Primarily because I like to get my characters to a certain level before I PVP. Is that OK with you? I'll sometimes go 5 or 6 months without playing and then level 4 or 5 characters to around level 50 to PVP until I've had my fill. I find it amusing that you feel it necessary to press other players on why they feel the need for double xp. Again: does it affect you in any way?

So? For some of us with busy schedules it's the only time worth logging in. It would be no skin off their (or yours, for that matter) noses to end the year on a couple weeks of double xp. End game is of little to no interest to me; when I get the chance to play, I like to focus on leveling new characters via the class stories, and I'm not alone in that regard. Way to be patronising.

Aside from the odd Sage who actually knows how to kite, I'm eating them alive on my Assassin.

Just wanted to link this from the PvP thread: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=664705 One of the top Juggs on the Bastion duels the top Assassin. The Jugg comes out on top on both occasions (granted, he uses Intercede the first time), but it shows that if you can read an Assassin/Shadow well enough, a good Guardian player has all the tools needed to bring them down.

There is nothing in your post that comes anywhere close to justifying your "slaps to the face" accusation. How are you disadvantaged? If anything, this means people who wouldn't regularly stray into open world pvp will give it a try. So instead of focusing on the potential boost to open world pvp, you whine about....what? That people aren't having to "prepare themselves"?

See, most Sorc/Sage players can't kite and don't know their skills well enough to be anywhere near competitive in pvp. A mid-tree Sorc/Sage will have Backlash/Kinetic Collapse. That nullifies a spike + maul fest right there, giving them time to get distance. If they forget to bubble up, there's the lvl 51 ability to break CC and give breathing room, or the standard CC break. Effectively there are three options for a Sorc to escape the initial burst fest and get distance. Then it's simply a showdown of who plays their class better. Mid-tree Sins/Shadows hit hard, but so long as my cool downs are available, I know I'm in with a good chance to beat them on my Sage and Sorc.

Straw man. Way to completely ignore his valid points with an irrelevant assumption.

A well-played Sage or Mando is every bit as valuable to a team with the new changes. Most people just can't play them properly.

I'm yet to hear of anyone in WH gear being two-shotted by a lvl 35. You lose any credibility when stuck in drama-queen mode. Hate to tell you this, but spending months grinding gear DOESN'T necessarily make you a better player. Some people are bad no matter how much time they invest. It wasn't unusual for me to bring down WH and EWH geared players on my recruit-geared Sorc a few months back. Bolster may need some tweaking, but in no way is it broken. If you're a 50+ regularly being destroyed by the likes of a lvl 35, you only have yourself to blame. Stop hiding behind the gear-based glory days and learn to adapt. Neither did the former system - hiding behind EWH gear and farming greenhorns. Besides, anyone who is enjoying a slight advantage will have to face the music when they reach 55.

Count me in, too. Originally a MDN player but have toons on Dalborra, too. At least we'll go down swinging.

While I don't agree with some of the things my fellow APAC migrants have said, I can at least see the reasoning behind it. There are still perfectly valid issues to be addressed, and the outrage is somewhat justified. Here's the big difference: if something of this nature had been thrust upon the European servers, you wouldn't find these enraged APAC posters on the European threads rubbing their faces in it - or denying them the right to voice their collective outrage. Soon this thread will go the way of the Dodo. The likes of IceHawk and co. should be smart enough to know this and just leave well alone. His relentless posting achieves nothing. And I'm yet to come anywhere close to 'monopolising' this thread.

That isn't what he asked. Nice straw man, though. He asked what your agenda is. Have you made over 50 posts in relation to this issue simply as an exercise in free speech? You're just regurgitating the same drivel you have from the very beginning; in other words, a complete waste of time. I'm glad you gave us all the green light to be as "argumentative as we want". On a mission to cure the SWTOR forums of "irrational emotional reactions"...What are you? A friggin Vulcan? It's the internet. If you want an uphill (and worthwhile) battle, go find a cure for cancer. Phew. Thanks for that. It's only "too far" when a moderator deems it as such. All you're serving to do is further inflame emotions. In effect, your presence here with your incessant and self-righteous posts are doing nothing to encourage level-headed thinking. And how many times do you need to do this? Do you start to twitch if your posts aren't featured on every page of this thread? You've made your point, now kindly bugger off. No, because there are still perfectly valid concerns here. One of which is the option to transfer to the servers of our choice...not mass dumping onto NA counterpart servers. That's just EA apathy all over.

lol @ "2 million". This game doesn't even have half that amount.

Aye

I think I'd prefer the headless chicken over EA when it comes to managing our affairs...