a strike fighter however this is not what the scout was designed for. If you or your team is outnumbered in an upcoming engagement DO NOT FIGHT IT, although your mobility is second to none, your main job is to target enemys who are already being engaged by another scout or strike fighter. Scouts tend to run out of engine power VERY quickly so whenever you are not firing you must focus all power to your engines ( f3 ) . It is very important never to be caught in a fight with no engine power, you will die if you cannot escape. You are a gunships worst nightmare. To agile to target and to fast to run from, whenever you see a gunship focus all power to your engines and charge at them while rolling, stop, and fire away. Strike fighters are a bit of a harder kill if the player knows what he is doing, however with good maneuvering you can take any strike fighter 1v1. If you happen to come across another scout, its best to get another strike fighter or scout to help you 2v1 him. Strike Fighter You can compare a strike fighter to a Focus Guardian in tank stance. They deal considerable damage while still being tanky enough to soak damage from a 2v1. Your job is to be the main fighter on the contested node. While your teams scouts roam and look for an opportunity to burn an enemy player down. You will mainly be targeting enemy strike fighters. Scouts are your worst nightmare. If you happen to come across a good scout and are not completely familiar with your ship and how it works. DO NOT FIGHT. The scout will out turn you are stay on your backside the entire fight. A good thing to do in this situation is to press X to stop your ship when the scout is making a pass at you, then boost to close the gap and fire on his backside. However the scout will escape soon and be on your back again. Its always best to 2v1 a scout. Gunships are your worst enemy. They will 2 shot railgun you and have you begging for mercy. Why? because you lack the mobility of the scout as well as the speed, and you lack the engine power to make a full charge at them while still having power to escape and dodge. I find while playing a strike its best to stay out of range if possible and let the scouts take care of him. Gunship Gunships can be compared to the sniper class. Just sit back and do massive damage. If you see a scout coming at you, prepare to hit the respawn. If you see a gunship or enemy strike fighter, lock in for an easy kill. best to sit back out of the action but not so far that you cant get help. your range is 15,000m... shouldn't be to hard. Nothing really to say about this class really. Just sit back in your cover and 2 shot people.

Yeah i agree i should have followed him a bit more, But this vid was purely to show what kind of results you get in these arenas. Wasnt trying to be super pro zomg tank. mostly just showing what kind of matchups you get.

Not really complaining, but this is a real problem. As it stands the only viable healer in arenas is Ops healer. You are pretty much screwed if you are not mobile. Everyone thought snipers would dominate in arenas but that has been proven untrue. Arenas are highly unfair to all casting classes. Secondly ive had matches where its 4 tanks vs all dps. This is really unfair to the side with the less favorable class makeup, all tanks vs all geared dps is impossible to win. Here is a basic summary of what an arena is in swtor. I could barely even keep the heals alive why? Not because im a bad tank, and not because he was a bad healer. But he couldnt get 1 heal off because of the fact that he is a caster and to easy to focus. If you are going to implement something as huge as arenas. Please think it through first or do not force us to play them. My guild runs sage heals and we cant enjoy the arenas as a guild Ps : its not me talking in the vid its a freind

Im starting to think i posted this in the wrong section. Can a mod please move this to 'off topic" because this is exactly what this thread has become.

Ok, i just started this thread to test my new laptop for mobile game development. I am an acutal game developer so let me clear some things up. No matter what you say NOBODY can distinguish anything over 60fps. Even if your computer says it is running at 100+ fps in open world it is not. If it was it would be duplicating frames or playing the animations VERY quickly. Secondly at my studio we are not aloud to have our games running at more than 40-60fps for the fact that many gamers get headaches at higher than this. The reason for this is similar to why a tennis ball has a blur. The brain cannot distinguish an object moving at such speeds so it blurs it out. However in games this is not the case. There is no blur so making a game at 100+FPS is a god awful idea unless you want medical lawsuits. Watching a tennis ball on sceen at 100fps would be like trying to focus on 10 objects at once. Many HDTV company have noticed this when showing films at high FPS, and are looking for a way to put blur back onto moving objects captured by cameras. I didnt mean for this to be an aurgument...

Just for some comparison please post your computer rig, settings + shadows, and fps in PvP and open world. Ive heard people have many problems with with games but from what ive seen its been fixed. My Specs : Alienware 14 Intel Core i7 4700mq @ 2.4 ( can overclock to 3.2) , NVidia GeForce GT 750m, 8GB of ram,

was playing football for my team yesterday after a long swtor session. Tried to force leap the linebacker into the touchdown.... my gawd i looked stupid.

Dont PT have a leap? In the tank tree?

reason why i say only leapers in the pit in 90% of the time in pugs, you wont have people waiting for you in the endzone for a pass or pull. Better not to get in that sitch.

DOnt need to be a pro to know that btw those are my basition toons. Im on P0t5 now. Have a 55 sentinel Vanguard and juggernaut

what are you talking about? WHy do you keep metioning Juggernauts? THis is general Huttball Smart play.

never said a jugg is in the endzone. Never said ANY class. All i said was if you just want to deathmatch, try to be helpful.

Yep, thats how you win at football and soccer!

For all you horribads who prefer to run through the fire than pass to your juggernaut tank standing in the endzone. Please read. 1. If you are going to deathmatch, do it at mid or in the enemy endzone. 2. Unless you be a leapfrog STAY OUT OF THE PIT 3. ( SOmebody did this to me LOL.) dont use your push randomly, Half the time you will acually HELP the enemy ball handel. Today some juggernaut used his push on the top catwalk on the enemy ballhandeler, while he was hopping. He knocked him all the way across the map into the air and into our goal. Please, time your Knockbacks correctly and pay attention when using them. 4. Stop using your CC when the handeler is not on a harzard. I cant tell you how many times i have had my force push off GCD and couldnt push the handler out of my endzone beacuse he was resolved. Please dont randomly throw your CC, this is not single target dps. 5. Stop trying to be the MVP , if you see anyone with more armor then you, even if they are a dps pass to them. Most of the time you want to pass to the tank, but if there is no tank, pass to the highest armor rating. 6. Know who to throw too, Here is your priority when it comes to ball passing... Juggernauts>Powertechs>Mauraders>Assasins>Sorcs>Mercanarys>Ops>Snipers 7.When you respawn and the enemy is bringing the ball through your pit or over your ramps and is close to scoring, quickly check the ballcarrier's class. If they are a leaper, make sure you stay LOS'd behind a ramp or far back from the edge. 8.If you are about to die and have the ball and there is no one to pass to, throw it away so your team can hopefully grab the ball at mid. Don't die with the ball. ^ this can use some tweeking, but its in order of mobility and survivibility. Leapers with high armor are first, then those dps monkez, then speedsters, then heavy armor ( no mobility ) then light armors (no mobility). Thread is unfinished, ill be adding alot more. But for the time being please leave things that need to be added,

Please read. thats what signatures are for right?

Smash Why you hitting yourself?

Just to clear a few things up, im not saying Basiton is not a good server. Like i said i have been there more then a year. But after server consolidations PvP there is really boring. PoT5 and basiton are equal. But communcation on Basiton is so tight that its almost impossible to PvP outside of warzones. People get mad at you for ganking someone. Kill 1 person on the open world and your getting flooded in the fleet with people telling you to stop. The basiton cant blame bioware for the lack of wpvp or pvp beacuse they get upset when it happens. I also get massive lag spikes on the server. Like i said they are both even but i prefer pot5 beacuse of the wpvp community, and the ranked. If the Basiton was as good as alot of people ay it is, then they would not have to adviertise on the PvP fourms. ;0 and this is not a jeslousy issue like some of the other responces. Like i said i Deleted all 5 of my toons on the basiton and rerolled p0t5 by choice.

Not a qq or whine or preventing people from going to the server, i could care less. But before you do you should know the truth. I used to be on the bastion as a exclusive PvPer all the way from patch 1.1 but i left because after server consolidation i couldn't take it anymore. Even deleted all my toons because i need wanna play there again. 1. Bastions PvP community is nothing special. I have been in 2 of the "best" guilds. Really nothing special. 2. For some unknown reason bastion hates world PvP, used to spend hours solo hunting on my sentinel and people had to nerve to get mad at me for preventing them from scoring objectives in ilum? Imp + Reps and pretty much the same people on both sides with different toons. 3. Community is not as active as people say it is. Just look at their server forums. Pot5 has more world PvP events starting. And even on my lowbie which i am leveling, people don't get MAD at me for killing a imp. Aside from about 1 guild i know of that is as godly as people say it is.Half of them are trash, like "republic security force". Back when wz where glitched and you had alot of 5v8 and 7v8. i was in a pug with only 5 people and we rolled their premade... yep thats godly.

Im a Level 20 Jugg and i was using immortal spec beacuse i cant stand being shiqshy. But it offers nearly no midigation when under focus fire ( or at least at my level) and i find it just not worth it. So i respec vengence dps and in game i stance dance. This seems to work out the best for me. Im tanky but also have really good dps. But what is the best method for getting a dps / tank for juggernaut? I dont want to completely sacrifice being able to win 1v1s for the sake of being a tank. :?

Why can't basiton have this....

wow im good at trolling i should try it more often