I'll miss all the topics you make QQing about various things in the game. Wouldn't it be funny if right after your sub ran out they announced a buff for both DPS specs, like changing the surge bonus on lightning to 20% and fixing the death marks on madness being consumed by other specs and a few more minor buffs to bring it closer to other ranged specs?

No, you know there's a 100% CXP bonus going on right now right? I've been gearing up my dps Sorc this week and I'm up to command rank 277 or something like that, mostly 242 gear.

If you're using gear without set bonuses you're doing it wrong, period. For someone like you who didn't have set bonus gear before galactic command might actuallly be an improvement, as non set bonus gear even at similar ratings is a significant DPS(or hps) loss.

If you don't have 242 gear then get good son. It doesn't take long to get 242 and having that kind of requirement is a safety net for people who don't know how to DPS/tank/heal, i.e clickers or people with low APM, which could describe a large percentage of the player base who isn't a member of a raiding guild.

The majority of the game is not rendered on the CPU, if it was essentially using a software renderer with a few things being done on the GPU the FPS would be *much* lower. Certain graphic options are CPU dependent, i.e Shadows and name plates, that does not mean the game is primarily rendered on the CPU. It uses 2 CPU cores btw and 2 exes, I think the 2nd one is used to get around the memory limit of 32 bit applications.

Just admit 2 maras aren't killing 1 decent merc in seconds and let's move on please.

No, I think it is you who need a good Merc to show you how it's done, only way a Merc dies within seconds to any two dps is if the Merc makes a mistake or simply isn't as good as the two dps tunneling him or her.

2 Maras aren't taking a decent Merc out very fast at all if he actually uses his DCds, camo out for the h2f phase is risky because you just used your escape instead of CCing the merc. Either way 2 maras aren't gonna burn a merc down in seconds, the best you can hope for is he only kills one of you.

I love hitting my reflect at just the right time when I'm being focused by 4+ dps and I go from like 10% HP to 100% in a gcd.

Wrong, everyone who posts on this (sub) forum is God tier.

Sounds like the players attacking him/her needed to l2p, there is no situation in which 1 merc lasts 2-3 minutes against 6 competent players.

I tried WoW last year, got 2 chars to 110 (one mage boosted to 90, 1 demon hunter) but couldn't get into the PvP, PVP class balance seemed more broken than SWTOR and I wasn't a fan of them deciding what stats classes should have in BGs, when I played the bolstered stats for Mages sucked badly.

If Bioware nerfs merc DCDs/utilities then they need to bring back the damage, or atleast the surge bonus, there's no point in playing a merc without the class either being quite tanky but having moderate DPS or having excellent burst but be fragile. I personally favor nerfing their DCDs and bringing burst back, so they're closer to how they were before 5.X but that may be to logical for bioware. Oh and leave Maras alone, they're pretty balanced imo.

I have a Logitech G502, I however don't use any of the extra buttons as I could never get used to it.

That's true of most pubs

^^^^^

Only noticeable change for me is it's impossible to run out of force now.

I think it may be best to wait until the nerf to see the affect it has in PVP, as speculation at this point may not be all that useful.

If you hate mdps just play a sniper, even with the nerfs a sniper should be able to easily 1v1 any mdps.

Nice straw man argument, that's not what I said, I loathe galactic command. I stated I think the gear gap between bolster(238 atm) and the highest tier should be less but Bioware should still reward players who spent the time to get top tier gear, which I also stated should take less time.

Just spittballin here, about 5%? I believe the current stat gap is much larger? I'm just saying there should be some sort of reward for taking the time to acquire top tier gear, the time taken to get 248 should probably be reduced though.

While PVP should be about skill it's also important for players who grinded out full optimized 248 gear not to feel like noob pvp'ers are getting access to the same potential DPS or HPS as they are despite not putting in anywhere near as much time working to get their optimized gear; there should be a gear gap in PVP but not a huge one.

These changes seem pretty reasonable but I'm not a veteran at Engineering, in pvp(my primary swtor activity) I mostly play MM since it's super easy to play, at least in terms of not worrying about reapplying dots.

Wait, he was giving you a hard time because you, as a sorc, couldn't 1v1 him? There's no reason for a merc to ever lose to a sorc in 1v1. IO does(did..) have some pretty good burst for a sustained class, just the heat management sucks compared to Arsenal, where you rarely if ever have to use your basic attack nor vent heat and thermal sensor override. Also I'm positive either DPS spec of Mercs in 5.3 will still be able to 1v1 dps sorcs without much issue.

I couldn't get into WoW pvp when I tried it last year, was boring and the way how they decide what stats you get in BGs didn't work well with my Fire mage.