1.1.5 Just got Updated.

Well,


They ruined Ilum PVP.

They made it soooo much easier for people to become BM......What is the point of BM now that you give soooo much valor per WZ round.

Even if its just time that makes your BM, lacking skill......doesn't matter. I grinded my *** off to get to BM and now they are making it sooo much easier for everyone else.

This is *********** bul****.

Doesn't address medal farmers.

The changes do.

Come correct. Time spent playing a game is not hard work.

There was nothing excellent about 50s farming lowbies in WZs pre-1.1, trading dailies on Ilum pre-1.1, Killtrading on Ilum, or being an Imp that exploited the Valor gaff upon 1.1 release. Not saying you did these things, however, I would bet more than half of the present BM population in this game did.

Nobody worked for anything. While I empathize with your primary argument, that something should set players apart in PvP, gear is not that thing. A title should be enough. Unfortunately, the PvP titles in this game were soiled by peeps that happened to have more time to play a game in a two month period than other people and largely preferred to cheat/exploit their way to the title given every opportunity available to them. It's a shame really.

And the upcoming system does reward you more - than the losing team - because you carried your Bobs to victory.

I can agree with your sentiment...I'm all for letting market forces work and such. However, there are situations where a pure survival of the fittest approach leads to poor results, even for the fittest.


For example, take the National Football League. The poorest performing teams are rewarded with the highest draft picks. This is intuitively backwards as it appears to reward failure instead of success. However, the teams have sufficient interest to strive for wins regardless of that.

If the winning teams got the biggest rewards, parity in the league would fall apart... The best teams would get better, the worst teams would get worse. Games would be boring with predictable outcomes and narrow audience interest. The league's ability to generate profit would crumble…and player salaries would likewise follow, even for the best players. The entire pie of money that gets carved up would be drastically smaller due to lack of competitive games.

So, in this case artificial forces (salary caps, roster limits, draft rules, revenue sharing) that ultimately encourage as competitive environment as is reasonably possible creates increased success and reward for everyone. The league makes more money and pays their players more money. The fans benefit with greater enjoyment. You could even argue that the players themselves have more fun participating in competitive games against worthy opponents.


MMO PvP is closer to the NFL type environment than it is to an open market. It's not fun to play if it's not reasonably competitive and, for some, generally rewarding for active participation. If it's not fun to play, less people play the game until the game eventually dies. Uber gear set obtained from stomping noob players repeatedly is tons of fun at that point.

Wow, guess I struck a nerve posting this. LOL I'm glad for all the changes to be honest. makes grinding BM for my Shadow less of a well, grind.

I bash my head on my desk...

So they want to kill Ilum just like that?
Tuesday and weeklies reset... have to run around the center and collect boxes along with 20+ other imperials.
Republics aren't even present anymore...

With the 1.1.5 patch they remove the need to actually do anything on the Ilum planet apart from normal dailies.

And 4 medals max in warzones with rewards? lol...
What's the point of medals in the first place then? If you can't possibly fwck up and not get them.

Getting to R60+ was too easy in the first place and the pvp gear is fragmental upgrades from champion->battlemaster.
But hey! now with added valor gains and medals are now obsolete as you'll get them even by running in circles with your hands in the air.
When people farmed medals, atleast they killed stuff or healed... now we'll see 4 medals and then they'll just sit in the starting pits jacking off.

"Completing Karagga's Palace in Nightmare Mode within two hours now correctly grants the title "The Unyielding."
It already does that...

I am on the other hand curious to see how and what they impose to save this sinking battleship with the 1.2 patch.

O-greed

So glad they didn't pull a Darkfall and allow gearflation to turn away new players.

If you couldn't tell, this patch is bait for the people valor 40-60 who were disgusted by the BM grind. Now they'll keep playing. Now they'll get battlemaster juuuuuuuust in time for 1.2 to come out.

Bioware is betting the farm on ranked warzones.

Somebody just got pimp slapped.

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