I think it depends on the faction, the leaderboards are a good indication of where ranked is popping. Im on The Bastion atm but it seems the pops are for pubs and Imps arent queuing for it. other than TOFN, The Harbinger looks better for the Empire side for pops, and it also has the largest overall population which is nice for everything else. I'll be moving my Sith toons over to Harb once transfers open up.

I'll be transferring from The Bastion once transfers open up again since it seems ranked only pops for the Republic side, and PvE is also non-existent here. Looking for an active Imperial guild that does a lot of PvP and some PvE

while I prefer the style of play deception offers I cant deny that hatred seems better in ranked. If i were to use your deception gear build of surge/crit/power would it make that much of a difference to use on hatred spec, the dots tick slower but would tick harder right? Or should I work on having two gear sets and switch depending on my spec

This ^^^ pops are instant on The Bastion

Thanks for this guide, I recently came back to the game and have always main'd an assassin, I knew how to play the class but the in-depth gear setup and 1v1 tips and tricks was really nice. Also Im on The Bastion now and am leveling a shadow to go along with my sin, I notice you mainly play shadow, is that just personal preference or are there in-general better pvpers in the ranked queue on the pub side?

like the oricon inspired endgame gear we have now doesnt look all the same with very slight variations. It would be nice if they made unique models for each AC. I dont think an assassin and sorcerer should look the same, but yeah. They must not have a very big art team, that or they devote all of their time to the cartel market.

right, thats why jugg/guard is the current fotm.

My friend and I recently returned to the game after a long break and transferred to Bastion from pot5 and are looking for an active PvP guild to do both regs and ranked with. Also very interested in Conquest and a guild with a Flagship Due to the massive exp increase we will probably have every single AC at 55 shortly, although my main alternates between Assassin and Marauder and his main is Sniper. Not looking for an elitist try-hard guild, just an active group of players that know what they're doing.

recommend any good Imp guilds on Bastion? Im thinking of moving from pot5 as well

oh my god its *********** AcePilot lol

I recently came back to the game and Im on pot5 which, according to torstatus.net is the lowest pop NA server. the highest PvP server is the bastion and the highest overall server is begeren colony. Wheres the significant pvp population at? While I love open world pvp and my preference would obviously be a pvp server, if world pvp is completely non-existant would I be better off in one of the larger pve servers due to queue pops? solo ranked queue in pot5 never pop, which is obviously an issue. I would like some kind of idea of where I should go, I am Imperial if that matters.

nice necro

I wouldnt say useless but you would be worse than a sniper or marauder for sure.

Sniper for DPS, operative for Healer. they are both at the very top in regards to all other classes.

Not to mention you claim Disney isnt only interested in making kiddie games, but actually.. they are. They temporarily sold the SW rights for games to EA since Disney isnt going to be making any high profile games. Just mobile games and infinity, the only SW MMO set in that relative time period with player housing and open world had already come out in 2003 and was shut down when this one came out.

Sounds a lot like SWG

Really?... You dont want to play the game anymore because you cant buy rare cosmetic outfits cheaper than they are? So you only play the game to play dress up?

huh??

make it happen BW! Seriously there have been countless threads about this since launch, Pazaak is a staple of the KOTOR franchise and a MMO should be more than JUST warzones and JUST raids. It's all the little things that would improve this game, Pazaak being one of them. Also Swoop racing and the SSSP. It cant be hard to implement, hell its just a card game.. just do it already!

Wow so I just wasted 5mil on Revans mask for nothing lol

call them at 1am to avoid being put on hold.

It really bums me out how they completely gave up on OWPVP, coming from SWG that was my favorite pastime and it was a lot more fun/meaningful than running the same WZ again and again. I mean if they want to make OWPVP work in a themepark MMO all they need to do is take a page from GW2 I thought they nailed it. It wasnt a massive zergfest because there were tons of different things to do in the zone which split people up more not to mention server wide incentives like increased exp and health for the whole server if your side was winning (here of course it would be empire or republic), unlike ilum which had one mass zerg fighting another mass zerg in one spot. It might not be feasible though considering of all the bad choices they made, they decided to pick an Alpha build of The Hero engine to host their game. An engine not even designed for MMOs, that buckles under the stresss of OWPVP. I hope they at least do something in regards to OWPVP, maybe redesign the objectives in ilum which reward you with mercenary comms that have a 1:1 ratio for WZ comms and a 3:1 for Ranked. I mean yes we can make OWPVP happen on our own sometimes, hell there were no "goodies" and incentives to fight in SWG but the playerbase would still do it. In games like these however the playerbase mostly only cares about chasing the next dangling carrot and it is a challenge finding a group of the opposing faction that arent just sitting on the fleet waiting for their next queue to pop.

Sorry but its not that hard and doesnt take a lot of effort. I completed the entire quest line in a single day. Probably about 6 hours and that includes the FP's. If you're having trouble check out the guide on Dulfy and if there are other people hunting in the area, group up with them. I found it to be quite refreshing from the constant gear grind.

Sith Assassin

by content I was referring to turning 32 classes into 8 or 9 which deleted countless skills, items, and ways to play the game. I played the NGE on an off probably until 2010. All they did was try to copy/paste WoW but failed and had to shut down. There's a reason why 50% of the pop left with the CU and most of what remained left with the NGE. They made a very unique and complex sandbox game that rewarded people that put a lot of time and effort into the game with an alpha class (Jedi) into a WoW ripoff. All they did was put new code on top of old code and never update their servers. The game was designed with a combat queue in mind so when they made it fast paced like WoW it created all sorts of problems, I've never seen worse LoS issues, bugs, and lag in my life. The content they did add during the NGE was them trying to do themepark elements like heroic dungeons and battlegrounds, but those were pretty fail. If only SOE knew that they had a unique game with a loyal playerbase and by f^cking with the formula to try and steal some WoW subs they dug their own grave.