Battlemaster achievement no longer worth anythihng

We have a few rank 70+ valor players in Ilum that do nothing but break up trades.

Funny things is they got most of their rank from trades early on. I should know, I was in that crowd until I rerolled. Since they got their full BM gear they now see breaking up trades and yelling at people to "earn" their gear as the just thing to do.

I always laugh when I see these same people that used to kill trade and loved destroying lowbies in warzones while in full champion gear (earlier on) being such hypocrites.

I am a BM I have never traded a kill and I didn't take part in the zerg. I like these changes.

If this were a game like Anarchy Online where you only gained titles by killing other titled players in combat (or losing your title getting worked by a no-name) then I could agree with your assertion that it would be wrong for the Dev's to make it easier. As it stands, titles in this game have always been worthless due to the system Bioware created to award them.

Maybe Bioware will put some teeth behind the pvp titles by making a set you can only get through actual skill rather than from how flat your *** is from sitting in your chair for days on end.

Guys, stop panicing.

Don't you realise this is being done to dish out some more stuff and make people gear up before the big content update hitting us within the next few weeks (1.2)?

We'll get new equipment tiers then...

Okay ppl seem to be mixing two things here, heres what bm rank gives:

A title <-- which yes means nothing in terms of skill

Battlemaster bags and gear <-- which means alot and ppl now easier will get, hence the piss on the current bm's who achieved this the old way.

Speaking as someone who got BM before ilum, these changes are a good thing. Anything to reduce the gear disparity is good and I welcome the changes.

It`s a title above your head, get over it.

You think half the people with that title and gear deserve it? Exploiting Ilum and farming Reps getting 180+valor, you think half of them have skill or deserve it and aren`t carried by their class? No.

*scratches head*.

500 x4 = 1600 ?
and ...1500 today?


errr Someone must have been playing a Tank and some math typo. No the change is HUGE & good, because you still can get Medals for deeds, however healers and pure DPS will not get crippled in terms of valor for only getting ~5-8 Medals a match.

That's between 750 - 1300 Valor a match, average a bit above 1000.
Go figure what two months of Medal imbalance did.

I'm a full healer and rank 61 (barely illum) but 4+ hours WZ almost daily, my Vanguard teammate is Rank 69.

Accomplishment implies skill.

Since BM is purely a time investment, it cannot ever represent skill. You can lose every game and get BM.

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This.

"Time played" "achievements" were never worth a lot - if anything at all.

Let's wait for whatever ranked warzones have in store for us.