Why do fresh 50's have the same gear as me

Not that I am defending Fuzz's insults, but hunting the weak to exploit weak links in a team is purposeful and contributes to the greater good. Realizing a target is weak and repeatedly killing them raises the overall chance that your team will win.

Personally I will kill targets that I perceive as weak and easy kills because it gets them out of the fight so my team can focus on the real challenge.

That is just smart team gameplay. Especially if you are playing a class/spec designed to punish bad players... aka deception sin, concealment ops or MM sniper.

If you don't even pvp enough to gear yourself up in SWTOR, your going to suck at pretty much any PvP, whether it be GW2, COD, SC2 or whatever game you play competitively. That is a fact, even if you are the most talented gamer of all time, without practice/time spent, you are going to get your *** handed to you.

What I read is:

"***? So called PvP'rs expect me to quit my job, quit my social life, eat, sleep, and sh*t at my computer for the next 5 months just to be competitive and have fun in PvP??"

Let your skill determine the outcome not the gear disparity. I am good to go if I have BM and you have war hero because the gap isn't that huge. What many fail to realize is the gear gap grows to even more unreachable heights as the game progresses for a fresh level capped player. For example, how many full BM/war hero players did you face upon reaching level 50?? I am guessing 0....

I'll take actually calculating the amount of time it takes to get the gear together vs. your randomly picking a number that makes it seem trivial because it suits your narrative.

That's not "over-analyzing" that's actually being honest about it.

Yes, comparing someone who dares to challenge your fictitious, made-up-on-the-spot exaggerations to " a corner camper in COD" is just hurling demeaning insults at the other person. It is devoid of substance and reveals you have no actual basis for your position.

Exactly. My role is to hunt the ops, snipers and healers. If theres a squishy fresh 50, ill take him out too. I dont see the point in trying to fight a tank when thats clearly the role for my ranged dps teammates. What do i have to prove in my WZ? Im not 1v1'ing anyone in open world PvP. If i wanted to do that id just go to Tat. Im in the WZ to win and to help my team win. How do i do that? By focusing down the classes that i meant to focus down. Taking these players out of the game will increase our chances of winning. WZ =/= 1v1. Go to tat if you want that.

-fuzz

I do this every game. Keeping just one player out of the battle is huge imo. If that means I have to kill the same player over and over so be it.

But at the end of the day. I still have better gear than you. A) because i play a lot more and B) because i understand my role in my team composition. Crunch all the numbers you want.

If you dont see my COD analogy then thats fine. You still think im insulting you? My gosh man. Grow a spine please. Welcome to the internet.

-fuzz

Like I said earlier, good luck with this mentality once rated WZs hit.

I prefer to tie up the stronger opponents so that they will be taken out of commission, killing a weak player doesn't inflict as much damage on the enemy team as killing a strong one. Over the long-term, I will be a better player for it and that helps my team in a larger, more strategic sense.

This is how I look at it.

Your putting the hours into PvP to have the better gear BEFORE the other players, in other words "renting the advantage".

You cant remove the rewards system in pvp(ie gear), and expect the hardcore players to continue playing, and you cant expect the more casual people to pvp against players whose victory is predetermined due to just gear stats.

the only sensible argument is to have the sytem in place, that they have now. Let people "gear up" quickly and have the advantage for a little while , and slowly make changes to the requirements to have that gear go down, so that the rest of the population can get it.

I havent played a lot of MMOs but Ive seen this same ideology placed in several others, to a varrying degree. I hope this answers the OPs topic question

I don't get it. This could be funny the first time or two you did it, but it takes away all sense of competition in the game, so why would you continue to do it? You are not proving you are the better player, just that you know an exploit or two.

It is much the same with PvP in TOR. You have the top gear, but that doesn't make you the better PvP'er. It just means your stats are better suited to PvP, so you have a better chance of winning.

Could someone please explain how having better gear/exploits than your opponent makes for good PvP? I don't see good PvP as PvP you always win at. I see good PvP as a fun time for everyone, where everyone has a chance of winning.