I wish PVP'ers could gatecrash PVE'ers OPS instances entirely in PVP gear run round aimlessly and get everyone killed. Now that would be some Justice. Personally I dont care about 0 expertise players in my team in normals it is what it is. Ranked is where its at.

Theres this ability called force sweep that one or two people use these days that hits after im all white and that. Im putting it down to server lag because its always right at the start when I put it up i.e. pop FS (because you just got leaped on and guess whats coming straight after it ^^) 1 second later smash animation with a nice 5k+ hit on me. Aint really ever noticed CC issues with it. EDIT: Venjirai - lol posted after yours without reading it suppose it proves my point. Lmao at the screenshot

There is a fix for it. Select the offending Sorc and Press ALT + F.

Now that War Hero gear is easily accessible and a small gear to difference to elite war hero make RWZ comms unattainable from vendors/ dailies/ weeklies so that the only way to get them is through doing rated warzones. The red eclipse server is really picking up at the moment Rated runs multiple teams most nights. The better teams have agreed to not spec bubblepop or smashers (I will never cry nerf but the games undoubtably so much more fun without) and also are putting teams together on the fly not always the elite 8 so its not so faceroll for new teams. I think this will create incentive and will get people more interested in having a go/ looking to become part of a team to get their Elite War Hero gear. Ok some people may not like the ranked warzones but thats what you gotta do for Elite gear. You dont get dreadguard gear by running solo in TFBHM 100 times . I know there is rated gear already depending on your RWZ ranking but noone really cares about that with the way ranked currently is. 1.6 is great btw

Well 1.6 will make it easier for you: http://dulfy.net/2012/11/20/swtor-patch-1-6-elite-war-hero-pvp-gear/ War Hero Gear will not cost much and the gear gap between that and elite War Hero is not much

Logged on for an early PVP session waited 30 mins for pop. 7.30am yay got one. Civil War 5 people on the team - ah what the hell lets give it a go. Cap grass lose mid. Put up a fight for snow but after a minute or so lose it. Ops chat: PATHETIC! then he left the ops group. I could not stop laughing.

The Cartel Market gear is likely to be 'Adaptive Gear' which means you can equip it for cosmetics regardless of you armour type and level (unless it says otherwise - I havent seen it). The level of the armour is upgraded not as a shell but the armouring, mod and enhancements that you put in the adaptive gear shell. If you have an adaptive chestpiece putting level 50 armouring, mod and enhancement will mean you have a level 50 chestpiece. So your gear will get better as you level up as you will be able to get better armouring, mod and enhancements and thats how your this gear piece will improve.

Firstly as a PVP'er I am stoked that 1.6 has a new Warzone, Elite War Hero Gear and also the decision to close the gear gap. (2 of my 3 chars are Full War Hero so not biased!). I found this article from a little while back and haven't really seen much since regarding Ilum, Open World PVP and Ranked Warzones. http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/swtor-star-tour/ Ilum and Open World PVP: At this point, what we’re wanting to do is an event that revitalizes it. It’ll have something to do with an alien race crash-landing into it, and we’re targeting a January timeframe, which is when update 1.1 happened this last January. In addition to revitalizing the open-world PvP, we’re also looking at the obvious issues like faction imbalance and things of that nature, though I can’t get into the details of our approach right now. On ranked warzones: We’re making good strides on that. We’ve got a lot of exciting developments going on, but I’m not allowed to give details at this point. It’s something everyone at the studio is really amped about, and we hope to start dropping hints and teasers about that soon. We want to do more than simply “turn on” ranked warzones for season one. We’re looking into other PvP modes, as well. I can’t give exact dates, but it’s likely that free-to-play will come online slightly before ranked warzones. Does anyone know anything else and whether its happening in 1.7/ January as previously mentioned as a possibility?

You have got to go Powertech Pyrotech. It is not the best 1vs1 dueling class but if you get the drop you can burst a huge amount off them from the start. Dont worry about Incidenary Missile for the Flame dot you will get that with flameburst. Personally Id open with Thermal Detanator (must have in the tree) Flame burst to get your dot up and then hit them with railshot as the thermal detonator goes off. Any class who hasnt brought their Defensive Cooldowns up by then are gonna lose alot of of HP. Explosive dart no longer shares the cooldown with Thermal Detonator so you may even try and squeeze that in before the flame burst for a bit more burst. Then its Flame Burst/ rocket punch. Rocket punch has a higher chance proc PPA so after the original opening I would Flame Burst x2 then Rocket Punch after a railshot as it can only be procced every 6 seconds. Thermal detanator/ railshot always as soon as its off cooldown. Pull is invaluable especially somebody on a speeder or out of range pull them to you and bombs away. Dont worry about using any other dps abilities such as flamethrower. Apologies if you dont have some of the above I cant remember what you have at lvl 33. When you reach level 50 Powertech Pyrotech is an awesome class for PVE and PVP stick with that you wont be dissapointed. Unless you find the advanced Prototype tree to much fun to sacrifice ofcourse

Strictly on a 1v1 basis disregarding normal warzones. What build would you go with? Also what charge would you use? If dark charge would you equip the shield offhand or power offhand? After trying a few builds I am leaning towards this with dark charge and shield offhand. Stacking stalker gear and dps stats. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#200bI0skdskZfhb0zZf0M.2 I know there are some awesome sin duelers about what you roll with?

Heals - Operative healer - Single Target healing Heals - Bubblepop Sorc - Utility Tank -1 Sin Tank/ DPS Hybrid - Best solo defenders Tank - 1 Jug Full Tank - IMO best tank for PVP DPS - 1 Powertech - Single Target burst DPS - 1 Carnage Marauder - Speed and single target burst DPS - 1 Mara Smasher - AOE damage for grouped up targets DPS - 1 Sniper - Pick off the inevitable load of lol smashers you will come up against

Bought about 8 got overlord chair in second pack but nothing really after that but cant complain! When they introduce more rare items the previous rare items should become even more rare, unavailable completely or kinda like what they did with the white crystals and have time delay on availability. this would provide incentive to buy packs and also if you do buy from the gtn or get lucky via packs you feel you have something unique not something that everyone else will have in a few weeks. From what I gather the main desirables at the moment are the mask of nihlas the overlord chair, white crystals and various class weapons so not really fussed on spending any more. I wanted the chair and the blaster pistol which I bought off GTN so atm no real incentive for me to buy any packs. If they introduced adaptable armour that I really wanted or new rare items I would probably spend a few quid why not. Great introduction to the game and hopefully over time will generate the money they hoped.

Player mentality is the issue not just OP but in general. eg 1: Pugging Warzones In recruit gear and getting roflstomped Mentality 1: Thats ******* awesome Im gonna be that bad *** when I hit WH gear Mentality 2: Hackers, this is BS PVP is broken eg 2: RWZ Spanking Mentality 1: Hit the Ranked Group button again Mentality 2: Hackers, this is BS PVP is broken - potential RWZ team disband If there were 6 teams every night you wouldn't be getting spanked by the elite every game. If there are 6 teams every night and you lose to all of them then you need to look at your own team. To OP if you replaced one player in the opposing team and roflstomped your team would these things be an issue? PVP pride hurts when you lose unfortunately a little too much for most.

Good times the leaves are a little brighter, I can pull funny faces, the shadowing has been optimised and I have a new companion incoming. Oh wait a minute I couldn't care less. Indeed

Grammar* Sorry I couldn't resist