Sorc/Sage Friendly Pull

I'm convinced everyone posting against this is a sorceror, it's not an unreasonable solution, but as soon as I lay a claim against their class, they get defensive and say that it's somehow my lack of skill that pulls people from the middle to the goal line in 5 seconds.

simply cuz it is..... nuff said... move along...

The scenario you've put forward is only possible if they have healers present. The problem there doesn't lie with the abuse of one ability, it lies in your inability to interrupt/stun/cc healers. If you assume that it takes ~30s to get from the center to the goal line, and you're saying this juggernaut took 200k damage, that means he was taking over 6K DPS on average, potentially much higher with cooldown damage spiking. I find everything about that very hard to believe, but again, people don't think before they post ridiculous things.

Personally, I don't like the leaping strategy for Warriors/Knights either. It basically lets them avoid a mechanic of the warzone.

Also, sorc friendly pulling requires significantly less effort to move the ball than passing, because all you have to do is target the player and click a skill, rather than selecting the skill, finding your teammate, and clicking in the appropriate space. Plus, if you get stunned while attempting a pass, you have to start over while a sorc only has to keep smashing his hotkey.

Not to mention that many Sorcs are actually not that squishy. The bubble alone can ensure they'll survive a fair bit of damage, and in hotball they have plenty of tools like knockbacks, stuns, and slows to keep someone from killing them long enough to make a pull.

By the way....if a Sorc has a friendly pull...then they are specced heals....so they will be very difficult to kill.

Confirmed for sorc/sage.

Stealth is the real problem imo , it gives an unfair advantage to people in all warzones.No wonder imp teams have 4-6 sorcerers all the time.

I sympathize with you and your fustration. But the problem with your rhetoric like many others who complain about some of the things in this game is that it's subjective. You say this is a problem but like many others have said, both teams have the potential to utilize this tactic.

When facing premades your gonna run into this, thats a given. Your only hope is to form a premade yourself with some Sorc/sages to take advantage of this. If your playing with a bunch of pugs of course it's gonna be fustrating. You put the best PvP'er on a pug team I promise you he won't do half as good as he would in an orgainzed team. It's you vs the rest.

Now try to look at this from a different perspective. Imagine they took this ability away or nerfed it in some way. How would anyone save you from falling in the pit, or firetrap or acid pit. or a group of player mobs ready to rip you to shreds. You can hate the sorc/sage but you can't help but love him too. Be fair about your assesment.

Maybe. It is the most popular class. Who knows, and it's not that important really.

What is important is when players only play a class up to level 20 or 30, and think they are experts on class balance. Indeed, I think PVP in this game is pretty well balanced until level 50. It's after that, when things like set bonuses, massive stat boosts, and a complete skill set come into play that things become unbalanced. Hybrid builds in particular are only really usable past level 40.

Your inability to CC/knockback a healer using rescue is totally different from your inability to CC a healer at any time during a 20-30 run. Oh wait, no it's not.

That's why it has a cooldown. Passing doesn't. If a team stacks itself with one class because it beats bads quickly, they can be that much sadder when they face decent opposition. The most OP Huttball team I ever saw was 1 overgeared tank and 6 healers. It was pretty stupid. Once they got the ball, the point was theirs.

Because it's not the ball carrier fault.

I have been pulled at times when I didn't want to be pulled. From a higher walkway to the lower walkway. PErsonally I think it should be disabled againt the ball carrier. Furthermore, force speed should be either disabled while carrying the ball or the traps need to have their dmg increased so running thru fire is not an option. Force leap/storm needs to be disabled when carrying the ball too. It makes defense nearly impossible.

I play a vanguard and warrior. Anyone tries to defend their line - biotic charge.. er, storm!!! A team should not be punished for trying to remove players at the goal line. Huttball is a supposed to be a passing game. You can't have obstacles that carriers can ignore.

I also think harpoon is a tad overpowered. But until they do something about pbaoe knockbacks I can't see nerfing powertechs/vanguard if 1 sorc or commando can clear everyone off the walkway with a 30 sec CD ability.