Your argument isn't going to make me believe it isn't an exploit though. The 'Gear Score' showing up in your character pane stating you're at 328 while wearing full 340 gear benefiting from the stats is the problem. Sin with the exact same spec. Augs. Only difference I have full 328, showing 328 avg GS in the character pane, while they have the same but all but 1 piece is 340. You're telling me 40,000 HP, a significant increase to damage, crit, and alacrity IS NOT a big difference? I don't care that the Gear Score of both him and I are the same. THE STATS ARE NOT.

How is it not abusing the bolster system? Purposefully going out of your way to ensure your stats are significantly higher than other players to me sure sounds like an exploit however you try to explain it. I understand it bases your overall GS when bolstering, which is where the 328 cap is taken into account, but to be able to benefit from the highest end-game PvE gears' stats when there's supposed to be a cap in the instanced PvP game?

This may be a well known issue, I'm not sure. Simply posting so maybe BioWare will do something to fix what I see as a problem. It seems at this point in time the max gear score for PvP stands at 328. In theory that makes it easy enough to achieve while allowing for a level playing field for all players at that level where then skill in your class would take over. However, that is just simply not the case. As I said, I'm sure this is a known problem. But apparently you can trick the bolster system to give you a very unfair advantage. You can equip much higher GS pieces and a single lower GS piece to bring your average below the 328 cap while still reaping the benefits, ie: stats, of the higher GS pieces. An example I just found out: You can equip full 340 R4 Anomaly gear while replacing a single relic to 62 GS (maybe even higher, idk but this is a true example I saw myself) which brings your average GS to 319. That same player, when in comparison to a full 328 GS player (myself, both are the same specs) had: +40k additional HP, +9k additional damage, and significantly more crit and alacrity (forgot to write down those numbers). Seeing the damage they dealt first-hand compared to following their exact rotation vs my damage was just pitiful, not to mention the increased survivability they had against other players. To me this seems like an obvious exploit. Now obviously PvP in itself isn't balanced to begin with between the classes.. But this just adds to the problem and seems like such an easy problem to fix. Why not just simply cap the stat benefit of each individual slot to be equivalent to a 328 GS piece in PvP scenarios?

I didn't look back on this post and I'm sorry. Thank you both for your great answers, I am now on The Ebon Hawk as (of course) apart of the Sith.

Hey guys, I haven't played in a pretty long time.. Since the beginning almost. But anyways, I came back and noticed my server, Prophecy of the Five, is pretty low population and is often Light while this server is High. Now I don't like to Role Play, but I have nothing against it. Is this server a good choice for me to just PvP and PvE later on down the road? I feel as if the server I'm on now might keep dropping in population and it'll become empty. I just want to enjoy the server I'm on and do the things I want with people who want to as well. Opinions?

Recent World of Warcraft expansions: Cataclysm & Mists of Pandaria have only added 5 levels each, bringing the cap from 80-85, then 85-90. Those expansions were about $40, and leveling on WoW is terrible. It adds new content, and only a new island and then from there it expands (Northrend:WotLK, MoP: Pandaria) - The only expansion to do more than that, is Cataclysm which revamped the entire world of Azeroth. This is an MMO giant, and SWTOR has a long ways to go.. But if they have patches for extra content to add on to the expansion already planned out, then it will be worth it.

Have fun 1 Less person to wait on for a que

I would love to update my drivers! The last time dxdiag said they were updated was 1 year ago today, 1/7/2011. But every damn time I try to update my graphics drivers from nVidia, It always fails. Any reason why?

I was planning on getting 6GB more RAM or so. Hoping that will help, or just to get another computer i'm not sure yet.

Well I have Windows 7, my internet is fine, I have about 20-30 latency constant in-game no matter where I am, framerates are my issue. I mean even on the first planet for say, a Bounty Hunter. I lag trying to kill something. And on my Sith Inquisitor, Balmorra and other planets beyond that are impossible due to freezing constantly.

My specs are: Processor - AMD Athlon II X2 220 (2.80 GHz) ; 2GB RAM (Low, I know but it's what they recommend) ; nVidia GeForce 9500 GT graphics card. I have greater than what they say you should have to be able to run the game, but I can't even run barely the first starter planet without lagging. Even then I have to put everything on the absolute lowest it still lags. Any ideas why? I might try to get more RAM but idk.