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curtkram

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  1. this all happened once before, and they were pretty clear that abandoning whatever you've worked towards is part of the fun, and at least half the staff would rather be fired than fix the problem. maybe that's part of what's going on now; a bit of restructuring, so nobody wants to move forward with the game until 'the bobs' settle out who gets the axe.
  2. i think the right answer to your question is that number represents a deviation from the light/standard/heavy line. so if the server is standard and that number is below 1, it's kind of below standard. if it's above 1, then it's a bit above standard. there is a good chance i'm waay off. scorpienne did some pretty amazing population work before the server merges. the forums took a big loss when she disappeared. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=449144
  3. you should be able to poke around this website and see for yourself http://www.torstatus.net/
  4. you sure do seem to like the harbinger. you posted 3 times in about an hour just to tell the world how much you like the harbinger. if you go to http://www.torstatus.net/ they have a nice little graph of server status, based on light/standard/heavy there was a spike last week where jung ma and pot5 actually got over 'light.' the harbinger is the only server to get above 'standard.' so your experience is not typical. i guess everyone can abandon their toons and reroll on the harbinger, like many people did at the start, when we re-rolled on the fatman because bioware didn't want to do anything about the dead servers at that time. (the fatman, ironically, later became pot5). they're too busy figuring out how to screw up marauders and sorcs to deal with any kind of server population issues.
  5. you really think that's more likely than a bug in swtor?
  6. you're probably going to spend more money buying the new thing for the same reason you spent money buying the first ones. that is not bad for their business....
  7. it seems to me they didn't nerf end game pve or pvp. people who play sorcs in either role do not spam force storm for the win. competitive pvpers weren't rolling sorcs so they could spam force storm in ranked pvp. pve'ers weren't clearning hm content by spamming force storm on single target boss fights. what they nerfed was the ability for sorcs to skate through dailies and the low-level tacticals or flashpoints. force storm cleared mobs. that's pretty much it. this is not rebalancing, it's removing a fairly simple quality of life ability sorcs had that made it a bit easier to skate through the casual crap, and carry the people who are so bad they need a sorc to carry them through that content. there are always people that will jump up and say they only care about pvp, or those who say they only care about pve. i think it's evident they've given up on both, and they're focusing their class balance on tactical flashpoints.
  8. better to follow the middle path, where you can recognize awesome things as awesome and not awesome things as not awesome.
  9. if there is a single event of which could be said "this is the end of swtor," i believe this is it on the other hand, i kind of assume she'll be back in a month.
  10. i'm not sure that's true. having artificial tiers in pvp due to the gear gap is a barrier to entry. at some point, everyone starts out not knowing how to play, then they learn to play. the people who don't know how to play are going to be beaten by the people that do know how to play every time. however, the people who don't know how to play can read their abilities and guides, put in some effort, and eventually be competitive enough that they're at least getting in some useful practice that will help them become better pvp'ers. introducing a gear gap means becoming better doesn't matter as much. you're being beaten because the other guy has more time to kill and grinds gear, not because he's a better player. gear progression in pvp is not a hamster wheel where you grind for no reason, it's a barrier to entry that makes the process of being competitive a pain in the ***, so those who don't want to waste tons of time on a gear grind won't participate. imho, the gear grind in pvp caters to lazy stupid people who want to win despite being lazy and stupid. good pvp'ers would still win without the gear grind. for what it's worth, i'm in full brutalizer now (as of last night, just bought my wrist piece), so i'm not asking for a free ride to the top tier. i'd rather get to the top by learning how to play my toon better.
  11. i bet musicRider has force management problems
  12. i don't really get your point. pvp is more of a gear grind than pve, though for both, it seems grinding is the ultimate goal i suppose. the accomplishment should be the reward, not a lvl 186 armor piece. i understand that you shouldn't be required to pve in order to be competitive at pvp, or the other way around. whatever grind there is to get the gear should be equivalent whether you're going pve or pvp, and it should probably be somewhat superficial. let players compete in both pvp and pve based on how good they are at playing their toon, not how many hours they spent grinding or credits/dollars they spent on the gtn. also, having to keep track of 2 sets of gear is just a pain the ***.
  13. i would say the best way is to have a single gear set that works equally between pve and pvp. there is no reason to separate the two.
  14. for starters, 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 advance lesson, move those to 3 and 4 because it's harder to spam green spray paint with your pinky 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 4 free lesson. you're welcome.
  15. you should not be pulling people out of aoe's in pve. your dps should not be standing in aoe's. might as well let them die, because letting them continue with your group drags everyone down. extricate is best used to pull teammates into lava, or to pull them next to droids that are about to blowup. it's also useful to help them drop their threat, if they need their threat dropped. the last fight on explosive conflict has a part where extricate is useful. you can pull afk or d/c'ed people along with the group. also, quite useful in a variety of situations in pvp.
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