This chunking the old pvp gear for new ones is nothing new to this game. It happened to all the people that worked hard to get champ gear, then war hero gear. Now it's happened to elite war hero. I'm surprised there's maybe less complaints on the looks of the armors this time around. I personally think the highest end sage pvp armor is the ugliest time sink I've ever seen in mmo history, but surprisingly hadn't seen a complain about it.

I vouch for deserter debuff and 15-20min penalty to reapply. If your team isn't all that functional and your having a miserable time, leave and go PvE, craft, shop, do something else to offset the cue. The issue at hand should address the fact that it starts to become a standard practice when you lack discipline for those that are fine with unintended game mechanic abuse. Stop being part of the problem and strive to be part of the solution.

Discuss titled topic. Honestly, today I just watched a guy do that over and over and over in Huttball. He was level 47. He'll move around the center and spam Tracer Missiles all day long. If I jump into melee him, all he does is sit there and Tracer Missile. Is there nothing else for them to do besides spam Tracer Missiles all day long to boost dps? Just curious.

I see chronic repeat offenders of this system all the time. If you leave once in a blue moon cause your team is just that bad, fine, I get that and had done it before too. But I see the same deserters doing the same thing all the time. How would you address that issue?

There ought to be a deserter penalty for leaving a match. I've seen too many people in my time on this game leave a huttball match after the opposing side scores one. Sometimes they will leave the team, and be put back in our team then leave again. Sometimes they end up on the winning side. Either way it stops the warzone abort timers from happening in one sided battles. There ought to be a 30 minute debuff where you're not allowed into a warzone if you quit mid match.

This thread is about issues that had taken place in my predicament post 1.1. The view is mainly 1st person perspective, so if anyone has any other inputs they would like to add to bring the objective of this thread to reality, please feel free to chime in. Bioware derailed endgame PvP for my 50 on a low pop server this 1.1 patch. With limited game play time I had, I finally hit 50 last week. Had a lot of fun PvPing up to 50. In my predicament, there were a handful of 50s' running in around in BM/Champ gear in WZs. Most of the time my random qued "still leveling to 50" pugs get demolished but there are a few times we gave them the run for their money. Mainly one-sided battles but still had WZ ques going, so still was possible to make some form of valor/comm. Now a few days after I hit 50, WZ stopped all together. Ilum has 5-10 imp running around collecting armaments, needless to say, takes hours trying to gather 30 with a lot of competition, since it offers no group credit for pick up. 0 Repubs around. I've never seen 1 Repub in Ilum. With all the issues I've read that has surfaced with 1.1 release, why couldn't Bioware wait maybe another month before releasing it? Right now there's just not enough 50s to do any PvP content on lower pop servers. Since 1.1, I barely see the 50s that were once actively online. We are forced to alt to enjoy PvP, which is the path I'm taking up. As a side note, I noticed the PvP leveling gear reward cost was bumped up by a pretty big margin. It now costs around 175% of what it used to cost. Weapons that used to cost 330 comms are now 580. I mean really? Those of you thinking you can work on FPs, you are absolutely right. Though on my low pop server, the few guilds that do them actively are overbooked on dps classes. The pug last night that asked me if I wanted to run Black Talon had no healer no tank. The leader of the pug had no idea about what kind of role make you need to run hardmodes. I really had nothing but praises pre 1.1 patch. It's been a long while since I had so much fun on a game. It's still a fun game to play mind you, just close to nonexistent endgame as a dps 50. I'd like to call a revert back to patch 1.02. I foresaw tasks I could take on as a new 50 back in the last patch. Now my 50 is semi retired. Who knows when I'd be able to play my character as actively as I preferred. As a word of caution to those of you that like to PvP and are about to hit 50 on a lowpop server, don't do it. It's a trap in it's current state.

Yes please do something about the ugly golden samurai look. I want to at least have something to look up to PvP armor wise as Jedi Warrior class. On the flip side Sith Inquisitor PvE armor is pretty funny ugly.

I'd usually say catering to the player base whining is the worst idea for a developer to base the corrections, but with post patch 1.1, you ought to give some thought to the rollback idea. Faction imbalance was supposed to be taken care of pre launch, obviously it has not been addressed. Not only that but as of post patch 1.1 you've rewarded the overpowered faction accessibility to better gear on a massive scale. Successfully furthered the faction imbalance. A hot fix to Ilum is not going to change the faction imbalance issue that has just been escalated. I hope you really look into the matter at hand and deliver what you had promised the player base with the "200 vs 100" speech you gave, Gabe.

Seriously at least shut down the servers till you got a handle on the situation. Every hour you let it run like this the more of a mess to clean up no? I'm foreseeing a roll back to remedy the situation at this point, and if that happens, I see no point in playing the game today at all. I might as well go make a character on the PTR and start grinding to 50 to ensure something I've done today gets credit for it. But no response or action taken is reflecting very badly as an image for a new and up coming MMO. To say the least when you have a catastrophe of this magnitude running loose. It's like watching the neighbors vicious pitbull tearing up a little child but the owner of the dog is not doing anything about it.

They should data mine the numbers and the certain servers that have an obvious amount of exploiters should get rolled back. Yes it might not be fair to the fair playing crowd on those servers but, would you rather be rolled back one day worth of WZ valor or have a whole slew of BMs running around your server?

80k in a day is way more than what i get grinding wz all day long. Stop exploiting just cause you can.

I hope they just roll back data on the servers with the exploiters on it. Mine is low pop and since 1.1 not one Warzone pop. Have made 0 valor today and Ilum is as a ghost town as any other day. I already did all my dailies today and I turned in and got my champ pants. I would hate to see them go and all the cash I made + daily tokens due to a lousy patch release screw up. For the record, my server is Empress Teta.

At the very least, let us know what your planning on doing Bioware, wither it be server data reverts or patch reverts. I don't want to do instances and missions tonight and find out tomorrow morning that all I've accomplished was a complete waste of time.

If you do reroll servers, be sure to leave the low pop ones with no turret farming out of it please.

I'm surprised the servers are still online.

My low pop server will not have any 50's to do battlegrounds with for the next coming weeks. Thanks for killing the PvP aspect of the game for me entirely. Now I'm forced to PvE only and play alts. A huge push on that dislike Bioware/EA button since the action taken by releasing patch 1.1 was done with 0 consideration to those that worked hard to get where are at now. It wasn't even on my agenda plate , but now I am seriously contemplating canceling subscription. I'm sure a lot more are on the same boat as me. Not to mention the Ilum pvp section where Battlemasters are being born by the hour. Way to take out the time consuming aspect of the game entirely in terms of PvP to keep subscriptions active. Next time if your going to postpone releasing a patch due to game breaking issues, make sure to release the patch after the balancing and bug have been completely worked out. I hope you guys get an idea to how much trust you just lost due to this patch release so it doesn't come down to this ever again.

Sad video to watch. Finding it hard to believe they would add this patch on Ilum without seeing this coming. Nice move whomever implemented Ilum changes without seeing the numbers. Now we can guarantee the Repub subs really dying out thanks to the devs.

I agree to that there should be some report function where if enough players report afk botters, they get booted off the match and open up spaces for more willing contestants. The function implemented should be as simple as reporting spammers. As of now I just report repeat afk offenders with report spam function, not sure how much good it's doing.