Welcome back to yet another installment of the Darth Hater PvP column, where we’ll collect and update the news about PvP that matters to the PvP community. This thread will be updated periodically as necessary throughout the week, so you can refer back to it for new information. If you have any tips on current content that should be featured, or if you think your PvP video or PvP guild should be featured in a future column, send them to me via PM.
News
Official SWTOR Posts
No standalone PvP posts to report for this week.
Devtracker Highlights
This is big: finally we have official confirmation that Ancient Hypergates will not make it into Patch 1.5.
Allison Berryman confirms that Senior Designer Austin Peckenpaugh acknowledges the "escape issues" of DPS Mercenaries/Commandos.
PvP Patch Changes
There have been no PvP Patch changes since last week. You can stop checking the PTS for updates on Ancient Hypergates, BioWare has acknowledged that it won't be making it in to Patch 1.5.
Community Highlight
Around the Forums – Discussion Highlights
UGLYMRJ asks how you're building your Tank/DPS hybrid.
PeaceKeePin asks if you start stacking other stats after 1200 expertise.
MonkeyCannon proposes a "casual 50+" PvP bracket.
PvP Video Spotlight
This is a PvP column first, as we feature a video in a "Let's play" series. ShamelessSoul has an entertaining series of videos featuring his Jedi Sentinel named Purge. There is some mild language at points. Check it out!
Op-Ed: "Hyper-ancient Gates"
We've known about Ancient Hyper-gates for a while now. There have even been playable demos available at major events that BioWare attended. Now, we've finally heard the hard news: Ancient Hypergates will not launch with Patch 1.5.
You may know from previous columns that I am anxiously awaiting this warzone, since it is patterned after Khaine's Embrace, one of my favourite PvP maps of any game ever.
That it will not launch with Patch 1.5 is a letdown, but it made me wonder how hungry the PvP community is for new content. At this point, the last warzone map we got was Novare Coast, and that was back in Patch 1.2. True, we got Ranked Warzones, but this is just a new way to find opponents.
I considered initially just asking how upsetting the delay was, but instead I think I'd rather balance it against other options. Let me know what you think in the poll below.
Poll
Last week's poll
Quickbars for F2P players
Poll - Single Choice
They should have four, like everyone else 55.6%
Three would be a good tradeoff 11.1%
Two is fine 27.8%
Make ’em suffer with one, I say! 5.6%
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Posted 11/7/2012 10:57:33 AMDear Bioware
I am a huge star wars fan and subscriber since launch, however due to the lack of attention to PVP i feel like I am almost being forced to leave your game for Guild Wars 2. Here are the 2 main factors.
1. THE LACK OF NEW PVP MAPS...yes in caps its that important.... the lack of new maps is abhorrent it is constantly and i repeat constantly driving away players every week form a very active guild VOLITION on The Bastion. Please Please fastrack Hypergates to get it in soon or else you will lose further players. 2nd PLease Please implement another couple maps like a NEW HUTTBALL map or make a map that is TEAM DEATHMATCH style. Also Please implement CROSS SERVER RANKED ... unranked is fine in server but Ranked is ridiculous you have 1 team just roll every other team or you have no teams quing at all to the point where my build has to field 2 teams and que at the same time to get matches and switch players in teams to get them evenish... The team ranking system is worthless if you have one 2200 ranked team raping the 1000 ranked teams .. why rank them if thers only 3 on server ??? how does that help matchmaking at all??? Implement Cross Server for RANKED so we can get fast ques, properly matched lvl teams, and we can HAVE FUN and feel like you care about your PVP community.
in short... MORE MAPS...Cross Server Ranked Please you will find that SOOO many players come back !
2. WORLD PVP ... is horrible since you took out any incentive to go to Illum to battle... also WHY DONT I GET VALOR FROM KILLING OPPOSING FACTION PLAYERS IN BLACK HOLE OR ANYWHERE IN WORLD PVP????? there is literally NO INCENTIVE to World PvP at all..??? on a PVP SERVER ... some kind of problem here people. PLEASE PLEASE bring ILLUM back of soemthing very similar and give us valor for killing players in world pvp.
In closing.. There are SOOO many players that pvp ... and nearly every single one of us feels left out by Bioware in alost every aspect of what you have done for the game including updates and fixes. You have gutted world PVP (Illum nerf) and you have neglected to add more than 1 new pvp map in 1 YEAR???? ... this is why you have such massive drop offs in players subs...
Nearly every single player i talk to in our server in guild and out of it says they have no problem paying a subscription if Bioware cared at all about is PvP community.. 1 map for 1 year is completly unacceptable.
Please Please help me help Volition help The Bastion and Help your game.
NEW MAPS FIRST... not just 1 new map .... 3 new maps minimum.
ILLUM BACK SECOND and valor for world kills with that
CROSS SERVER RANKED THIRD..
if you do this they will come!
thank you for your consideration... If any of these changes come in the next 6 weeks I will stay ... If not myself and My 26 active player guild will be moving to Guild Wars 2.
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Posted 11/6/2012 2:41:29 PMI am honestly fuming at the last few patches. I quit for 8 months and came back to find my operative does horrible damage and all of the "OP" stuff they took away from him, they've given to deception assassins. What? Maul does almost double the damage of backstab with no CD and now the 9sec internal CD proc gives it +30% more damage. Shock hits as hard as laceration, so does discharge on surging charge, no energy issues, and now they get +2% DR per crit and a 6sec on existting stealth / on demand 25% dmg reduction buff.
Operative got nerfs, nerfs, and some run speed. Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Not all of us like lightsabers and self serving stories that stroke their ego. I love my agents play style, his story, his all around feel. I love the stabs, the pop shots, the grenades, all of it. I cant bring myself to play the assassin even tho it is now what the agent was / should be. So I am stuck playing a gimped class in PvP because I enjoy playing it more than any other class.
So what do I want to see first? This crap rectified. Just about every change they gave to assassins could have been given to operatives as well. We could get DR on crit, and our sneak could do the same damn thing, or make shield probe do it. Keep in mind we may be in medium armor, but with 2 points in the FIRST talent tree in deception, so are assassins.
Came back after 8 months to find my favorite class sodomized.
sorry, im furious >_<
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Posted 11/7/2012 3:16:47 PMHeh, I regularly play against operatives that wipe the floor with everyone else. Learn to play your class.
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Posted 11/8/2012 6:38:43 PMYoure getting beat by ops, sounds more like you need to learn yours.
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Posted 11/6/2012 1:30:23 PMworld pvp, ilum