The flaw in this logic is clearly a lack of understanding in how games are developed. Producers and Management are the ones who dictate how/when a dev does anything. Dev's are the 'grunts' of the game development world. They might have say in small ways to spruce up a quest or tweak some art, etc, Dev's are not who you rotate out if you want change in a game. You have to get rid of the big minds and replace them with people who have a better grasp of how MMO's work. Dev's have none of that control, rotating them out accomplishes the same as a farmer getting a new wave of Immigrant pickers, they aren't going to 'raise the price of produce' they won't be responsible for 'weather' 'planting season' 'seeds used' 'structure of the field' etc...they just pick the crop. Firing them and getting a new wave of them doesn't change your fields.

Hehe, Its worse then you all think. Fanboi's are wrong. Several Producers have hung up there hats in the last couple weeks, and then they had a layoff already nuking a lot of contractors, etc....Now they are losing CSR's and QA folks, as well as some dev's, and the next chop which will happen in about 2 months, will be a big gut into the dev staff. SWTOR is losing subs and this is the standard EA method of trying to recover stock numbers, which never works, but they enjoy doing big purges none the less. I give SWTOR 6 months and it will be running in admin mode with a skeleton crew keeping it afloat, just like WAR.

*snore* And this is why you shouldn't care about PvP in a PvE game. Enjoy it for what it is. PvP is for PvP games, PvP in a PvE game, is a side line time waster, nothing more. And all the blind folks who are going to say something about "SWTOR was advertised as a PvP game..." I want to just explain to you how wrong you are. No game is a PvP game if it only runs 2 factions. WAR tried and failed, 2 factions = PvE, its really that simple. No world PvP? Right, PvE game. PvP treated more as an eSport then as part of the game? Right, PvE game. Believe what you want, but this is a PvE game, enjoy it.

1.2 has vote kicking. As of 1.2, valor will have no impact on gear. Reality check, as long as people pay money for gold/credits, people will see them, as long as people buy accounts, people will farm them and sell them. Allow the death penalty for anyone buying gold/accounts and you resolve the problem. Sadly, that law would never pass.

Well, first BM gear will be easier to get because it will just be purchasable with Warzone tokens, and they are putting in a 'starter gear set' that can be purchased with cash, that is going to be on par with Champion gear. Mix that with the fact they are removing Valor from having any impact on gear, and will be mostly an ego stat to give you some titles, unlockables like speeders, etc. For the rated WZ's, it has only said that you will earn new commendations called Rated WZ Commendations, which will be used to purchase the new War Hero Set, which does not require any specific rating to wear, just collect the commendations form the Rated WZ's. WZ token earning is a bit more even now as well across the board as only 4 medals will give bonus valor/tokens, so victory will be worth more then farming now. Medals are now only going to be for the daily and weekly (as those will be changed). The whole random bag system will be gone as well.

And your source of level 58 mods that don't come in either Rakata or BM gear? hrm?

Well, actually doing the math, for example, BH suit...if you compared the damage + expertise bonus for BM vs the Rakata Set, you do 3.95% more damage. So two guys in full BM cancel each other out, damage bonus to damage soaked, but the Rakata guy does 3.95% more damage over that absorb so in fact in every and all ways, it does more damage.

That was because it was automated. No one had to figure out you were a healer, it simply marked you for casting heals by reading the log. That is a lot different then someone figuring out you are a healer and then marking you. I mean we just yell out 'Bob is a healer MURDER HIM NOW' in vent....whats the difference? oh right...None. Making pugs less epic fail with a mark is not the worst thing to happen in this game by a LONG shot, Move along.

people say it reduces survivability, but not really, Rakata will give you over 2k HP (depending on class and suit) then the BM version. If Rakata is doing more damage then the BM WITH Expertise, than it will overcoming the defense easier and thus having more HP is more valuable then damage reduction. So assuming you pull 15% damage reduction off full BM... And I hit you with 1000 damage, you only take 150 less damage. Sooo you have a total of 15000 HP. So out of 15 hits you reduce about 2k worth of damage...So Rakata offers equal protection as an end result, but having more health makes you easier to heal then using damage reduction so more health wins all around.

Oh, and this is a rumor, it would be nice if we had logs to verify..... But it seems that being stunned while at full resolve is mostly a 50 thing.... The reason why? That Resolve says 'you are 100% immune'....But Accuracy is over 100% at 50....and the thought it that Accuracy is actually allowing stuns by pass resolve. This is assumed to be a bug? Anyone hear anything like this or do further testing on this subject?

My fav is standing there stunned, which puts me at full resolve and by the time I'm done being stunned in resolve, my resolve meter is already 1/2 empty, and in 5 more seconds its empty and I'm chain stunned again.

really? I leveled by PvP and I'm down right filthy rich with all my skills trained, all my vehicles bought. I focused on doing storyline quests and companion quests around the 20-25 range and the 40-45 ranges because i was in full suits of top of the line gear given to me form PvP.

Translation: Save your CC break for once you are dead.

haters going to hate. Whiners going to whine. SWTOR players never going to be happy.

So it was your ranting on the forums, not the bug report that was sent in that took them time to track down the problem and resolve, that caused a resolution eh? *chuckles*