And a troll guild waiting at the vendor doesn't take much time to gank you either. Get real, anyone can wait at the vendors. On a non-PvP server this is a decision against those that chose PvE servers for the reason of PvE and Not PvP. EA, Change the requirements that force PvE STORY based MMO players from this exploitable troll guild gank fest Tom-foolery.

It is a bad change in dynamics and in animation, they both suck. EA Sports is known for minor tweaks to games and changing skins of their franchise, not really a plus here. Bad job devs, nerfs that severely hurts survivability.

To the OP: /SIGNED

My Mercenaries have noted a drop in ability and damage, hence survivability and I informed EA/SWTOR what I found. I've gotten a lot of their "canned" messages that tell me to make sure I post on the forum. Classic run around. Thanks EA BioWare is dead and just a rubber stamp logo for the EA machine. Check the timelines of BW founders giving EA notice, then the massive layoffs (some "the usual" for game development) with some (we never learned all the people) key SWTOR figures, then the progression of bad nerf mechanics and reintroduction of BETA bugs and play that had previously been fixed re-released. EA sports is noted for re-skinning old games and selling them as if they were actually new. I see future "new" races, but no knowledgeable class mechanics (except for melee/sports types).

BioWare is a rubber stamp logo now as the founding members gave their notices in April after the EA head ceo called SWTOR a failure in March because it was only in the top 10 and not the top 5 of their money makers. Mind that EA Sports just reskins the old sports game versions with nothing really new ever added. May was the large layoff, and yes some were just filling in for launch and early support, of employees associated with SWTOR. Shortly after the original BW ideas were run through and EA had to continue from somewhere, like their interns from the EA Sports dev teams (a hunch on the intern part). June 26 is when 1.4 Allies came out. And so many of the old bugs rolled back in along with the addition of even more nerfs that made no sense. A trend that is continuing to this day.

p.s. EA, This is not a sports game with reskinned graphics on a "sports field" with cheerleaders, but an MMO.

With top EA CEO calling SWTOR "Fail" after 4 months out, and putting it on a back burner, even though it was "still ahead of Tiger Woods" in revenues. BioWare founders giving their notice in April and the following mass layoffs in May curbed more of the original development for SWTOR and it's direction. EA has apparently adopted the plan of what sells, for them, and makes them money. They have put their sports game dev teams to work on SWTOR to bring it around (Just a Theory Folks). This explains the whole concept of lets melee and play HuttBall. Sports games from EA are just reskinned players that do not take as much work as a full MMO experience game. And although these poor sports dev teams are good at minor works, they are out of their depth in SWTOR so they seem like the interns that they would have been otherwise. Leave it to EA CEO's to turn a story driven MMO into a sports game in hopes of more money. New! In cash shop, your teams favorite jersey to customize your armor.

I played for the PvE Story MMO that this game was pushed as, not the pvp. For those in pvp there are always those that excel in that area, as there are many average class players, and even a chunk of permabads. I can guess who has EA's ear. Look at the difference in the armor sets and the bonuses that distance the playing field. Look at PvE raids wanting you to get the Recruit Armor set as it is better than the 2 tiers of raid gear, Rakata and Tionese. This is a problem that is widened further with the nerfs to the AC's that affect both the pvp and PvE game play by intern dev teams that have no clue and do not even listen to the testers. EA cares nothing for this game or it's players and all of their ceo's should have been replaced or fired for their short sight and having given up on this game as Fail 4 months after release. The Fail is EA's head ceo's word, not mine.

Anything that makes EA $$$$ no matter what the cost to gameplay.

How much for an Advance Class that works after the patches. Not hit yet, you will be.

The people that made BioWare are leaving, one and all it seams, leaving only the name to EA. Any more stragglers? I had already pointed out to CS that the interns were doing the dev work with 1.4. Guess I was right

Sorry, but it's EA, BioWare is dead. It lives on in name only ... like Mystic. I love when people get trollololololololololed and take such offense

I guess by the second highlight and not the first that you have not found a sniper rifle that has a stock on it? They all have stocks on them, just many would be what I call "stubby". My sniper is using the same mod sniper rifle she has had since she did BT. It has a stock and everything, so look and yea shall find.

#2) ... SWTOR is on the low end of EA's care for list. #3) ... The changes made to classes that make no sense, the lack of listening to the players that test the patches, the lack fixing existing problems like bugs already in the game and the added ones with the patches, and in my opinion the now clouded vision of what the direction once was for the games direction.

Yes I have.

It will not fix BioArts "fixing" the classes. They lost the direction, or changed it's course, from "working as intended". Also, I believe with the "new" system the characters and or supplies may well be lost. This was a story driven mmo, which although the story is still there, that is becoming more and more a pvp imbalance issue. As a PvE player I suffer these "fixes" that are implemented. They are destroying my enjoyment of playing the game with half of my characters, and they will not stop until everyone is melee based.

esproc, and seems only for a while. 1.3 and 1.4 have kicked me too much and I don't think I can take it any more. Happy hunting, and may the fun be yours.

Go back to playing wow, this is SWTOR. The hunter in wow could actually fire while running, how soon people forget the little things. A BH is more akin to being a turret, immobile launcher.

And my "EPIC" feeling in the game becomes a run-a-way, run-a-way, run-a-way hide weak class oh what happened to being that "Champion". And then when I actually turn around and start to launch an attack after my flight away form said mob I find that I am already set upon again. All 30 meter stuns dropped to 10 meters. My healing sorcerer has saved groups in PvEEEEEE from wipes due to CC breaking or adds, at 30 Meters, Sorcerer is Not Melee. Useless.

Well it's a typical BioArts non response. Guess they are stymied on what they are doing.

If you PvP and are ganked from behind Force Stun / Overload is unable to help you at all. Same as in PvE with multiple mobs and adds, you're screwed. Too bad for you.

Ever hear of players that are still leveling playing solo with a companion and grouping for Heroics where that stun is great if a CC breaks / ends or an add comes along? Get real and stop thinking of only yourselves and your pvp / 50 Ops situations. I've had that 30 meter stun save the group from a wipe. And as a healing spec I am not melee, I am ranged, and should not be forced into melee range. Same went for my Mercenaries. So when you are all melee only range and either can't get away with your force speed running before you die or just make force leap range ... not everyone can kite with channeled abilities.

I just had to come back as I think I figured out what was meant, Go to the pvp forums to complain as they are the only ones that the devs seem to notice.

Stop making my ranged classes melee !!!

/signed for my mercs, commandos, sages, and sorcerers. and for the other nerfs that were and will be.