Open World PvP is ALIVE!!!!!!

Ilum farming has been done to death. Next invalid point please.

I didn't feel like flipping through 20 pages to see if this was addressed but someone on the first page said the Sith were busy owning up warzones and Ilum while we were doing nothing.

What you don't know is that most of the people in that ops group are already battlemasters, me included, I just don't care for titles as my epeen doesn't need anymore stroking. What is left for us battlemasters to do other than grind to War Hero and do dailies? We do our dailies in like an hour because we crush the Sith in warzones preeeeetty often. They do have some good premades yes but most of their pugs are just fail trains. They just have no idea how to communicate effectively or protect healers, or you know, say anything at all in ops chat. I have a level 50 Sith alt I actually leveled AFTER making Battlemaster and yes, I can attest to the situation of Imperial PVP on the server.

In fact, the reason we didn't end up forming like 6 premade groups was because all we would get was same faction huttball as we had done so earlier in the day. The Imperials don't seem to want to queue anymore thinking there is safety in numbers on Ilum.

So sure, when Bioware removes the dailies and adds a tier of gear/rated WZs/incentive to keep WZing, we will form our 4 premades and go at it. Until then, we're going to go amuse ourselves.

Also to augment/update, they went back to it again last night, on Ilum this time. Was still a massacre, but it was just Ilum so everyone loses in the end.

Here are the problems with the OP's idea of "world pvp":

1. All you're really doing is griefing lower level players. Real pvp takes place between equally geared/leveled players who are pitting their skills against one another.
2. Despite griefing these players, these actions don't actually effect their leveling capabilities. Between warzones and space combat, this really only serves as an inconvenience.
3. Since blocking off the spaceport is only a minor inconvenience for the majority of players on the planet, there's no incentive for higher level players to zone in and try to clear out the attackers.
4. In addition to there being no incentive to clear out the attackers, there are no rewards for engaging in world pvp outside of Ilum, giving most players no reason to participate.
5. Camping the zone-in area kills any chance the opposition may have of putting up a defense, even if they actually wanted to respond to your attack.

You can claim that "real pvpers don't care about rewards" till you're blue in the face, but the fact of the matter is that most people who pvp don't do it for the thrill of the kill. And frankly, if that's all you really cared about, you would go to a level 50 area and pick fights, instead of farming NPCs on a lower level planet that nobody cares about.

I like to kill low levels for funz....... its great fun.

I did it ever few days and try to really lay down some grief, good times.

Well, it's not dead but I dare not call it live.

My crew took over the republic Starport on Hoth. For 2 hours. Both of us. We fell asleep in your Cantina. But not before dispatching your entire response team of 3 rebs. Totally epic.

Would be nice If you guys were on Helm of Graush. It might actually feel as though there is a war going on.

Roll on our server. We have been doing this all week now and the sith are starting to get the point. They are coming in with 20-40 lvl 50 guys to try and dislodge us. Really fun pvp.

On Vulkar Highway ilum is slowly becoming more fun. My guild has been running guild ops from the start but now with the imps that rerolled and other pubs joining the fight ilum is turning into a fair fight. If only the would make it where you had to control 3/5 to gain extra valor it might make it less of a zerg battle and more of a multiple ops groups trying to take 3/5 having more than one fight at a time. Also The Exiled is recruiting pvpers to fill our ranks.We are about quality over quantity and skill will need to be proven over a trial period. Pst in game for more info.

so not only did you kill people filtering through zoning in who are all much lower level but you corpse camped them as well at the graveyard?

so if the shoe was on the other foot, exactly how would that make you feel... I am sure those said people had lots of "fun" zoning in to a corpse, or rezzing into 4 people to only insta gib them. Sounds like great "fun"

do you want a chocolate watch for your ability to grief lowbies?

and the excuse for griefing and corpse camping, is... "they should have called on random strangers to come help, i mean that is why we were there all along, to fight people on an equal ground on a planet with different scenery"

hoth is what, lvl 36 or 37?

congratulations on beating the snot out of characters that can't even hit you back.

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Exile took Illum two night ago. Totally ***** the Empire.

i play as sith and i applaud you for trying to bring some open world pvp to a game that has none or very little. as for killing low level players and NPC's, who cares, thats what i want and expect on a pvp server.