well to be honest i figured i would try it out in 1.6 and not complain, I mean how bad could it be sure it was bad when i leveled up my sage healer in recruit and would get killed by a powertech or maurader it can't be any worse then that right? Bioware is making the game more fair with the expertise cap being the same right? Well Sir i am here to tell you the 7k hit thing is a reality i tried the warzones today and even finished my daily keep in mind I am use to being able to stay alive long enough to get some heals off my high was 850k in a match i can break 300k without breaking a sweat and ussually getting over 100k damage from dots while healing. My sage has full warhero with the warhero elite offhand i stacked expertise so i could stay in fights longer to fight it is 1385 as of yesterday and still shows that now. However after today i couldn't break 250k heals in a warzone due to the fact that i got steamrolled by every body and there mother lol. I mean seriously i could handle a 14k maurader beating on me while i tried to heal and keep myself alive but now all that happens is i throw a few heals then i get jumped by a mob like it is always btw who ever thinks anything about a warzone is fair is out of there mind, I mean really how often do you see a one on one fight lets be serious, but anyways like i was saying i get a couple heals off then low and behold i have 2 to 4 people killing me in about 3 seconds thanks to the cc's you know a force choke then a force choke by his buddy and maybe a blow back thrown in there which isn't suppose to happen from what i thought a pull and blow back were considered balistics so after a force choke and a blow back the second force choke shouldn't work you should be resolve correct? But anyways yah the bullcrap of making it fair isn't a reality the point of having gear in a game is to aquire it the point to having higher levels of gear is to improve it and the norm has been for pvp to have a pvp stat that can be improved so you can live longer in a pvp fight. now the pvp stat is the same to make the causual guys who just kill some time in a pvp happy until they log into there lower armor class and still get owned lol that will be a suprise I'm sure. And its not just he sage i have a scoundral i just got to 50 2 weeks ago i didn't hear anything about the 1.6 update until a week ago i mean 1.5 just came out not that long ago right? Anyways the same issue i use to be able to take on a guy one on one and have a decent chance of beating him if we were close in life sometimes i could even beat better geared people because they didnt know the classes that well. And i did solo one guy in a one on one fight a powertech with 19k life which is just about 400 hp more then me but when his 3 buddies showed up after i capped the node they killed me before i could hit my unstun button and vanish literally like 1.5 seconds and i dropped tell me how dieing that fast has anything to do with skill please because i don't see it. and the real slap in the face is due to the fact i didn't know that 1.6 would be released today until the day before when i heard it in chat i feel like i wasted the 4500 ranked warzone coms and the 2682 warzone because i leveled from 40 to 50 in just warzones and saved the coms now all of that was for not i have some mostly battlemaster with warhero ear weapon and offhand and two recruit pieces what would i have to be happy or enjoy about that experience. so ya im taking a day to cool off but will prob be cancelling this game and deleting it off my comp which will prob follow with my two brother who are equally unhappy at this point with 1.6 and biowares persistance on helping us with the crashing every hour issue, closing out there accounts and moving on it was a fun run and we stuck out since the release but i dont see it getting any better, and i don't see the pvp being any more balanced this way i just see alot of people dieing constantly except for the heavy armored they seem to die less maybe next they will make all pvp gear have even armor rating to no light no medium no heavy lol wonder how well people would like that?

oh really on what basis just saying arenas ruin games is a cheap cop out. they add another aspect to the game for more intense pvp play this game has a good resolve system which would only make pvp more viable then wow if you dont like arena then dont do them no one is making you.

ya sages/sorcerers would be great at arena and to be honest i know a few commandos that would as well. the game is balanced enough for arenas there wouldn't need to be a change a good team is more then just the combo of characters its the players there ability at there character and there communication.

ya sages/sorcerers would be great at arena and to be honest i know a few commandos that would as well. the game is balanced enough for arenas there wouldn't need to be a change a good team is more then just the combo of characters its the players there ability at there character and there communication.

exactly finding 8 good people is so hit and miss. the only reason i haven't dropped my sub and went back to wow for the arena is my brothers have not yet gotten to the point were they are fed up with the same stupid war zones as I am

nothing wrong with the original post to be fixed unless you are one of the people that constantly complain that the game is unfair because you were beat in a war zone. the game needs arenas so that smaller groups of people were the pvp is actually focused on players fighting players last group standing not some objective oriented game were you can only que with 3 other people you know unless you do a ranked which seems to take forever to form up and get in a match played. then there is always the great times when one or more of your allies in the ranked gets dropped and your team is short handed. pvp is fun but annoying when your forced to run with people you don't know that suck because they barely know there class let alone any of the ones they are fighting against. for all of you people that say pvp ruined wow then why has it stuck around so long and why do they have broadcasted matches every year. it just takes a certain type of person to play at arenas and enjoy it for the rest of you stick to your war zones and don't play arena no one says you have to.

I have to agree with almost all of what has been said. I played wow from vanilla to the horrible mistake blizzard made with cataclysm. The only reason i didn't drop the game shortly after there cata expansion was that I did arena's with my friends. To be honest arena's were unbalanced in wow but the way swtor is that should not be a problem and yes i agree that there should not be any new points or different gear for arena players just adding arena matches to the weekly and daily with a smaller reward of points would be great. I have stated before I am getting to the point in the bg's were my brothers and myself are more frustrated then happy to play the game we don't pve other then a seldom op and cant stand it to be stuck in a warzone with people that cant seem to communicate and help each other that just want to guard or go afk during the match. I don't even want to think about how many times someone or myself has asked for a plan of attack before the match and you get the retard who say "win" or "slaughter them all" or some other idiotic nonsense, and the people who want to do warzones without pvp gear you cannot heal a guy even if he has 17 life if he only has a couple hundred expertise but they seem to think there isn't a problem because they have a higher crit rating or what ever stat they are after. Bottom line to those individuals your dps is ZERO when you are dead you are not helping anyone in fact you are hindering the rest of your team, but that is off target. Basically yes please add arena's it can only improve the game and give devoted pvp'ers a chance to have more control over there gaming experience which gives them a happier gaming experience and makes them want to stay and not give up the game to play something like guildwars 2 for the pvp or go back to wow for arena battles. im not sure how balanced you could get a 1v1 a healer has almost no chance of killing a skilled and well geared dps character but 2v2 3v3 and 4v4 should be fantastic. thank you for your time

I don't know about anyone else but one of the things i would love to see is something similar to wow's arena's. the warzones are fun and usually enjoyable but to be honest unless you do a ranked warzone you are still stuck relying on 4 other people you probably don't know to do what they are suppose to and work together to win the match. Unfortunately this is the sticking point that most often doesn't out. Being able to do quick battles with people you know against a grouped of equal players is something that swtor is missing in my opinion. How does everyone else feel about this matter?