So let's see. I decide to venture into ranked pvp solo and this has been my experience in the past four days: Told to kill myself 6 times Told Im **** and my mom should have aborted me. Watched two of my teammates kill themselves at start of match for win trading 11 times. Told that its players like me that ruin pvp for people because I dont have 'the best gear' (numerous times) Told I was a special education player because I dont have friends to play with in teams and I should end my 'down syndrome life' by sticking a fork in an electrical socket twice by the same player in the same match. I hate PVP Ranked because of the toxicity of the player base at that level. You will be made to feel like absolute garbage regardless of what you do or try to do. You get tunneled and killed almost at the start of a match? You're **** and told to die. Reporting players like this does not do anything as its always the same batch of players in ranked. At least in unranked theres a variety of players and you wont always run into the same people. Honestly - SWTOR Staff needs to do a better job dealing with this level of harassment, toxicity, and downright cruelty from players. Completely clean out the ranked player base based on the reports submitted and give the same game mode a fresh start. Readjust the gearing to pre-5.0 for progression (earn the gear in unranked, get the better gear through pvp progression) that way everyone is on the same playing field.

Holy hell I've never seen a gaming company treat veteran players this badly. Eric, what the hell are you all thinking over there? You're getting trashed on your forums, trashed on youtube, trashed on reddit... and though you normally get trashed for things from a small vocal minority... THIS IS A MAJORITY of your player base that are sticking their middle fingers right at you all. As Chris Carter would say, "C'mon, Man!?"

Seems like a server issue itself (obviously) and not a full server. Since its the weekend don't expect a fix.

Played on my DS smuggler and LS Knight. Both times I think they failed the chapter. For someone like Kaliyo, it just seemed rushed. Truly rushed. I'd have liked a bit more interaction with her. The same "omgurd they're all spoiled" stuff is sad. The same trash mobs repeatedly is also becoming taxing. Somethings gotta change but I highly doubt it will.

I have characters on the Ebon Hawk and Jung Ma servers and I am having large spikes. I can get as low as 19ms and have been as high as 24k. Spoke with my ISP (Comcast) whom has stated my internet is fine. I am able to get clear signals for other mmo games on my laptop as well as XBox One (streaming games, playing multiplayer, etc.). They indicated its an issue on the games server side and to take it up with the games maker (i.e. bioware). There is nothing they can do. Edit: I cant even load into a warzone. It takes forever to load and if the match has already started Im kicked for inactivity. >.>

Thats the problem. Instead of saying "i done goofed" its always that ONE SINGLE person who screams at me, the team, or another person about how much we suck and we're the reason they lost (keep in mind the person ranting never admits to having done anything wrong) Why not just explain what we did wrong via op chat, via whisper, ect? Is that too hard? For example. Lets say I fudge up a guard situation (i.e. I switch to wrong target at the wrong time) why not explain something I might have missed instead of ranting, threatening, scolding, ect? Keep in mind its always that one person whom seems so easily set off. Is this part of the reason the ranked doesnt pop frequently? The toxicity and people not wanting to deal with it? On a side note I apologize im not able to record on my current computer.

Yes. However my opposing team was prepped for that for the most part. I would get pulled and ccd. When i would manage to get free, I would typically guard the person getting focused HOWEVER the moment I was free i already had one or two opponents on me tearing me down. My healers in the three matches couldnt match their dps output. Like i said, i did everything i thought I could. I used my cc, stuns, ect. I used guardswap. However my opponents were on their game. They knew to take down a tank first upon me free of anything.

Absolutely not; unless upon breaking there is a 4-8 second stun to attackers in a 10m range that is cancelled should stun players receive damage of any kind (im looking at you happy go lucky grenade throwers ). There is no issue with "guard". Im not saying pvp cant be an absolute pain. It takes a team to win and a team to lose, you can out dps a healer when burning down their tank through interrupts, stuns, knockbacks, pulls, ect. The issue is not wasting those abilities before encountering a healer with guard. On a side note: more often than not i see force leap happy tanks go leaping into combat and completely bailing on their guarded player. Thats a sight i dread to see on my Merc Healer and one i love encountering as an opponent lol.

I guess... Thanks for the reply? "Dude youve played plenty of games..." I have actually only played three games with three different teams. As for your checklist below: no to min/max simply because Im in the process of acquiring dark reaver for my Guardian Tank (farming comms on alts and such), yes to know what I am doing. Guard swap only works when your team stays in range or you can get back into range after a pull, cc, stun for guard to start doing its job. Ive tried keybinding and doesnt work for me. I do better on my tank with clicking / minimal keybinding. My concern isnt my wins and losses. You can lose a good match and still feel good after the loss. Its the toxicity of the environment. My question, I guess, is why are some people so passionate about ranked that they go off like fireworks on the fourth of july and no not in the fun way.

So I finally gave in last night after seeing all the messages about fleet "queue solo" and "solo ranked popping". I've never done solo ranked once on an alt; however I do have the full 168 gear with augments on my Guardian Tank. So I queue up AND... wait. Yes I waited. Fifteen minute wait pop 1, twenty-two minute wait pop 2, another 15 minute wait pop 3. My first match was pub v imp. We got wrecked. Embarrassingly rekted. I did everything I should (I think) in the match as a tank. I used guard, leaped, absorbed, etc etc. Our shadow however got torn down within seconds. This is where I got my first taste of the toxicity of solo ranked. Our "healer" went absolutely bat-**** crazy on us. Claimed the first loss was on our shadow after a slew of profanity. In Match two I survived a bit longer (I was second to last to die with our healer being last). The opposing team was on their game. They took down our two dps immediately, then shredded me, then our healer. In that order both games. I got my first loss but once more the healer went off on the two dps and I claiming he did more damage while healing and probably could have protected better. Stats said differently. You know what though? I thought this was only one match. There is no one I will have someone like this in every game. WRONG. Match Two and Three were against the same Republic Team (I believe they were a group (?) which consisted of dps vanguard, tank vanguard, shadow, and sage healer). In game one we lost with our opponents focusing me first in both matches and getting me down. Our sage dps got even more salty than the healer sage from match one and cussed me up one wall and down another. Keep in mind I tried everything from stuns, interrupts, enraged defense... everything to survive but they simply shredded me apart. Like I said Match Three was against the same Republic Team as Match two and they had the same strategy. This time a gunslinger started tearing apart our healer in chat for "not keeping us alive" and "costing us the game" against "nubs". When we lost match two this same gunslinger went onto /say and proceeded to trash us to the opposing team. I realized after this that being 0-3 in my first three ranked matches does suck but its not the end of the world. I need to improve, I admit that. What truly upset me was the conduct of players on my teams in ranked. Yes we've all seen people go off in regs of every tier. Sometimes its funny and sometimes its eye-raising but ranked is something different all together. Its very pointed and very personally aimed at other players. I wanted to see if I could be any good in ranked. My conclusion is no and for this reason: After just three matches I was left with a sour taste I just cant shake. I thought I was prepared for the anger, rage, and contempt of some players in pvp but regs has absolutely nothing on Ranked. I wanted to save some tokens to be able to get at least a small cheap pvp item just so I can say I have it. After just three ranked matches I can say I feel it is not worth it. I don't have friends in this game which is why I queued solo (groups are out of the question for now for me), I also don't like harassment. Should I try and keep going and playing? Perhaps see what my rating is if I managed to hit 0-10? Or should I say f*** this tier of pvp and just stay in regs? I guess a more important question is why do people get so bloody angry in Ranked? Is it simply due to ratings? If so why are they queuing solo and not as a group if worried about their rating?

^ ditto. Juggs/Guardians all over ebon hawk tonight.

I concur. The only time people complain is when this issue is on the opposing team yet I never see threads "OMGurdz, our team had an unstoppable heal/guard situation that wasnt fair to our opponents". In 8v8 matchmaking is a roll of the dice. A stalemate shows that 16 people were either really good or really bad. You earned that stalemate in mass and forgive me if I am wrong, there are no real stalemates correct? Someone wins and someone loses everytime; its just that some games go the full time limit and some end in just a few minutes.

I play heals in warzones. We are only "op" when we are left alone. I was in seven matches today. In five I got focused each and every time I appeared which hindered my ability to heal. In those five matches I averaged 500k due to being torn apart every bloody time I tried to help a teammate out (8v8 regs). However in the two matches where I was not focused and survived without dying once, I hit 1.4m and 1.7m heals. In only one of my matches (the 1.7m healing) did a guard get put on me (by a shadow). Its not the role, its the opponents. If you dont focus the healers early and hard, they will run rampant. On the flip side I could whine and complain about dps classes, or stealth classes, or tank classes. I dont. Ive been on the recieving end of an arse whooping more times than I want to admit as a healer. There is not an issue with the healers; if anything its that enough people enjoy playing them that they are perceived to be a problem. People complain about them when they face them but no one seems to whine when theyre on theyre team. -shrug- Edit: As for tanks: I have a Guardian Tank. They are perfectly fine. Put a guard on a healer, do what you must to protect them and they will keep you alive (if they know what theyre doing). You two become like yin and yang, inseperable and nearly unstoppable if working together.

I can confirm this as well. I have played nine matches since update on Merc and Sage Healers. I have put 1.4m or above healing on both merc and sage in every match. I do not get my healing medals at 90k or 360k on either in every match. I have played four matches on my tank guardian and he does not get the 360k guarding medal even when guarding above 700k a match.

A Droid pet, 3 xp boosts, and 12 various dyes that are baaaaad color combinations.

I know... I know... But in this case we dont care. If we cant have him as a companion at least we can hopefully unfreeze and watch him kick ***.

But. Its. Malgus. He's like SWTORS one direction. All of us fanboy/girl out for him! Yes I just made a bad one direction reference >.>

Perhaps this is the whole trophy concept? Like when the twins brought the lightsabers, each "big catch" they bring to daddy in the same manner?

I have to agree. Holy hell. Was not expecting that. If he is an option, at the VERY LEAST, i have to seriously entertain the idea of potentially recruiting him (or trying too) but my lord... thats a shocker lol Excellent find OP!

Dude you lost this argument already. Time to just let it go. Nox and Wrath beat Dooku and Vader. Why should we listen to cartoon drawings of people or read a book. Think of it in this manner: in society people have to see things to believe. Simply writing things down without any visual proof to support it is a flawed argument. So your comics, books, ect that have no video support should and actually would be considered nothing more than propaganda. Just because you said Vader or Dooku did such and such in a "comic book" or "book" does actually mean nothing. I could edit the wiki page of Nox and claim she brought solar systems into creation. See? Means nothing. Seeing as we are not counting the written b.s. that was the pathetic E.U. and focusing completely on what we visually see back to the actual argument. You have done nothing but diminish anything anyone does in this game. Thanaton is manipulative, decisive, ruthless, etc. To say he has done "nothing" is a severe misunderstanding of the character as Marr himself says Thanaton was a better sith than people gave him credit for. Lets compare force attacks here: Nox knocked away the force lightening like it was nothing. Dooku couldn't do that. The closest anyone could get to it was Yoda whom (I would claim was superior to Nox in some areas) absorbed it at one point and then shot it back at his opponent later. Even then it took a lot of energy to perform these abilities as based on his facial expression. Nox? Slapped that **** away with no effort. Looking at the force lightening storm, Sidious couldn't handle his own basic **** and got deformed when it was deflected back onto him. Nox? Took a vast amount of lightening and walked out with a shrug... a shrug. Sorry son, Nox > Dooku 100% of the time. Gotta stop grasping at straws and start a different combat thread with opponents worthy of Nox and Wrath (say windu/yoda vs nox/wrath)? I think you might fair better in that argument than this one. :-)

Sorry but again much like science you have to see it to believe it. Nox slapped away force lightening with the aid of the ghosts. Simply slapped it away as thought it were nothing more than a pesky insect. Nox took on a powerful force storm like lightening attack as though it were nothing. Nox made Thanaton her ***** and she would do the same to Dooku. Sorry but its true. I gave Dooku some credit in my first post however he still loses. No if's, and's or but's. I gave the edge to Dooku against the Wrath however it would be a close fight and one for the ages. As for Malgus, how many wraths and noxs solod him now? My wrath has... so... yeah.

Guess you need to reread my post then, Buddy, instead of just quoting a snippet of it. People spend cartel coins on packs, right? What comes in packs? Companion affection items. I.E. People who have used companion affection items (they received from hypercrates and packs that they bought with cartel coins that they had acquired through real money) on their companions did in fact put a monetary investment into them. Same thing with the legacy unlocks for companion affection bonuses from conversation and gift items. You use cc to buy those which needs real money if you dont want to wait for a months or so sub bonus cc gift from bioware. Hope that clears it up for you. Seeing as I have just shown that I could "technically" spend CC on my companions to gain a higher affection through acquiring better companion gift items, does that mean no companion will not be taken away? You did say "They are not going to take away something people could have spent CC on."

This is my biggest issue with their KOTFE "info" released thus far. I have invested time & money into my companions. Most people forget that it costs real world money to buy hypercrates and packs. In those packs come companion affection items. I used items I bought to financially invest into my companions. If I will not have Kira or Doc as spouses for my two companions in the expansion I would like to know now. The reason? It will determine if I max the affection and bother with the stories of the other companions I want to make spouces (andron and Ashara). If I will not be able to keep my companions (or recruit them back) then I wont bother investing time now into them just to be let down later (I'll be devated enough losing loyal Kira and player Doc). Bioware needs to stop with the vague b.s. and start releasing some detailed info. The "hype train" has turned into paranoia, suspicion, and anxiety; we just want some detailed info.

I thank them by remaining subbed as others have said. However that does not mean I am necessarily happy and not concerned about what I am seeing. The issue is the lack of info. Hype was supposed to happen but all they did was stir a bee's nest. Companions, end game content, lack of potential closure for the Emperor saga, etc etc has alarmed a lot of people not necessarily built up hype for this expansion. I am a story player and I am looking forward to the new expansion to some extent however my concern is what the hell they do with the companion system. I stay subbed as a thank you. Since i have all of the legacy unlocks on my Guardian I might unsub once more info is released as a screw you if what they do clashes with what I want as a consumer. I would have no problem staying at 60 as preferred. All depends...

But there have been cases in the main game (1-50) where force persuasion did not work correct? Other abilities did however; especially in the fighting.