Force Lightning is an Inquisitor ability that both advanced classes have, but Sorcerers can use it from long range, unlike the Assassin (granted the Assassin can with Recklessness). Easy fix to the problem you brought up with that is have Mercs have longer range with it.

Well honestly if your wanting to get competitive in the game in the first place you will take the time to grind better gear. So that wasn't an issue in my mind. I think that the amount of CC in this game is fine. There is a fancy thing called Resolve and most of the time you will get hit with 5 stuns at the same time and have it insta-filled so you can just break and move along. Shorter cool down for defensive abilities would be madness. When I play my Powertech I live for a lot longer then I should, I'm not complaining (and I kill lots of stuff).

Well judging by the above post BW isn't doing anything to make PvPers happy. I am still considering going over to WoW (which I have never played, btw) because it seems more PvP-friendly over there.

So I've been thinking about how SWTOR can be more competitive. I enjoy competition a lot so I hope that even if my ideas aren't taken that SWTOR will become competitive in some way. First off is to make Ranked Warzones be not only for full groups of 8. Make a Solo Queue and a Solo Queue Elo, along with a 2-4 group queue with an Elo of it's own. This will make it that people will have to do a lot less PUGs to get into Ranked Warzones and/or won't need an active guild. Next add in more Warzones. Right now we have only Voidstar, The Coast, Huttball, and Civil War. We could use 2-3 more Warzones to play. This is more of a "more fun" part to add to the game then a "more competitive" part; Though it would be nice to have more competitive Warzones to play. Add in a game more much like the World of Warcraft's Arena game mode. It would be nice to have a mode that is just like a team death match game mode where you don't have to work on objectives or anything, you just kill eachother. Add in a Dueling Arena with it's own queue so then you don't have to run around asking for duels, and it has a more competitive feel to it. Next add an Elo to every single one of these things and have competitive ladders/leaderboards for them as well. What do you all think about these ideas?

Quit because people call it a name that is easier to understand to the community has a whole? That seems a little bit stupid. Almost every player knows what "Snow" and "Grass" is, and if not they can say "what's that?" in the chat to get an explanation so then they can know. If you say LS people will not understand and there for not go to which ever side that is (yes, I don't know what side it is. I go by snow/grass or left/right or east/west).

Here's a thought... If you hate MVP votes so bad, don't vote for one your self. If you don't vote then you don't see who got voted for, and you don't cry when you don't get any. I for one don't care if I get praise from people I don't even know with an MVP vote.

Stop the nerfs. If something is really OP, bring the other's up some. Just my thoughts.

*stun* *stun* *stun* "Oh resolves full" *cc break* *fight on*

Marauders are where they should be, they should bring all the other classes up. Stop the nerfs, start the buffs. With that said I think that the Powertechs are also where they should be, but could maybe get a little better. Just a little.

Thanks for the encouragement man, but unless your young that may not happen lol, I'm only 14. But yes one day you may be playing a game made by me, and some other people of course.

I don't know what you mean. When a Scoundrel stealths up behind me and knocks me down and what not they end up killing me almost every time, especially when there is 2. (Operatives are the same class but with knives so the same thing applies.)

Ah I see it's clear now. Thanks for the info guys, this will probably help me in the future as I want to be a game designer.

Do the servers REALLY need to go down for a patch? (Just hear me out on this, I don't know too much about MMO's and how to work) It seems to me that all you would really need to do is have them be down for like 30 minutes tops just to upload the patch...

It is getting a bit ridiculous to want to play only to find that the server is down... But I guess that's just how it goes and maybe it won't be like that later on.

If you read Battering Assault carefully you will notice that it says that it requires two lightsabers. If you can still use vibroblades even with it saying lightsabers please tell me.