I agree with @Luciferior. Seeing skilled players (and losing to them) should incentivize players to play better. But because of the current hold-my-hand, everyone is a winner, participation trophy garbage, lose my way through PvP Seasons, reward structure there are currently 0 incentives to improve. PvP Seasons is great as an initial reward for players who might lose 99% of their games but want to dip their toe in PvP. But it is not enough. Otherwise you're going to end up with what we have now - endless complaining and forum threads from players that want the game catered to their skill level with ideas like the removal of premades and a solo only warzone queue. But @wepeel is not entirely wrong. It sucks going against players that are simply light-years ahead in skill. It's like banging your head against the wall; there's simply no way you can learn or improve when you get globalled the second you drop down from spawn. Unfortunately, this again is a result of BroadSword's current participation-based reward structure and the removal of ranked. The skill gap is enormous between the handful of ex-ranked players who are left and the new majority casual population. If there was a competitive reward structure that supported experienced players, you would have experienced players playing against experienced players and casuals playing against casuals. But instead we have the disgusting state of game that we currently have. It's not fun for the casual who gets globalled out of spawn, and it's not fun for the experienced players who haven't had a competitive game since the removal of 7.2 two years ago.

All of my friends are awful. I tell them that on a daily basis. The only reason I group up with them is to grace them with my presence.

It's been nearly a year and a half since the last PvP changes in 7.2. And you are going to wait another year and a half for 7.5 to drop before you decide on whether the game is in maintenance mode? 😂 I feel like people on the forums continue to move the goal post on whether SWTOR is a dead game. What was it a couple months ago? People wanted to wait to see how the BroadSword transition would go before they were going decide on whether the game is in maintenance mode. And then that changed to the next patch after the BroadSword transition. @WulfurkinThere have been, and almost certainly will continue to be no changes in PvP. Everyone should make their own decisions on whether the game is fun. If premades are unfun, then quit, or make your own group, or stop whining. That is your decision to make.

New players in PvP is not an issue. This is a good thing. The issue is that there is no incentive for these new players to improve, nor incentives to keep skilled players in the game.

Rage jugg has the most root breaks in the game. Even without mad dash (which I don't take 99% of the time), rage juggs have intercede, enrage, endure pain, obliterate, and breaker to purge roots/slows. Not to mention root/stun immunity on leap and several 10-30m abilities including saber throw, vicious throw, force scream, and force crush if you do find yourself out of melee range and unable to leap. AND even if somehow I do get rooted/slowed, that is actually a buff to rage juggs because of pooled hatred. Rage has literally an ultimate kit to deal with crowd control. If you cannot stay ontop of a sniper as rage jugg, then you are playing the class wrong. And yes, I duel decent players. As you can see from the link in my signature, I am S9, S12, S14 top3 conc op. And many of the people I play against are also retired top3 players. Over the years, I have co-hosted the most successful PvP tournaments on NA along with my friends SWTOR influencers Kogass and Biggs. I know a thing or two about dueling. 🤣

Check link in signature. 🤣

Rage beats oper, sorc, sniper, and merc. Sin is the only thing that beats it.

What? 🤣

No, if all else equal, madness will always beat arsenal. But as I said earlier, 99% of the players in regs are not very skilled.

If you want to get into specifics, I recommend recording your gameplay and uploading it here. That way we can actually help. Just going through a list of scenarios that could happen is extremely speculative, and rather unproductive. As you already stated, the best way to learn how to beat other classes in 1v1s is to play those classes yourself. If you're struggling with madness sorc, play against it to learn its weaknesses. As you've come to realize, madness v arsenal is always going to be a hard matchup for the arsenal merc. But that doesn't mean you need to always lose to them. Oftentimes skill trumps class, especially in reg warzones were the average player is extremely bad. With enough skill and experience you can beat maddness on arsenal merc. Lastly, I wouldn't put a lot of value in lowbie pvp. Lowbie PvP used to be a great place to learn, now it's a waste of time. The skill level in lowbies is very low, many players don't have their full range of abilities, and the type of gameplay is significantly different from lvl 80.

Oh what's your toon name?

Gotta love the forums. Somehow it always comes back to premade QQ. 🤣

You need to be doing a lot more than just ignoring tips to have a 10% winrate. 🤣 I've seen notorious throwers like Moophy come out of solo ranked with a higher winrate than 10%. Do premades on SS que arenas? On SF most of the premades only que warzones, which can get quite boring.

Is no one else going to comment on this? 🤣

There's no point trying to engage with this guy. It's useless. This guy has been obsessively responding to every single one of my comments with "I have too many friends" (as if it somehow a bad thing) in order to ignore and deflect from the actual conversation. It's not worth derailing threads to respond to delusional people.