Thanks Bioware- PvP is looking better!

Roger, I hear you loud and clear. New is good. Some other people even mentioned they would like it as long as it isn't the only path to top-end gear.

I am all for the bolster system for many of the reasons OP has stated. I think most of the objections are coming from bads who are used to being OP dps deathmatch derps.

Couldn't agree more. Now that I have Partisan gear and I know no one in the open world under 54 can even touch me, I'm having loads of fun filling my player kill achievements and class kill achievements by ganking level 26s on Tatooine.

Thanks for the incentivized PKing.

Bolster has effectively removed the gear grind (and gap) from PvP. While this pisses off a lot of forum warriors, keep in mind that they represent a very small and vocal minority of the overall player base. At least on my server, PvP has a ton of new faces at all levels, which is a good thing.

95% of the whines I read about bolster come from players who
- Don't know how their class works
- Don't know how other classes work
- Can't figure out how to use spellcheck
- Are generally clueless

If that's the "general consensus" on the state of bolster, then you don't have a leg to stand on.

I agree. the benefts for organized PvP will be evident after Bioware fixes the inherent bugs with Bolster. Thanks for posting!

Bolster shouldn't really be in 55 in my opinion.

Nor should it grant expertise in sub 55 since expertise has been stripped from sub 55 gear.

Yep...pvp is better. All it took was two major patches (and I'm sure everything won't be fixed after Tuesday's patch) plus the removal of Exp and associated making of various gear and crystals useless. Simple, perfect, and everything is great. Oh wait, it's not great.

PVE gear reigning king. Having to use empty mod slots. Damage and healing way too high compared to pre 2.0. Reduced TTK....and not so much as a roadmap as to how to make sense of it all and figure out the best way to gear. That's success.

I'm not a bad PvPer, and I'm certainly not elite. I don't find it fun, at all, to pvp right now. Too many exploits and idiotic things going on. Can't see how that's a good thing to turn off some of your existing base. I am a subscriber, and I haven't played this game since the last fail patch. Maybe these changes will turn F2Pers into subscribers, but they better have a whole heck of a lot of new ones to make up for those existing players getting fed up and leaving.


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Just posting that I agree with the OP in that pvp is looking better. I am having fun at lvl 55 pvp, although the matches don't seem to pop up as often as <55 but thats ok.

I can never consider MMO pvp as esport, sorry. The idea sounds ludicrous to me due to latency. SWTOR pvp is just innocent fun to me.

I don't know about "general consensus" unless that means certain small but loud percentage of forum posters..

Sig worthy quote right there.

To bad pvp is still a gear grind, with just as much gear gap as before. PvE gear has been kicking PvP gear in the face. Its no longer who can spam WZ's all day and keep their sanity it's now who has the most free time to grind underworld gear+. I would grind WZ's more if the pvp gear actually had new cosmetics but its the EXACT same armor as the PvE sets just different colors? i think some people at Bioware/EA or whoever is in charge of designs to be replaced since they lack the basic creativity of a child

P.S.: it practically requires you to run in premade groups to stand a chance now