Funny that they would do this at the time I decide to quit WoW because ILvL is gated behind certain activities there as well. It seems like they are pandering to a small but hardcore percentage of their player base that either raids or does ranked pvp(just like WoW). Either way if it ends up being like WoWs gear discrepancy in WARZONES, then I’m done with MMOs for good Tired of people with 10+ hours to play being the best in MMOS just because they have the most time available, there’s no reason to change the current gearing system. Raiding and ranked pvp are there for the hardcore players who want to do it without having a gear advantage over casual people, but they can still “flex” with special mounts titles and lightsaber colors or gear. The elite players are still going to be the best regardless of an ilvl advantage, this change seems like they are just trying to squeeze more money out of the elite whales and destroy casuals.

Good post I agree. Now that every reg is a sweat fest they mine as well do away with ranked and just make every reg warzones have a ranking. The fact that ranked pvpers are forming groups on discord and sweating in regs just shows that they are scared of facing players of equal skill and just want Easy stomps against inexperienced pvpers new to the game and honestly solo queuers In general. You basically just hope that you get a quality premade on your side or your ****ed. I’m an average pvper, I do 10k dps In certain arena matches but the change needs to go.

So now it’s literally the same as the old system except you have to win the same amount of games and get no point ya for losing - which could make it take an infinite amount of time to get this quest done. All because some Legendary Embers were added to the reward because there doesn’t seem to be another reason for this change. If you liked winning every game before you either played with premades or went for ranked games. Regs were there to slowly grind gear and learn your rotation before you stepped into ranked. They need to revert this change, if people are too stupid to get legendary embers from other sources then that’s their problem.

You’re probably right about the ranked thing and here’s why: ranked players often group up in premades to steamroll regs because ranked doesn’t pop anymore. So BioWare increased the rewards for ranked and unranked while making it harder to get these rewards. What you’ll see now is more premade stomping than ever before, leading to solo Casual players giving up altogether because losing doesn’t give any rewards. Here’s the thing though, losing was already annoying with the old 1 for loss 2 for the winning thing. Now it’s just *********** stupid. I probably won’t even pvp this Sunday which is my only day off because it already takes hours to complete the weekly. I just don’t see the point.

PvP is okay right now. It favors Ops/PTS and assassins but that’s only because they control the 1v1 trolling meta. Any spec can perform well but you need 306 gear, a solid gear set and full augments if you want to compete with the Soyboys. It’s really about knowing every class so you know how to counter them. This isn’t WoW where you can hump a pillar for 30 minutes and win with gas, it’s about hard burst damage and crucial interrupts on healers into a hard stun. That said I think level 50 pvp was better, because everyone died faster and didn’t have so many ways to go basically immune to damage. RIP wallbanging and Annihilation

Nailed it here. Don’t do FP unless you’re ready to skip every conceivable mob(which defeats the purpose of Xp boosts), skip every cutscene, and know all the shortcuts. I guess it’s like PVP you have to be in a certain mindset to solo queue. If you want to socialize I would suggest joining a guild that likes to take their time because these randoms always have places to be(lol not). But you’re right about the WoW thing that game is WAY more toxic in all areas really.

1. AP Pt 2. Conc Op 3. Rage marauder 4. Missile spec merc 5. Leth Op 6. Marksman sniper 7. Lightning sorc

I think the gearing is fine, you can do literally anything to gear up and aren’t FORCED to do flashpoint last or ops to get gear, however they are the much faster option. The way it’s set up incentivizes every type of play style, the only way they should change it is give tech fragments from pvp. But then it would probably become even more toxic. Having 306 doesn’t mean your character is “done”. You still have to get your correct set, all your augments, deck out your stronghold, max your companions, find the right look(lol), do all the flash points, do all the uprisings, do all the operations, max out your GSF, join a guild, max your social level, max your renown, max your valor, max your ranked pvp, upgrade your starship, do all the star fortress, gear out all your companions, make tons of credits. There’s literally tons of stuff to do, max out rep, do all weeklies, max out rep. If they change the system again I’m probably done all they need to do is add a bit of tech fragments to pvp and Make CHAPTERS worth it.

I think the event is fun. It’s basically what I expected, but I wish they would have made it air faster, like pod racing fast. But whatever it’s still fun and gives a ton of credits for the short time invested. I’m Pleased with it.

Has something to do with the game engine. When pvping or even flashloints I Just Turn the settings to very low. Even with the FPS meter on it just seems slower during fast combat on High graphics. I would reckon you need a very good PC to run this game at Ultra while still maintaining that low graphics smootheness. The engine ***** on bad PCs.

It literally took 3 useless buttons and combined them into a small bar that you can drag into the corner of your screen I don’t even notice it What a time to be alive where we complain about a rectangle

As it stands HS is the fastest way to get gear to deconstruct for the chance at embers. The percentage for HS and Athiss to pop 90% of the time was obviously patched in when the gearing system was changed. Me? I don’t have a problem with it. If you want to gear up quickly you can do this, if you want to get better looking gear/titles/mounts/achievements you can also join a guild and do operations/ master mode. As it stands both types of players can be satisfied without having to keep the other one from attaining their goal. My solution would just be to even the percentage of flash points and increase the rewards based on the difficulty of the FP that you get. If you get HS, you get baseline, if you get Blood Hunt or whatever you get triple the credits/ amount of gear for example.

I suggest you turn the chat off. But I know what you mean, there’s nothing quite like being tunneled and focused by 3 fully geared, fully augmented BiS assassins and having no healer to save you. Ever. Solo queuing is a lesson in alcoholism.

That’s why I have a character with every crew skill at 700, the credits I’ve made have more than made up for the 500k it took to get there.

All harvesting crew skills have always been free It’s up to the player wether they want to have access to the 600-700 items, which as far as I know are mostly cosmetic( unless your selling armoringd and mods, more power to you!) 500k is literally a drop in the bucket compared to the credits some people have

I feel your pain, but at least Huttball offers a reprieve from the stomp teams in voidstar, arena and sometimes Alderaan. Without huttball the game would be worse and make the valor grind even more painful. Besides it offers a great place to learn your pvp rotations 1 on 1 and just kind of goof off. I would have to disagree with the removal of huttball. They need to add a CTF type map or another stronghold type map this year, but def. DONT remove huttball.

Cool video. Personally I can’t do ranked in this game. I did ranked season 1 and went 12-1 and then they took away ranked 8v8s. Why? I’ll never understand but I guess they needed to have something for WoW arena players to come over and brag about. I also got 2400 in season 1 of WoW but they somehow cucked me out of a gladiator title. Never cared for it since then Tbh and in THIS game 4v4 is all about being an operative or power tech and just tunneling one target. It’s like WoW lite 8v8 were initially what this games Rock Paper Scissors design was based around not seeing how hard your first energy burst can crit for right out of the gate.

I would have to agree with what you said about how people won't come forward and admit they are new/inexperienced. My theory is that at LEAST 50% of new players to this game come from World of Warcraft... a game where dungeons devolve into literal ****flinging over one or slight mistakes...so people have become accustomed to not talking, because more often then not in WoW if you told someone you were new to something, you'd get called a "noob", or "bad." It's just the same childish mentality that has carried over to this game. Theres nothing wrong with admitting you haven't done something, its better than learning the hard way. Which is so ironic because 20 years ago the community of MMO's seemed so much friendlier towards newer players. The only idea I have is that they could make EVERY flashpoint have a solo mode, with scaling difficulties if you want. Then you could have the group mode as it is. This way people could have a way to learn the fights, albeit at an easier pace, making them ready for the "real thing".

I would have to say: -Qyzen -Bowdaar -Temple -Quinn -Doc These are all companions I couldn't care less about. Qyzen looks like a lifeless dummy when you talk to him, his story is lame and uninteresting. Bowdaar to be fair I haven't fully done his story but it seems boring just like Qyzen, can't stand wookie/alien voices in this game. It's all just rehashed for every other sentence, just like Qyzen. Temple doesn't interest me, it's like shes trying to be some super secret spy but just ends up being a basic Imperial agent. Yawn. Quinn tries to kill you, but at least he has personality and one of the more interesting backstories. Doc I've never used either but he just annoys me, would rather use Theran or w/e the other doctors name is. Everybody else is okay but I'd say my favorite is either Vector or Pierce, Pierce is boring but he used to be a beast when companion gear and "class" mattered. Vector to me was the most interesting besides Kira or Ashara or w/e her name is. Can't remember any other companions