(From Taugrim.com)SWTOR Has Repeated RIFT’s Mistakes in Endgame PVP

And yeah i think most of us agree.Good blog by Taugrim as always.This man knows more
about your own PvP BioWare then your PvP team.

http://taugrim.com/2012/05/20/swtor-...n-endgame-pvp/

I don't care what Taug has to say.

not sure why he only bought the warhero main hand....... he would have gotten a much better return on expertise if he had bought 5+ pieces of battlemaster gear

Why is this guy important and why should I care about his opinions on balance?

From his "Gaming History" page it looks like he has played mmos for about 20 years as a PvPer, yet never been a top level player (or even high level).

For anyone to claim they know absolutely what is balanced and what is not, especially when there is not currently any ranked so we can see what the best do best with is arrogant at best.

The post shows a distinct lack of perspective.

That blissful land of pre-1.2 PvP was *way more* grindy and imbalanced than its current state. In fact, for the first month, geared out 50s were farming lowlevels in quest greens. After that, you had to play lots and lots of Champ bag lottery and then Battlemaster bag lottery before you were geared. Now, a week of dailies and you're in full BM or as close as doesn't matter. If Ranked WZs were actually live, you'd be in full War Hero amazingly soon after that.

My guess: he was an early leveler and PvPer with his previous character, and missed how nasty it used to be to start PvP a few weeks or a month after everyone else. Being a recruit-clad newbie is much, much more forgiving.

I would have to say he is spot on. Between the grindfest of gearing and the post-1.2 burst-fest pvp that is more reminiscent of a first-person shooter then a skillful, strategy based fight the pvp in SWTOR is becoming less and less appealing. Sadly, for me at least, this was the main reason I continued to play. I find myself scratching my head as the PVP here was one of the best I'd every played (not perfect, but pretty damn good). Then 1.2 comes around and all that good work gets replaced by garbage.

Yes at best.

Addendum: if the PvP experience has gotten stale for some, it's probably because Bioware removed the one change-of-pace experience that used to amuse everyone -- Ilum. It may have sucked on some servers, but where it worked, it worked. It definitely made Republic on my server stronger.

actually, taugrim has pretty solid information. he might not be an a-one elite professional pvp'er like most of you think you are, but he does know his stuff. i'm not a professionial football player, but i know that the game was a lot better to watch before roger godell turned it into the No Fun League.

pre 1.2, if you got into a double preform vs. another double preform, you had to work for the win. you had to coordinate your dps'ers to take out the opposing team's healers, set up interrupts, and perform hard switches to get the jump on the other team. post 1.2, you just need a couple of decently geared dps.

pre 1.2, if you saw someone guarded, you tried to separate them from the tank so you could have a chance of taking them out. post 1.2, guarded and being healed? no problem, just burst them down.

To PvP for 20 years, and never rise above average status. Is the epitome of fails.

That alone is reason enough for not caring what he has to say about balance in any game related issues.... ever