Or you could just get a guard or an off healer.. and stand pretty much anywhere. Invulnerable for the most part. Healing since 2.0 is just f@#$ing stupid. You could literally faceroll the keyboard and be productive. Nearly every warzone now is a stalemate.. with no one dying on either side. It's boring as hell. They went from one extreme for TTK to the complete other. Morons.

I agree this change is terrible.

Agree. They really don't think things through very well.

Nice post Banderal. I admire your attitude and wish I had the patience/time to do the same. But at the end of the day, I have limited time (and patience lol) and what I'm really looking for are close/competitive fights. Due to my limited time Ranked is not an option for me. Yesterday in AH, the gate dropped and I head towards mid. I survey the oncoming team and turn to see who I've got with me. Where the hell is my team? Then I see the 7 light blue beams coming from our node. Of course a few seconds later *all* 7 come barreling towards mid. Sometimes I will stay in a match like this just because it can be pretty entertaining if I'm in the right frame of mind. Most often, however, I have to eject. I just don't get to play many WZ's a night. I have limited time to find those (increasingly rare) close/competitive matches that I really love.

It wasn't my intent to have you come to the forums and rage after getting rolled. I aim to have you rage-quit the warzone and nothing more. Please accept my apology.

It's marginally better than a new emote in my opinion. The other way to become immune for ~10 seconds and contribute absolutely nothing to your team is die + re-spawn.

+1 I have fully min/maxed EWH and am having a blast playing naked. It's been very interesting to see a lot of pre-mades getting owned now that gear is no longer an issue. Have been having a blast.

Well said...

Of course he can. You just have to accept that the rating will never be perfect. A flawed system is better than no system at all. You'll be waiting a long time for a "perfect" system... because there will never be one.

Evidential standards for burden of proof stem from a consensus in the community. What constitutes valid proof here? Good luck getting agreement on that from an internet forum... let alone a gaming forum. IceHawk's high school debate drivel aside (<< ad hominem)... My opinion is that pre-mades are not the issue. The issue is a lack of match-making system in general. I'm min/maxed EWH and solo queue most of the time. There are two reasons why I generally don't group with guild (outside of ranked). 1. I don't like waiting on people.. I only have so much time and I don't want to spend it on fleet between matches waiting for guild-mates to get off the crapper. 2. I find I get good/close matches more often when I'm solo.. rather than rolling in a pre-made that just destroys people (fun the first few times.. gets old fast). Bottom line is it's not fun rolling groups and it's not fun getting rolled. I solo queue a lot and am on both sides, so I don't see this as a pre-made issue. I just want close matches more often.

Well at least one person in this thread gets it.

Quitters are not to blame... Bioware is for not having a matchmaking system. Which is also why you won't see a quitter debuff. They can't punish customers for their design flaw. Quitting is basically customers doing their own match-making.

Sorcs don't have burst. If they did you would have had a hell of a lot more kills than 21 with 440k dmg (given the opposing teams healing numbers.. or lack thereof). Your damage is all pressure... spread out over 12 GCDs. It's useless in rated (where burst rules all), which is why sorcs are not favored for dps in rateds... generally if you see a sorc in rated, he is bubble/heals. I'm hoping they fix (mid tree) lightning soon. The class could use some some variety and having real burst on a squishy class makes sense.

+1 This isn't a player problem... It's a design issue. Standing around a node for 15 mins doing nothing is not what I'm paying $$ for.

It's just that in this case.. that "higher level of play" was not due to skill.. Sorry but your friends were busted. Hopefully they got perma-banned. If reporting was enough to get you banned the servers would be 1/4 of what they are now.