I wish there was more PvP gear too. Mostly due to the fact that there's no reason to PvP when you have your lv20 set (Armor, implants etc) unless you wanna save for your lv40 set (Which you can buy before lv40 anyway). And even then if you PvP consistently, as the OP said, your winning comms are being made useless. Here's an idea; If you're at the cap for commendations (For WZ, RWZ & BM comms) you should get money based off the amount of comms earned and your level. Example 1; A lv20 wins and gets 100 wz commendations but they're at the cap. They instead get 20 credits for each commendation earned. Equalling to 2000 credits on top of your normally earned credits. Example 2; A lv50 wins and gets 100 wz commendations and are at the cap. They get 50 credits per commendation earned. The amount of credits earned per commendation will of cours accumilate with their difficulty to acquire, like RWZ > BM > WZ as an example. Just an idea. TL;DR - Should get credits instead of comms if you hit the cap.

Well the only problem i have with PvP atm is the damage output some classes can do *sins cough* Tried something out a few days ago on my merc healer. First with NO expertise equipment (PvE armour) and then with PvP armor (~1k expertise). Differences noticed; Assassinate Damage without expertise - 6.2k Assassinate damage WITH expertise - 5.8k So the difference is marginal, if anything wearing PvP gear is hindering you more than if you used PvE gear due to the extra +aim/+willpower/+cunning stats. Moral of the story is, PvP, no matter what you're wearing, will be a drag, a grind and a big disappointment when you get your full ranked war hero equipment. Run around with 2500 expertise if you want, you'll still get 2-shotted by some PvE geared moron who picked a stealth class. The only reason i PvP now is for the lv20 + lv40 pvp set for my alts, and sometimes for fun, so long as it's pre-50. TL;DR - Remove expertise because it's fkin useless.

My "Prime Time" is usually in the morning, from ~8am til ~3pm, then it's tea/dinner time. Servers were down today from 8am til ~1pm, didn't bother me though, did other things. All-in-all the CM is right, you can't please everyone all the time, only some of them some of the time. I say leave the times as they are, otherwise it'll just annoy more people.

You shouldn't really have problems with running HMs, i mean i was decently geared at 50, about 14k HP, 70% ish surge, about 24% crit (Mercenary). After 2 runs of Black Talon HM i got a belt, after 1 run of Kagara's palace normal i got a main and off gun. Then about 2 weeks later i got bracers & columni gloves from Eternity Vault normal. In that one EV i died about 6 times, yeah i don't know the tacs, they're still a bit fuzzy. Morale of the story is; the effort you put in, is the effort you get out. By the time you hit 50 you should have enough dps to do some HMs and maybe KP/EV normal. You just have to try, dailies are useful, but you gotta learn by doing, it isn't easy to gear at 50, i mean i just spent the 330k for speeder 3 on gear i needed to be eligible for HMs & KP/EV. TL;DR - Get a good guild and ask to be carried, if they say no, then just do dailies & misc quests that you didn't finish for money, then buy stuff to be able to do some HMs & Ops.

Rolling on companion gear should be allowed, but only IF nobody else needs it. All else, fair game.

It's not the ops or flashpoints that're hard to do, it's getting the groups to do them that's hard. I'm on a "Standard" populated server (Dune Bantha PvE), i've been to two (2) HM Flashpoints since i hit 50 about a week ago, only the guild goes and they seem to when i'm not online. The republic side is barely considered a faction, more like a bunch of rerollers. Level 50 pvp is a joke, and the only reps we go against are undergeared Level 50's, not to mention WZ's just bug me. So on that note i'm starting fresh on a heavily populated pvp server where i can actually pvp efficiently without being forced to do Warzones. TLDR version; Rerolling cause my server sucks.

Then you might've accidentally sold it, or tried to sell it but the merchant wouldn't buy it, then continued to delete it, in which case, go to the GTN and buy a temporary one then do Black Talon (Empire) or Esseles (Republic) and get a moddable one. Good luck

So basically you want it easy? Well alright, here's some common sense advice. run SWToR, when it loads your character list, look to the bottom left & look for server list (Or something similar), arrange the list by population, the higher it is the better it is for people wanting some fun. Then make a character, ask in general chat to see which side is best, empire or republic. Profitable fun in the best way, thinking of joining a populated pvp server myself, hate enclosed pvp atm, so many bugs. Prefer open-world pvp ^^

Well there's your solution, and the sad thing is, it's true. Always some moron standing near me, usually a healer or an uncovered range class, like a stupid operative thinking ranged is better.

I don't see much of a problem with the patch changes, i mean getting punished for leaving (FORCE LEAVING like clicking on the pvp icon and quitting) is understandable, but what about those that have long loading times? I mean my PC isn't great, if i join a WZ i have about 40s before i have to get to the starting point before the first door goes down. If i die at one end of the wz and spawn at the other end, i spend 20s on the loading screen, with a 30s wz kick cooldown, i'm kinda screwed. But i do agree with one thing; Getting objectives voids getting medals Getting medals voids getting objectives Medals > win/loss People always complaining about nobody "planting bomb/capping turret/passing ball", and nobody realises, grabbing 5 medals (Very easy) grants 25 coms on its own, that's equivalent to 1 loss with 0 medals, or getting 10 medals and equating it to 1 win with 3-4 medals. So the option is clear people, FARM MEDALS! FOR THE EMPIRE... or... republic (nubs) :>

As posted above, playing a sniper in pvp, that charge is the one thing we want less of. Our cover provides that. Let me make an example; In real life (Yeah, just go with it), if you're hiding behind a wall (Just listen) and some guy with a grenade runs at you and magically walks through the wall, what's the point of the wall? Unless they're chuck norris, in which case he can become the wall. But anyway, snipers are very squishy vs sents/maras, so allowing them to charge us WHILE in cover, will just ruin our reliability and make cover completely useless.

Do you know what a gimp is? I surely hope not. Yeah what this guy said. ^ Spent 7 mins in a huttball match about 4 days ago and people kept saying the healers were bads, and now i know why. Anyway... yeah, and being able to vote kick people will ruin lv50 warzones, all the undergeared people will get kicked and will only be left with full bm geared leetists who have lv70+ valor. In turn making PvP pointless for undergeared fresh 50's, which means they'll have to find a guild, spend 5 months farming tionese/columni/ratataki gear all so they can pvp effectively. So in other words, it won't happen.

Good game, and frankly if this game doesn't buck up its ideas soon i'm out of here too, end-game content is impossible to get into unless you have 130+ rated equips, guilds are good but only if they're BIG (Talking 50+ people on at peak times here). PvP is becoming a joke with everyone rolling hybrid sages/sorcs and surge maras/sents, glad that mercs got a surge nerf, but it wasn't enough, they needed to nerf the base damage of "win missile". And this is coming from a guy that has a 50 merc, it does way too much damage, especially for those stacking surge. So there you go, lots of memory leaks and forced ctds and frankly, if it carries on like this, i'm gonna preorder for tera beta and wait for the launch.

Oh yeah i read that topic, it's a good idea, but only IF they increase the time you actually have before you get kicked, it's currently 30s, but what if you have a rubbish PC? Or are bugged at a loading screen? Knock it up to about 45s to 60s, it'd make it easier for those with bugs like mine.

I've seen them, and it angers me. But on a serious note, in the alderaan civil war... warzone, the speeders at each faction's ship disappear for me, tried it on my smuggler, tried it on my merc, sniper, operative, assassin & sorcerer. Each gives the same result, this only happens every 6 in 10 matches, so it's a big deal since i love pvp. So they spawn at the start, no problems there, but sometimes when (or if) i die they don't reappear, i reload the UI (Ctrl + U twice) with no luck, and sometimes, by the time they reappear i have 2 seconds before i'm kicked from the wz from apparent "inactivity". Anyway, i won't be pvping until this is sorted out, other than that, keep doing a great job. o7