LOL 37k hp gunslinger. The system is a joke and its pretty bad that they would use it in ranked as a crutch seeing as they have solid RWZ teams to begin with. Some people will do whatever they can though to win so to each their own.

He did beat him with no buffs. Hail the new king of Tracer noobs!!! I'd consider that about as meaningful as being the winner of the NIT basketball tournament. You're the 69th best team because 68 others were invited to the actual REAL tourney...

Bads will be bads and I've come to the realization that people will complain and moan up to the point that their class can use 'Orbital Nuke' on an entire WZ on a 6 sec cooldown that wipes out everybody, including their own teammates, and puts a healing debuff on all healers for the next hour that drops their heals down by 99%. I just laugh to myself when I see people like that, take a note as to who they are in game, and if I see them harass the hell out of them on my operative.

I destroy healers on my concealment operative until force barrier gets popped... If they get peels/reinforcements at that point I slink away but if they don't bother, I'll drop an orbital strike on your head and stun you when you try to run away. Trust me, nobody, not even a healer, is going to survive 2-3 ticks in an Orbital along with the dps I'll be doing while you stand in it. A lot of people are just used to being able to kill healers without the use of interrupts and cd's. You can tell the people who weren't players prior to 1.2 when heals were absolutely overpowered and a bad use of an interrupt was the difference between a healer MAYBE dying and them /LOL you as you tickle them with your pathetic dps that couldn't keep up with their healing. It can still be time consuming to kill a healer, and especially hard if the healer is skilled but it's not impossible. Killing a tank 1 vs 1 tho? **** that noise

For the love of god just lock your gear/mods in place once you go inside a WZ so people will stop exploiting **** BW. While bolster is a fine idea your attempts to 'fix' it suck. Stop going about it the hard way since your devs can't seem to come up with the correct coding and algorithms for proper stat budgeting and just lock gear in place so all this crap will stop.

Just for you good sir... Just Sayin..

He's not a troll but just a poor, misguided forum sheep that follows the mob with pitchfork and torch in hand. Because what else better does he have to do but believe the masses rather than actually doing research for himself?

BHAHAHAHAHA!!! And to the OP... ^^ This

I have yet to see ANY PvE geared person do even remotely close to 1 million in heals, let alone DPS. You think gear doesn't matter? Come back in a few weeks when people are rolling around in fully augmented min/maxed Conqueror gear and you roll up to them in your leveling greens and see what happens. I PvP everyday, I know the better players on my server and I can tell you they are in PvP gear and they are continuing to roll over people. If I see somebody running by me in PvE gear believe me when I say my eyes light up cause I know my concealment operative is going to be blowing somebody up in a matter of seconds while they keyboard turn/trinket my knockdown. There's plenty of grind, so instead of moaning on the forums, go do some wz's and get your conqueror gear.

It's not the higher end gear (Underworld/Arkanian) is worse than Partisan and well below Conqueror especially in expertise. I wish I had SS the Jugg in a WZ with me earlier tonight that had nothing but Arkanian/UW gear in PvP that was augmented with 28's. He had over 38k in HP but his Expertise was at 1400ish. He went to get the ball and had 2 heals on him and was blown the **** up. People are complaining about the wrong thing, that lower level PvE gear (entry gear) is giving people some perceived sense of better gear, when in all actuality it doesn't really. It's a starting point. I don't see people in greens/PvE leveling gear with 30k HP and 2018 expertise but I DO see full Partisan geared DPS players running around with it and being absolute wrecking balls. And a full tank with Partisan gear? It's like smacking your head against a brick wall. Bolster isn't perfect and there are a few exploits to iron out, the biggest one to do with augments. But if people are that hard up that they are willing to pull them out and dump that many creds just to try and inflate their stats, let them until it's patched. Most of them are terrible at PvP anyway, they NEED to do exploits just to put them on an even playing field.

I'm sorry but even if a large majority of PvE players tried to jump in with ANY gear, let alone PvE gear, they'd get face stomped. No amount of gear, esp the small 'advantage' people are whining about, is going to change the fact that many of them know boss mechanics and raid mechanics, not the ends and outs of classes and how to properly play their own in an ever-changing environment against a range of skilled players. This "sky is falling" attitude about PvP is kinda getting old, Conqueror gear is best in PvP. Hell, min/max Partisan gear will faceroll UW/Arkanian gear right now.

DUMB!!!!!!

Just gonna throw this out here... Biochem implants for REing With the "fix" to gathering skills (using that term loosely) you get more mats and its much easier to make implants for mk-9 components. Easily can spend 30k-50k for mats to make 10 implants then just the cost of the actual kit itself. Hope this helps.

I was in a WZ with a jugg in PVE gear, pretty much all Arkanian/UW gear, that had 38k hp but also had just 1450ish expertise. He got absolutely destroyed anytime he got the ball. It seems the higher level PvE gear has been diminished but the lower tier like BH/DG and the likes seem to be retaining a higher bolster than intended, which is still kind of good for me b/c I'm still using quite a bit of my EWH gear. Even I will admit that my bolstered stats are quite inflated, I have less endurance and 1890 expertise but my bonus damage for my concealment operative is 1250+ for tech damage. But just like I put in another thread instead of whining for bolster to be scrapped (because face it, it isn't going anywhere) we should be trying to help the devs come up with a solution to the problem. It's probably going to take awhile to get this tweaked out, and I was mad about bolster at first as well, but I do admit that it has helped level the playing field and it is much less frustrating going into a WZ and seeing a bunch of recruit geared people running around getting facesmashed by EWH geared opponents. 3 weeks in the grand scheme of an MMO isn't a whole lot of time, but at least we aren't all still running around in our undies

Thundering blast autocrits with affliction. Somebody doesn't read their skill tree

The ONLY way I see BW even being able to remotely start to fix this issue (because face it, bolster is here to stay folks) is by LOCKING into place mods/armorings/enhancements/augments once a WZ is entered. If you try to exploit the system, which ofc people who are pathetic and always looking for any advantage they can, will do it. I wouldn't go so far as to lock in the equipment until they remove field respec from within WZ's (which they should do), but at the very least what mods and stuff you come in with into a WZ is what you should have to keep on until it ends to prevent this removing/entering/adding your stuff back in. Instead of fighting bolster we should be trying to help BW find ways to fix it because you can ***** about it all you want, but it's not going to go away.

This is gonna sound terrible since it is an abuse of mechanics but if you're so afraid of a scampering concealment/scrapper, get in combat and /stuck after the doors have blown. You'll respawn at the next set of doors and with the new mechanics the doors remain wide open until the bridge is lowered. Absolutely simple.

I'd listen to Dep, the dude has been rocking Sorc dps far longer than most sane people would ever have thought to stick with it, and he's excelled at it.

i just saw one on the GTN for 75 million

I can deal with bads. I can deal with horrible group comps like 5 tanks, no heals, and weak dps since wz's are RNG except for ranked. What I can't stand are people that sit and ***** and moan throughout the entire WZ when things don't go perfectly. IDK about Pubs but Imps definitely have more thumbsuckers and whiners than I care to deal with.

BUMP!!! Anything at all from Devs on this? Kind of annoying to not be able to RE stuff you make...

Unfortunately they have more glaring issues than WZ's not cycling correctly that needs their attention more than this. I know it bums people out to see the same WZ's over and over again but they can't even get their new baby right (bolster) do you really want them dividing attention between that and figuring out why WZ's can't cycle properly? They already look like they have a 3 man PvP team trying to do everything, I don't think they can handle another issue at the moment. No, I'm not taking up for them, I think they've done a crap job for 2.0 in PvP, it's just me looking at things realistically right now.

Prior to 2.0 if you had said this you would have been laughed right out of the forums. But indeed, Lightning/TK FINALLY received some love after.. a year. Pyro has been reduced to the DoT spec with a few decent hitters mixed in (RS/HiB). Welcome to the land of the madness sorc. However, I highly doubt you'll be waiting a year for adjustments like sorcs, or even worse, mercs/mandos.

Actually PvE gear stays relevant when new gear is reset. It's still high enough in order to allow you the opportunity to gain the new set of gear. In PvP however, with this wonderful implementation of bolster, PvP gear was stripped, made into PvE gear, and made obsolete. If your DreadGuard gear was downgraded to say, Columi, and you all were then forced to find ways to get your new Arkanian sets, THAT would be similar to what happened to WH/EWH gear in PvP. But I'm sure that would have been fine with the PvE community, would never even see a thread about how asinine of a system that would have been, right?

You have auto crit smash so... Anything with higher critical rating should do the trick since 100% crit chance on your biggest attack needs more crit rating Oh, and alacrity. Everybody needs this obviously since it runs rampant throughout everybody's gear these days.