Change to rewards is a step in the right direction, but TTK is still way too short.

Equalization created an environment some people don't like. Not everyone practices sportsmanship or wants a fair game.

Some want to hide behind gear. Some want to hide behind broken, imbalanced mechanics that steer people toward the favored classes and the favored specs.

Those players are now faced with the environment they created for their opponents when the mechanics were more broken. Fixing the current resolve issues will create the same scream fest from those that benefited most.

The "I get sixty individual kills farming, while the entire other team got 2 total" war zones was only causing the newer players to quit. We have longer ques now and they just kept getting longer prior to 1.2. Now with recruit gear and some newer players having a chance we might keep the pvp current base or actually increase it.

Time will tell.

You're ques got longer when ppl came back for 1.2? i think you're the first, sorry to hear it...

I like PVP better now.

12 minute voidstars where i did 600k damage and got 3 kills, that wasn't fun.

Yeeeah... Im a PT tank, who really loves PvE, and used to love PvP. However, after 1.2, I dont find it fun as a tank. Pre-1.2, I could stay alive long enough vs 1-2 dps'ers (depending on how skilled) to call for help in voidstar or civil war.
Post-1.2, I can hold my own for ~8-15 seconds vs 1 dpser (again, depending on skill, and class now).

Figured this was just me, as I have stacked quite a bit of PvE gear (needed endurance because of guard). Only have three BM pieces, and if I swap over to recruit, I drop insane amounts of hp, which renders me even more useless (Guard a healer at 15k hp = me dropping 50% of my hp from healer dying = me beeing piss easy to kill).
However, I talked to some other tanks, and they have the same experience as me. Three of the five i talked to have swapped to dps, two have stopped doing pvp until we are useful in pvp again.

Me, well, I've stopped pvp'ing at the 50 bracket until I get my operative to 50 (can at least see if it is possible to heal at all in warzones.)

If that doesnt pan out, well, there is always PvE. :-D Which atm, I find a helluva lot more entertaining than PvP.

But meh, guess I'm gonna get flamed for using pve gear in warzones now. But pay notice: One of the tanks I talked to (Guardian), is full bm with 2-3 war hero pieces, with the same experience as me. (10k hits from marauder lolwut?).

TL;DR: Lazy bastard, read the post.

Nope, they started to go twice as quick and they've been running faster than the months prior to 1.2 ever since.

Ah guess i misread you're post, my apologizes then, and ya faster ques are nice

When will you guys (Bioware) realise that having a pvp stat that is implemented in the way it is now is a bad model for pvp? For pve it is fine to have a gear-progression that makes you more effective, since if you decide to not log in for a week the pve NPCs will not gear up and kick your arse next time you play. For pvp though, this system simply enforces a grinding race before you can start having fun with the game. On top of that, the RNG factor of what your team/opponents have in terms of gear makes this system very bad and unenjoyable.

Look at all major sport and e-sport competitions where the participants have the best gear available so that the matches revolve around their skills and tactics. Do you think anyone would want to watch any match where one team has a vast advantage over the other simply because of gear? If no, what makes you think that this is fun for the actual participants to do so (other than the ones that can grind faster than the rest)?

TLDR normalise either all stats or at least expertise for instanced pvp and come up with a different reward system that does not affect combat. This will also allow you to have a much better grip with the cross-class balance in WZs and implement the needed changes in relation to the desired TTK.

I would not mind seeing one type of gear only, if its equal for both pve and pvp. I played Vanilla wow, I don't want to see this game de-evolve into one where raid teams come in, with awful tactics, smashing people (1 raider vs 3 pvpers who can't kill them), and auto win due to the stupidly overpowered raid gear.

Sadly, most of the politics for no expertise in the game, on these forums, are for that vanilla wow advantage. Ideally, gear should be a non factor. It should be so in warzones and world pvp.