dammit..... then i guess i should take out all these absorb/shield/defense augs out and switch them... Do the other tank classes use absorb? If so then i can save them instead of NPC'ing them lol

I think when i started playing this game there was a pvp guide on how to augment. But now i cant find it. Do i go more for defense? or shield and absorb?

Thank you for the replies! All very good knowledge to know about the cut throatiness of Solo Ranked On one note though. No one in 60's unranked has ever asked me to swap guard, there fore i did what most do and just guarded the healer. If no healer then i guarded what i thought was the squishiest DPS. Since that first ranked Solo queue though i have gone back to unranked and have been practicing much more on swapping guard. The one quote i do remember from that team mate was. "Your a tank, protection is your number 1 priority, doesn't matter if you have zero damage dealt. when you can protect AND do DPS, then you are pro." So I am gonna go off that and start with protection only until i get good enough to dps while i protect.

We won, but as soon as I load back in to where I was i get berated by a team mate about not swapping guard and trying to do dps. In the middle of his rant I was able to slip in that it was my first ranked wz. Then the craziest thing happened. He actually gave me tips on what I am supposed to do in a ranked WZ. My job as a tank and so forth. Keep in mind, he still said everything as if he was berating me, but nonetheless he was very helpful. Is this common in Solo Ranked? Or should I expect others to not be so helpful?

I agree with a better system, but fact remains there are more than a few bolster tutorials already on the forums. Its just that people dont come to the forums. I do the next best thing and just let them know as I see them. Keep it simple. 162 rating or lower, but MH and OH 152 or lower.

I use a razor naga, it rules, but the main gripe i hear from other people is that its too small for there hands. TBH my hands are a bit big for it but it just means less moving my thumb around while hitting the side buttons. Cant comment on other Mice since all i use are Naga's Best thing to do, which pisses off store employees, is carefully undo the packaging of the mouse you want to look at inside the store and play with it, see if you like it. Usually an employee will comeover and ask you wth are you doing, but i just tell them "If I'm about to pay sixty dollars for a mouse, im testing it out." At that point they will just watch you to make sure that if you dont want it, that you put it back in the box properly and not mess it up

I havent been playing this game long, about a month and a half. I see the argument on both sides, whether bads leaving and having backfill come in and what not. That doesnt matter to me, I try my best, own up to mistakes (losing a pylon because i wasnt paying attention), and do my best to communicate and help run traffic. What pisses me off are the ego driven people that are in a wz simply to get the xp. Helps no one, zero damage applied to anybody. I was in wz's a few days ago and ran into one of these people. Down talking the group, bragging he got some stupid title that he has a lvl 60 in every class or some shyt. The only way i can get them to do anything was to keep telling the OPs group that they arent doing shyt and to vote them out of the team. It worked in the sense where after a certain amount of votes they were forced to hit someone so they dont get kicked. But i or anyone shouldnt have to do that... And regs do matter, in the sense that it is awesome practice for new players like myself or anyone learning a new classm to learn my rotations in a real time environment and not on a stupid training dummy.

When you say min/max, is a lot more gear available at 60 that has that? I am lvl 55 and have only noticed that my mainhand weapon is the only one that increases/decreases min/max damage.

I have read majority of the stickies for the Kinetic Combat Shadow. But have run into an inconsistency and wanted to get a definite or near definite answer. When it comes to PVP spec, I have read that I dont need shield/absorb rating due to pvp attacks primarily being force and tech damage. But i just saw a recent post yesterday, that says I dont need Defense rating, no explanation given. So which is it? When loading up on power and surge for mods, do i find ones with defense or absorb/shield? or neither? I just started playing this game a month ago, and am learning how to swap guard, taunt etc. Currently I am lvl 55, and have heard that answers can vary when getting to 60. so answers for both tiers of pvp would be helpful. Thank you ahead of time!