My point of view from my server: Niman EU Faction imbalance on a very high scale, empire had far more 50's back when illum was a feature. This allowed them to farm to Battlemaster rank way faster than the republic players. This then gave them more time to play the random number game and get their battlemaster gear. Now faction problems and player drop off means still there is a higher number of ORGANISED pvp teams on the empire side as quite a few decent republic players left the server or switched factions. These players are now stomping through Warzones and I have seen players with 2-4 pieces of War Hero already. While the losing republic teams win on average 20 commendations per warzone. The step between recruit and battlemaster is HUGE so new players are better off but still way behind the curve. This will only make Rated tougher if it comes soon as the ORGANISED empire teams will have their full War Hero gear while we still struggle to gain BM / the first parts of WH. Commendations awarded for losing are simply not high enough.

A solution that would make a BIG difference, i know my friends will not reroll the same as me because we frankly do not want to reply our EPIC story again in the same way and leave a bitter taste in our mouths. People will wait it out thinking everyone else will give up and it WONT happen. Please BW read, listen and help.

Played from 6pm GMT to 1am and only saw 1 line of chat that was not in English, very friendly people all round. on TOFN that is.