The average online population in the fleet on my server dropped over 30% in the last 3 weeks. Quite a few people who reached 50, some even on a 2nd character, are not resubscribing for March. Besides, with the complete release of information and footage from Guild Wars 2 yesterday which completely DESTROYS SWTOR in almost everything except maybe story, and even then GW2 seems to be doing quite well there too, and for NO SUBSCRIPTION. Except SW fans, I can't see who is going to continue paying 15$/month for almost nothing to do, not in 2012. WoW got away with it because it was first of the new gen, but SWTOR is the last of that gen.

Considering "being a douche" lately is simply daring to give a tip, advice or simply trying to organize the raid, I expect a lot of people being kicked. Some people even get annoyed from a simple "Hi, gl hf". I've seen it multiple times.

Congratulations, you can go play another game now.

The only point in time I noticed a lower performance was in PvE lvl 20-29 Combat spec. PvP has never been an issue in any spec at any level, and that was with lvl 50 still in the same bracket, although some skills make it much easier to deal with certain situations past lvl 30. PvP overall requires much more player skill on Sentinel than any other class anyway (Assassin/Shadow are close in terms to us in that aspect). Lvl 50 and champion gear just moves us from balanced to OP (in good hands), especially if a friendly healer or guarding tank takes a liking to us.

Sounds like an Expertise issue. If you have less than 300 expertise (PvP gear only), even if you are good, you'll just get destroyed. My boosted focus hits for 4k+

I heavily disagree with the penalty as well. However, it comes with WZ ratings, therefore, after a few matches, you should be matched with people of your skill level, in theory, so you shouldn't have any incentive to leave to begin with anymore. Leaving a rated WZ must be punished as this time you don't just piss off team mates, you also make the whole team lose points.

No, wrong.

Blow up ranged character and watch them complain on forums.

You got completely rolled by clever team strategy.

Because not playing 5 minutes is such a huge amount of time. Go get a glass of water instead meanwhile?

SWTOR is competing against that other game (and every other games, be it MMO or normal RPGs) in 2012, not in 2004 and you completely missed the OP's point.

100% win for whatever side I'm playing. True story.

I just thought I'd shut your mouth right there. http://i.imgur.com/qQolW.jpg Courtesy of SynapseX from the Assassin forum. It was pre-water nerf though.

Rofl, Darkness damage is nowhere near Deception I do at least 50% more per WZ in Deception/Madness than Darkness. Thing is, there is not point in more than 300k, so might as well stay alive longer.

Unlikely, my Sentinel has a bunch of Surge just from Enhancement slots and there is nothing better available at the moment.