How to get Battlemaster in a day

Meh, i made 8 ranks yesterday just killing imps trying to kill us. Who cares anyways, anyone who wanted decent pvp will leave when the next mmo comes along to bring false hope.

The more the merrier.

The ONLY way Bioware and EA will make a change to Ilum if it sees huge changes to their vaunted statistics.

If every server is valor swapping and the time it takes to go from Rank 30 to 60 is just a day, something will HAVE to be done.

Otherwise there is zero reason to even have ranks.

I would rather rank normally, Champion gear isn't that much worse and at least it's easier to get the bags for them as well as the gear only costing 1 token each.

Limited play time? That's about 4 hours a day.

1. I earned BM before the patch b/c I had time off on the holidays.
2. The rate at which you earn gear is still fundamentally the same.
3. The better player will win if they have pvp gear, regardless of the quality.

You sir, sound like a baddie on a tempertantrum.

This has been standard procedure on many a server since 1.1 came out, it's very organized with set times and dates. How could anyone be surprised?

So, what, you want world pvp to have zero rewards? Can you come up with a system that people can't say 'we are going to farm points instead'?

You can't, because there's literally nothing that can be done that can't be farmed by people lazy enough who are more interested in points than actually pvping.

On servers where we actually have tooth and nail fights- Ilum is fun, and with graphics turned down there's barely any framerate delay too.

I wish valor was like it was in DAoC and you used it to get added stats to your toon. and i wish valor was way harder to get. id like to see it take years to get 60+ valor ranking ( but only if it was not linked in with gear needed)

Sigh, kids these days don't know what MMO's could be and how fun world pvp was if you just played the game. and not look at that progression bar bouncing in your chair like an A.D.D. person.

This is a player problem, not a BW problem.

The fact of the matter is this...Carebears don't know how to PvP. They will do anything and everything to avoid having to actually fight to get their gear because, frankly, they don't know how to fight, find fights, and can't win them when they do find them. That was the tale for the majority of current Battlemasters in game (who farmed lowbies in WZs and traded Ilum dailies pre-1.1), and it's true for the Battlemasters now who farmed the Valor exploit after 1.1 and presently participate in kill trading.

In the end, the title and the gear don't matter much. In MMO PvP, your reputation is the only thing you really have. No title can give you the admiration, respect or disdain that fighting the good fight does.

This game is going to be around for years, not months. Someone cheating now by kill trading not only tarnishes their reputation in the game now and for the forseeable future, but also sullies the name of their Guild for this time moving forward.

That's the reality. Clownz stand out like a sore thumb. In this game, they are called Battlemasters.

I wish this was happening on my server. Reps have basically abandoned the zone, you can wander around for hours and never see one. The issue i think is the valor system itself. Getting to sixty without cheesing Ilum is just obnoxious. I'm mid 40s and I'm just an implant shy of being full champion. It's going to take me weeks to get to 60, and until then i get absolutely nothing out of the hundreds of warzones I'll have to run. All so i can get right back on the RNG treadmill. The prospect of it made me seriously consider just calling it quits.


Unrelated note: can someone explain to me why the rank 60 bags drop champion commendations? there is absolutely no way anyone can get to v60 without a full set of champion gear, or exploiting.