Let me explain this for all of you casuals out there. I leveled to 60 valor in warzones. I did level 59-60 in one day, which was like 48000 valor. If you get 10 medals a game and win you get 1500 valor per game. Best case scenario, I played 32 warzones that day. I can't even remember because there were so many. The point is, I and everyone else who did the grind legit had to play warzones over and over and over and over. We like pvp. It is extremely fun to win close games with people who have similar gear and skill. But, you bastards need to put even a fraction of the time we have in before you complain about getting rolled. To fix pvp, three things need to happen, none of which are nerfing our gear. Valor gains from Ilum since that stupid patch need to be removed for EVERYONE. RNG gear from bags is horrible, it needs to be removed. Commendation cost of pvp gear needs to go way down. A champion helmet costs 67 commendations. This means opening 23 battlemaster bags. You get 2 bm bags per day, with 2 more each week. You are looking at 10 days to farm one piece through commendations. But if you are lucky you can just open one champion bag and just get the piece. If this pvp system was not developed by a bunch of idiots, they would have realized they needed to make centurion gear MUCH easier to obtain (the tier 1 should not be harder to get then the tier 2), make champion gear not grow on trees for anyone willing to put in the SLIGHTEST amount of effort in pvp, and make battlemaster gear a reward for anyone who put in the large time investment. No one important will read this. But I don't care, I am not giving them any more money.

I hit valor rank 60 legit. I have opened enough champion bags on the way to have both a full tank and dps set and numerous duplicates (minus the head, which will not drop). RNG is a stupid, stupid system. I earned my gear, and I earned the right to kick the hell out of a fresh 50. If you want to fix pvp, make it so that you have to at least trade in champion gear to get battlemaster gear. That would fix the problem you made from screwing the pooch as hard as you did on Ilum. All of the "Battlemasters" who traded to 60 would be out of luck. I see however that you want to appease the casuals who hit 50 and scream, "I opened 4 champ bags and didn't get gear, omg". Tis sad, but Swtor has already jumped the shark. I am glad I canceled my sub.