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The point was that they put 4 of the most op classes in the entire game on the same team and they simple melted our comp in a matter of seconds. This should not happen there should have been 2 sorcs on both teams not 4 on 1 team they simply obliterated us.
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This is how Bioware matches people up in solo ranked! Hold your applause I know it's balanced!
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There are people on the fleet riding on Nexu mounts who either didn't get tier 1 last season, or didn't play ranked at all. Meanwhile, I got t1 on both my Shadow and Sin, (1953 and 1840 elo respectively) and got no Nexu on either character.
Bioware pls
i know how you feel krea i havent gotten a nexu on any of my toons either yet that actually got tier 1 last season lmao
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Any reason why I still have not gotten my mount? lol I've seen it and it doesn't look all that cool to be honest but i think its pretty awesome that pvers and 500 rated players have it but i still have not received one even though i actually got tier 1. high five!
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I haven't received mine either on my sorc or sin both who got tier 1. Pretty solid script bioware. *slow clap*
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I can't really tell but is the length of the sabers going to be longer than normal such as with the gray helix? That would make them a lot better in my opinion. I really like the gray helix so much because of the length looks really good in my opinion. Would be really awesome if these weapons were of similar length.
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I know we just had a 2 week gree event at the middle to the end of may but I really have some rep stuff i need to finish up and i know we just had rakghoul event last week but i was wondering when gree would be coming back if at all before the new expansion. I would really like to have it again before you have to scale it up to 65. Just wondering when you guys think it will be coming back if it at all before the new expac?
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It was? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpSQ68m6RHA
Funny how you don't see hardly any 9-10K crits in this video. This was me as a perfectly geared level 55 in ranked 8s by the way. I think a lot of you have very biased views of how "SUPER OP" smash was in it's prime.
and i also agree with you here smash wasnt as ez mode as everyone thought. you had to survey the area to see where the best smash could be placed. It was alot of awareness involved and yeh it was kind of op against uncoordinated pugs in regs. against real teams it wasnt insanely op like everyone makes it out to be. " hitting 10k on 4 targets" nvr happened.
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Thats not the problem at all, and no, smash is not potent at all. Not even close. I might be in a situation where it's viable to use it once a week, tops. Spamming Gore + sweeping strikes is far better for an aoe spec than using smash in any spec.
Health pools have increased by 25%+. Burst classes that do big burst have had their burst abilities go up by that much too, sometimes more (looking at you, 16k critting snipers and PTs). Smash has gone WAAAAY down. On light armored enemy, both of us max gear, no DCDs, I might get a 6K smash. MAYBE. Realistically I see 3K and 4K much more often, and it only goes down from there (DCDs active, heavy armor, taunts, etc, now I'm looking at 2K smashes).
Looking back at my old level 55 PvP videos, I see 6-8K was the "normal" smash range against players. This was in Ranked 8s, so I was being taunted constantly. Rarely ever saw a 10K, which at the time would be 1/3 of someones HP. So nowadays, HP pools have gone from 32K to 42K on a dps or healer with full ranked gear. That's pretty close to being a 1/3rd increase in their HP. Smash, in the meantime, has had it's damage neutered, and by neutered I mean roughly halved (6-8K down to 3-5K). Death Field is superior in every way. It spreads dots, it's a much larger radius, and it's not a point blank aoe. Half of the challenge of playing Smash was positioning yourself for a good smash on an ever changing battlefield with people running in every direction. You can call us smash monkeys all you want, but that spec was hard to play at the highest levels, when you're being constantly stunned, cced, knocked around, rooted, slowed, etc. 99% of the players that call us "skilless smash monkeys" never played it in ranked 8s. I guarantee it. Not saying that it was the hardest spec ever to play, but it certainly wasn't a 1 button wonder ez mode spec like half the posters on here seem to think it was. It wasn't a tracer missile spam merc pre nerf, for example.
I loved smash because it was a high risk / high reward, and it rewarded group play. A smasher or two plus a good healer could seriously wreck. It felt a lot like old school mortal strike warriors in WoW - alone, not very strong, but with a competent healer, very deadly.
That said, the spec has fundamentally changed. It is now a single target burst spec that has an "unstoppable" feel to it. I like the new spec. I don't like it as much as pre nerf smash, but I still like it. Furious Strike hits very hard. The main combo of Fury (berserk > raging burst > force crush > ravage > furious strike > vicious throw if they are low enough and not dead) is more than enough to kill another player if they don't have DCDs up. The last tick of Force Crush (~5K), Ravage (~6-7K), and Furious Strike (11K) all hit at the same time in that combo, meaning that you do 20K+ damage in the space of a single GCD. That is half of someones HP. I get kills with this all the time in pvp. Sorc is at half HP and my Ravage is almost done, they think they are fine - Nope, all of the above mentioned things hit them and instant death. This power is obviously greatly diminished by things like Taunt, DCDs, etc.
I would like to see Smash be a viable option. My example would be that Smash needs to do substantially more overall damage on two targets than Raging Burst does to a single target. So if my RB would have hit for 10K single target, Smash should hit for 7K. Anything less, and it isn't really worth using Smash should hit at about 70-75% of the power of Raging Burst, making it definitely worth using on 2 or more players. Any MORE than that, and I think the spec suddenly becomes far too strong. If smash hit as hard as Raging Burst does now, you would have to remove Furious Strike to balance things out.
thank you very much for this post. A break from all the you had your time smash is never coming back and smash was stupid posts. I agree 100 percent with everything you said. I personally don't like the new play style. smash was one of my favorite abilities in the entire game and now its just useless. I dont like the aoe marauder spec turning into single target. We already have single target burst. (carnage) and like you said with all the numbers going up what is wrong with smash i just dont get it. If deathfield is ok then why not smash. I know it won't be coming back but i really wish it would because i absolutely loved that spec.
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yes I know there is no chance of it coming back and i also agree that making smash op just to be equally op with another class isnt the best option but i mean when smash was here marauders were really good in pvp and arenas. But you go out and tell me how many marauders you see do well in arenas now simply becuase they die before they can put out damage. Not really gonna follow up on this just kind of wanted to get some reactions to it. But i still really think its a good idea to bring smash back even though im a little bias towards it i suppose i think it would even the playing field for marauders but hell what do i know.
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If smash came back i doubt anyone woudl be scared of it whatsoever. everyone is already taking 8k deathfields all the time smash would just add another aoe to the massive stack that is already in the game and would even the playing field for marauder. There is no logical reason that it shouldn't come back.
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i knew this thread would be met with "learn to play" , "you're dumb smash was stupid" and all that but please just consider this. if deathfield can crit for 5k-9k and spread the op dots then whats wrong with smash. someone pls tell me. smash did the exact same thing but didn't spread dots. so please if you guys are ok with deathfield why are you so against smash coming back?
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UMMMM what?!?!?!?!?! smash if ur lucky and i do mean extremely lucky hits 6k at the maximum its not potent whatsoever and the radius on it is just laughable. unless ur right on top of these other players you wont even hit them. smash is a laughing stock right now. and yes i know that we have raging burst now and furious strike but its just not the same as old smash. i want smash to do whats intended and that is aoe but it just doesnt do anything anymore.Dude the smash on concentration/fury is quite potent. The only problem is, in its current state, a Maraurder/Sentinel does not want to be surrounded by 4+ enemies because you are going to get in a smash and instantly be killed.
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Lets all be honest here marauders are in a bad spot right now. I think the perfect way to balance marauder would be to bring back smash. I know the nerf happened a year ago but i'm still mad about it and i want smash to come back. Yes it was op and it would need to be toned down but to be entirely honest if they think dot spread on death field is ok then whats whats wrong with smash? Smash now is the most useless ability in the entire game and to me that's sad because i love smash as an ability so smashers lets all join forces to bring smash back. SMASHERS UNITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ok i just want to make something clear to all teams that q. What im doing here is simply trying to get 4s to pop on bastion. I am not trying to host an "event" as you said. I think 4s are the only fun thing left to do and i know alot of other share that opinion. So i highly encourage all teams to q but im not gonna lie and say that there wont be good teams in q because most likely there will be. I just want to have a good night of 4s with a variety of teams and hopefully have a good time.
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Seeing as how tomorrow is a saturday and most people are off of work and school and such I thought that I would at least try to get some people to q for team ranked on bastion! Team Ranked in my opinion is the only fun thing left in this game and it doesn't pop often but i figured i would post on here just to tell people that tomorrow would be a great day to find a team and q up. So if your on bastion and want to do teams or maybe try them out for the first time tomorrow would be a great day to. All are welcome of course.
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Really Bioware? How hard can it be to fix transfers? This is the 4th day it has been down if im not mistaken. People really want to transfer. We are trying to give you money, pls allow us to do so. Bring this back up or give us an ETA PLSSSSSS!!!!!
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Bioware when will transfers be back online?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?
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Honestly guys I think you should just stop trying to balance anything if all you do is look at a few numbers and decide whether a class is up to par or not. You know what would be a fantastic idea? PLAYING THE CLASS TO TEST HOW IT FAIRS IN PVP!!!!! like honestly the reason these numbers are anywhere near where they are is because no one plays this class because it is barely viable in pvp at all. If you would just hop on like you say you play this game all the time, and play a marauder one time in pvp you would realize how poorly balanced it is and fix it. I agree our dps is not all that bad but our survivability is total trash and our ablity to stay on our target is also complete garbage. But we all know you don't read these sooooooo guess we marauders have to just suck it up and reroll =/
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Skytorrush makes the best swtor youtube videos by far. Love skys vids!
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