Accidental double post...

Howdy, I'll try not to come across as rude or condescending, however, you need to take into account the role of each class and what their strengths are. A melee character can't do damage until they are up close and "in your face" so to speak. During that time you have the ability to lay down some damage before they reach you. For the Sith Warriors leap, that is their primary gap closer, without it, the class would be horribly gimped since there is no way to get close unless someone else closes the gap for them. Therefore, it is important that they do a lot of damage while they are up close. Keep in mind that other ranged classes can be focusing the warrior down without taking a scratch. They have an AOE slow to keep people close, and the choke is a nice stun to hold a target down to let others wail on (great for huttball). A tank spec'ed Jug will have another stun, but typically that does not occur in the more competitive PvP matches. A suggestion to counter a warrior/guardian would be to pushback once they leap and run perpendicular to the said target (so that you can shoot as well as get a bigger gap) if they are a veng spec to have a shorter leap then use the cryo to get some breathing space. Though the best defense is to just travel with a buddy or fight with a group. There is no reason to solo as a commando, especially one that is a healer (not clear if you are, did see that it was mentioned though). For assassins, they stick in the craw of everyone. Again, they will most likely engage you from behind and the push back is an initial "oh no" button, but they have a sprint ability to re-close the gap. At that point there is only the force pull if the assassin is spec'ed for it. Generally assassins are a pain to get off, but will take less damage than a warrior respectively (of course nothing is for certain with different spec's and gear). A side note, you are only a month into the game, PvP will drastically change when you get into the higher levels. Hope this helps! -Remorce

They didn't increase it, according to the patch notes it was at 30% for all force attacks, they changed it down to 15% but made it applicable to all attacks, not just smash and other force attacks.

When you start fighting with 50's and you run into a pre-made with full elite war hero geared players, might have a change in opinion if you are just pugging it up. As a healer, i watch as peoples health vanishes, and i can see a considerable difference when someone is under/better geared than others.

I don't bother to remember the names of players on the other team as I am often healing, though it is most prevalent when against republic players. Just had a lag free game against imperial players in void star.

It happened in a void star match (the most recent one that made me admittedly frustrated) I was in some combat, but it lingered after combat as well, when the lag spike hit, I was in the re-spawn area and that was pretty much the point when it became unplayable. I have heard of and experienced people spamming ctrl+u+u that can lag everyone, but it seemed to only affect me in this match. I don't have fraps, and to be honest even if I did, there wouldn't be much to record other than a few non moving screenshots.

Lately I've started noticing huge lag spikes while playing my level 50 sorcerer (heal spec). Not uncommon across my toons, but lately, I've been getting spikes that make it unplayable for pretty much the entire game. The kicker, is that it only happens on my sorcerer, I've played WZ's on my 50 jug, no problem, 18 PT, no problem, assassin, no problem. What I'm getting curious of, is if people can lag spike a specific player IE a healer like myself, so that they become useless in a game. Last game i played it was doable initially, but as the game progressed and people found out I was a healer and focusing me (as they logically should) I received lag spikes that made me absolutely useless (granted we were up against a complete premade with full elite war hero, so we had no chance to win anyways, but that's for another thread rant). No one else in the game seemed to experience the amount of lag I experienced. My question, is does anyone else have this issue? (please, before you say connection, it works fine, and calling me a "bad" doesn't really solve any problem with my game-play-ability as to my understanding I am well liked after each match when I can do my job)

Well, the main reason I care, is because of the image. Yeah, there are idiots out there, yeah they make stupid arguments, but just the same, I don't want to be labeled with them and overlooked when in PvP. I will try to keep this class respectable, but it is damn well near impossible with all the idiot forum spammers out there. As a jug, I prefer to go tank spec and make it impossible for anyone to take down a healer, I'm usually a healers best friend on my jug. I have no clue why they put bubble stun and overlooked other things that they nerfed. Frankly I don't want to know why they put that stupid mechanic in (another reason to hate sorc?). I liked the DPS output prior to 1.2 of sorc. Was it spectacular? No, but it would get the job done, which was much better said than for Op/Scoundrel at the time. Many of the cries for nerfs pre 1.2 was because of idiots who didn't understand the mechanics of the game. The whole "tracer spam" could easily be shut down. Did it do damage? Hell yeah but it was tolerable, people QQed for nerfs tho. Snipers were in need of some love and they got a decent amount, could still use a little more though. Commando's were a ***** for me to take down as a sorc if they were heal spec, but it was doable. Too many people QQed about that, got a nerf. The only class that got a lil too much love would be the jug/guard and for a while the mara/sent. The mara and sent were still workable for me as a sorc though, me and a guildie would practice together working on cycles I would need to run to keep them off me and burn them down. A pain, but was doable. The problem we face is that BW has no actual way to take in all the complaints and discriminate them from the QQ's of the forums. That is why we have the nerfs we have now. Launch had classes that (in my opinion) were pretty well off. Op/Sound could actually burst to bring someone down coming out of stealth. I wish BW had only polished the classes they had initially launched, rather than spiraling them to where they are today. Do I still have faith in BW? Well, I'm still here and have been since 2009.

Already made a shadow and I know there are plenty of idiots out there, I wished they would shut up, and I tried to get them to. One voice in a sea of them doesn't get heard though. I just don't like being lobbed with "them" because I like a certain class. If we could go back to launch, pre stun bubble, and pre nerfed healing, I would be extraordinarily happy. We were balanced then, and right now we are of the most balanced. Are we perfect? No, but we don't need to be fixed as bad as others. I think you and I can find common ground there.

You win, your generalizations are absolutely right, i concede, you have victory almighty. I am allays QQing and such. I am wrong, because I like a class and was caught trying to defend it. Fine. I totally QQed about other classes. As a matter of fact, I know you can pull up every post I have ever had, you will not find one asking for someone else to be nerfed. Only that we remain untouched. Read all my posts, I dare you.

Seeing as bubble stun will be taken away in 2.0 for allies, I'd say full salvation healer.

I'll grant one last reply, you post about posters QQing about their class, claiming it to be sucking, when others are worse off. Yes, true, factual, and so on. Let it die, you refuse to let it. A troll is someone who persists in an argument, not caring where the argument ends at, as long as you are the last man standing. To an extent we both are. Clearly sorcs have been QQing for almost a full year now and BW hasn't done a thing, clearly they could have but didn't, what makes you think they will by now? They are going to get to fixing the other classes first anyways, the mer/comando is the poster boy of broken class. It is clearly needed over the sorc. You win in that respect. So instead of deconstructing the criticism given by the whining QQers; perhaps giving BW something to work on for your class would be more productive. People who post in these threads are only reminding BW what needs to be fixed. If posting thousands of threads would have fixed the OP/Scoundrel after they were nerfed, they would have damn well near have been as well off as when they launched. So trying to decry the QQers for sorcs hundreds of threads doesn't do anything. Telling them to re-roll and try another class can really only be an advice. "Take a walk in my shoes", is all you are really asking. Frankly though, lets be honest, if you play as a jug in pvp and then go to sorc, you clearly see a different pattern in how people target you. Same for Commando to Sorcerer, it's just a different reception. That is my only "rage" towards this thread. Let QQers threaten to quit, continue to cry etc. why don't you go build up the need for your class instead of deconstructing the base of others? Let me take care of me and you take care of you.

I'd be very eager to see that

Nicely done. (I doubt a sorc could have taken such punishment and still be standing there to save his buddies)

Also note, Trooper/BH are both getting a snare ability that damages, slow movement, and prevents speed, vanish and other escape tools, IDK if it is breakable with CC breaker though.