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Making DoTs not interrupt will just make Voidstar and Alderaan even more zerg.

Well, now people might as well just get 4 medals and stop fighting if they want. They'll get a ton of medals easily. It's not hard to get 4 medals. No extra rewards if someone plays awesome and pulls out 12-13 medals.

Ilum will be vacant, instead of it being reworked.

DoTs not interrupting caps takes part of the tactics out of Voidstar and Alderaan.

I'm pretty pissed about this medal thing. I average 7-8 medals a match and felt good when I got 9. I didn't "farm" medals - I earned them by making my focus on winning objectives. Not *** is the point?

Depends what your idea of a good PVP fight is. I had one of the most fun PVP fights ever the other day in Ilum, i ALMOST won a 1v2 against a sniper and a marauder, i dropped the Sniper while knocking / CC'ing the marauder and had like 20% left on the marauder before i couldn't hold up anymore. I def had better gear and they def werent all that good at pvp but it was still a GREAT fight. It didnt matter that i was SO much stronger then either one of them alone would be, me being better geared simply made them have to work together. Though they had **** gear or whatever i would bet 100 bucks they both had fun at that moment. Just because im stronger then other players doesnt mean everyone has to be given what i worked for to make pvp "fair" as everyone seems to think neccesary.

I also like when there are game changing players, whether it be me or someone else. When you see an opposing name you know is better geared then you it feels like a challenge. Like Achilles in Troy. He gets to be a ****** and all his people get to feel ****** by immortalizing him or trying to be him. PvP needs heroes, just like real war. Heroes are made by giving advantages to players who earn them.

Repub does war zones cause many get bored with defending the base on Illum when facing 3x or more imps.

Personally I look for PVP everywhere I go and could care little about these changes.

Illum will still be the place to go for the quest area and for resource nodes and loot chests.

There was no patch today. Only maintenance.


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They couldnt find a way to balance factions. So they remove all incentives to do Ilum and force everyone in the balanced warzones. This also setups crossrealm warzones, since no one on low pop servers will miss Ilum.
They couldnt find a way to make medals objective based. So they basically remove them.

Kinda sad that they went the ez-mode way out. But an improvement to the current situation.

good job bioware...you just killed the last little bit of world pvp that was left ... *facepalm*

*** ? WHY ?

welcome to the welfare MMO!

LoL'ed

Ilum needed to be negated. It was causing way too many problems for everyone and it'll shut up the majority of QQers. Once they devise a way to make Ilum work, we'll see it again.

All in all, these are good changes. And BioWare is definitely heading in the right direction.

Im happy with the changes, and some of you might flame me, but im glad that its gonna kill Ilum. On my server, Imperials usually dominate it, and the only time Republic finally get an ops up and get some fights going, there usually gone within 20 minutes when there dailies are done. In the end i like them because it means more and rewarding warzones.

There is absolutley no reason to stay once your dailies/weeklies are done. Hopefully Bioware will change Ilum so its alot more interesting and gives players a reason to stay.

Actually, thats an opinon, not some universal truth.

I and most people I believe pvp and raid to get better stuff for their character. I may go just to help out other people if they're in my guild but for a bunch of people I don't know? Hell no.

Sure there are seven other contributors. I'm not saying they shouldn't get anything OBVIOUSLY, I'm only saying that your reward should be dependant on your preformance.

Not some flat rate you get for showing up.

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Imagine two there are two sprocket makers, Jim and Bob. Jim makes twice as many sprokets as Bob per hour.

Should Jim get paid more?

If your answer is yes, then you ought to ALSO be in favor of reward being proportional to contribution in pvp, aka NOT in favor of the patch changes.

If your answer is no, congratulations, you're a communist.