Agree with Taugs assessment %100. They've done nothing but turned pvp into a grind fest that simply rewards the fatest guy on the server whose life consist of carpel tunnel and potatoe chips. Sub games mimicking wows business model come by the dozen and are nothing more then a fleeting attempt to capitalize on out dated game designs. No pvper wants a gear grinding hampster wheel, hope SWTOR wakes up future developers and they learn from its mistakes.

There are several things I left off because these steps are the primary keys to glorifying your expirence in SWTOR

Yes chuckle loud & chuckle often.

I might revise at a later time, but these are a pros pro tips guaranteed to heighten enjoyment of SWTOR. 100% testeted and approved by the leetest of Leets.

I know, I know... You are jaded, you are a bit frustrated. You love star wars maybe, you rode the hype Train for years waiting on the game. You saw the trailer and went HOLYCOW*FULLYVOICEDQUEST! Then you got the game, zerged your way to 50, looked around and kicked your cat. Bah! where is the Endgame. Bah! where's my wow in space. Bah! space combat is lame. Bah! Where's LFG. Bah! I'm bored..... Take a deep breath. I got you covered, I have mastered the Art of enjoying Star Wars The Old Republic. If you follow my guidelines I can gaurantee epic success in your quest for SWTOR bliss. Read on and profit. STEP 1: Reroll, yeah I know it's not your thing, you love your main, you have worked so hard gearing up. But this is your first step to jubilation. Throw conventional wisdom out the window, throw age old MMO ideals aside and REROLL. Trust me it will not be easy, but it's what must be done. STEP 2: LISTEN! Oh you wanna use that space bar so bad I know. BUT DON'T, listen to every quest. Watch every cutscene. Even those silly kill side quest, you just sit there and Listen. STEP 3 : Talk to yourself. This is crucial. When you walk onto a new planet be verbal, "oh how stunning this place is"! When Corso makes a joke, Laugh out loud. Point at the screen and say " Oh Corso you are so funny". When Mako tells you she misses home, try crying. When that full premade rofl rolls you in pvp say out loud "Oh you silly sith you better gang up on me". Chuckle often as well. If family members ask you *** you are doing, just yell "IM ENJOYING SWTOR" STEP 4: LOG OFF! I cannot stress this enough, log off. No more long play times, no more marathon sessions. You have to be that ubber super casual guy you hate so much. Trying to consume too much SWTOR at once can lead to relapse, yes we don't wanna be bored again. So not only do you log off, you log off for DAYS. I know, you wanna get pasty pale and play an mmo like its 1999 again, BUT IT AIN'T. So log off and go tan. Okay no, don't go tan, but find another hobby. STEP 5: Tell yourself 1.3 is coming. Constantly thru out the day , just remind yourself of how awesome 1.3 is going to be. If 1.2 was Jesus then 1.3 is God himself. Say things like "1.3 will be so totally rad, I must press on". You can do it, you waited for 1.2 with great expectation, you can wait some more. This is a quick tip, to get you started on your path to SWTOR ecstasy. If some of my other enlightened SWTOR brethren would like to add to this LEET GUIDE OF LEETNESS, feel free to share your epic antibordem tricks & tips.

Man, can the US low pop servers get some love BIOWARE?

Something is starting to STINK in here.

I think most bounty hunters spec one way or another for either TRACER HSM and turret play or IM TD and mobility play. Those define the specs. Just as useful is AB is to Arsenal it would be equally as useful for a pyro.

I agree, that escapability would be sexy if they could make it work

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Im not sure that the AFTERBURNNERS is the beauty of Arsenal? I think Aresenal has just been the benefactor of an awesome talent. Aresenal still poors out crazy DMg and requires less heat management and rapid fire then a pyro. Not to mention their armor debuffs. I do not agree that AFTERBURNNERS defines the arsenal merc. But to better address your stance. Let's take a look at INFRARED SENSORS. So you can say that the devs gave Pyro IS and arsenal AB. Well unfortunately IS is very much more situational and less beneficial then AB. It's a good talent and I take it, but it is not a good comp to AB. So I would argue they could bump IS down a teir too, for the Arsenal Merc if they want to sacrifice better talents for added utility.

Yes we knockback and kite those pesky warriors and so on. Knockback is also very good situational, a talented rocket punch can get someone off a catwalk and keep our jet boost off cd. It's an overall utility talent that would be really FUN to have. We can still knockback just as much as Aresenal as pyro as is. So it's not like the class is the anti knockback spec. Like I said its one of the few talents in the trees that is good fun utility and it would be rather cool if it was available to the pyro who wanted to sink 2pts in it. It would still not be the OPTIMAL talent for us considering it does not boost our damage but I for one would take the sacrifice to have the added utility for overall enjoyment sake. I don't see a balance issue at all. And the flavor of our class is we are FIREBUGS and a longer knockback doesn't identify an arsenal merc.

I would love to hear their metrics behind nerfing POWERSHOT. Unreasonable change just seems like more nerfs for the sake of nerfing. Can we get a dev post on why it needed to be nerfed? They nerfed DFA to keep AOE DMg down but this one makes little sense

Sup bounty hunters! So in 1.2 you see the combat team at BIOWARE is making quality of life changes to certain talent trees (I.E. marauder, moving talents to lower tier to be accessible to more builds). Well there are not a ton of FUN/utility talents in the Arsenal/Pyro tree. But undoubtedly there is one really cool talent, and that is AFTERBURNNERS. I play pyrotech and it just would be rather cool if AFTERBURNNERS was bumped down one teir in the Arsenal Tree and would then be more accessible to the Pyro Bounty Hunter as well. It's a really fun talent and I don't know of any one reason why it should be limited to just one build, or require such a sacrifice in the pyro tree to get. It's apparent Bioware does pay attention to the community, they gave that TM a new animation for quality of life based on our feedback. Now maybe they can just entertain the idea of AFTERBURNNERS for the Firebug as well.... So if my fellow pyros want to use that rocketpunch more and just give us aliitle more kite utility with the awesome AFTERBURNNERS talent then give the thread a /SIGNED.

Yeah fair point, but the fact that Bioware is adding a solo queue is somewhat silly without the cross server warzones, and the MIXED QUEING is even more silly. I have a guild btw and we will just be making puggers life miserable. Something I don't look forward to tbh