Stop complaining about EXPERTISE

Expertise should have been disabled until the 50s only bracket was implemented and all this crying would have been for not.

Because you outgear him it's a flaw? Because you took the time and got the right gear for the right activity to use it in. That's a flaw?

So you're saying that 2 people in pve gear. One in purple and one in green. The purple dude should kick the greenies ***. That's a flaw?

He'll kick your *** IN EQUAL gear. That's.. a flaw?

Expertise is the top stat IN ITS FIELD. That field being pvp.

Expertise is only in TOR because of Resilience in WoW. TOR was designed mostly by suits trying to copy the big boy - and they failed in several ways.

Not only that, but they also seem to think every single decision made by Bliz is the correct one, because it's still a success. Even though they've openly said they don't want a dungeon finder - they're now reconsidering. Within the first month. I wonder when they're going to go cross-server too.

If you can't think for yourself, you can always steal from people with success. That works, obviously, but it doesn't mean you should steal every aspect.

PvP and PvE are not separate entities. They're ways to play your character, and we all enjoy both to SOME extent. STOP trying to separate them as if we're not from the same planet.

Expertise is nothing but a crutch to prevent PvE gear from being competitive. It's stupid - just like it was stupid in WoW. What they needed was a smarter ranking system - that's all, really.

It will effectively ruin long-term PvP - especially open world. You don't need much of a brain to realise this.

Of course, you can be in denial about it - and most people seem to think that because a mistake has been around for years, it MUST be there.

Stop being a sheep and use your brain.

Expertise is a disease.

The whole idea of gear grind being the fun of playing MMO PvP or PvE for that matter is laughable. I don't care about the gear, for all I care we can fight each other but naked ... it's old school mechanic that will die with time. It just hasn't died yet.

So you have played the game and gained rewards for it, shockingly thats how progression works.

That dont mean expertise have to be removed or changed.

I dont see how the defence/shield rating bug has anything to do with this though

And the game would be better without you. If you where a true competitor you would want to show that it is skill that gives you the edge and not the gear you have spent time grinding. The guy has a point... for war zones at least. War zones should be run like he suggested with the ability to get those vanity items but also gear you for OW PVP. That way new but skilled players could still enjoy the game and people such as yourself who think 'the best players deserve an advantage' still get your rewards.

This idea isn't new mind you. Guild wars 2 will have something similar.

They want to progress their toon thru what they enjoy and for the purpose of the gear. pvp. not pve. Scripted boss fights dont appeal to everyone just like pvp doesnt appeal to everyone.

The flaw is that I can kick his *** at all, in ANY gear. Thats the part you're creatively ignoring.

Juggernauts ARE GIMPED. Bugged up the wazzo, zero resists to anything that isn't melee or ranged energy.

0 Kinetic Resists
0 Elemental Resists
0 Internal Damage Resists
0 Tech Damage Resists
0 Force Damage Resists

You could kick my *** with a vibroblade as a non-melee spec archetype. Why? Vibroblades are TECH DAMAGE.

But if I put on my SPEAR AND MAGIC HELMET of +400 Expertise,...you can't. And thats not right, at all. Gimped class should stay gimped regardless of magical "Expertise" stat, but it only stays gimped if faced with someone that also has a SPEAR AND MAGIC HELMET.

By all rights, level 50's in PvE gear SHOULD be kicking my Juggernauts ***, because my Juggernaut is complete fail 1 v 1 due to bugs in the resist schema.

Smarter ranking system how? When you have to force people to pve top end hardmode raids or get killed in 1 shot from EVERY class (even a healer HA!) without resilience.

Thats EXACTLY what Resil/Expertise is. A barrier between the 2 aspects of the game. One that doesn't force one to do top end content of the aspect they don't enjoy doing abd don't want to have to dedicate time to in order to be competitive in the aspect they do enjoy.

Open world pvp is a gonner in any game that has gear progression of any kind or instanced battlegrounds. Even back in the glory days TM/SS 3 day long open world pvp battles before BGs came around when there was no pvp gear and just MC the MC geared people ruled.

If they enjoy PvP and PvE, then they will play it regardless.