Why Ranged Classes Dominate This Game and Why It needs a fix

This isnt about skills. This is about the system itself.

To give you an analogy as an example: Im telling you that my i5 processor isnt as good as your i7 processor and you are teling me that I need to be better at using my PC in order for it to be equal to yours.

Yes, a great player can overcome such differences and make it work. I have seen good players take the worst class and make it work. But it doesnt neglect the fact that the balance issues are still there.

no need to because everything we need to know we can learn from the title. you're bad, your opinion matters not. so sorry.

and this is why the pvp forums are so ignorant. go find a class on your server that has a knockback, duel them and find out how wrong you are.

I feel that the main problem is more a general design failure regarding classes.

Ranged DD's need to be more squishy than melee = less HP and inferior defense abilities than melee classes but better CC.

Tanks = Less damage but strong CC and group utility

Heal = Good heal but almost no damage output and medicore CC.


Thats best practice but poorly implemented in swtor.

Diplomats can do great healing while doing ok damage with extremely good CC.

Most Tank Classes are not hard enough in pvp with medicore group support abilitys

Most Melee DD's do not have better defense abilities than ranged classes and the spike damage of most melee classes is very comparable to ranged DD's.

Il hand you a cookie by person when I can outdamage a gunslinger/sniper with fewer hits than them.

I think stuff like the Sorc stun shouldn't be in the Game. A long stun without any requirements? That's just broken. They should make the Stun Assassin only or it should require setup (Like, consumes Crushing Darkness) or something.

I think a big issue is POOR map design. There are different levels in all maps, where range has an advantage.

Huttball- has 3 levels, if any of your abilitys; ie force charge is down, what are you gonna do? Run? Hope to LoS?

Alderran- has a higher level such as the balcony in the center. Even at east and west, as I say if any of your abilitys are on CD that help you break that gap, what are you gonna do? Run around to the stairs as they turret you down.

Voidstar- Boxes, and the LoS around pillars so they can turret you at the door.


Poor map design, LOVES range. Plain and simple. TURRET TURRET TURRET.

I think are ability's are fine, maybe perhaps let us have more survivability ability's closer to lower level, instead of high 30+ if in the 10-49 brackets.

I just really strongly believe that range is favored in this game due to map design. But that's my personal opinion.

Before people bash, oh your bad, or oh this and this. I play both 50 sorc/50 jug, I know the differences.

the problem with your analogy is that it's begging the question.
you already assumed that the melee is the worse class (i5) while the ranged is the better (i7)

what the other poster is suggesting is he thinks that they are balanced, therefore skill is what makes one class better than the other.

a better analogy would be you both have i5 processors, but the ranged user overclocked his while the melee didn't. in other words skill.

Thats funny because the title says nothing about what my thread is about.

Actually, if you spent 5-10min reading it you would know that my thread does not ask for any class nerfs, it discusses why some classes come across stronger than others, and you would also know that my suggestion to fix the problem doesnt ask for a class nerf at all: it asks for a refix of the stunlimits (resolve (bar))

Im not asuming melee is worse. Im asuming melee has much bigger problems regarding CC due to the fact that resolve does not affect root/slow.

a rooted/slowed melee has the same crucial effect as stun has to ranged.

As mentioned before im not asking about class nerfs/buffs, im asking about the resolve system to be reworked.