Definitely signed! Bolster is a great way to equalise level difference in 10-54 but it has no place in 55. Just add a vendor that hands out an unlimited amount of free pvp gear that is just a fraction worse than partisan but with the same expertise and call it a day. Oh, and that free gear could even come with pre-installed empty aug slots because that was one big reason recruits got creamed pre 2.0. Spending cash on putting on augslot in gear you may only have for a few hours is seldom done, and in 2.0 that means you may have 450 lesser main stat and 3k less HP.

It will be nerfed at some point I'm quite sure but BW typically operates on a 6-8 months recurring interval when it comes to these things. I fully expect it to have a 6 seconds CD around Christmas.

I don't understand why they just don't add a vendor that hands out an unlimited amount of free pvp gear that is just a fraction lower than partisan but with the same expertise and call it a day. They could be home with their families barbequing juicy steaks instead of scratching their heads over this bolster crap. That way there would be no doubt that even the best pve gear would be worse than pvp gear in pvp and there is no pumping up stats by re-equiping mods. Not to mention that we actually would know what stats we will have in a wz before we enter. I haven't said anything at all about this up til now but I'm getting sick and tired of this bolster circus. I realise that it is not an easy task to get the algorithms right which is all the more reason to flush it. I don't mind having it in lower brackets because there is no real pvp gear down there but for everything that's holy, please kill it in 55.

Can people stop looking at talent calculators and instead play the game? It's 2.0 sec base line, unless I'm the only one not receiving this major buff.

I can tell you this; If there was a top tier talent parallel to Thundering Blast that would nerf the damage of TB by 10% and nerf the range down to 10 meters, I would take it in a heart beat if it also made TB instant cast.

Well, I wouldn't worry too much about balance over this. My gunslinger whacks people over the head all the time with the back of his gun without people crying "Foul!". Balance obviously needs to be concidered but that is more determined by the ability itself rather than the fact that it is activated within melee range. We ain't asking for a Maul type of damage, just something, anything, that could be activated with the saber, mostly for the feeling, not as a class buff. It could be that a saber attack caused accelerated metabolism on the target, causing the remaining Affliction ticks to tick every second instead of every third. I can't picture every sorc/sage suddenly rushing into melee range over that. And even if they did, no one would be happier than the melee classes if they did.

I don't want to come off as rude but it seems like you are missing the point. I don't think any sorc/sage is asking to be good both in melee and at range. It's just that the lightsaber is such an integral part of both Sith and Jedi so it feels really awkward that we can't do anything with it. It wouldn't even have to be a melee damage attack as far as I am concrned. Just an ability that required you to use the lightsaber to activate it would suffice. I have posted this before, but say that you have Affliction up on a target and then hit him with for example Thrash. This would cause Affliction to immediately detonate for the full damage with some splash damage to neaby targets (and if they also carried Affliction those would detonate too). Obviously this would put Affliction on some cooldown to prevent chain casting.

Cool gear Cartel exclusive? hmm.. I have yet to find anything I would want to wear in the cash shop, even if it was free. They need to put some effort in on the gear if they want my money, everything looks crap so far.

Crap, they are doing maintenance on my toons... that can't be good

I also have a gtx 580 and what saddens me the most is that when SWTOR came out I had 85 fps on maximum setting and now, one year later, I struggle at 30 fps Going to try the old drivers and hope it doesn't make a mess of other games.

Due to Christmas it will take more than 6 weeks this time. I'm just hoping it will come before the expansion.

What SoonerJBD said, to the letter.

If you ask me there is already too much burst in this game without adding more. The problem with sorc the way I see it is something we share with mercs. We have good damage potential but lack the opportunity to apply this damage as soon as we have a melee on us. The dps just drops like a cannonball in water as soon as we start to kite, and we absolutely need to kite, even if we have a healer. For Lightning tree I would rather see something like this: New talent parallel to Polarity shift "Thunder and Lightning For 10 seconds your Lightning Strike becomes instant cast and do 30% more damage but also cost 30% more force and range is limited to 10 meters. In addition, your Lightning Strike has a 30% chance to proc an instant cast Thundering Blast" Now that would be a great help while kiting. Force Slow and start strafing while still being able to do good damage to the attacker (with the potential for really great damage) Melee would start kiting us while this was active ;p

Yeah, the lightsaber is just a statstick for us... I don't think any sorcerer is asking to be good at melee but just one ability that required the lightsaber to activate would be sweet. Like this for example: Striking an opponent with Thrash that you previously have afflicted with Affliction will cause Affliction to immediately detonate for its full damage and cause 40% of the damage as splash damage to all opponents within 5 meters of the target. If any target hit by splash damage also carries your Affliction these too will detonate with the same effect. Using this combo will put your Affliction on a 20 seconds cooldown. Boom-boom-boom! Sure would be sweet, but this would require some degree of imagination from the devs and I'm afraid they used it all up on other classes (or other games). Just look at the class feedback thread prior to 1.4, full of ideas and what did we get? A new heal... I don't mean to sound ungrateful, the heal is nice and all but could you be more unimaginative?

I must say, I almost feel bad for the Juggs... Here they have been happily smashing people's faces in since day 1 without much complaints on the forums. Sure, every now and then someone has voiced the notion that it hurts quite well when on the receiving end but they have always been countered with statements like "they're a one trick pony" or "how often do you see one anyways?" At which point the poster shrugged and said "yeah, you're probably right". Then BW found out that Maras only have 2 really good trees so they buffed their version of Rage (with some buffs landing on Juggs lap in the sheer excitement) and now we have Ragers flying left and right with endless forum complaints as a result. In the end, Juggs will probably be victims of collateral damage when BW finally caves in and nerfs the spec. Then again it's BW, when it comes to warriors they only seem to nerf things that no one has complained about, ever.