Assa Tanks will have the lower damage mitigation by far, their avoidance (defense) and shield abs is useless in pvp and MOST bosses. Our CD don't reduce all damage type like the other tanks. Bioware, you have no idea what-so-ever of how things work in your game.... If you go with this changes, then you have to give CDs that actually work in PvE and PvP and something to compensate the difference in the damage reduction.

dude, that is bs and you know it 7 mara and 1 healer and you CANT lose

so like swtor? because you only see people in the fleet and wz...otherwise it is freaking barren?

First of all, not everyone enjoys running 90% of the content over and over. Secondly, it is not about how much content, it is about content you enjoy doing. If you have played any modern MMO, you will get the "been there, done that with a different skin" feeling really soon. The lack of population balance and servers going ghost town are just making this more evident.

At peak time, the population in the old un-offcial APAC servers is next to nil now, so that means that people transferring toons are already playing there.The servers are full because most Aussies re-roll there and are playing alts. You are in a hard position. Someone will have to bite the bullet and cope with latency. You either stay in dead servers to play or you move to the new ones and your US players re-roll / transfer there

biodrone speech again: "Why do you roll an alt?!" Because, I dont want to play a boring quest mechanic, spending 40% of my time running for point A to B then back to A then....ohh kill big bad dude in point B! just to play 5-10% or new content. If you tell me that the class story is more than 5-10% of the levelling experience, I will fight you.

1.2 is the pinnacle of MMOs a) Customizable UI. Fair enough, you can't add quickslots or drag and drop windows outside the editor. We even lost the option to drag and drop the operation frames, but HEY, "custimisable UI" b) A New WZ...you can't queue for it, but you might have the chance to play it once every 1 hour or so! c) Combat log! you can't see ****! but hey! you can't download a 3rd party tool and see (kind of) your performance. d) Legacy...the best thing since the invention of the toilet (funny enough, both are full of the same stuff). The RPer dream come true...you can manage your family tree!.... just your alts tho...what? you wanted to include "other people" ***? what is this a game to be social! dont you know what MMO stand for? e) no more trilogies! healers? nah...you dont need them anymore...everyone DPS!!...even if you see one is a wz, you can breath really hard and he will died before he can heal himself! silly healers! Still room for improvements though...I think BW should auto mark healer in WZ....that will serve them well!

1.2: you can only use 1 from the moment to start combat to the moment you are out of combat

No game breaking bugs? SOA? Pylons? those are common and you will be lucky not to experience a bug in those fights every run. Then you have more random ones or specific to some classes. Replicator boss (D7) constantly cloning Mercs. Fabricator in KP dropping 2 set of stun/mine droids in a single cycle. EV and KP showing 16man trash and bosses for 8 man ops.... just to name a few at the top of my head

yes, they are unsubbing because they pulled out at the last second. They lured people through false advertise (1.2 trailer) and because, it is likely, they kept this issue in the shadow. If they wanted to wait for a perfect (or near perfect) product, they shouldn't have released the game at all in December. This game has at this moment, tons of bugs that frustrate people. Don't lie to yourselves, the reason they released the game 4 months ago was money, the reason they didn't delayed 1.2 is money (stop people unsubbing and hope to bring people back) It is not really about ranked wz, it is about how you manage a mmo community....The hype and lightsabers will only last a bit, lying/misleading will get you no-where

lol ohh sorry, are you serious? are you expecting BW to stick to a deadline? Sad day...NGE mk2

hey! to top that, enable patching so you **** up your client! Fix? re-install the game! yey!

Why are people arguing about dropping population or not? Who cares about what was published in Feb? Anyone that has played for the last few months knows, as a fact, that population has dropped considerably. My server went from 150-180 people at the fleet @ pick time, to 20-40.... I'm also sure that the top 4 servers have lost very little in real terms. People is gone, but they were replaced by people the bite the bullet and re-rolled in one of those servers.

Found it...I was looking in the PTS forum http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=379353 I dont know if people had a chance to look at those graphics....enjoy! (and yes, I'm a merc healer....can I QQ now?)

Also, yesterday I was reading a post here with a graphical comparison of healing done during the new Ops, but I can't find it now. Was that deleted for some reason?

Nerfing heals is the easiest (read laziest) solution for BW. You can't nerf the DPS community (which is not the solution either), because their outrage will be louder than healers (bigger community without any doubt). Nerfing DPS also will have shotgun effects given that the majority of the raid mechanics are around enrage timers. Also, nerfing across all dps classes will be harder. You can't nerf tanks...aggro and mitigation in this game are quite simple...there is no much to play around unless you reduce one of them, which will have implications across all classes. Now, about healing nerf, I dont think they can put these changes on live....it might be ok for Ops...you can affort to have an extra healer or a hybrid. But people is having problems with HM FP, which are tuned for 1 healer, 1 tank, 2 dps. And these are people with full columi, good healers, having issues with FP such as FE...which is pretty easy if you ask me.

Lets just say that, hypothetically, if you call the BW person that you just mentioned a liar and incompetent because of these kind of things (because the lies and the constant "mistakes"), you could, hypothetically, get a nice formal warning from BW

Great! I usually do 50K heals on my tank (self heals) This proves?

1) class are mirrored (as much as BW bad design allow it. E.g. animations). So, if you are getting owned, well, look at your team, there must be some noobs around 2) BW is allowing pre-mades. It is part of the game which I dont agree with. If you want a pre-made, only allow it in ranked pvp now that is an options 3) By OP healing mechanic are you referring to a bug? if that's the case, fix the bug.

So, the "Underlying Changes" was just a lie? Bioware, seriously, you have no *********** idea of how to manage an MMO community, how to design an MMO or how to balance it. Stick to what you know: Single player games based around stories....oh wait....ME3 comes to my mind.... nvm

what are unrealistic expectations? That most of the critical bugs get fixed in a respetable timeframe? SOA keeps bugging, Pylons keep bugging, I can't run (as many others) D7 without bugging one of the bosses, many DS BH can't finish they story due to a bug.... Stop comparing WoW with this game...when WoW was release, MMO were just starting, broadband was in its infancy, distributed computing was like rocket science.... technology has improved a lot in 7 years...so, STOP saying (yeah, but WoW had as many bugs when released) Would you be happy with an Iphone/Android phone release today with all the bugs that the original iphone/android had? No, so why is this different. And my last point. WoW had a great support team, if something bugged out, you will get an answer in-game after a few minutes.... I have tickets in my support screens for WEEKS now. (funny enough, one of the tickets is about a bug in the ticket tool)

Willpower>crit (up to ~30%) >surge (up to ~70%) > power ...nope, no mistake. Have a look at the nerf in 1.2 and re-roll a Sorc healer.

no fix yet? really bioware?