This exactly.

Just what the guy above said... Except soldiers and maybe Jedis/Siths no class is 100% sided. Agents are double agents, BH and smugglers are credits sided, and, well, Siths spent their half their time killing other siths and their troops, and the Knights turn one to Light and get The Hand as a pet... RPing has nothing to do with PvP, or do you leave side v side WZs ? On most servers one side is 2/3 or more of the population, so you spent over half your time ripping "friends" into pieces. Most pvpers never touched pve, same for pveers n return. And what about those zones pops, after waiting so long, where your team of 4/5 ppl face another of 8 ? Faction-less would be the essence of PERSON v PERSON, and it would help alot filling queues.

Well, sure you got aggressive replies, but it can't prevent you from basically thinking about what you wrote and what you got back. First, don't talk about OPERATIVES when you faced one of the THREE specs, thank you. Then, you can snare/root the roll, it doesn't free movement and surely doesn't give immunity. Then again, name the powers as they are, don't try to sum up them with shiny bright pictures, seriously, "Healer sage has Force Armor which heals a little bit and implodes in a ball of light" ? Before you can complain about anything, try to gather FACTS. Healer sage (but not the 2 other specs...) being tied down by an operative ? Really ? HOW ? HEALER sage really ? Are they unbreakable hard stuns I don't know of ? Or do you mean we can flash you, heal, then rip you again ? Then why did you have to face an foe alone ? And why the hell do you talk about Sages when you're obviously a Knight ? Then you might have said you were talking about pure DUELS, or node guarding where your class obviously sux at ? Don't pull your faults or your team's on anybody else, thank you, and don't take here and there arguments that may help you but just drown the fish. Then, so you consider fleeing from you is a win... How ? Why ? You're just frustrated, feeling how Jedis are teh l33t toons that shall rule and the others shall bow, RPing in pvp is, well... How can a guy running from a fight with you be the WINNER ? Can you imagine how it feels just to be able to scratch you, even with our omgzungaoverpowered skillz ? At last, greeb wrote you were talking like a lvl 11, not that you are, if your understanding of pvp is on par with your reading skills, then you're really out of reach.

So there were and there might still be ****loads of videos/posts about at least speed hacks, but they don't exist because of lag and 9/10 people here being morons There might be only a very few cheaters nowadays, but anybody who played the first three months could testify how speed hacks where the curse of pvp, pugs at least, and how full the forums where of cheat reports (almost instantly deleted, but hey) It's not only about lag (insta tag/untag under fire anybody ?), bad team play (being besides the goal and jumped on by a rava/PT, fighting far from node), misunderstanding/knowing of classes (nerf OPs who get 2 50meters all immune rollz !!!). Some morons DO USE cheats, and while there are less and less of them, every now and then you still see a perma speed buffed guy (even in fights), another that can spam speed buff (lots lately with shadows/sins FOTM), and a random guy tagging every voidstar door in 2 secs with several people shooting at him/AOEing the zone. Proofs ? How the hell can you proove something that's instant, and why the hell would you record your games, adding use of precious comp ressources above lag ? Even, how many times was your game running perfectly, and when you get close to a random player everything's going awfully laggy ? Using mouse buttons for macros is cheating too, and quite a silent cheating, nothing to be screened there. Only a few people post here, and it's a little incestuous world where you don't want to go against the tough guys, too bad the mainstream has almost forever been against evidences and popular experience.

Let's talk about 5V8 "matches", already an heresy, which no word can define when both teams are on the same side... Or, on the same side too, pugs' teams full of 55+ opposing 40-... Arenas are just the pinacle, how many times did I see 2v4s ? The motto is "anything to enable people to tag", what is quite fair (except they don't want X server), but obviously, once they proudly had this brilliant idea, they never thought further.

<- This. Same with back attacks you can use while in front of a target just by moving like crazy.

Light armor tank with only a 60% armor buff sure won't help

Out of arenas where you're obviously spotted before the fight, and in solo node guard, you'll just do fine, even more if you know where to stand and try to keep freecasting. You can dish nice dmg, heal a bit here and there, and still have some nice tools to get those nasty sins/ops out of darkness.

Only buff I long for on my leth is an improvement on burst/target switching, and/or maybe having Kprobe do it's job on one stance only and having a second one extend it. All in all, just a little buff, that extra something to please us. Maybe have TA increase CA (then rename it to tactical assault ?) instead of dots, our dps being "situationnal" : DOTs don't come with a direct physical action (with your knife) (what is stupid anyway if you know what damages knives do...), then how do they increase the damage you do with your ranged weapon ? By lowering your armor or defensive abilites ? Well, scoundrels don't use acid but bleeds, and your ranged weapons does straight damage, point blank, I can't think of any realistic way to link dots to that. You gain TAs by taking tactical advantage (...) of a situation, and what is more tactical than attacking a target who can't think you will ? Let's say TA is like a combat rage you use to improve your fighting skills, and we're done. Then the buff is linked to you, not your target, and you're better as dealing damage to anybody ; when you've built your combat stance, you can benefit from it whatever foe you're aimed at, like a sith building his rage to fight or a jedi concentrating on fighting. Well I hope my english wasn't too bad on it, to me OP are really balanced and they get some nice tools, the damage can be nice but we miss a strong shoot. The fact that some (non healer) classes can cleanse dots is another stupid point to me, even if I can see why, in terms of gameplay, it's something necessary. You bleed, you bleed, if a power can clean acid or cotherize it shall not come with another ability, and certainly not something as powerful as a vanish, that already resets combat. If I throw acid at anybody, I expect to follow his tracks when he hides, or at least any disadvantage for him, like being unable to fight 100% for X seconds. Well, just some thoughts, thought I'd really like to have them discussed.

What about a short speed boost, like OPs'/Scoundrels ? Or a jump away ? Breaking CC/being immune to CC of course. Could be on bump, on Kolto's activation, on shield activation ? Then it's not another CC, and we get that little time to breathe. Except for the fun it can give sometimes, I've always hated the idea of a non-force bump, I'd rather get an escape jump (even if I feel it's more a tank PT/VG ability in spirit) than being able to have X people explode 5m away as a "ranged fighter". Throw a grenade (blinding, deafing ?) and get an adrenal jump that overcomes CC, except for my poor english doesn't it sound good ?

Zahn cannon. If the 4-5-6 ARE cannon (obviously), the only worth material comes from these books, the rest being commercial stuff only. Midichlorians off, well, definitely off, since the concept itself is, at best, dust in the wind. The rest is just kids' stuff, dragon ball style, nothing to gather the 7 to 77 fans (or not) in there.

I see you got the point Just find it weird how people like to play the three monkeys when it's time to name cheats

Since I can't get a fair reply in game... Been playing on my Op/scoundrel a lot lately, and I keep getting jumped on, often over 40m, while in stealth, by (some) sents/ravas. As an exemple, in Novare (WZ in which I see most weird things), the guy I had in focus was besides the southern cabin, me halfway to west, under the rocks, and, it's important, stealthed. Shoudl the guy had focused me too, I can't imagine how, how could he jump on me ?! Obvious question is : Is it a cheat/hack, or is there a really special and hidden talent that makes it possible for this class ?

Sure, but, when you're full, doesn't it mean you're doing nothing anyway, whatever the reason, thus not benefiting from any other stat either ? It all depends on situation, but when you need/want to tempo, faster dots means more dmg and faster regen less time to go back to attack/more attacks (not even talking about GCD) ? I can understand why alac would not be THE stat, but beyond certains maths/skills, as for other classes/specs, and for given situations, I feel it should be investigated at least.