Flowerslayer Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 In casy anyone wants a summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf3nFz4xzNE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waijdan Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Why even have factions in a game 2012? Its just stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wikar Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 (edited) Nope MERCS and SORCS ONLY. (they are advanced classes) so 25% of imperial advanced classes (2 out of 8) take up 40% of the imp population Anyways for those that dont know. Basic class ----> Advanced Class Inquisitor ------> Sorcerer, Assassin Bounty Hunter --> Mercenary, Powertech Mercs and Sorcerers are most powerfull healers in this game so here you go 40% of population (im hardly see one or two "arsenal" mercs in 50 lvl WZ, im not sure if im so lucky or unlucky, still alot of lightning going on, yep), but anyway, did you understand that Tracer Lightning faction will just annihilate every other because of all good healers being there? Edited February 9, 2012 by Wikar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImSaved Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 I don't understand why everyone hates on Mercenaries so much. Interrupt Tracer Missile once and they just stand there aimlessly till they die. And the second I attack a Sorcerer he's immediately re-bubbled and Force Speeding in the opposite direction, healer neutralized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichyblade Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 In casy anyone wants a summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf3nFz4xzNE :D . Reminds me of Rogues in Vanila, with the exeptence, that mercs and sorcs are free kills, insted of killing machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosimoo Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Honestly, some people need educating. Mercs can be Bodyguard, Arsenal and Pyrotech builds. Arsenal is the only spec that would use tracer Missile. This does not automatically make Bodyguard or Pyro bad specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nales Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Oh come on, why do you people have to get serious on a joke post? I'm actually surprised sorcs and mercs only constitute 40% of the player database, I thought it was more like 50%. Hopefully some Snipers and Marauders will reroll and make it 50% soon! Then we can add the "Tracer Lightning" faction and have some balanced RvR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McNastyya Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 This post has my approval. But in all seriousness. I really hope everyone, mercs included, realize they are playing lowest skillcap class to ever exist in a mmo. You are incorrect Merc healing is not the easy out of all the classes. And if it was for the merc and sorc you guys would have no healers what so ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brutem Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Can you imagine the qq of every warzone being against tracer and lightning spam.... currently thats a reality for most servers to have a WZ similar to that make up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chromakeyz Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 currently thats a reality for most servers to have a WZ similar to that make up because most wzs have 4+tracers(yes they are arsenal) and sorcederps. its really fun watching them hide in some corner and on the ramps spamming. you just cant interrupt them all. oh most of them are full BM and its funny watching them knockback root you and gib you in that time. same goes for sages but they are even more annoying since you cant see them because of the stupid rock animation.and you will never catch them 1v1 because they are ****** and will just run away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lushbits Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Honestly, some people need educating. Mercs can be Bodyguard, Arsenal and Pyrotech builds. Arsenal is the only spec that would use tracer Missile. This does not automatically make Bodyguard or Pyro bad specs. I'm sorry, all I heard was blah blah blah tracer missle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealAeiouy Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Third faction does not solve population imbalance and adds a huge number of additional problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndantePhist Posted February 9, 2012 Author Share Posted February 9, 2012 wow... people sure get defensive... especially in super serious posts such as mine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jellison Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 THIS THREAD IS SRS BSNS I SUB no, seriously, good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWImara Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Haha this would be epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryNguyen Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 The way to balance in World PvP like Illum, buff the factions that is minor. Buff so it match the other factions numbers, fair enough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mashup Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 (edited) Only thinking of facing a team of "Tracer Lightning" in Huttball makes me shudder. Not that its much difference from current state though. Edited February 9, 2012 by Mashup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eszi Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Tracer Lightning: Instant cast, instant cd (does not trigger gcd either), deals 10k damage + 20k over 5 seconds, snares + roots + stuns + knockbacks on hit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aroidan Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 If they did this then they should re-work the WZs so that they are 3 teams vs 3 teams Not sure how you would do this with voidstar but yeah. On my server it seems like 60% of the imps are Sorcs or Arsenal Mercs, and the imps outnumber the republic at least 5 to 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stilly Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 I still crack up every time I interrupt TM and have the merc just stand there until he can cast it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McVade Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 I found something awesome in server forums. Basically someone kept tally of total server population republic and empire side on the PVP server Veela, and he also kept tally the numbers based on class. He averaged the numbers over several days. Here is the link to his google doc. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0ByilHQpK2scOODFkOWM0ZGYtOTIxNS00NjdkLWFjOGYtMWY0NTRlMDFiMTZh&hl=en_US&pli=1 here is the link to the original thread. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=264699 As you can see on Veela, there is roughly 550 Republic and 1000 imperials online on average. Out of the 1000 imperials, FOUR HUNDRED of them are either a sorcerer or a mercenary. So here is the solution to imbalanced servers. Simply create a third faction called "tracer lightning" and move all the mercs and sorcs into this faction. This faction will be advertised as noob friendly, where you can faceroll and still do alright, no previous MMO experience required. If this is done, PVP servers like Veela would have 550 republic, 600 imperials, and 400 "tracer lightnings"... much better balance than we currently have imho. Ok let me know what you guys think, feel free to chip in any ideas! Let Bioware know we want our "TRACER LIGHTNING" faction NOW! Love it. Tracer/Lightning UNITE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltimateKrucible Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Taun Taun approves of this Tracer Lightning faction, and wants a piece of its action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cashogy Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 ahahaha +10 internets to the OP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divona Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 (edited) Think OP hint is more towards Bioware, but still good one It is a rare moment when you see arsenal merc castbar dont have tracer on castbar. I got idea to blend sorc and merc to neutral class on each other to one. You can tracer missile with lighting shooting after every missile, that would be so cool no one would want to pass playing with it. You get 2 in 1. Edited February 9, 2012 by Divona Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eridanus Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 You better copyright that faction name before BioWare takes it. I wonder if/when there are rated Warzone teams, if this will be one of the first team names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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