Interview with Alex Modny and Eric Musco on Bad Feeling Podcast

If someone's intention is to hurt whatever team they get into, they can do it regardless of gear check. You can be in full Dark Reaver and still make it a 3vs4 for your team without any effort if that's what you want

Also, Modny specifically said that the idea is that you can still play around with your gear once your inside the arena. With my operative healer I use 2 arkanian pieces for their bonus set. So in my case, I will have to use the stock pieces from vendor to hit 2018 and be able to queue, then I will change it inside

This change will prevent joining ranked to those who just get into a match just because they can click it. Or lazy trolls, who won't be arsed to get the full set to do their thing

The difference between PvP and PvE is that PvEers aren't fighting against mobs who have various levels of the same gear PvEers can have. PvP is simply a different beast, and thus it needs to be handled differently than PvE.

I approve of BW's choice to speed up the gearing process. By allowing players to quickly get competitive-level gear, the focus of PvP will be shifted from gear to skill, where it should be. A person shouldn't have to lose or back out of a duel because the challenger banged his/her head against the PvP wall for 50+ hours. The better player should win.


These changes (excluding that interrupt change) will make PvP a much more fun and populated place. I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore PvPer. Granted, I did have full Best in Slot Brutalizer gear the day it came out, but since 3.0 I haven't taken the time to build a set of Dark Reaver, or even Exhumed gear. I am a relatively solid PvPer. However, I'm just not willing to take the time to earn tens of thousands of Ranked Comms every few Game Updates for each character I want to competitively play.

These changes (again, excluding the interrupt change) will motivate me, and many others like me, to re-enter the PvP scene.

So problem seems to be that Ranked pieces were far too expensive.
I agree with you. It was. But now Reaver set can be gained in blink.

Was it truly necessary? Not a bit of sweating, to make things more fun? To make players desire it, long for it a bit? 80% less, take the pride of what should be an accomplishment. So BW is taking something, and i want to know if theres going to be a fair trade.

I do hope that BW dont make us stay in WZs forever, because of quick changing of the sets, like they did before Reaver set. It was boring, and threw people out of PvP scenario. As Balance problem is doing now.

I want a fair balanced system above all, to enjoy Open PvP like many did in shiny days.

People are most worried about voidstar doors. I'm most worried about class balance, server pop issues and getting more/faster ranked pops. But I guess voidstar door capping is the new "cc-breaker-reset-on-death" on these boards. The incessant railings against that idea were epic (from the ranked players saying defending the flanking cw nodes would become impossible).

ok. I think I can infer the basic gist, but to be clear, the price of mods was never a problem. the price of enhancements was downright ludicrous. the figures I laid out were for enhancements. I'm assuming it's more good news though and they're less than 1000 reg WZ comms? lol

However, after you queue or when you get into the match you may change out your gear if you want. [snip] We still want players to have the ability to customize and min/max their gear setup so we didn't want to take that away [snip]

happy with everything here. couple of points;

- 2018 expertise to queue for ranked will stop anyone from using old set bonus brutalizer gear which no longer has expertise on it, best example is the operative two-piece for +15% nanotech heal, which with bolster and the right mods used ends up giving 2008 expertise inside pvp or something (which is fine). devs could get around this by putting expertise back on old pvp gear. it's a minor issue anyway generally introducing this is a good thing.

- the aoe not stopping cap is a terrible idea and will just lead to strange people who care about objectives more than actually killing other players in warzones constantly pressure capping. for objectives with a faster channel such as voidstar doors, 4-5 players capping a door would be practically impossible to stop.

thanks for paying some attention to pvp though, particularly the gear cost stuff which is brilliant.

ps your metrics don't work

For your second point....a middle ground could be only making it so channeled aoes and spammable aoes wouldn't stop a cap, but aoes with a cooldown would (death field, frag grenade, chain lightning, etc).