Let me start by saying that I'm a founder. I've been with the game on and off since it launched. I mainly pvp and have countless hours played in regs. Bioware - you REALLY need to address the absolutely horrendous matchmaking system you have for regs. It's completely random and completely obnoxious. There is no good reason why one team has 3 healers in a voidstar and the other team has none, ESPECIALLY when neither team is premade. Or when one team is primarily (4+) of the same class. Ever played against 6+ mercs, or 6+ sorcs on one team? Yeah.. it's not fun. How in the actual hell can you allow your game to be like this? It creates an incredibly frustrating pvp experience. Just fix it.

As the OP of this topic, I'd like to thank everyone for responding. To all the people that told me to "get gud" and "L2P" - I expected to hear that. Some people just can't accept a different opinion on their own. I simply posted what my OPINION was about this topic based off my own personal experience. I don't think that the sap abilities, as they are now, are balanced. One sap should fill the resolve bar fully or have a cool down. Sap along with stealth are stupidly powerful tools in objective based pvp. It works so well in either offensively capping a node or defensively protecting one. Sap, wait 8 seconds, sap again, they use CC breaker, you come out of stealth engage in combat, if you're losing, vanish, wait a for them to try to recap, sap, wait 8 sec, sap again. There is literally no downside to this ability. None...unless you count that you can't have more than one person sapped at a time... yeah... real big disadvantage there.

These "sap" abilities all need to immediately fill the opponents resolve bar OR have a cool down. It is absolutely absurd the amount of times any stealth can stall multiple people with this tactic. Since all 8v8's are objective based and most require you to capture points, this ability alone grants a massive advantage. Side Note: It's also quite ridiculous how much crap an operative or scoundrel can "dodge" and "resist" by rolling, healing, rolling again, stun one person, AOE mezz, rolling again, heal some more, then vanish and start sapping all over again. I mean W.T.F. I'm sure I'll get flamed for "not being good" at pvp for posting this. It's just absurdly powerful. I've seen 1 operative healer delay a node against 5 people for a good minute. If they happen to have a guard, just forget about it.

Basically you need to open command crates, to get the tokens, to buy the gear, to combine with the unassembled components to buy the other gear. Why not just have all gear, at all tiers bought with one currency type? Instead you have to get multiple currency types from several places and you have 8 VENDORS for gear in two different places. W. T. F.

I'm a returning player. I mainly only pvp and do the occassional flashpoint. To the Devs - your end game gear progression system is the biggest convoluted mess I've ever seen. What in heck are ya'll smoking at the office that made you think this crap up? Not only does it take forever to acquire anything beyond tier 1, trying to figure out how many components, command tokens, at which vendor for which specific piece of gear is mind blowing. There's alot to be said for simplicity. You guys need to figure that out.

I've played sniper extensively in pvp the last couple of months. I have a 65 sniper in full 208 with all augments, crit 42%/72% .... I've never...ever hit anywhere near 35k. Highest 22k-25k is average. Now after the nerf, its hitting for 18k-23k. I gotta say, Sniper feels really underwhelming now. I felt good about how it was performing prior to this patch, but now I'm going to shelve him.

Eric, Can you please give update on new pvp content and class balancing? PVP is so close to being amazing in this game, it just needs some love and attention. New warzones and class balancing would go a long way.

You had me at vulgar.

I'm a pvp fanatic on Harby. I have a 65 Guardian, 65 Commando, and 65 Vanguard. Can I join?!!

I have to agree with OP about sorc/sage healers. It's just insane at this point. I have seen countless matches where it takes literally 6 dps to kill one sorc healer with guard. Or 4 dps without guard. And if there is a 2nd sorc healer there, just forget it... You literally cannot kill them. IF you do actually manage to get one low enough they just bubble and get healed to full by the other healer. I don't have a problem with the bubble, but I don't think they should be able to be healed while bubbled. If they can't take damage, then they shouldn't be able to be healed either. Sorcs are actually so powerful at the moment, I've seen a lot of matches with 4+ sorcs on each team.

Bioware, did you guys even test companions prior to launch of KoTFE? Surely you must have known the level they were performing at and decided to roll out the expansion anyway. Just a couple weeks after release you do a complete 180 on companions. It's almost like you have no *********** clue what you are doing with your own game. Frustrating to watch a game with so much potential be handled so poorly year after year.

Can we get anyone from Bioware to please address the current state of pvp from a development standpoint, and what future plans are going forward? Also, do you guys actually play your own game in pvp? If so, how can you look at all the glaring issues facing pvp today ( sorc/sage healing specifically is out of control) and do nothing about them, or even acknowledge them to your own player base? It shows a complete lack of respect for your paying customers and is utterly incomprehensible how you manage to get away with it. *** are you guys doing all day at work? What's more important than addressing your customer base and tackling these issues head on? Are you simply not capable of it? Are you THAT inept at your jobs? I live fairly close to Austin and have considered organizing a mass gathering at your office to demand answers from someone face to face. Sadly, I don't think anything would come of it and it would probably be massive waste of my time and energy. You should hire a specific person to manage/communicate with the PvP community to discuss and address and ultimately fix the issues we want fixed. Your game is for us, not you. Get it together. Now.

So all Aug's should be overkill?

I also want to know that. How much accuracy do we need? Tempted to ditch it all for crit/power enchancements but all our damage is white damage.

So I just hit level 65 on my Commando. I have tons of comms built up to buy my first pvp set. Was wondering what you guys think about these two. I love healing but also love mowing people down with my assault cannon. I've been gone from the game for 8 months. What's the current state of Commando's/Merc's in pvp? I know their defensive cooldowns suck... but are they good healers now? Appreciate everyone's thoughts/feedback. Thanks!