Hate the controls. I even want to use the mouse and the keyboard; I just don't like the sensitivity combined with the aiming deadzone. I don't care if this game exactly like whatever other game, I wouldn't have played them either.

It's not a huge deal for me, but definitely annoying and I would turn it off if I could.

Like I said, right now the community is comprised of people that either like the old system or grew to tolerate it. It doesn't surprise me that they dislike a drastic change... how could it have possibly been made for their benefit? If there is a positive impact on PvP population, it won't happen over night. It's a lot easier to drive away players than it is to draw them back. Just like all the players that rage quit the first time they hit 50 and queued up to be destroyed a few times in a row then said "lol screw this".

If that's the case then why does it even matter if something changed? Hardcore pvp guilds are already geared to fight eachother on equal footing, so who cares what sort of bolstering the trampled remainder gets? People are frustrated because more bad players are trying PvP now? Working as intended. I can't sympathize with PvP communities that don't understand how PvP dies a slow death without an influx of new players. It's like a stupid goldfish that won't stop eating until it dies.

Endless gear treadmills in PvP w/o some sort of system like this just bleed the playerbase over time. It's no surprise that there's such opposition from remaining players, since that population has been filtered down to only people that can tolerate the previous lame system. I'm guessing BW isn't going for retaining those players so much as enticing new players and luring back people like me. Here's my sub--show me what you can do BW. Don't pussyfoot around like RIFT; a small group of hardcore elitist cockroaches never kept any PvP community alive. Drawing in casuals, PvE'ers, and new blood is the way to go. Stay on target... Stay on target...

PvP communities as a whole only give way to reason regarding driving away their food chain once food becomes scarce enough. It's funny, because you could tell who had played MMOs where PvP died day 1 on these forums; hard to pick apart from the regular dooooom-sayers, but yes... if you continually violate your opponents over and over, they will stop playing with you. This applies to progression in PvP as much as it does premades vs pugs. I understand why people come down on different sides of the argument for progression/premade queue times, but ultimately it always seems to come down to this: are you more concerned with attracting new blood to PvP, or retaining veterans? Especially if your game is not a completely PvP focused game, only one of these will even have a chance of fostering a respectably active PvP community over time.

Up is down, left is right, cats and dogs, I'm so confused!

I think a more accurate version of the title would be: Premades are responsible for failed [PVP in] MMOs [with only battlegrounds and not enough players to do adequate match-making].

The fact that there even needs to be server mergers/transfers/cross-server WZ just to do stuff is not the result of a lack of feature/tool. It's half-past triage time.

Done. You're welcome.

Take armortech or synthweaving and keep yourself in blues. Spend comms on weapons/implants. Enjoy many levels of care-free PvP. PS. Don't bother picking up un-needed recipes for armortech/synthweaving since you're going to be dropping it at 50 for Biochem anyway.

First, they need to rework the shielding mechanic in PvP. Second, they need to take a hard look at all cooldowns that increase survivability in PvP. Then they can fairly tweak the damage:mitigation ratios on tanks. Until then, tanks aren't just driven to hybrid specs because they want to have their cake and eat it to; when you PvP, you want to spec in abilities that actually work in PvP.

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Maras were strong before, but this is probably true. Lowering the TTK essentially did 2 things.. 1) buffed top DPS classes more than anyone else (same percentage, higher base value) 2) increased the duration of damage invuln abilities (relative to the overall TTL of players) I could see why the side effects of these changes might not be anticipated. BW already said that damage was about where they expected, but I think they need to review the effectiveness of maras survival skills from the perspective of the new TTK... it's a different ballgame.

You yourself are a good example of how people don't just have fun with a class simply because it's OP; some people will avoid rolling a class because it is OP.