Why do you not play ranked PvP?

I see a lot of people talk about how they don't like getting stomped by the same hardcore teams over and over, which is fine. Once season 1 starts up, similarly ranked teams will be playing eachother. Preseason is going to be pitting random teams against eachother, whether they are guild teams or pug teams so that everyone has a starting rank going into season 1. I think once season 1 gets underway we'll see a lot of people returning to rwz's.

But yeah, for me, I do fine while I'm playing on a team with guildies. But I'm still learning MMO style PvP as this is my first MMO, and I've been playing since launch. At this point I just don't think I'm competitive ranked wz material. So I'm still trying to get better and trying to yield good results consistently while queing individually.

The person in which I quoted, and their guild, is known to constantly cry foul because they have no idea how gameplay in the PvP arena works. Instead, when they are beaten worse than Rodney King, they claim speed hacks, 1 shot hacks, etc, etc. And yet, after all the reporting they do, not a single person was banned lol. Am I aware of certain exploits/hacks that can (and I stress the word can) be used? Of course, I'm not oblivious to these being IG, but in rated PvP and the amount of players I game with/against...it's been a non-issue. The player claiming Fatman has an abundant issue with this, has no idea what they're talking about.

Well I'm gonna get back on topic here with the reasons I don't play ranked warzones.

1. Server transfers came too late, and almost everyone I played with quit the game. Since transfering I've joined a pretty good pvp guild that runs ranked on a nightly basis and has some success (most people are rated between 1700 and 2000) but since I don't play a FOTM class, and since I'm one of the "new guys" in the guild, I spend most nights sitting out, occassionally being brought in as a backup.

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Good to see so many valid points in this thread. My guild and I were very excited about ranked PVP as it gave us the opportunity to finally queue 8 man teams and enjoy PVP. Our bubble burst after quite a few matches as the service provided by BW is not up to the standard they promote. I have transfered to TOFN and PVP, expecially ranked, is a lag fest. Ignoring this aspect, I also have the wrong class. I am a shadow tank with two sets of augmented war hero gear (DPS and survivor) and even though I do 400k dmg and 400k+ protection on an alderaan where the middle turret is not capped my class is useless.


Another aspect that makes me stay away from ranked PVP is a certain guild on TOFN. This guild, whom I shall not name, has openly admitted they are using exploits against guilds 'they do not like'' and we have been wronged by them on voidstar everytime we played against them. My guild and I does not condone this type of behaviour and BioWare should take measures.

Your a shadow and you think your class is useless? Bad does not even begin to describe you.

talking to my ranked WZ people last night in TS3 all night, I can say that only half of them are still playing. They are absolutely convinced that client side hacking is taking place, with consistency, in Fatman ranked warzones. They say they don't want to get themselves full WH just to turn around and need to hack to compete. These guys are all 1200+ expertise, most around 1250-80.

Then they explained specifically some of the programs they believe STILL work, including older programs. Most are speed hack in nature. but allow you to obviously do abnormal amounts of DPS in melee range.

I don't see them as much in normal warzones, I guess because they are too busy cheating in rateds.

I love PvP because the intensity of the combat brings the game alive in ways that PvE content rarely ever does.PvE content, no matter the difficulty, seems relatively monotonous and predictable by comparison. It is really for this reason that I PvP so much.

The problem when it comes to ranked PvP for someone like me is that it emphasizes the aspects of PvP that I'm not particularly inspired by -- the competition; the desire to feel superior to, or victorious over, other people; the ego boosts; the achievement of status and prestige. I'm not looking for things to boost my own ego in real life, and in a way that is all that ranked WZs are meant to achieve. For me, the ideal game would actually be a PvE one where the content and game play was as intense and challenging and fun as PvP game play tends to be.

I understand in Korea video games are actually played as televised sports, with the equivalent of professional athletes devoting their every breathing moment to training, practice, and mastery of the games. I suppose that is the logical conclusion of ranked PvP and imagine some players would love that (and others would enjoy watching them). Fortunately or unfortunately, I don't think most players want to get that serious (at least in the States). That is the problem with ranked PvP, it requires that you become very serious. But being very serious is of the "real life" domain, and as such is inherently contrary to the gaming experience for most people.

You and your guild are just bad. I have seen once or twice people hacking in this game and I've pvped so much. The "speed hacks" you bad always claim is actually the team using improved transcedence, or some other talent that increases speed temporarily. (focus guardians get 40% speed after using zealous leap, snipers get 40% speed after their stun, etc)

Our combat sentinel always pops trans at the start of every match, and will pop trans when we rotate to an off node to reinforce it, or when we get the ball. Yep we're speed hacking.

Why aren't you playing ranked PvP matches?