A lot of effort has been put into the SW warrior story and imperial stories in general... SW has the best lines if you are a pureblood dark side male , and the story is very solid as well.... The problem with Jedi Knight an Republic stories is that they are very cliche and predictable ... Trooper was the most horrible story ever. It was so bad that starting with chapter 2 I had to space bar through the dialogues to get rid of it faster . Jedi Knight is already spoiled on Tython with Bengal Mor already telling you what your class story will be about. Consular is a step better , but with so many people having trouble paying attention, I can see why it's not very popular. It's the most Jedi story out of the 2. But I totally agree. SW is my most replayed story in this game. I always end up coming back to it eventually.

I stopped reading after the first paragraph... If losing is such a big deal for you and you cannot swallow it, then with all due respect, you shouldn't bother playing PVP... It's absolutely beyond me how so many people think they are somehow meant to win the games they get in.... The only change I would make is to activate leaver penalty once the timer runs out so that people leave at the start if they are unhappy with the map they got. (lagball).

It's not very likely they will make changes that drastically modify the ranking system of players or the matchmaking.... As you already saw, there is a quite a massive disagreement with this points system on the forums for example. It would surely cause some : heavy rage" ... I mean you are mostly right with what you say but you shouldn't forget that sometimes the outcome of the game is decided before it starts by the make up of the two teams. And people rage at each other, when in reality , they were simply all victims of stupid matchmaking...

I wasn't trying to doom and gloom the situation.. All I meant was that the community has gotten smaller over the years. There are a lot less people playing now than they were in season 8 for example... And this has reasons, one of them being the flawed design choices and poor attention allocated to competitive PVP in this game. Yes, their intention to address toxicity is very good and we shall see what effect they gonna have.

Vote kick doesn't change outcome of your game. If it's a loss, it's a loss, no matter what you do... And most important of all, if you are a good player , you will climb in rating despite your trolls, throwers.... So why are you mad ? Newcomers might be annoying, but let them que and they might be decent players in a few months... and you won't have to beg in pvp chat for others to que sr.

Poor game decisions and design choices brought us where we are now over the years... I think it has more to do with competitive PVP, because regs is doing ok from what what I've seen. They can't give people enough reasons to que and on the other hand, ranked players are hostile to newcomers.. Newcomers que, maybe get some very bad experience and they won't bother again. This is something that Bioware can't fix , because they can't turn this game into a 24/7 police state .

...yet every ranked keyboard warrior will be shining with new augments after the first week and will call you a thrower and a troll if you go in with lesser stats due to older augments ? If every bloke will have them, you might be at a disadvantage , I suppose.. Still have no idea how much stats those new ones will give though.

Nerf this , buff that... This has been the discussion for many many years and as we can all see, it leads to nowhere... Instead of asking for nerfs, why not buff every class and make them all viable for competitive PVP ?

Asking for removal of solo ranked is just stupid ... It could be improved a lot for everyone is developers allocated enough resources to it. It's not a priority because the majority of this playerbase is super casual and prefer investing in space barbies .

One of the best solutions for stopping toxicity with minimal changes to the system would be the removal of chat from solo ranked... There wouldn't be any way to *** talk each other and it's solo que anyway. You would be on your own and play by using your own judgement. If you'd turn off chat before queing, you'd be totally immune to toxicity because there is no chat during the match, and you wouldn't see any whisper after the game either. I know it sounds stupid.. but I can't think of a simpler solution.

While you are one of the most toxic players on your server atm, this post is kind of accurate.... Team ranked with mats was perfect because everyone was a winner and people got what they wanted out of it... But guess what ? Who asked the devs to remove mats cause it was killing the " competition " ? The playerbase did... And now asking them again to bring them back is kind o funny. People at the time acted as if they didn't know that no mats in TR means instant death of the game mode. No reawards ? NO reason to que.... I wish we had ranked that pops 24/7 with proper rewards. But it will never happen because the community is not welcoming to new players, yourself included.

You are right of course, but you see, it's not easy to get better at ranked when there are ***tters that ruin your experience. I mean you can't be good at something without failing ... Any newcomer in ranked WILL FAIL, no mattter how many thousands of unranked games that guy has played. Playing regs will just make you good at regs. . Getting good at ranked requires you to play ranked. You have develop a thick skin and suck up all the ***it talk you will get, but that is not easy to do and most players are not willing to do it. This is why if we compare how many PVP-ers que ranked and how que unranked, there is a massive difference in numbers. Yes , queing without 306 is and a tactical is bad and should not be allowed. Also, queing without knowing your class is also wrong, but your failure as a new player to it is inevitable. You will eventually improve IF you are willing to play through all the toxicity you might encounter. This was my experience. Yours might be different..

You have no way of knowing how the point system would work without actually trying it out at least on on the PTS.... Elo is one of the toxicity breeders because it's too punishing for losses . I magine winning 3 games and then losing the next one due to no fault of your own, like getting a troll. You are almost back where you were before the 3 wins. It's frustrating... The argument against points is that it will favor those who play a lot. Yes, but you would still need to win games to be ahead of the other guy in points. In the end the end result might be the same because the better players would still have more wins and thus points. Just my 2 cents here. We have this stupid system for multiple years without even attempting to change it or trying new ways to improve the experience overall. Losing would mean 0 points... I'm sure that they could come up with a much better way of ranking players, but wanting to or having the resources to do it makes a huge difference here. I'm sure if the ranked would be this game's 50% in revenue, they would bother more with it.

OMG, what will happen to Prum if there is no vote kick by the time he comes back ?

So we are really getting some toxicity changes for PVP ? My god. That sounds too unreal to be true... did those people realy get banned ? How you know ?

So because you are unable to get credits, it must mean those that have been successful in this regard must be doing something.. questionable ? Some of them yes, most of the people however are legit. There is a well known crafter on DM that has so many credits that he could buy off the entire GTN multiple times and still have money left in his legacy bank.. but there are a lot of players who earn their credits by being top crafters. It started getting crazy with Ossus when the price of augments skyrocketed. They still cost a few millions today.. so there is quite some money involved IF YOU ARE WILLING to commit to become serious crafter. I myself have billions from few years of selling mats and farming conquest on 20 alts and selling mats ... + real money investment in some hypercrates. There is no real secret here. Like in life, if you want to have lots of money in this game, you have to do something in return. It's not easy. Oh and by the way, one of the major reasons I struggled with credits a few years ago was because I was always spending in on some fancy CM item from the GTN and I always ended up bored of it the next day after the purchase. My gear is not worth more than 200k credits in total.. I always wear cheap stuff. Never buy CM stuff from GTN anymore. As for the CM sales, it's great for the game because the GTN is full of CM items, which means that someone is buying those with cartel coins aka $$$$$$ . The game is full of whales, mate. Some people spend a lot of $$$ on this game.

I know this.. I just wanted to understand the why of it. Makes no sense.. to called something " ranked" while I cannot enter on any class/spec and play how I like. I am forced to play certain specs only , otherwise I am just useless . This poor balance is one of the root reasons why this game is how it is. I think it's easier to fix than it appears, but they must lack the manpower to really bother with it.

So... As someone who is playing this game since 2015, I've always wondered about/tried to understand the logic behind class balancing in PVP , especially ranked, since a lot of complaints of inequality between classes comes from ranked and with good reason ! Let's start by looking at Assasins : Hatred: Absolute worst garbage possible for more than 5 years straight ... It's so bad that some people question why anyone would que ranked with that spec. So while it's a total let down, it's also much worse than Deception in terms of defenses. As far as I am aware, this spec takes 30% more damage ? What's the point.. where is the logic ? I think the same principle applies to Sorcs. Lightning vs Madness, Madness being left as a total dog lately.... Again, this basically forces any half brained keyboard warrior to que as Lihtning. Marauders: Developers insist on that moronic spec called Fury... They gave it everything, while leaving the other 2 specs behind , especially carnage that is still baad, despite the recent " buff " . I ask again, what's the point ? 90% of the keyboard warriors will que as Fury , because why wouldn't they ? Getting stunned 24/7 and rooted while having no stun immunity and doing no damage at all is not fun, right ? This is just a small example.. I could go over the classes as well. And before I forget - DPS Juggs !! Now , what a sad joke they are.. Again, why ?? So , my logic says that If we intend to create equal grounds for a competitive environment, we should be able to enter the competition on mostly equal chances , we should be having mostly all classes viable , yes ? WHY can't players play what they like without being a total drag on their teams ? Why balance the game so poorly that only certain specs are viable ,. which leads to class stacking because these specs are over represented in the que... ?? These poor design decisions just fuel toxicity and frustration.

I thought that you of all people already figured it out that one of the reasons class stacking happens is because there is too many players queing on an " OVERPOWERED" class/classes ? Operatives , fury maras, that 3 button instant kill spec called Advanced Prototype are overly represented in any type of que. Be it ranked or unranked and the chances of these classes to be stacked in one team are always greater. I am not saying that this issue can't be fixed, but class balance is a huge contributor to the problem. I will never ever comprehend why Bioware allows some classes to be totally 3 button killers, while others are instant dead auto losses in ranked for example. Operatives on the other hand are an old story . While dueling them in warzones on my mara, I expect nothing and accept the fact that I am most likely toast anyway because no matter what I do , they can easily outheal me or resist a lot of dmg with their rolls. It's not hard... People should stop expecting to walk over everything in PVP.

Yeah... So now I have ruin hutball games by farming DPS and kills and resetting the ball each time someone passes it to me. I would leave the damn lagball game at the start, but I don't want 15 minute lock outs. It's a great idea , yes ?

That one is worse than vote kick , believe me. Sometimes first rounds can go wrong.. people make mistakes, but they can try to do better in r2 and any half competitive player would try better 2nd time around. If someone hits stuck in spawn, it's enough to not want me que ever again. I can't say it's very frequent on DM but I had the misfortune to witness it on my team on a few occasions. Ironically I wasn't witnessing any vote kick abuse on DM , so it must be the US way of dealing with " players they don't like" ?

In general ranked is fine when it comes to how toxic it is but there are a few basement dweller kids and 40 year old grownups on each server that are extremely toxic.. will ** talk you if you lose cause it's obviously your fault etc. If you are lucky, you will get death wishes as well . Another form of toxicity is " hitting stuck" in round 2 after you lose the first one. Yes, the meme basement dweller player will decide that it's not worth his time to try and win the 2nd round because he doesn't like you and you are a piece of ***** anyway so he hits stuck in the starting area before R2 starts totally ruining your game and experience . There is a famous streamer sorc on DM that sometimes does that ... a great human being for sure. . Keep queing and improve your game.

So if my team has sin or pt tank and enemy has jugg tank with force and player is good, it's autoloss for us then ?

So... 5.0 is gearing is GONE ! It's the past . Let it die... Onslaught gearing is the best in the history of SWTOR, very easy and very alt friendly. The fact that I had to farm Hammer Station 24/7 to get 306 in days was my choice. The game didn't force me to do it. Every mmo has some kind of grind, including SWTOR. You should be thankful someone is reviewing a 10 year old MMO, paid or not.

Solo ranked is moronic honestly... But all thing considered , it's the best form PVP this game has to offer IF you are looking for some challenging competition against more skilled players. Your biggest mistake which ultimately led to your doom was the fact that you expected something in return .... when in reality, you should be playing because you like a challenge and want tot test yourself vs better players. I was more or less in the same boat as you. My rating was all over the place, in the end I managed to get a bronze rating, after 2 seasons of silvers. I am not the type of player who will obsess over getting top 3 or gold, I just qued because I like the experience it offers me and have zero expectations when It comes to rating and rewards. I am not deluding myself. As for rewards for taking place in ranked, I was happy with the season 4 replica weapons. That was rewarding enough for me .for my games played. Keep queing and enjoy it .