Hello everyone. After a 1½ year break, I've decided to once again to take a look at this game. So far I've had fun with leveling a Juggernaut (Immortal) up to level 50. I havn't bought the new expansion, as I wanted to get a feel of how things are in pvp before expanding. I do have the Hutt of cartel expansion though. The plan is to do the next five levels from Warzones. I will go for the tanky approach as I imagine my role is more about support and crowd control. The big question is what gear should I buy at level 50? Orange and mod it with commedations and save up WZ comms for lvl 60 pvp - If I decide to buy the expansion? Or should I simply buy some purple pve gear and go from there?? Another big issue is that I can't figure out, what stats works in pvp when it comes to defense rating, shield and absorption and what numbers I should go for, if any at all, as I read somewhere that healt, armor and expertise was more important. I know augmentations will help so atleast i got that covered and i found a crystal with 40ish expertise at the fleet vendor, so thats a start as well. A bit of help and guidance would be most appriciated. Thank you.

Thanks for that info, didn't knew that. However I did wear 3 pieces of conquor, 3-4 partisan pieces, and rest pve. Not sure if that makes it any better. can't help thinking that either he had fully augmented conquer allaround and that gear difference had a huge impact, or something isn't right.

And because of that the Sage/Sorc is balanced? - Otherwise I knew that already, that dosn't make it right or better either.

PVP gear does not work outside WZs to my knowledge. If you're right, how can you then not agree that something is wrong with healing or perhaps the Sorc/sage Class?

I chose Trooper, and Vanguard because I felt Jedis was just fantasy warriors with glowswords. After testing Tactics and Pyro I ended up with pyro because I like how it plays - I don't play FOTM, never has, never will. Yes I will suffer from it, but thats actully not my fault.

Correct. But it shouldn't be possible at all. It makes 4man premades even better during PUGs, because I doubt everyone else in PUGS repecs depending on them playing defender or attacker - It is hard enough as it is, when you sign up alone, and I doubt BW would even consider to make brackets for 2man, 4man and 8man signups.

No, 1 DPS should not win vs a healer everytime. The problem is that as it is now, you get superior healing as a Sorc, and very ncie damage as well. Where the Vanguard only got the damage, to hand out. And yes I know that we got nerfed but as I wrote, my damage was not the problem, it was that I couldn't interrupt enough. And that fact that the Sorc was good at both things. How is that balanced? The perfect scenario is that when doing 1vs1 it should be pretty damn close to who wins. This wasn't even close, even with Companion help. Healers and Tanks are, and always will be support classes in my eyes. Problem is, they are both Support, and DPS in this game.

If healing isn't broken then explain this one: My 55 Vanguard(Pyro) with fairly nice gear(58+), and I consider myself to be slightly better, then the average player out there. I met a 55 Sorc on Nar Shadda. I had Elara(58+) with fairly nice gear healing me. The Sorc didn't have his companion out. I couldn't get him below 50% health, I simply lacked the interrupts to do it. and within the fight of 2 min I guess it took. the Sorc simply burned through my companion, and me, while healing himself. If healing is not broken, something else is. I suspect that letting Alacrity reduce cooldown makes healing better since you can heal more often, and since you also regen faster, you never run out of heals. It sounds broken to me. I know all players are not masters when playing in PVP. But, saying that we just need to LTP is too easy with all the problems PVP has. I guess there is a reason why that Wzs these days mostly consists of Sages/Sorc, Smashers, and Assassins. Even snipers are less popular...

Didn't wanted to quote the complete post. But just wanted to give you thumbs up on it. I'im with you all the way. Playing my Assault vanguard much similar like that..love grapple, and all the small moments that no achivement never can or will reward you for. So great job.

I'm jsut here to agree with what is already has been said in this thread over and over - We got screwed, and Devs didn't explain why, so i'll do this short. I'm puzzled by why Sages/soc should be top DPS and top healing at the sametime during warzones. I'm puzzled by assassins has better survivabillity when the Vanguards wearing heavy armor (heavy armour feels pointless, should have better ressist to everything). The worst part actully is they are very hard to kills because they 9/10 times just force run away when I almost have them. I'm puzzled by Knights / sents and there smash hell compared to my own lack of dmg. I'm puzzled by Snipers able to kill me before I even get into the 10M killzone I need. I'm puzzled by why the design around tanks does not involve more around small damage, an alot of CC, rather then High damage and high suvivabillity. These statements are very black and white from my point of view, and is more made to show my point on how screwed it all is, or feels like. I will continue to play my Pyro BH and Assault Trooper, even in pvp. I can still get my 8 medals. But I must admit I don't feel I'm one of those who do the killing - Kinda funny (or just sad) when I'm DPS specced..right? So now I'll lean back with chips and soda and wait for the Devs to explain them selfs, cause damn!.

Got the same problem. Did wonder if it was because of the 2 species I can't do in the Codex, (Would love to see them fixed as well) but I doubt it.

I don't see the issue with BW trying to get the class more in line with the rest. yes we were really good at bursting. I'm not gonna stop playing my Vanguard or Powertech both "pyro" specced because of that. I still get my 8 medals from WZs and bring 2 taunts, grapple and a couple of stuns to help our team win. But if you ONLY have fun from being number one DPS, then I see your problem.

I like achievements, but I must also admit there are good and bad achievments. For exampel I love the achivements like most of those in the Codex, that gives me a story, or some background about the area, class, species, or whatever it is I have discovered. What I really really don't like to do as achivements are kill 10 of these..kill 50 of these..kill 250 of these for the reward of a sign ticking green. They are in my eyes uttely pointless, and I will always see those achivements as a poor design for content to keep players playing. I also finding frustrating to the point of stressing that to do all the achievments I have to play all 8 classes, it smells so much of easy content. And on top of that, not all achivements are shared... GG Legacy. And now we are talking achievements.... Why the beep did you guys not fix the codex entries, or simply removed the codex and made it a part of the achievement section? ...Devs I'm looking at you. It is sooooo frustrating to have to look in codex, and then the achievements to see if Im done with a planet. And it does not get better, when the same two entries on Ord Mantel are not getting fixed when, you're adding a complete new achievements section next to it - Talking about poor design... Im shocked, Sorry.

I hear you man, and I am, was just hoping they got this one just right.

Yes, I can goto Tython, and no, I cant' do whatever I want to. How do I know this? I tried. There are Certain codex entries on Tython I can't get to with my trooper, simply because they are part of a quest chain that is only accessible from Jedi Knight or the Sage. Some of us are not interested in rolling 8 toons, not even 2. Some of us enjoy to play Just 1 character, and I don't understand why you think its fair that I have to roll 2-3 toons jsut to keep up in the achivement race? And about the chilling, It would be nice if you took off your master fanboy outfit for a few minuts, and could read a question as a question, and nothing more. Thank you.