Significant power shift @ the Harbinger

I have a feeling a lot of these groups that dominate the death match aspect would dominate the objective aspect if they wanted. People who label themselves as objective players should be thankful these groups are deathmatching instead of strictly focusing on objectives, because a lot of the objective heroes would probably be pretty irrelevant in matches. As it stands you serve a purpose and can make healthy contributions towards the outcomes of matches.

If anyone tried to show me a PvP parse, I would literally never listen to anything they said ever again.

Of course not. But I have had my parsing program up still, after an Ops run, and been like "HOLY HELL I'M GOOD!"...then it dawns on me that Expertise is why I look like a freaking GOD in PvP.

There is one belief in this forum that gives me shivers, so illogical it is :

Bad players = quit early, won't queue anymore
Good players = keep on playing, no matter what.

This is totally unlogical, because
queuing has no connection to skill. Not even the slightest one.

To what it might have connection is the "will to win", the will to become better - but it has zero to do with actual talent or skill.
Merely with training. But not with skill.

It could well be that a skilled player becomes so frustrated with constantly losing that he or she quits early and doesn't want to queue again, no matter why. Frustration can be a strong emotional impact.

Those who want to queue again and again might actually be bad, but still not get frustrated that easily. They are merely more hard-headed and stubborn. But not necessarily better in terms of talent or / and skill.

Personally, I disagree. I've seen teams which easily decimated my team in an Arena, but were bad during Alderaan WZ, for example.

In my opinion, duelling - and Arena is basically nothing more that Duelling, or bursting down as well - requires an DIFFERENT kind of skill and intelligence than playing Objectives.

I'm well aware of the differences.

Imagine if there was a solo-queue only option for unranked warzones. That wouldn't even be an issue. Right there you've eliminated dedicated VOIP players who have dedicated healers and their ability to focus players down. Suddenly the matches would seem less lopsided.

Here is what happens with solo queue only option: Solo queue will pop more frequently. Groups getting farmed in group queue will try to sync solos, because why wait longer to get farmed. More and more will do the same until group queue non existent. Massive sync queueing will occur. Same problems will exist.

Please put the separate queues idea to bed, as it will fix nothing.

I have to agree that PVP on the Republic side on the Harbinger server has gone from mediocre to bad with some nights being abysmal. I live in Los Angeles and I lose way more often than I win and the losses are train wrecks galore sometimes. I expect to lose, and I do expect to lose some matches by a mile, but as I grind PVP war zones for two or more hours with 80% losses, I start to think, ***? I understand that premades have certain advantages orver solo unranked pubs but this is getting ridiculous. Also, why do so many wanna be PVP players enter war zones wearing pve gear? I keep saying to undergeared folks, read up on the Bolster Buff in war zones but I might as well be talking to a wall.

Gear. It's GEAR, not the players. I'm shocked by how many players have UNDER 1200 Expertise. I would honestly guesstimate 2-3 players PER WZ that have under 1200 Expertise each match pub side. Maybe 4-5 tops who have the full 2018.

I think the whole idea of separating gear is archaic and needs to be reworked. I don't know how you do it without causing a river of tears from the hardcore raiders, but it needs to go away. Along with bolster and expertise.