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Dude you are hypocrite. As you said you've outgrown that for now but don't you realize that those who play in Take a Seat or similiar tryhard setup premades are at the very same spot that u were back in the day?

What goes around comes around man, it's a game called circle.

I remember you playing rep side for the longest time, what bothers me is how everyone sheeped over to Imp side. And premades do in some cases kill pvp, but it isnt just premades, it is that combined with the beyond terrible gearing system we have right now, and the trolling that goes on by said premades as someone already said. Before this system you could get a group of complete randoms together and compete against premades sometimes, now it is impossible if your group of randoms dont live and breathe the game and dont have top tier gear. And I am just saying my experiences, I literally have not once seen a TaS or BiJ player ever play alone. Ragequit yes, but not TaS.

well said.

Sorry for the long post. I'm not sure if anyone is interested but I felt I should reply to the posts regarding myself and our guild.

I'll be honest, I've not watched them so I'll take your word for it, this is what I've been told. If that's not the case (and I'll take your word for it) I apologise for my misunderstanding.

Please do. I'll sometimes leave games when I'm queueing solo if something pops up, I'll sometimes leave a warzone at the start if it's been on repeat all night but I very rarely ragequit any game that we're in. I'd estimate under 10 games total since the expansion if you include games that are effectively over and me going AFK to get a drink or go for a pee.

Unlike you. Who leaves as soon as you die a few times.

Snave In The Grass covers most of the points you'd need to cover that topic. Specifically, with you, I was trying to help you understand that as a sorc with bubble pop and phase walk placed next to the node the only way you'll get capped is if you stand far away from the node and get caught by two operatives sap capping. I was also trying to explain that by standing that far away and allowing me to stealth out freely it means when your team does eventually arrive to help you I'd be in a strong position because I'd be in stealth rather than in combat. I cover that in one of my game of the week videos where a sorc actually does it correctly. It's a civil war game so should be easy for you to find. I can see how me trying to help out an ex guild member who I thought we had a good relationship with would make me salty though.

You're pretty much the only person I use emotes towards. Sometimes I'll do some emotes when I'm defending alone for a long time, I'm a fan of the /thanks when people inadvertently help me but I'm not really a big emote user. You think I am because I use them with you. If I assume you behave the same way regardless of who you're facing then I'd be left with the conclusion you quit every game within 30 seconds but that's a bit silly to assume, isn't it?

I don't even use /s or /1 unless someone is addressing me / our team. If anything I'm way more likely to make fun of my own team compared to the enemy.

The point about premades was related to someone who queues in a premade complaining about premades. Which is what you do. When you're in a premade.

I still have no idea why you were upset in the first place, I honestly don't. When you left I was told you decided you weren't good enough for the guild and left of your own will. This was surprising because I thought you did well and got along with other members.

TaS has quite a lot (by current standards) of active members so it's not shocking that you'd see them quite a lot in PvP. Another factor is the "phantom premade" situation where people will see 1 or maybe 2 members and immediately come to the conclusion that they're facing a 8 man premade on voice comms using hacks.

Contrary to popular belief I queue solo frequently. Every time I have queued solo in the last 2 months people have assumed I'm in a premade. We had an instance a few weeks back I think where a player in a different civil war to us was being accused of running 4 healer TaS premade. This player was a marauder (iirc) and was queueing solo. Their team had 1 healer. That type of thing isn't even uncommon and it's probably a factor in why people have this distorted view.

When you're in a guild with active players who all want to take part in the same activity it makes little sense to decline the opportunity to group to queue solo. It's probably also worth pointing out here that we face many premades from various guilds throughout the course of an evening.

I'm not mad that people insult me, or state facts about me. I have no real bad feelings towards ne'laa, I always thought he was a decent enough guy who was just frustrated about facing premades. When my former guild fell apart I used to play solo most of the time and I found pugs frustrating, playing vs premades frustrating, I understand what it's like.

My route was to make videos / stream to try and meet new players so we could all share tips and improve, to try and directly speak with bioware so we could try and make some positive change, and to make guilds focused around trying to build an environment like that. We're one of the least bad mannered PvP guilds on the server although my experience with that is probably somewhat biased.

I'm not sure what you mean by "trolling" but I'd like to know what negative experiences you have with TaS players other than just being in a premade.

Top tier gear isn't very common at the moment, certainly not to the degree that people seem to make it out so with bolster you should be on a relatively level playing field. People have had enough time to get tier 1 gear and while there is certainly a gap between 234 (bolster) and 242 the scarcity of people in 242 makes that comparison somewhat invalid. I'd rather flat stats or a 242 bolster for PvP but unfortunately, that's not the route taken by BW.

The gear system is terrible though I doubt any player would argue that point.

I've never seen a shark in the sea, doesn't mean they don't exist. As I addressed above, with us being an active PvP guild you're far more likely to get a group but I know for a fact that people queue solo every day.

It looks like you're on TRE and I'd like to extend an invite to do some games with us sometime. You'll probably realise we're not actually that bad a bunch of people.

This is what I've been saying for years. It's so stupid that we're frequently grouped as a double premade vs pugs and I don't think you'd find anyone who would disagree with that. The problem AFAIK is that quality of games is not a metric that BW uses, speed of pops and frequency of pops is their primary metric so frankly, they don't care.

Wow, I honestly feel sorry for you. I shouldn't waste my time responding to someone like you but I'm bored and I want to continue with this thread.

I never attacked people who want to premade. I want to premade. I just want more even matches. Competitive, well balanced people like close matches whether it is in a video game or on a basketball court.

i.e. In college we had a gym with a lot of basketball courts. There were different skill levels playing on each court and 95% of the time people stuck to the court they were meant for. The best players didn't go dunk on the freshmen international students that had never played basketball before.

A better example might be when my friends played around town. We were all high school basketball players and a couple of us (not me!) even played some college ball. We preferred to play together of course but if the other people on the court were much worse we would split up. This is also why when there are only around 10 players people usually shoot for captains.

As far as the 1700 comment. I don't know why you would assume that was my first 1700. I have 3 this season alone including a (non dvl) dps sorc. I believe rating doesn't mean much but I know the first assumption people will make is that I am a bad player who is just raging at premaders and I wanted to give some evidence to the contrary.

I'm older and a professional. When I speak at conferences people often introduce me with some combination of my degrees, research, and a couple major accomplishments. There are reasons behind this and they aren't to brag. I was attempting to do something similar in my original post.

I think you need to look up the word hypocrite.

I never attacked people that want to premade. I said I understand that for some people premading and sure wins are better than pugging and coin tosses. I said this makes sense. I said I don't understand people who legitimately enjoy pugstomping 24/7 more than even matches. I would only be a hypocrite if I once legitimately enjoyed pugstomping 24/7 more than even matches. I never have.

When this game released I premaded mainly because I wanted a good team for when matchmaking was added. Once I realized that matchmaking was likely a pipe dream I largely stopped premading. Even during this period I pugged more than 50% of the time to ensure I was self sufficient. I then premaded again during the short 8v8 period.

Again, I am not attacking people like Snave. Snave actually responded with an intelligent post stating that he would like basic matchmaking as well. Competitive, well balanced people want even matches. Maybe you don't fit in this category.

Well my dad can beat up your dad

If two stealthers come sap capping and they play their class properly, anyone will get either killed or capped. Bubble stun can only interrupt on one side of the node, so if the two attackers stay on the opposite sides and cap in parallel, then a stealth sap + 2 mezzes (with a resolve window inbetween) do the job and there's nothing any Sorc can do against it. Add to that the damage 2 attackers can do which necessitates the use of LoS and probably some other escapes, your awesome node defender Sorc gets capped in a relatively short time, if no help arrives. It's simply impossible to defend against it for long, especially since, unlike Operative, Sorc has no way to preemptively resist CC.

Which leaves the scenario with one attacker. In the very beginning of the match, any delay in starting to cap just helps the enemy team (stealth staller has more time to arrive, and, in the very unlikely case one node will remain uncapped, the outcome will possibly depend on who capped first). The reasonable thing to do there is to just rush behind to the node (for LoS) and start capping, hoping nobody will come. If an Operative, such as yourself does come, it's -1 breaker.

Now let's see what we have. I have a not-yet-placed Phase Walk with bubble stun and Barrier. To have any chance of capping an Operative (because Sorc mez is hardcast, at least nobody takes the utility to instacast it), I have to use both hardstun and then cast Whirlwind. Which you will break, but then I don't have anything against you. If I stay near the node, you still have both Flashbang and stealthout + mez to cap me. Even if I now use the PW+Bubble Stun+Barrier combo to break both of these CCs, I'm left with nothing, making myself an easy kill or just an easy cap.

Keeping proper distance from a node makes sure that a single stealther cannot CC, get back to the node and cap in time, simply because with Phase Walk I have a faster way to get back, especially since all Operative CCs are only 10m. It also makes it possible that when I do get back, I can stay in cover so you have a harder time pulling your sapcap off than if I just stayed right on the node.

And if my team does come, with 2-3 people spam capping it's pretty fast to pop anyone out of stealth anyway.

TL;DR: With 2 stealthers you will cap, no matter what. Against one it's way less risky to save defensives and stay away, than to blow everything and stay on the node.

While you didn't address this to me, I'll still respond with my own opinion:
The reason for premading is not sure wins and pugstomping. In fact, pugstomping is boring. The reason for premading is not getting stomped.

I have seen a shark in the sea though.

As for the trolling, I used to go by another name, but due to my transition, I changed characters and names, but the amount of times I have gotten rude/nasty/inappropriate "says" toward me is .... well, I can't count it on two hands, let me just put it that way. Or the amount of times I have been mocked, specifically me, for having a team that doesn't know their *** from their forehead is also entirely too high. I am by no means innocent, because I will get downright nasty toward people that do that to me, but there it is. I can in the future however send you names and screenshots if you want to remedy this problem.

The only problem there is with your invitation, I almost -only- play rep side. I have problems playing imp side, have had far too many people imp side be complete chauvinistic *** hats to me. Now if we had cross faction......my main characters are Scoundrel, Gunslinger and Vanguard. I used to play commando a lot, but one spec is just braindead easy atm, and the other is annoyingly tedious.