Uhmm, yes and no I think. I did report someone doing this a few weeks ago, however it's not a guarantee. AOE still hits them, you just can't target them directly, which means once your AOE's are on cooldown they are free to arm.

I think the timers are messed up. I played in a round a couple of days ago and we (Imps, attackers) were let out of our starting area before the republic defenders, so much before that the bomb was planted and had gone off right when they were let out. Either that or none of them came out, which I doubt.

So I ran a test on this last night and found a couple of things. The stats on items are not bolstered. Changing gear before and after entering a warzone has no effect on stats. When I leveled from 33 to 34, my health actually dropped while bolstered. So it changes with scale, IE a level 10 is going to be bolstered more than a level 15. They are probably given the better stats to help compensate for the lack of skills.

lol.. Yes and no. I like to PvP, it's fun. If everyone was 'equalized' I think it would be even more fun, as the true 'skill' is what would shine. But where is the fun in knowing you're a better player, but because your gear sucks (even though you've spent weeks PVP'ing) you get facerolled. Many 50's got the commendations for the gear they currently have by killing sub-50's in warzones prior to 1.1. I know I did, for a couple of weeks once I hit 50. I don't see the harm in increasing the cap. They still have to grind the commendations, no matter what they're still doing the work! There isn't a point in preventing the purchase prior to 50. Maybe back when nobody was 50 there was a point to it, but now that there are thousands of 50's at top valor, the reason for limiting it has disappeared. The cap was there to get people to spend the commendations. Once you've purchased everything you are allowed to purchase, what then? It feels like such a waste to see that you're only playing for XP..valor and commendations are capped! (valor is capped until you level.) Here's another thought, put level 25/30/35/45/49 pvp gear in! Then people won't hit the commendation cap..

I would love to. I'm level 34, have all the 40 PVP gear in the bank, a champion bag, and I'm at 1000 of both commendations. But you can't buy a second bag, and both the speeders require the necessary valor level just to buy them! I guess I'm going to have to start buying gear for my companions now.

Tanking is very viable in pvp. I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned Force Pull. In Huttball it's vital. Force pull into fire to take the ball or kill that guy that seems to be unkillable. I can't even count how many times I've pulled someone to fire to take the ball and sprint it in for a cap. I'm only 34, but I'm lovin it so far! Also have a 50 merc, and it's not nearly as fun as the assassin is in PvP.

Is the weekly 30 kills or the daily 30 kills? I haven't checked on my 50 in a while. I know 30 kills on my server would take forever. 5-10 may be doable, but the most republic I've seen at one time is 4. Edit: Just saw the above post..yeah, 30 a day is going to take a long long time.

I think it's a known issue. It's been happening since day one. Try dropping and getting the quest again?

I agree, something has to change. Either let us buy/hold more bags, or uncap valor, or uncap the commendations. Any of the above works for me. Right now everything is maxed even after buying all my 40 gear. At most I can have 6 bags when hitting 50 (1 in my bank, +5 I can purchase with capped out commendations). Stims are going to have to start being destroyed since they can't be sold, and I'm not going to pop a 15% expertise stim instead of a health stim. Just seems a waste if you want to level through PvP.

I thought that the stats were bolstered included gear. IE, a +20 endurance item would be bolstered as well.. Otherwise, it's not really that much of a bolster. I mean, level 10 gear has MUCH fewer stats than level 49 gear. Just bolstering the base stats of the class seems kinda weak.

Stats aren't equalized either. They are buffed by a percentage. What I mean is, say you have two assassins. One with Tanking gear (+Endurance) and the other with DPS Gear (+Willpower) They aren't both going to be bolstered to the same stats, they have their stats boosted by a percentage (say it's 1000%) Tank assassin now has boosted endurance, and DPS assassin has boosted willpower. So gear scales with you. It's not just skills that makes a difference, but the stats you have when you play.

That's what I thought. What a load of crap. Once you max out mercenary and warzone commendations, there's really no point to doing pvp once you hit your valor cap per level.

The reason I asked, I noticed last night my valor was maxed at level 34. My character is level 34. Can I not surpass my character level in valor? I know you can go up to 65, so at some point it's "unlocked"..maybe I'm bugged or it's just going to take a few more warzones to bump it up..? Thanks

Made an assassin as my alt, and really enjoying it. I'm only doing space/class/pvp and I'm level 34 right now. It picks up at later levels. As said, guard people and taunt off the ball carrier to help the most. Go with deception to start, as Darkness is kinda crap until later. Once you hit 30 the game changes with Force Pull in the Darkness tree. I can't explain how much fun Huttball is once you get force pull. See the ball carrier? Pull into fire, take the ball, sprint to goal. Rinse and repeat. I get 4-5 scores a game. I don't get many kills / medals (since fire doesn't count for some stupid reason) but I help the team win, and in the end get more points that way. Fast wins means fast leveling and more points.

I've got a 50, a 27, and a 16. I PVP all the time as the 16 and 27, and I've killed many 50's (many solo) so I don't see a problem. It isn't easy, but it happens every round or so that I kill a 50 in a fair fight. Anyhow, complaining about something that will be fixed in a matter of hours.