Why are so many people against Arena in Swtor?

If Arena becomes a focus of SWTOR PvP, i`ll leave, so will many i know. Simple as that.

Focus on open world and GvG pvp and improve it.

Arenas have wonderful skilled players.

That would be why you had such wonders as zone exploits (how did they get in my starting area before the match started?), GCD hacks, win trading, rating padding, and other such gems to insure the "good" got their high ratings in WoW. I can't think of a "clean" season in recent memory, and as long as that's the way of things, you can't call those arenas the height of PvP play. They're an attempt to fit an MMORPG character into the equivalent of Quake, and the box never has fit properly, nor will it.

Keep it casual. The good will still be good, but the massive impetus to cheat will no longer be there.

This is not WoW.

Also, the good will still be good, but they wont be playing this game, because there is no challenge if there is nothing you can play competitively, which means that this game will just be boring.

I played the same class in arenas non-stop from S2 to S9, playing all kinds of various comps at high ratings. Did not use any addons at all either, because I think they helped people too much, so I did not like them.

About number three, then how come so many people were not good at arenas at all?

@Op If you want Arenas so bad, just go back to WoW... I heard they were offering exactly what you are looking for!

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I wonder what's the percentage of people who really want to be competitive in SWTOR.
If you're afraid to get bored at any point ... go back to WoW, I heard they were offering exactly what you are looking for!

Just because you didnt use addons, doesnt mean the other person didnt. Does it give you an advantage? You just said the answer in your above post.

Why were so many people not good at arena? There are sooo many answers to this. IE: You played a powercomp, they had supporting addons, your class sucked that season, you were high, drunk, 5 years old etc. The list goes on.

Ive played arena past 1800 it came down to powercomps and flavor of the month/addons, it didnt matter how good you were you still got stomped by whomever had the better combo.

I never used Arena based addons either, not because of your reasons, its because i didnt care if i made it to x benchmark. Once you log out nobody cares if you are on a 2200 + rated team. My wife never gave me a high five for being awesome at pvp but she does give me a high five (with extras!) for making dinner and doing laundry.

If arena is important to you, there is a game that has it. you want to feel good by doing it, by all means thats your god given right. To come to here and toot your horn about why x sucks and why you are so awesome, probably not a good idea.

because they come from wow, and in wow there was a very widespread - but very mistaken - perception that every single change to class mechanics and numbers was due solely to pvp.

"stop nerfing my pve because of arena!" was a very, very common cry from people. They usually ignored the fact that most changes were due to pve concerns as well.

The warrior shield slam damage nerf was a good example. The pve community whined and whined that their pve was being nerfed because of pvp, even though blizzard very clearly stated that they wanted to spread out prot warrior damage across their other abilities rather than having 80% of prot warrior damage in pve come from one button.

It's funny, because in general pvp balance and fixes were practically ignored by blizzard. Legendary quality pve items in pvp, arena maps that still had serious terrain bugs (feared into the wall again, yay...) and other issues that just never got addressed.

So now we have these people in swtor, and they're just petrified of the idea of any sort of organized, competitive pvp because they still think that their pve dps/healing/etc will get nerfed into the ground if anything happens in pvp.

i'm sure you are. i mean out of the 53 comps possible there are a whole 3 comps that make up the top 50%+ of arena teams right now. clearly comp isn't important. rofl