Why are so many people against Arena in Swtor?

This is simply not true, every rogue playing at top 10 ratings were pretty much full-on stacked with PvP gear simply because of how quickly they got bursted without it.

PvE stacking in arenas ONLY worked on lower ratings, no class could use more then 3-4 PvE parts max without gimping themselves too much.

Ive dabbled in WOW arena with a druid/lock combo.... ..

IF THEY ADD ARENAS, why not just have BETTING/GAMBLING for credits be the reward? Possibly teams can challenge and wager eachother, with NO GEAR rewards. This will eliminate any "extra" grind, while giving the top teams notoriety and some extra ching!

Really what would the argument be with this? Other than crybaby arena teams saying they want more... this is the MMO lifestyle though.

Actually it wasn't when you had friends, granted some comps I played where strong (oh and no I rarely played healer comps for more than a day or two) for example, Shadowpriest rogue was always fairly strong in the upper quadrant of decent, but then I'd roll out some enhance Rogue, or enhance mage, or maybe some ret paladin warrior hunter, or oh my lord it would take me forever to relay every comp I played in all those years .
and as I said varying success. sometimes I'd be up around 2200/2300 missing Gladiator as a strong dps comp, like Mage rogue warlock, othertimes i'd be sat around 1800/1900 not really moving so much playing enhance shadowpriest prot pally, the comp never got me down, the struggle was fun.


Even if all my friends are on and willing to subject themselves, I'm still only 50% playing with people I want too. and the other half drags my soul away in a game or two.


And that's all fine and dandy, I never once said I thought your reasons for liking objective based combat was wrong, if you like that all well in good, whats wrong with me having my preference.


I already went over this, suffice to say I found healer vs healer comps gave too much of a net for mistakes to be made.

I never said it wasn't flawed. One team did have a advantage as the gates opened, but it didn't define the end result.


They said they're adding rated warzones so the same thing is going to be happening anyway, just from that instead.

I've lost many warzones, I had High warlord, and champion on two other characters back in Vanilla. and yeah doing premade vs premade was reasonably fun for a while, but I never looked back after arena, oh and I've never complained at anyone on my team for losing, because I don't take it seriously, just like I've never complained about losing an arena match, at the end of the day it's a game, why upset people randomly over pixels, when you can just sign up again and try harder?


You seem like a very serious, slightly angry man. Let go once in a while.

Really show me a top world player that was wearing all PVE gear in all Arena matches?

Or even half?

Go for it....

Lol why are we talking about WoW PvE items? It doesn't matter.

WHEN they implement arena (cause they will eventually), it probably won't be like WoW. So to quote WoW issues is pretty useless.

BW WILL implement arena (eventually) how they deem fit. They'll probably take WoW as an example of a lot of stuff NOT to do.

Saying "Balance will then be about Arena" is a pretty useless argument. Balance struggle between Operations and Warzones already exist. They could make Arena secondary and say "eff it" to balance in Arenas and soley focus on Warzones for balance.

Basically they can do anything they want with Arena, and they will do it eventually.

This is simply not true, every rogue playing at top 10 ratings were pretty much full-on stacked with PvP gear simply because of how quickly they got bursted without it.

PvE stacking in arenas ONLY worked on lower ratings, no class could use more then 3-4 PvE parts max without gimping themselves too much.