I think this is a great idea. I've posted it on the website of my guild and let's see if others like your idea too. Kudos for trying to set something like this up!

Posted on the other thread but here goes again: Here is a comparison before/after in regs (i think for ranked it's the same). http://imgur.com/a/mvrcf 1st Image: 5.1 Outside of warzone (on guild ship) 2nd Image: 5.1 bolstered, unranked 3rd Image: How it was in 5.0, in a warzone (unranked) <-- Comparison here is slightly skewed, as for 1st and 2nd Image I had an accuracy enhancement where for 3rd image (before 5.1) I had a critical enhancement instead. I am leaving 3rd image just to give a general direction. Image 1 and 2 give the true picture. I am in 230-234-240 gear and versatile stim (all class buffs). If you need more details, let me know. I just hope all the work you did figuring out the bolster would not be in vain. I do receive the bolster buff (the icon is there) but the stats are practically the same, only marginal differences.

Also, I got ~500 points for a ranked win, before it was like 700?

Also, I got ~500 points for a ranked win, before it was like 700?

Here is a comparison before/after in regs (i think for ranked it's the same). http://imgur.com/a/mvrcf 1st Image: 5.1 Outside of warzone (on guild ship) 2nd Image: 5.1 bolstered, unranked 3rd Image: How it was in 5.0, in a warzone (unranked) <-- Comparison here is slightly skewed, as for 1st and 2nd Image I had an accuracy enhancement where for 3rd image (before 5.1) I had a critical enhancement instead. I am leaving 3rd image just to give a general direction. Image 1 and 2 give the true picture. I am in 230-234-240 gear and versatile stim (all class buffs). If you need more details, let me know. I just hope all the work you did figuring out the bolster would not be in vain. I do receive the bolster buff (the icon is there) but the stats are practically the same, only marginal differences.

It's true hottie, there are basically no changes between my stats inside and outside a warzone (same goes for ranked). For example the ~3% accuracy addition you used to get before is gone. I am in 230-234-240 gear + augs

How is the guide coming along mate? Any plans to release it soon? Would be greatly appreciated!

Doc - great post as usual. But I am confused regarding your comment on the tertiary stats. I run a merc and once I get to around 1900 crit (according to bant's calcuations and that actually corresponds to the ~40% mark that I knew from 4.0)), I still have possibility to mess around with stats. I have 10% ala (which i think it's bit too much for pvp) and I stick the rest in power. What do you think about this? I am running 224-330 now even, I suspect that as gear improves I will even have more room for other stats....

Hold on, hold on: I think you are confusing her with another person that also has pink letters in the signature. Hottie's doing a great job with the bolster thread and she also writes guides for operative healers. I think she is in the 1% that cares and contributes to this community. Although I found her initial response a little bit rude, she has said `sorry` to the OP since then and that's really not something that happens quite a lot on these forums. She is not making PVP unpleasant or deterring present or future players - quite the opposite, she is helping people and contributing to the PVP community.

Here is my little piece of info: On my merc, I went without any accuracy yesterday (just the 1% that comes from a companion's maxed influence I think??) - it got bolstered to a little bit over 104% in ranked. That should be enough right? Nothing has changed on the required/recommended accuracy in 5.0 for pvp?

Dear Eric, yesterday I and many others had the (dis)pleasure of spending a whole day with a person doing the infamous flying hack in ranked arenas. This went for many warzones yesterday. To those who do not know, open the spoiler for an explanation on how the hack looks like/works in more detail. Eric, I am afraid that the previous answer of "report them using the in-game ticket system or send me evidence per email" is not enough anymore. We have been here before, many times, over many years, and things have not changed. We have posted screenshots. We have recorded videos. We have issued many many reports, posted on forums etc. You name it, we have done *all* to make this problem known. Yet, this is still happening and I believe it is time to give us an update & explanation on what is going wrong and why hasn't the possibility for this exploit been closed yet? I would like to set something straight here, which I think that has been misunderstood by you so far: The problem is not the individual. For the record - I do trust you when you say that BW takes some action (after some time) and ban the person using the hack or exploit. But the problem is that he can easily share this information with others. The problem is that your developer colleagues have not yet closed/fixed the program code that allows this. Please do tell us: What exactly does that person do to overcome the physical boundaries of the maps? Is the person manipulating the game files? Changing the client somehow? Has he found a combination of actions that allow him to fly? Is it something else? How do your colleagues from the development team plan to address that? In what timeline do they plan to address that - within the next patch, within the next two patches etc? Eric, you are a professional working in customer care. We all know from Customer Care 101 that it is vital to give an update and explain to your customers why a certain problem persists and why has it not been fixed yet, to give an outline of a plan detailing what steps you will take to solve it and so on. Otherwise, you are just alienating your customer base. It has spillover effects as well - what does it say for the image of a company if they cannot close one such evident exploit for years? You guys did a good job in the last developers stream to address our questions and offer solutions. I genuinely felt that you do care about what we think & feel about this great game of ours. I am appealing to your good side now - please do comment and give us an update on the two points that I have outlined above. I posted the same topic on swtor reddit - in case someone who is not subbed reads this and wants to comment there. Thank you.

I feel slightly squishier on my corruption sorc but I am not sure why. Yes, they nerfed the self healing (from 10% to 5%), but it seems I lose HP faster than even taking that into account O_o I am now quite happy that I can pick both bubble stun, insta WW while keeping the utility that allows you to move and cast healing trance (forgot its name). But I am not sure what else to pick.... I also egress from the 3rd tier and only the "healing-on-the-move" from the last tier. Has anybody have other tips for tier 3-4 utilities? Other than that, I haven't felt that much has changed for corruption sorc. If another class outheals me it is usually because it is down to the better player (who would have outhealed me on a sorc as well).

I disagree with basically everything OP has posted. Getting comms and outfitting toons in full exemplar was easy enough, I won't take it as some merit of how good and special you are, why would you? Also, I don't need exclusive gear and to feel "special" compared to the "pve scrubs". What I want to have are fast pops and intense games. In fact, I would be happiest if they would remove the gear differences completely and just give us all a fixed stats budget to allocate according to our desire and playstyle in PVP. Also, more new people doing ranked does not necesseraly mean "bye bye rating". The matchmaker aims at setting up the teams from a pool of players with similar rating. Only if there are not enough people with similar rating, it proceeds to pick people from much higher/lower rating levels. If enough people are queuing, the best players will still be playing against each other. The whole problem of SWTOR PVP is that not enough people are playing it. People should welcome newcomers not rage at them and whine that their imaginary 1337 pixel status somehow got lost.... The benefit of making it more accessible is that we might get some new faces that will also stick around in the future, we wouldn't need to go beg nonstop on fleet for people to q. That's my hope anyway.

Had this happen to me yesterday, Tatooine Canyon reg game. Before the round started, a slinger somehow bypassed the wall (before even the counter had started) at spawn area, dropped down, ran over and happily waved at us. Did an AOE (I don't remember if we took damage at all, I was so shocked watching this lol) , then ran back to the middle, planted himself just before the round started (waiting for his mates to drop and come to him). We would have lost anyway (he didn't really *do* anything that put them in an unfair position against us), but that is not the point. It's an exploit that needs to be fixed. He is from a respectable guild that focuses on PVP actually (afaik), I was very surprised to see him even do it. Took screenshots & all, does someone know how to send them to Bioware? My guildie told me that he has seen it on streams of other well-known respectable (or maybe not after all) players and that this exploit has been around for some time.

That sounds like a good idea indeed. It could be even tied to an utility, like the sorc version.

You are probably just trolling, but just in case someone reads this and actually believes you: All of the aforementioned aspects of the game are tied to language of your game. It does not change when you change servers. If you have the game in English, it will still be in English when you join a, e.g. German server. What can happen when you go on a server though, is that people will yell at you for not using their language in chat. I had a few interesting conversations on MoTF which usually started with "this is a French serveur" by some random guy who found me using English so much offensive. No idea if that would be the case on the German server.

yellow_, I am glad that yo posted. What happened to that guide? Could you post at least here or on reddit? Or maybe mail it to people (like me) who would be very interested in reading it? Cheers

Oh cheers! That guy's guides are very good - I used his video for the gunnery commando. If anybody has more info pls let me know.

On TRE, this is almost the only map that I had popping on the wekeend at 65s. However, I played yesterday also on my midbie and I had it only 2-3 games out of 10. Could it be that BW biased the queue for the 65s but left the midbie as it was before?

Can anybody from the high dps concealment/scrapper guys that posted on here, please kindly point me to a guide/rotation/videos about the class? There was supposed to be a new one but it is taking forever to get it uploaded on Dulfy (maybe it has been dropped) I realize that practice makes the bigger difference in skill, but I would at least want to try and practice a reasonable rotation. I am not getting anywhere near the numbers that are being posted on here. p.s. On Mosh's twitch channel I couldn't find any recent videos - only blade and soul. Cheers and thanks.

Well, I was frustrated by that as well, but you can still do something about it (as a consumer of the advice, obviously the person that writes it can take the time to write the ability names of both factions. Indeed, few guides do exactly that): Abilities translation: http://dulfy.net/2012/02/10/empirerepublic-abilities-translation/

How do I do that? I looked at the list of US servers but did not see it. Am I missing something?

While I agree with the general sentiment of your post, I have no idea why you flip off like that? I did not think that the OP was whining at all, just venting off his concerns/frustration. I've been there when I lost 10 games in a row. I certainly did not think I am a "martyr", but I was greatly frustrated. My guildies listened to me, pat me on the back and we all moved on. After all, we want more people to keep playing the game, right?

I thought it's only me, but I really think there's some sort of a resurgence recently. I saw TaS have made a mirror pub guild, that would surely help. It's good when good imp guilds try to help out to balance the factions a little bit. Ultimately, balanced games with a lot of back and forth provide the highest return on invested gaming time for me (and I think for a lot of other people as well). The only games I remember are those where we lost/won in the dying seconds of a game. Right now, I either find myself steamrolling (often those games are with guildies) or I get steamrolled (most of the games without guildies, but occasionally also with them). So I hope that it will get more balanced in the coming months. In short - keep playing, we'll get there

There are brackets. 10-40; 41-64; 65. You will still get thrashed (often, not always) by a lvl 64 when you are just 41, but that's OK. As other posters, I can also recommend leveling up at least one toon only via PVP. Most important is that you learn the maps (roughly at least) and how to have some sort of basic teamwork on those. There are no 1v1 matches, but there are 1v1 tourneys organized by the community (check the forum for the URC events). In addition, I often see people asking on the fleet for others to duel them, if that's your thing. Of course, occasionally, you will get into a 1v1 situation in a warzone as well.