How to get Battlemaster in a day

the risk vs. reward ratio is not there.

risk is minimal in PvP, maybe you need to spend money to fix your gear, spend time to travel back, but what else?

reward is pretty much guaranteed.

Let's talk about reward first, there is a certainty to this reward, you gain valor, and the enjoyment of the fight.

Risk, if you have the chance to lose a random item in your character, inventory, and personal storage, i think this will stop, but of coz' a lot of people will cry, and the reward won't really justify this risk.

so what if you increase the risk by a lot and increase the reward by a little to balance the risk = reward ratio. Say make a random item in the lost player's character/inventory/personal storage to be looted by the winning player??

Easy Fix: Make battlemaster meaningless by implementing arena.

Ban them all permantently, cheating *****.

Kill trading is a 100% legitimate PVP strategy according to BW.

In short, BW are morons. Until they stop being morons you can't really blame people for doing something BW thinks is a valid "strategy."

the people doing this are pretty dumb, provided bioware can keep up their end of the bargain (lol). by gaining valor in this manner, and by further flagging themselves by using the /stuck command over and over, they have made themselves pretty pretty easy to spot within the tubes that consist of the internet game known as swtor.

hopefully they will be punished.

Wait until they have all maxed out and complaining about new contents, lets see how bio handle it.
I have not seen this happen on our server but what a joke, what is the point in playing this game if they are doing all that? doesn't it ruin the whole point of PVP?.

If this starts on my server il be quitting.

BW is on record saying kill trading is 100% ok.

They probably do not think the /stuck thing is ok but I have yet to see a single person banned for doing this sort of kill trading on ilum and its been a week.

Personally, I think BioWare should just change Ilum, and make it so that it is more similar to the Ettenmoors from LotRO, where players would have to capture outposts and maintain them. :P

Maybe thy can take this time to implement the Death Star, and introduce it blowing up Ilum.

or any type of rated pvp (rated warzones work just fine), though I would prefer arena as well.

Then make it the primary form of PvP progression with all new tiers of PvP gear being obtained specifically through success in rated PvP through a token/point system where you earn points based off your rating every week. Basically, BW just needs to copy paste WoW even more, they already did it with PvE so why not?

This completely negates all the valor exploiting and creates an environment where legitimate competition can take place