*protest for bolster removal*

Man - a lot of people don't play pve fp, operations and other. Do you think that bolster is good when player who gear pve 66 or 69 have the same expertise that pvp gear have? Is it normal? Well, then just remove pvp gear from game. Why developers posessing pvp gear better then pve on warzones?

I totally agree, personally I would remove PVP gear. I think it was a big mistake to segregate PVP from PVE.

Yeah pvpers should be forced to raid to get gear to PvP in........

/signed, at least for ranked.

Are you kidding? I'm still ditching warzones at the same rate pre-starting point.
I see too many U1800's on my team, and I'm moving on. I could care less if they end up winning, it's risk assessment/time management on my part. This expansion's been out 2-3 weeks now. Partisan from scracth by now is not hard.

I understand people have alts and cant have everyone geared. If I'm on an alt that's U1800, then I'd understand if someone else did the same for me. Thing is, I'll use my main to grind out everything possible. My level 50 alts will have enough comms to buy most of the rest when they hit 55. I'm doubtful I'll ever enter a 55 warzone at 1800 or less - ever.

I leave warzones a lot more frequently since the expansion, probably because I pug and there is an overwhelming number of pve heroes who have no idea what they're doing, clogging up my wz's. I pretty much thank god to get a group of people who have actually pvped before - whether they're good or not. Sorry, I'm not sticking around while my team ignores objectives and plays death match in their shiny raid gear. Pvp is becoming a joke. If bolster stays in even remotely the same fashion it is now, I'll be done with this game. Again.

remove it entirely please.

there's a difference between leaving a match before it starts because 3 ppl are 15k or less (unexcusable! since you should've been half wh before stepping foot in a lvl 50 WZ) and ppl dropping in the middle of the match when things look grim...then having them replaced with back fill by ppl who see score and leave and the back fill cycle goes on until the match mercifully ends.

major...major difference.

additionally, the only way to avoid this crap is to queue ranked, which requires a fully balanced 8m team and another fully balanced team in the queue at the same time. this is unrealistic, which means anyone who regularly pvps is stuck in the kiddie pool with the idiots who won't wear recruit gear because they think their mainstat is better than expertise or the screw-ups who didn't max comms before they hit 50. there should NEVER be 3+ players at 15k or lower (pre 2.0). the fact that there were so many reflects on the quality of the player, and I would WANT the sign (written in hp) telling me to leave or suffer a grueling match of carries. it would be a different story if there were a solo or small grp queue option in which I could avoid such marginal players (who could then jerk off amongst themselves), but no such queue exists.

edit: bolster is retarded. it works counter to expertise. just give everyone the same hp/stats per class or get rid of bolster. this halfass stuff is just not good.

How did this get off the first page?

It's sad that so many people are fed up to the point that they'd rather just get rid of pvp gear altogether. The devs are busy making sure people know why they have to pay to be a cat-person, though. It would be nice to get an update on bolster.