Probably doesnt help that most ranged classes are also the omni classes. Healing dps mitigation etc, dont see a fix comming soon either. The way they have abilities set up it is pretty much the core of how they play.

Old bug, used to be you could type /stuck while in midair and it would do that if done before you 'landed'. Pretty sure it was patched, atm most people just using cheat engine as most information comes from your pc not the server. Honestly i dont think much of pvp in this game.

Solution : just do what all others are doing and reroll a sage/sorc. Due to population it will be a long time coming before they are balanced. Other classes can at least still pve.

Sage/Sorc.. so the answer is an easy yes. CC mixed with ranged mixed with defense bubble mixed in with various instant heals and lightning or rock spam.

Cheats, exploits, and straight out hacks are ruining the pvp in this game. Its actually rather funny, completely reminds me of dcuo when it first launched. Less than a few months later it went free to play as it become obvious soe did nothing about the hackers. Before their network was straight out hacked, you would think companies would learn no? I half expect to receive an email from bioware that my account has been compromised.

Try hybrid, you can get a. stronger shield b.infinite lightining * you are going to spam it anyway* c.instant heal I wont share the build with you, but do suggest you play around with it. You can basicly get the best of all worlds. Yes you wont get that nice ability at the top of the tree, but you dont need it when you have no weakness.

Dont forget to make all abilities effect and be effected by resolve. The major issue atm is that its garbage, too many exceptions on it.

This is sadly very true and the reason my main is an assasin rather than yet another sorc. It is fun to play with the non choosen classes but it does make pvp boring.

Bubble is op because it absorbs rather than mitigate, but even that is not the real issue. I have said it once and i will say it a thousand times, utility. The op actually has a rather good point about sorcs. Making a hybrid build you can get the best of all worlds without sacrificing anything. Even mercs have to sacrifice healing for dps or vice versa, a sorc has all the utility they need without sacrificing anything.

DCUO also had this problem and it went free to play months after opening.. little hinty hint hint to bioware that you cant ignore them.

All very valid points in the op, i think the real issue is the fact that bioware stacked all abilities into 1 super class. The fabled tankmagehealer that most games avoid creating or at least impose a weakness into. As a result any of the pure classes tend to be weaker in comparison. Yes people can point out specific instances of being able to beat the hybrids, but that is more a measure of skill.

How about class 'x' can spam heals over and over. Class 'x' can easily defend itself with a bubble. Class 'x' can easily run away from a fight. Class 'x' can do a lot of dps ontop of the rest of the stuff i am already complaining class 'x' can do. Wait.. there is only one class that can do all that

12. I like staying 49 and not having to challenge myself by facing actual equals. Yes this means leaving last minute before any of that nasty experience gets on me.

The thing is that 50's are mostly on illium and that is mostly empire turf. The republic seem more content staying 49's and quitting warzones so they dont have to face a challenge. This is sadly a big trend in the server i am playing. I could que all day on my 50 and face only a few repubs, switch to my level 20 and i keep seeing the same 49's over and over who quit to avoid getting exp. I guess thats what happens when all the kids want to be a good guy, they run from a challenge. --Bit of a joke but only kids would make the assumption that all empire players are kids because its 'cool'. Maybe some of us are just tired of the old hat hero storyline defeating the 'evilz' empire.

Bubble, yes you wont be main tanking a boss in a raid but you can hold your own. Thanks for proving how many idiots can play sorcs tho

Ok lets just face the facts people, THEY ARE OP. At best people try to defend this class by picking one specific point. Such as heals, you can interrupt heals blah blah. Bubble, you can pop it with enough damage blah blah. Or dps, they dont do the best possible dps in the game! blah blah. Have the people defending this class ever considered that it is the ability to do all these things so well that makes it op? Would you rather : 1.tank 2.dps 3.heal 4.all of the above? If you answered 4 congrats, that is a sorc/sage. Even a tracer spamming merc has to sacrifice some utility to buff his main 1 button attack.

Because it helps draw away from the fact that 90% of pvp players are sorc/sages due to amazing utility.

Sorry to say but resolve is bad, many abilities flat out ignore it. Making it pointless to even have such a system . As for the op, its something that needed to be brought in line, but unless they also hit heals a bit more expect them to die a whole lot less.

And as an fyi.. you can still go afk outside the field without being kicked out. Seen a few people do this, stealth, hide in a corner and profit.

That has actually happened to me a few times, entered a game already in progress and i started to move only to be booted for having been afk too long due to game loading. Why they even have those fields is completely baffling. It was much better in beta, and not like the enemy can get in without dying.

It is even worse if you died when there was only a half second left to leave the area and have to wait another 15 seconds.

Reason why bubbles stop people from dying in the fires is they absorb the damage, wich itself triggers more damage by causing the person to be lit on fire. With shield absorbing that there is no burning alive and thus they can easily cross it. Aka its like fire without gasoline, making bubble rather dumb in huttball and likely not the intended mechanic.

Same thing happens with assasination, usable at 30% health with a random chance to hit! Honestly why are they even changing things when there are so many more issues that need to be fixed?

It can easily be concluded that pvp was nothing more than a passing thought in this game. The cc fest alone could easily be 'fixed' by including immunity for a few seconds after breakout and putting all cc effects into resolve *instead of making snares/roots/break on hits immune to it.*

As for the whole issue of competitive and fair i think people should keep this in mind. In any professional sport or COMPETITION there are rules. There are rules for a reason, to keep the playing field as even as possible. To wave aside such things as anything goes is a weak argument at best. It is not competitive to hack/exploit/abuse obvious holes in any system. Otherwise football players would be using cars to run the ball in for a touchdown, golfers would pick up the ball and put it in the hole by hand, etc.