Gearing through PvP

I've posted before... I tried the flashpoint way when 6.0 dropped, and after a week or so I hated the game so much I uninstalled it. Just. Not. Worth. It. (to me)

I started a campaign to get this fixed on the pts and also in the gen section after 6.0 launch. I made many threads / post as did many other people. I made a thread in the bug section too.
It literally took 5 weeks, 5 threads on these forums and a reddit campaign till Owen (unofficial tech support) replied to one of our threads. He said it wasn’t even on the Devs bug board or a known issue. That was after at least a 100 posts by people over 5 weeks. At which point it was 100% obvious Musco wasn’t doing his job.
The very next day Musco made a thread in the bug section to ask us about the wrong gear dropping based on our toggle. And the only reason I think he made the thread is because Owen is part of Kieths raid group and told him that Musco had been ignoring us.
And to this day, Musco never went back to that thread to reply to any feed back he asked for. And it took 5 months till they addressed the wrong gear dropping (which still isn’t fixed properly). And not once have that admitted the lower gear lvl dropping in pvp is broken or bothered fixing it.



As much as I hate playing flash points because I only want to pvp, they really are the fastest and best way to gear up.
When 6.0 was released I pushed back against doing them because I only wanted to pvp. But I changed my approach when the drops were many Lvls below my gear rating.

The best way to do the Amps is to just keep ones with good amps as they drop, even if they aren’t for that class or spec.
Then when you get an item with the right amp you can swap it out.

The more flash point runs you can make, the more Armoring gear you can choose from. You don’t even need to do it for that class. I run my assassin through Red reaper flash points to grind gear for my other Alts because it’s fast. I can solo vet mode in 8 mins and 10-11min on MM (if I don’t die). With the help of my wife we can do veteran in 7 mins and MM in 8-9 mins.
Just one boss fight drops more gear than a pvp match. So if you wanted to, you could just kill the first Boss in 2-3 mins over and over. But the last boss gives the Armor or tactical drops and you get the flash point mission rewards too, so it’s best to just run the whole thing.

I’ve just been using 228 augs as they give you the best bolster / credit / stat ratio.

You know what... shield/absorb augs don't bolster... at all.

I was playing around with adding back some shield/absorb beyond what you just get from having a shield. I put in some 228 shield, and 228 absorb augs. My stats outside a WZ, standing in the Cartel Bazar...

Absorb=288 (3 augs @ 96 each) for 23.51%
Shield=192 (2 augs @ 96 each) for 25.98%

My stats inside a voidstar... exactly the same. Thanks bioware!

You know what... shield/absorb augs don't bolster... at all.

I was playing around with adding back some shield/absorb beyond what you just get from having a shield. I put in some 228 shield, and 228 absorb augs. My stats outside a WZ, standing in the Cartel Bazar...

Absorb=288 (3 augs @ 96 each) for 23.51%
Shield=192 (2 augs @ 96 each) for 25.98%

My stats inside a voidstar... exactly the same. Thanks bioware!

Edit: Banderal, if you need any Advanced Critical Augment 74 (rating 286), PM me and I’ll craft them for you. Just need to provide the mats.

When I started to amp up all of my toons on SS, oh...about a month and a half go, I decided I was going to gear up via pvp and the onderon weekly quests (I was not going to subject myself to another HS grind). Ironically, this morning, I was able to get my first 306 ilvl toon on SS. I just flipped renown lvl 120.

During the double xp event....you can jump 3-5 renown levels for about a half of an hrs amount of work doing the onderon weekly. I do did this once a week....3-5 renown crates, the daily and weekly packs. Rest of the week was pvp.

Thanks, but actually I think I'm good on crit. I got it in the vicinity of where the vulkk guide recommends using just crit enhancements. I was going to play around with using augs to bump up my shield/absorb to see if it felt like that helped survivability, even though I know that "all the experts" say to just drop shield completely.

I mean, I'm still pretty survivable against the average regs team. We won a Yavinn game last night because... well, we were losing, and so I decided to just take a stab at running over to "their" node, because it felt like they were maybe a deathmatch team and might have left it empty. They didn't leave it empty, and then FOUR MORE of them came to defend it... 5 defenders against just little-ol-me. I never realized I rated that much fear!* My team wasn't even sitting at "ours" collecting medals or anything, but they almost completely abandoned mid anyway. And I survived long enough for us to take mid - so that felt pretty good. Then we were able to hold both for the rest of the match, even though they were the superior "numbers" team. Hurray us!

* = Actually, I think when they saw me they were expecting a major shift to that node by the whole team, since we'd done that a few times before, so they were trying to anticipate, and just got it wrong.

Without reading the whole thread again, I’m assuming you’re playing a tank Jugg/guardian?

With Augs, I’ve just finished reverse engineering 286 alacrity ones and I’ll do accuracy next, then I could look at defence or shield if you still need them.