I think a lot of the issue is confusion over what ranked solo queue really is, and this is very much BW's fault. There should be a gear minimum and maybe even a valor minimum to queue for ranked. To pvpers, solo ranked is supposed to be the real top tier pug, but its more scrubs than hardcores right now. Im hoping the riffraff gets bored and goes back to pve or other games again soon so solo ranked can be the good matches it should be.

I can't find a way to trick the matchmaking system into thinking i'm a tank when i'm not. In the wisdom of Cartman: "screw yoo giiiieeezzz, i'm going hiyome!"

If WOW was so great they wouldnt have lost 90% of their players. Mimicking a failed game that is still trying to continue their fail is not really a good strategy (Wow just put out a new expansion, right?) What MMO PVP needs is something new, innovative, insightful and with HEAVILY ACTIVE DEVS THAT DO ONLY THAT AS THEIR JOB. Class balance should always be evolving. Then take the PTS server when its not live beta and launch cross server pvp ladder tournaments. Charge 100 cartel coins per entry. 1st place gets 50% of the coins as a prize, 2nd gets 30%, 3rd gets 20%. Do a tournament like that often. Make something other than WOW that appeals to the affluent 25-35 age gamers rather than the younger people that dont have as much readily expendable income.

How high is your power, how high is your aim? It's highly possible my biggest hits happen against scrubs without 2018 expertise. I usually look to see if they have 30k+ health since that's at least some indicator of gear level.

Pvp 15% chance, of course, to make it a reliable hit instead of a "rng god please help me"

Tell ya what, i will probably play my merc again soon and will screenshot a big rail hit for ya :-) I havent really enjoyed the merc much in arenas though. Not sustainable vs. my 7 other class choices that almost all do more sustainable dps (though only sniper or mara can really spike like a merc). I do love that kolto missile though :-)

I havent had a quitter yet. If this is s constant problem for you, you might just be really unlucky (unless your gear blows). A lot of noobs are polluting solo ranked in junk gear or their pve gear. It will be like that for a while. But leaving an arena is stupid. They go so fast. I dont think ive had one where it lasted more than a few minutes per round. Even when a stealther tries to grief, catch him and gank him. Ezmode.

Guessing you guys have never got a 12k hsm either?

Matchmaking works. You were winning so much that they started pairing you with scrubs so you get forced down to mediocrity again. And really i think if the enemy team had a bad like him, and they probably did, the matchmaking worked.

Arsenal with the 5 buff stack against a squishy with 76% crit multiplier plus the suit bonus... spike is what arsenal mercs do best because you can wear somebody down with tracer and unload then hit with explosive dart that detonates at the same time as heatseeker followed by a reliable rail shot finisher. I would be very sad if i hit somebody for only 5k with it... i mean unless they were a tank that i didnt put tracer missile on i guess.

Petition: teach me how to use an ability i had since like level 5 or something.

There are many well-known methods to create glitches intentionally involving clipping bugs and other various bugs i won't go into details of. If you pvp in this game for hours a day you learn them by unfortunate mistake or by seeing some idiot intentionally exploit them. Some glitches that are easy to create (most in voidstar) trap the exploiter in a spot where they shoot but can't be shot. The only way out is /stuck, which should be done immediately. Some people in one of those glitches will not /stuck suicide. Instead they sit there shooting the door while immune to any enemy attacks. Filing a ticket on these very well-known glitches doesnt get them fixed. I'm gonna give the devs credit where due, i havent found a single glitch in arenas yet. That deserves some appreciation.

I noticed an average per hit of around ~8500 instead of ~8000 using arsenal setup. Its estimation though but that means probably in the range of 2-3% change pre-RNG. I don't know what an average pyro merc rail shot hits for because i go arsenal or heal (and we're gonna have a rough match if i'm merc healing)

It would be nearly impossible for them to make pyro merc stronger in arenas without making it devastating in warzones. Please think about the actual impact of changes before you ask for them. I know its fun throwing fire on everybody, but arsenal is just better.

Throwing your single target taunt on a dps that's not hitting you, like a sentinel or sniper, is a great way to help your team if you are a dps assassin. In arenas this is very important since a 4-man group really needs to be 4 players utilizing their entire skill set. In my opinion, the assassin that did a million damage but no protection in a warzone was not a very good assassin. Taunts between attacks are very important in a team battle.

I think there's a way to force it in ui editor, or set up a custom ui preset and load it for arenas.

The gree event isnt pvp. It's hordes of pve scrubs trying to gank much smaller groups of pvp players that laugh as they are winning while outnumbered 3 to 1 or more. While it is often amusing (me and a friend went there last time and got in a great 7v2 in which we killed them all over and over but they kept coming back) i wouldnt even say it resembles pvp. Its kinda like a pvper solo rolling the groups of 3-4 doing czerka dailies. Fun for a few minutes, then its just sad.

When you factor in dailies, it takes about 2-3 weeks of 3-4 hours a day on average doing unranked only. This is on par with the time it took to get full conqueror gear before. If you do solo ranked arenas only after getting conqueror, you can cut at least a week off that.

Open world pvp has been dead a very long time and not coming back. Arenas are 4v4 deathmatch warzones. Queue up and have fun. And welcome back :-)

I use a 0/30/16 sorc build in arenas and love it. I can put high absorb static barriers up, side heal, spike, and root people. I kept getting grouped with a madness sorc, random healer and tank or dps the other night and we owned it over and over against various groups. I asked the other sorc and he was running an opposite of my build 0/16/30 so more dots less spikes. But i consistrntly did 8-12% more damage than he did, with lots more heals, and i kept static barriers on people getting hit. So sorc as a support class, best ever :-)

It should really just be if you dont have 2018 expertise you cant queue ranked. No exceptions lol

Most pvp guilds will just queue unrankedcand stomp noobs, face eachother in arenas, get split, or get a good fight every once in a while. Since most pvp guilds are more about winning than challenge or skill, that will happen even if they bring ranked wzs back, because guess what, that's what they did when ranked wzs were around instead of queueing for ranked. Sorry if your guild was one of the few that actually queued for ranked regularly for the challenge.

If anyone pays 200 they deserve to be scammed :-) Im sure BW will fix the price eventually. I kinda figured it was a typo and should've been 20cc.

I'm not gonna cry. There is plenty of that already. Change is a great thing. I think it's great the pvp is getting some attention finally, that means more than any one individual change. I did my daily on 6x55s yesterday and some solo ranked matches. The arenas themselves, i really love the maps. The obstacles are just awesome. I wish warzones were as well-designed as the arenas really. The devs did great with that. The queue... well, i think i get the why, but i don't really get the why not. Ranked solo and ranked group, beautiful. The unranked is now a joke though.and i'm seeing so many players i have never seen before (and before 2.4 at least most players had names i recognized if they were hardcore). The queue has also offset the balance of premade vs premade that has been our standard. Now one side is premade, the other side are randoms, more than before. This isnt as much a dev issue as it is a player issue though, and im glad my wife and i can still pvp as a duo when we dont feel like doing ranked. I think the f2ps flooding unranked is what might be more of an issue at this time. The matchmaking system is a joke. Please temporarily re-allow respecs until you get a real matchmaking system. 3 dps + tank vs 2 heal, tank, dps teams is a joke. Warzone bundle. 200 cartel coins for x10 medpacs and adrenals. That's hilarious. Class balance is still a big joke but i do really love my arsenal merc has a little more kick now :-) Conclusion: i think the devs made some really great changes but at THIS moment it's all kinda long overdue and not enough of it. I will most likely casually play through 2.4 mostly just doing dailies on my alts and waiting to see what happens with 2.5. I'm optimistic that the pvp in this game can be turned around, but 2.4 was just the first step. Since most of what i want to do during this time is get my dailies done, im torn on whether to stay subscribed or cancel and put that money toward total war: rome 2 :-p The new pve content really just doesnt justify the subscription.

I would think most players even remotely relevant in the pvp community wouldn't care about bolster... at all, in any way.