Why are so many people against Arena in Swtor?

Yes on Arena.

Keep the the current Champion/Battlemaster set with purchasable minor upgrades. PvP gear should not be better than the best PvE gear at the current time.

Winning or doing good Arena should award players with PvP credits. PvP credits then are used for buying special items:

- Spacecraft or Spacecraft cosmetics
- Different Champion/Battlemaster skins, same stats but different looks, ie Chewbecca skin or Yoda skin
- Speedsters, even go further and have purchasable upgrades such as 5% speed increase, 5% increase of not being knocked off, etc
- Crafting skills
- Pets
- New companions or skins
- Lockbox/bag
- Special stims
- RP gear
- Special OPS buffs usable in world PvP (Ilum)
- Dark/Light cosmetics on your characters
- Weapon cosmetics

No, druid/warrior wasnt nearly as bad.
Druid/Warrior wasnt even the strongest comp in S3/S4.

define top player.

if we are talking about gladiator level then lawl no. ive kicked their rears so hard in WZ due to their terribadness in bgs.

if we are talking about tournament level players, ill agree. you do not get to that level without being highly skilled in all relevant pvp subjects.

but keep in mind you are talking about maybe a hundred people out of 11 million

Since when is Arena not PvP? And do you think the WZ lines will be gigantic if players play arena..?

UM...your numbers say nothing about arenas and PvP...it's just subscription numbers. I can use those same numbers and say

11 Million people playing a game with high-end PvE based on raids!

11 million people playing a game with high-end PvP based on FOTM builds/classes!

11 million people playing a game with high-end epeen facter based on no social life

11 million people playing a game with high-end RP based on...well...um....yeah

I think I made my point....

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yea it was

druid/war was 21-26% of the top teams in 2v2 (depending on when you looked at it), followed by druid/rogue, druid/lock. druid/lock was the top combo for S2.

i think the only time druid/rogue overcame druid/war S3/S4 was when HARP was around.

how long after they implement arena are you pro arena guys going to wait before we start to see the "I have skill due to my arena ranking why dont i get better gear?" threads?

i'm a casual. i like to play for fun. i quit WoW when i got tired of losing to gladiators in non rated battlegrounds. that is the direction the game went. arena or get stomped during your casual fun time. you want arena? go back to WoW. let the rest of us actually play a game for FUN, not self esteem.

P.S. to the guy who was bragging about his super mount in WoW and how he THOUGHT people would feel when he landed next to them...... lol, just lol

even if 100% of the people who played wow played arenas in BC, you even admitted that arena participation dropped by 75%.

that means if EVERYONE played arenas in BC, then only 25% of the players played after BC.

that ALONE qualifies as a minority.

but seeing how 100% of the people did NOT play arenas in BC (probably more like 75-80%), and out of those people who played arenas how many of them actually ENJOYED playing arenas, at BEST you are looking at 10% of people who played and enjoyed arenas.

So skillless valor grinding deserves better pvp rewards than a someone who is clearly better than someone else by beating them over and over again in a ranked arena system? lets reward grinding!

Not sure who you're talking to on this one, but I'll bite. Again, I don't think folks would have a problem if Arena was implement in SWTOR as long as the rewards ARE NOT gear related. Special titles, mounts (faster than 110%), ship parts, PvP OPS buff comsumables, etc etc etc. Having gear rewards that are higher in a rated arena over those in a warzone is where I think people have the issue. Now if implementing a rated Arena as a side game with various Arena ONLY, non-gear rewards, then sorry man, I don't think you're gonna win many over.