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  1. LOL about the dps sorc nerf..... Keith is honestly the worst person we've had in this role. He really acts like he cares and wants to listen but then he just does the opposite of what needs to be done (nerf merc dps but not dcds????). Fake people in positions like his are worse than those who just don't give a **** but are halfway honest about it. Luckily this season burnt me out enough to play Stormblood and I'm having a lot of fun there. They just totally revamped pvp and split pve/pvp abilities etc. They also made it so that level/gear means nothing (just for show). I'm too old to deal with prima donna raiders again but the story part of pve is a fun little aside as well (its not crap like swtor story ). Due to the huge revamp the classes are too simplified now and it honestly is too easy, however the classes work rather differently and being able to play any class you want anytime you want makes it rather fun. Every class feels OP at times and I'm enjoying it. I really like the 8v8 but I'll stay out of ranked 4v4 until more cc/dcds/etc. are added back in. They even have a 24v24v24 mode which is a little too pve oriented for the main zone that pops but I hear they are likely adding a less pve focused zone soon. I also expect them to add back in more cc/dcds/etc. before too long. I'm sure it was a huge challenge to make all new abilities for all classes and balance them and that is probably why they are a little lacking at present. I'll stay subbed to swtor for occasional arena/wz fun but I won't be using the CM for awhile so I can at least make some small statement with my wallet. Hopefully Keith will get enough flak that he gets his **** together and actually starts to listen. I'm not counting on it though.
  2. haha, I said logical response in past tense referring to my previous post. My second post was just for fun I'm just having a laugh at it though. BW would never do what the OP proposes and so I might as well trigger a snowflake or two . Although I do hope BW starts policing yolo at some point. I doubt they ever will but some policing is sorely needed.
  3. LOL, ummm.... You are requesting for a season do over because you couldn't compete and you want everyone to get the same participation trophy. A lot of snowflakes are talking like you are this season and so I responded in a logical manner. I believe it is your panties that are in a knot.
  4. If the flair is just the character outline when someone targets me then I hope we can toggle it off. I don't even want some weird character outline. I hope the weapons and the mount are cool though. Please give the weapons some kind of lighting effect like you have done for a couple of the seasons so far and please give a toggle to the mount (like the trash truck's headlight).
  5. Exactly what Doc said. MM sniper parses low but is the best solo ranked dps spec this season and if granked still existed it would be top tier there as well. There are a few MM snipers that practically ruin the q when they are on because of their strength. They are a far bigger problem than Mercs. In regs MM are a little bit less of an issue but they are still over performing. I really do appreciate the devs being more open with their methods and I don't want to attack them for doing something great but I do hope they will think about more than just dps/hps when balancing. The issue with mercs and snipers are their dcds and not their dps. Also, as someone who has done a lot of kiting this season one idea for fixing MM would be to take away their mobility. A tanky, area denial burst spec is not necessarily a bad thing but well played snipers are actually one of the harder classes to kite (note I said well played as most don't have a clue haha). If snipers were less mobile then their strong defense and burst would not be as much of an issue but as it is now they are actually very mobile as well. I'd rather have 2 good dps ops on me than 2 good dps snipers. One funny example of the high mobility is that my MM sniper is actually a pretty good ball carrier. I often score several goals in hball with him.
  6. This is a terrible idea and something only one of you little snowflakes could come up with. Yes, there was a lot of cheating this season, however a large portion of players played fairly and punishing everyone because BW is too lazy to get the cheaters is stupid. The trolls, frequently globaled mercs, and especially the dvl/opheal/dualstance/etc. exploiters (some are great players) got me to a point where I started raging at them this season. In the past I stayed mostly silence but I had enough this season and decided to get some of my fun out of chat . However, even with this it was still very possible to get to gold without cheating if you were, on average, a rather positive addition to your team. I got 5 chars to what will likely be gold and I have a full time job, small family, and other hobbies. I really doubt there is anyone who would even be willing to throw for me (although some throw against me if on my team ) and everyone who plays a lot of ranked on harb knows that I don't exploit or q at really weird times/etc. I get my ratings as fairly as can be done in a weird setup like SWTOR has. I'm getting older and my reaction times are slightly slower and arenas were never something I really did much before swtor anyway so I'm definitely not the best pvpr in yolo, however I still am, on average, a decently positive addition to my team. This means my rating does go up over time and when I have a bad night where I lose 100 I will normally have it back within a few days. From my experiences I am rather confident that if you are the decently positive addition to your teams then your rating will go up over time and if it isn't then you need to look at what you are doing wrong. You don't play yolo like you play regs and in yolo there are always improvements you can make. I've had chars stuck down at 1200 for awhile and really blaming others for it (I enjoy trash talk so sometimes when I am trash talking I still actually blame myself). I have then taken a step back and looked at how I could improve. I have had multiple cases where I do this and then I start winning and start going up in rating. When I first started my career I had a boss that, after a screw-up from another group that was 100% their fault, told me that I shouldn't blame them. In the future I should think about how I can plan for that occurring and not let it hurt the overall project. Blame doesn't get projects done and you can always be a better planner. He said that is something he has told himself his entire career and it really is a great way to approach projects. If you really care about your ratings in this game then think about what you can do differently to help the win as much as possible. Outwardly have fun and do what you want (this is a videogame and not IRL) but inwardly think how you can positively alter the situation. Now, having said all this there will be the 1 out of 10 that is stuck near 1200 purely out of bad luck and there will be the 1 out of 10 that shoots up to gold even though they are terrible, however this is MOST LIKELY NOT YOU!
  7. Yes, because then people wrongly assume OP. People don't understand that pressure specs should have higher dps than burst specs.
  8. One suggestion I have for a buff would be something like snipers have but better. I would like a cd that buffs all accuracy by 100% and ignores/partially mitigates most defensives (including op roll) for 10-15 seconds or so. This would be a great qol buff. Maras and OP's need these defensives to protect themselves from the huge burst classes but currently mara's and ops can avoid sorc dmg for too long. This would also help sorcs out a lot during the opener before they start kiting .
  9. DPS sorcs, when played well, can do fine in most 4 dps, 3dps/tank, and to a lesser extent tank/healer matches. They are weaker in good tank/healer matches but the average yolo tank/healer match is fine. There are certain setups that are terrible for sorcs but all classes have these (even dps mercs). It is 3dps/healer matches where dps sorcs really suck if the other team knows what to do. Most dps sorcs don't have a clue what strengths dps sorcs bring since you don't need these strengths in regs. So they get in yolo and get destroyed. Of course having said this dps sorcs are still decently below average and can't truly carry like other classes. The current yolo order is (DPS only)... Tier 1: 1. Sniper 2. Merc (although in tank/healer I'd rather have a good mara) 3. Mara Tier 2: 4. OP 5. Sin Tier 3: 6. Jug/Sorc Tier 976533329: 8. Ptech Of course this order depends on the meta of the time. i.e. being a merc when a lot of good maras are q'n sucks or being a mara when a lot of good ops are q'n blows. BTW, as I said above, dps sorcs need buffs but lets not make them over the top or make them into a slow moving tanky class like merc. Let's just up their dmg a bit so that you can't half-ignore them.
  10. DPS sorcs are bad but they aren't as bad as some people think. Lightning doesn't have enough burst and madness doesn't know what it is. Both specs will be weaker in 3dps/healer matches due to their inability to dps while under heavy pressure but this is something we'll just have to live with imo. I love the gameplay of sorc and I don't want to lose pw, kiting, etc. for more survivability. I have other classes for that. Lightning is pretty close to what it needs to be dps wise. It just needs a little more single target burst (they can even take away some aoe if need be). Madness balance is a little more complicated. If madness is supposed to be a pressure spec it needs to have much higher dps than burst specs. However, most mmo players don't understand this and so if madness is doing 30% more dmg than burst classes they will think madness is OP. So if we want to avoid the OP complaints then madness needs to be given more single target dmg instead of more dot pressure. In regs dps sorc can do high numbers still but it is weaker overall than other classes. Fluff dmg doesn't mean very much. So yes, dps sorc does need buffs but also it isn't as bad as some people think.
  11. I'm sorry but your post demonstrates that you don't understand solo ranked enough to deserve a higher rating. I'm not trying to be mean. I was where you are when I started solo ranked. You mention that people will start focusing you first and this will make it much worse. Well assuming you aren't a dps ptech, then the other team focusing you is actually a good thing if you KNOW they are going to focus you. If the other team is putting all their effort into killing you then all you have to do is survive longer than one of their team. This means the win is put in your hands and so YOU can make the difference. When I was q'n my dps sorcs I LOVED it when the other team focused me. This is why I never let on who my 2nd dps sorc was until after I hit gold. What was my dps sorc's favorite team to go up against? 4 mercs. Yes you heard it, 4 mercs. As long as we were not in the 2 arenas that suck for kiting 4 mercs was a great team to be up against. 4 mercs would chase my dps sorc around for the entire round and so all I had to do was live while they were slowly killed. Now there are a couple set ups that sorcs can't kite for more than 1.5 minutes but this is only when good players that focus well (and are usually in vchat) are on the same team. So most of the time it was good to be the focus. If you are not the focus then there isn't much you can do when the other team globals someone on your team. Your cc/etc. can slow it down but only so much. You can still be a positive addition and do what you can but you can only carry so much. However, if you are the focus then the win does largely rest on you (unless your team is absolutely atrocious ). There are a lot of <1200 players that can improve and get a higher rating. Maybe you are one of them. However, to improve you need to understand your weaknesses and learn stuff like what I'm writing here.
  12. lol, thanks Boluda I needed a laugh. I doubt I'll respond to you again but I'll go ahead and do it once. BTW, your story above is rather funny since the only time I have talked to you was to make fun of you and so I really doubt you would ask to join me even if I did have a team . There are a lot of people that don't like me on Harb but even the players that dislike me the most know I don't wintrade. I only even talk to a couple people outside of solo ranked and I don't think there is anyone who would be willing to /stuck for me. Also, wintraders don't just q around the same time most nights regardless of who is q'n and regardless of whether they are winning or losing. Your merc is infamous. You have 1000 games played this season and are still under 1200. You get globaled and then say the other team must be a premade because they all attacked you and only a premade would all attack you. Even my dps sorc has solo killed you in under 15 seconds. You accuse everyone of wintrading and it is rather funny seeing as how you still get globaled as a dps merc. There are a lot of trolls this season and you are one of them. I realize that you try hard to win but you are just that bad. As far as my ratings go, I usually switch chars once I get gold. I used to work my way higher but I really don't like that grind and I'd rather just switch to a new char. Also, as you get to the 2k range then q'n at the right time is very helpful but since I have a professional job I can't q anytime I want and I would rather just q whenever I am online and get fast games. Of course this also means that there are times I get trolls like you for a couple hours and I drop 100 points but I know I'll get the rating back (something you'll never be able to do!). This season I have taken every char I've played in solo ranked to gold. This includes 2 dps sorcs, 2 dps mercs (got on the reroll train for lols), and a dps mara. I had no clue how to play mara in ranked and still got him up. Also, since I don't pve and I'm sick of regs I geared these chars up in ranked. In past seasons no one knew who I was because I didn't call trolls out but this season has been rather annoying and I've had some terrible luck on a couple chars. Take my first dps sorc for example. By the time I hit 1700 I had 36 3v4s and only 5 4v3s. I also had the arena wall hacker on the other team every time I was in the same match as him and I had so many globaled healers. My luck was so bad that on my other dps sorc I hit gold in about 1/4th the games as my first. On top of my poor luck, I even lost faith in some of the better players that I liked because of them taking advantage of the exploits that were available early in this season. A couple of them actually surprised me. So I found it easier to just try to convince the complete trolls (globaled sorc healers, you, etc.) to get out of the q. This is why you hate me so much but whether you mean to be a troll or not you are a troll. You get globaled constantly even by players that can't hit 2k dps. You absolutely hate it but rating does mean a little bit (assuming dps and q'n during normal times). Take my mara for example. I was 208 geared and didn't really have a clue how to play. I was 1200-1350 for the first hundred matches or so but then I asked Sephorous for some tips, started to obtain a little better gear, and improved. From there I've had down nights and up nights but my rating has increased over time. There are maras lower rated than me that are better maras than me. I know this. Rating does not mean a lot. However, it does mean something and as Doc said there are not a lot of <1200 players that are secretly good players. There just aren't. The maras who are better than me but lower rated are not <1200 they are just 100-200 points lower than me and have likely had worse luck than my mara has had. Having said this, there are some major fixes that should occur and would decrease cheating as well as help decrease the luck factor. This post is long enough so I'll just list a big one that is easy to implement. Healers and Tanks separated by more than 500 rating should not be able to face each other. This one fix would stop a lot of questionable behavior and would make ranked less RNG.
  13. I'm sorry Talon Strikes but you were pretty bad when you were q'n solo ranked. I know several people who even thought you were a troll. I'm sure you're fine in regs and I'm not even trying to be mean here but you can't say we are all non-factors when the fact is that if ratings do mean something then you actually should have a low rating (which you do). Of course, you having a low rating doesn't prove anything it is just that you can't use it to support your opinion above on solo ranked.
  14. I think dps ops, jugs, and ptechs need improvements, however I also think that buffing defensives and/or dmg more than a slight amount would just make them OP. These 3 classes really need some reworking tbh. The op roll is just gimicky and jugs/ptechs with too much solo uptime would be insane. I wish I could believe BW would actually sit down with those 3 classes and do some reworking but most likely one or all of them will just become fotm again at some point
  15. I tried to make myself believe this early on when I didn't like arenas. I have always loved huttball and so I was not eager make the switch. However, once I got into ranked I realized that ranked is much more challenging to play at a high level than regs. It isn't that arenas are more challenging. It is that the competition is higher on average. On average Regs are full of ppl that can't break 2k dps even when dps farming and many that have trouble breaking 1k. There is also little focus and poor usage of CC (someone mezzing me while I am being attacked). I watch TV/netflix/hulu/amazon/etc. while playing regs and/or carry on conversations with my lady and I'm still playing objectively while being at or near the top of the scoreboard (except in hball/qball where I always concentrate ) and rarely dying. I can break cc whenever I want just to up my dps in regs and rarely pay for it. This doesn't happen very often in ranked. In ranked the ppl that have trouble breaking 1k are badly ridiculed and usually quit unless they are full on trolls. The competition is just higher. If regs had good matchmaking then your argument might have some validity but as it is regs are just less competitive and less challenging to play rather well in.
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