Mitigation, the REAL problem. Also, operatives need a 2x dmg multiplier.

Quite simply it does work in PvP against ranged and melee class attacks of which there are plenty.

I woudnt say there are "plenty" of them. There are a "few" of them, and most of them are basic attacks with ranged. Melee users have more ofc.

I stand by what I said.

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List them then?

I'll even do you a favor and list BH, you can do the rest

Sweeping Blasters
Power Shot
Rail Shot
Unload
Rapid Shots

5 out of 25, which equals 20% of attacks that are Weapon Based.

While I know I've been out of school awhile, I'm pretty positive the definition of "Plenty" does not support a mere 20%.

However, "Few" does, or "Marginal".

Only read 1st page of posts, anyways this is a serious issue and the devs should take a serious look at it. The pvp system has far deeper flaws (GCD issues, ability activation, animation clipping ect.), but this still needs to be looked at.

We should seriously spam about this in General...

I honestly could care less how much this was discussed in BETA. This is still broken IMO.

This is also what happens when you have a flawed system and continuously try to place bandages over it to fix it.

Regardless of all things DPS shouldn't have all the advantage. The two things you want to have COMPLETELY balanced in PvP are damage output and healing output. If either one of those comes out of whack then there are sweeping issues. Tanks are the only role that cant completely trump in PvP.

Sure a tank could potentially NEVER die with heals. But a DPS with heals could KILL EVERYONE and never die. (oh wait this already happens)

Who is the game changer?

The tank who can guard/taunt apply basic DPS and never die with heals.

OR

The DPS that kills everything and never dies with heals.



BTW Both scenarios are currently possible in the current build so I fail to see why tank invulnerability (a class that ISNT supposed to die a lot) is any different from a DPSer who can mow down an entire 8 man by themselves.


This ISN'T balanced. Tech and Force attacks should be mitigated by Shield and absorb and Expertise should cut down on the mitigation.

1 DPS class should not be able to kill a tank class of equal gear unless they have advantages such as range/timing/cooldowns and other skill mechanics.

Tank > DPS
DPS > Heals
Heals > Tanks

It works but not in this game


In DAOC a real PvP MMO you would need to do something called ... FOCUS FIRE which is apparently lost to the current general SWTOR PvP population.



Im also curious of the statistic of # of people across the servers playing Force or Tech Based specs based on Factions.

Because the Knight and Sentinel and Shadow are more favorites for Republic to the BH and Sorcerer of Empire (just a personal opinion)

Uh huh...I think you have been proven wrong enough on the forums. Then again bad players always think players use their weak damage attacks.


Next thing I know you will be saying our damage is fine we just need to use savage kick and pommel strike.

Yes, lets just make it like WoW, where Heals > Tank > DPS = DPS.

That way healers can feel like the special little snowflakes that WoW has made them believe they are.