Hey there. Returning PvP player here. What are the ideal Alacrity and Critical Rating numbers for Solo? (I'm terrible at percentages so please just give the actual number) I'm playing Concentration Sentinel/Fury Marauder if that helps. Thank you.

(These are just opinions to start off this thread that I have, feel free to argue/whine/complain/share your own opinions below, as I won't get triggered, unless you're reasoning is like "these suck kys." and you don't actually back up your reasons.) 1. Exclusive PvP Area. Give players an ability like Emergency Fleet Pass, but the ability can port them to a Exclusive PvP Area. This PvP area will absolutely only be pvp, and the pve world doesn't have anything to do with it. This PvP Area will serve as a boundary for Skill Changes/Stats (I'll get into that later) 2. In this Exclusive PvP area, make the QUE for Regular Warzones, and Ranked Warzones CROSS-SERVER. Nothing else needs to be explained. 3. For the love of god, as a veteran player who has played pvp since launch Lowbies and midbies the concept of them are so damn stupid. In this exclusive pvp area, make everyone leveled to max so everyone can participate in only ONE bracket of pvp. 4. Armor is purely cosmetic in this pvp area. You heard me right. Since RNG gearing is everyone's go to complaining, in this pvp area armor is purely cosmetic, and it doesn't affect any of your stats. 5. You might be asking how the hell are stats going to be determined if armor is only cosmetic. Simple, by your advanced class and discipline. You will have BASE stats according to the AC you choose, and the Discipline you choose. I will go more in-depth later but for now here is what I'm thinking (Shield/Absorb/Defense stats will ONLY BE EXCLUSIVE to Tank disciplines) Heavy Armor Classes- 85k base health Medium Armor Classes- 83k Base Health Light Armor Classes- 80k Base Health Tanks- 91k Base Health 6. PvP Gear back. Wait what? You just said gear was absolutely only cosmetic. That was armor I talked about, I didn't say relics/earpiece/implants. Your armor, mainhand, and offhand in this pvp area will all be purely cosmetic. But there will be a vendor in this pvp area that will sell relics/earpiece/implants for 1 credit. Let's start off with explaining Relics. Relics will still have the % chance of triggering Mastery/Crit/Power or other % triggering chances that relics have. PvP Relics will only have 2 stats, one stat at max, and the other stat at low. (Shield/Defense/Absorb relics/implants/earpieces can only be bought by tank disciplines so no more skank tanking). There will be a relic for every stat, for example High Power, High Endurance, High Power, High Alac, High Alac, High Crit etc I can go on forever. For Earpieces, they will have 3 stats. One high stat, one medium stat, and one low stat. Again, there will be a earpiece for every stat, so more variety for gearing. Implants will have 4 stats however, 2 high, and 2 low stats. implants will also have the same system of having every stat. The same rule of having only 1 earpiece, 2 implants, and 2 relics still apply. So those class BASE health can be changed by relics/implants/earpiece 7. Balance changes to classes. 5.0 fixed very little balance changes, and I won't even list everything that is balance wrong with classes in pvp as that could take awhile, so I'll leave that just here. 8. Quitter System. For every regular warzone and ranked warzone you leave, you get a timeout from queing. The max timeout you can get is if you leave matches consecutively, and the max timeout is 5 hours. The minimum timeout you can get is 5 minutes. Every match you quit you get a "Quitter Point". 1 quitter point can be removed by playing a complete match of a ranked or reg match. If you get a Quitter Point, that's a 5 minute timeout. For every other quitter point you get you get added 5 more minutes. So if you have 2 quitters points, you have 10 minutes, 5 you have 25 minutes, and so on. 9. Ranked PvP. Oh boy this'll be fun, let me first start off saying 4v4 Arenas have gotten very old and stale. 8v8 Ranked with OBJECTIVES would be much better. You might be wondering why I capped the word objectives, and the reason why is Star Wars pvp is a farm. "DUDE I GOT HIGHEST DMG/PROT/HEALING YOU ARE ALL TRASH TIER COMPARED TO ME." "Um, excuse me sir, it doesn't really matter because we lost the game, so your high stats really don't mean **** if we lost." Ranked 8v8 will need players to both do high damage/prot/healing and be wise and coordinated with doing objectives. For now, no Ranked 8v8 Huttballs, as some classes *cough* can absolutely cheat on that game mode. 10. A new Rating System for Ranked. The rating system for ranked honestly makes my brain cells commit suicide one by one, so I'll start off by stating an idea I had for awhile on how to improve it. First thing, there will be two separate ratings for Team Ranked and Solo Ranked like Bioware had, but no more numbers or 1400 rating or 2000 rating. instead, we will have Divisions. This new Divisions system I have in mind will ensure that only the most highly skilled players that know tactical coordination, positioning, leadership, and class skill will get rewarded for their efforts. There will be 10 divisions. Novice Division, Amateur Division, Knight Division, Snake Division, Shark Division, Dragon Division, Champion Division, Elite Division, Warlord Division, Legendary Division. How these divisions will work is that everyone will start off in Novice Division. In order to get out of Novice Division, you need 15 Stars in that Division. Stars can be obtained by winning games, and will be lost by losing games. If you win 3 in a row, you gain 2 stars instead of one, every game you win with the 3 win streak will still give you 2 stars instead of one. If you get into a losing streak of 3, you lose 2 stars in a row, every game you lose with the 3 losing streak will lose you 2 stars. Here's the list of all stars needed to cross Divisions. Novice Division- 15 stars Amateur Division- 20 stars Knight Division- 25 stars Snake Division- 30 stars Shark Division- 35 stars Dragon Division- 40 stars Champion Division- 45 stars Elite Division- 50 stars Warlord Division-55 stars Legendary Division- 100 stars Jaws have dropped as you see 100 stars for Legendary Division. Like I said, this new system I have in mind will challenge players absolutely and will only let the most talented in. Let me explain how ques will work. Novice Division, Amateur Division, and Knight Division will be qued together. Meaning players from the three divisions will be qued together, and queing will not only be exclusive to your division. Same goes for Snake, Shark, Dragon divisions, they will be qued together. Champion, Elite, Warlord Divisions will be qued together, and Legendary will be its own que. As you rise up divisions, you can get booted back to a lower division. For example, once you reach 15 stars, and move onto Amateur Division, if you lose the next game you get sent back to Novice Division with 14 stars. This will be a pain and a lot of players will complain, but like I said, I want Ranked to actually be competitive. 11. Division Rewards. At the end of the season, you will be rewarded for the high grind that you pulled off. For people in Novice, Amateur, Knight Division you will be considered Tier 1, and players in these 3 divisions will only be able to access the Tier 1 Giradda Vendor. This Tier 1 Giradda Vendor will sell a Tier 1 title, Black-Silver Crystals, and Tier 1 Stronghold Items. Players who finish in the Novice Division at the end of the season will gain 5000 tokens, Amateur Division with 8000 tokens, Knight Division with 10,000 tokens. For players who finished in Tier 2 divisions which include Snake, Shark, Dragon divisions you will gain access to Tier 1 Giradda Vendor, and Tier 2 Giradda Vendor. Tier 2 Giradda Vendor will sell Tier 2 title, Black-Silver Crystals, Tier 2 Stronghold items, Cosmetic Armor Set. For players that finished in Snake at the end of the season, they will gain 13,000 tokens, Shark players will gain 15,000 tokens, Dragon players will gain 20,000 tokens. Players who finished in Tier 3 which include Champion, Elite, Warlord Divisions will gain access to the last Giradda Vendor which is Tier 3 Giradda Vendor. Champion, Elite, Warlord Divisions will gain access to all Tier Giradda Vendors. Tier 3 Giradda Vendor will have T3 title, Black-Silver Crystals, Tier 3 Stronghold Items, Cosmetic Armor Set, Cosmetic Weapon Set, Mount, Exclusive Gold crystals. Players who finish in Champion Division at the end of the season will gain 30,000 tokens, Elite will gain 40,000 tokens, and Warlord will gain 50,000 tokens. Legendary Division players will gain access to all 3 Giradda Vendors, and will be given 100,000 tokens at the end of the season, 20,000 more tokens will be given for players in Legendary Division based on the amount of times they repeated Legendary Division. 12. You might be wondering what that last sentence meant, about repeating Legendary Division. Once you reach the required amount which is 100 stars for Legendary Division, you can repeat that Division and get a +1 or +2 or +the number you repeated Legendary Division. The + system will determine Top 3 Advanced Class titles. You might guess that there might be a problem, if everyone gets +1 Legendary Division only as it's a grind to repeat Legendary Division, how will they pick Top 3 AC titles? If this is the case, the players who finished first, will get served first with the AC title. 13. Win-Trading is a huge *** problem in this game, so to fix this, Ranked Que for 8v8s, you will only be able to que with 4 people for 8v8s, and you can't que an entire ops team. This might piss off people at first, but it works as you will get paired with another 4 premade team. Also, the ques will be cross-server preventing even more shady stuff like win-trading to happen. 14. There will be no regional Cross-Server ques, NA Servers will only Cross-Server que with NA servers and EU servers will only Cross-Server que with EU servers. 15. 3-5 Developers making up a PvP Development Team. This PvP Development Team will exchange info on class changes and what they could do to balance the game, they will also LISTEN TO THEIR PLAYER COMMUNITY and will monitor the PvP Areas so players can whisper them if there is a known hacker spotted, or a known win-trader spotted. Well boy, that was a read wasn't it? Well that's all my ideas I have for now about PvP. It took me a long time to type this, but it was worth it. Like I said, these ARE MY OPINIONS, and you are more than welcome to argue, complain, whine, or share your own ideas. Thank you for reading!

Actually, a Merc if they played their cards correctly could beat an Operative in a 1v1.

Just like the title says, are the 3.0 sets still available in game like the Dark Reaver/Revanite or Ressurected/Revanite sets? Or are they gone from the game for now? Thanks in advance!

Hmm, I wonder if the post's name is, "My reasons to convince all of you that can make PvP Great Again!" No it isn't. This is just me expressing my opinions. If you seriously do not know the issues of class balances then you truly are living under a rock since it is so easy to see. Go to the other threads or better yet play pvp more to see what's wrong with the class balances.

I like the idea, but some classes completely overpower other classes in 1v1's.

Not really going to get in numbers to be honest with you. It should be clear like a diamond as to why class balance in this game is broken if you just pay attention in any kind of PvP you do, may it be Dueling, Regs, or Ranked.

forgot to add one thing ;-;, if you have any more reasons feel free to put them down!

No this isn't a Donald Trump thread to get that out of that way. Also no, I'm not trolling at all this in my honest opinion and I believe a majority of players can agree on. 1. Class Balance. That's one of the big ones that i'm going to get out of the way. We all know how broken Sorc Heals are, and some classes are supremely broken. Bioware needs to communicate and listen to their pvp community since we the pvp community know most of what's going on and how to prevent it or at least how to balance it out in PvP. 2. Ranked 8s back. No I'm not saying to take out 4's entirely, I'm saying we should have a system in place where people can Que Solos for 8s and 4s. Also a system where people can create an 8 man team to que Team 8s and create a 4 man team to que Team 4s. In my honest opinion, this will make more variation in SWTOR's PvP. People can play objectives or think of strategies to win in 4s. Speaking of which, please ENFORCE in both 8s and 4s standard comps. What I mean by this is if people are going to make a 4s team, it needs to be 1 tank, 1 healer, and 2 dps. Since this will block out any troll comps. Same thing with 8s. 2 tanks, 2 healers, and 4 dps. Also closing out this reason, make all regular warzones cross-faction! 3. This might be a tricky one to put in place, but we all know that raiders and people who do PvE complain that we complain about class balances because it nerfs their class as well when they are raiding. How about we take the PvE/PvP phases to a new level? If you move to the PvP phase, you're class gets balanced automatically by a system in place so that you're not extremely overpowered. Great example of that is Sorc Heals. However, if you move to a PvE phase, your class gets balanced automatically by the same system in place, but it accounts it to how the PvE Community like their classes balanced. 4. Developers. No not the kind of developers that develop things, (well i guess you could say that kind off), this is actually the opposite. Bioware should have developers monitoring the PvP in the game, and we can whisper them at any time IN-GAME to let them know if anyone is hacking/throwing games/ or more importantly, Win-Trading. Now this might be difficult with the amount of servers there are, but that's where reason 5 comes in! 5. Cross-Server ques. Yes, yes, this will take a lot of time to implement and put in the game but it's not impossible. With this in place, no matter which server you are in you can get pops in no time. Also a little add in to help reason number 4. Let the Who Tab cross-faction AND cross-server. This way if us PvPers know any win-trading going on or hackers online we can easily get in touch with a Bioware developer. 6. And finally reason 6. Thanks for reading this wall of reasons by the way. But like John Cena you'll be surprised to hear this one we can do OURSELVES as PvPers to make PvP Great Again. That ladies and gentlemen, is the toxicity level of the PvP Community. We have to stop and think. We are all PvP'ers here. There is no such thing as a player who sucks or a player who is good. There's a thing called, A player who knows how to play their class and has mastered it, and a Player who does not know how to play their class. As veteran PvP'ers I believe it is our responsibility to help new PvP'ers to learn more about their class, and their rotation. Because let's face it, when you trash talk players in yolos who don't know how to play their class, they get discouraged and never que again. Wow, you actually read this far down? Jesus I applaud you! In all seriousness I hope this was a good read, and I hope you know more on how to make PvP Great Again!™ (trademarked by Donald Trump but seriously, take reason 6 to heart!)

I understand you getting mad about losing repub side, but it's not Bioware's fault and it's sure as hell not a reason why pvp should stop. Most great players are imperial side, always has been. So you can't really blame anyone if repub side keeps losing because that's just how it is, imperial side has always had the better pvpers.

http://strawpoll.me/6154982 Click here please if you want Bioware to actually do something, we can bump this up by expressing how we really feel and maybe then we'll knock some sense into Bioware's Developer team.

It's a joke, it really is

Musco, please give us more pvp, I beg to god please, more warzones, 8v8 ranked. You have not ANNOUNCED anything about pvp in 1 year and a half. I mean come on man.

Alright Bioware, if you didn't catch the flow with all the posts in this forum, let me RECAP it for you like you said 300000x in the livestream which is boring as **** 1. We want new pvp content, enough with the ******** give us 8v8 ranked give us new maps BE MORE CARING WITH YOUR PVP COMMUNITY AND MAYBE THE PVP SERVERS WILL BE REVIVED AGAIN. We need PvP in this game, you will LOSE all your subs if you just keep announcing new story all the time, in fact it won't be a *********** MMO if it's filled with story. 2. Also, new operations. A new expansion and no operations? Lol what a fail, "huge announcement" and no ops, wow Bioware i'll give you an award, Troll King of the Year 3. You're story is good, KOTFE was well done, but for ****s sake really? Subscriber Rewards, LOL more like "******** HK-55" rewards. I like HK-55 personally, but holy **** you shoved HK-55 up our assess, man we want new pvp content, new ops content, not your god damn ******** companions. 4. Put the Twitch chat on really slow mode, so we can all talk normally and you can actually see all of our comments, also look at the recommendations even more so that you can actually give us **** that we want in the game. 4 years, lol, another year of us getting trolled with more story and companions. gg bioware gg

Of course like always, Bioware doesn't talk **** about pvp in their livestreams gg