Patch 1.2 Discussion

[xFingersx]

The best thing is that ranked warzones give you the war hero gear, which doesnt have a valor rank requirement!

[Ademaro]

Yah but getting ranked well with no gear at all or a low ammount of gear is going to be extremely difficult

[xFingersx]

I've killed enough battlemasters just min/maxing with champion and pve gear since expertise has diminishing returns to begin with full battlemaster isn't what you want to go into these with imho..

[Fuse]

I've killed enough battlemasters just min/maxing with champion and pve gear since expertise has diminishing returns to begin with full battlemaster isn't what you want to go into these with imho..

They've tweaked all the stats and caps, so this concept of diminishing returns will have to be reassessed. They did note that PvP will be much more reliant on expertise, as it will differentiate PvP from PvE gear.

[xFingersx]

Yea I forgot about that, but there's not going to be a benchmark to go off of until 1.2 anyways so we'll see how it all goes... its not like sentinels did much in pvp aside from being inquisitor fodder, while the rest of the team plays cleanup lol

[JazzyC]

From the PvP presentation, I gathered that Valor (Valour) rank is going to be nothing more than a prestige rank that comes with bragging rights and few vanity goodies.  Not a restriction to the gear you get.

Sounds good to me!

[Anamodiel]

I see that no one posted this, so I'll link it. If I missed this from a different thread, I apologize.

http://dulfy.net/2012/03/05/swtor-guild-summitlive-blogging/

This is basically a transcript of everything that was said in case you missed anything. It's broken down by each topic, and I really like the stuff that I'm hearing from them.

[Anamodiel]

I don't care that I'm double posting. I did not see this in the thread.

David was trying to clarify the 'Future of Warzones' section of the PvP presentation, but that's caused a bit more confusion; apologies. I huddled with Gabe Amatangelo about this question and got a definitive answer.

You can queue as an eight-man Operations group in Game Update 1.2, for ranked Warzones only.

In the future, whenever cross-server Warzone queuing is possible, the plan is to allow people to create teams of eight which can be named, etc.

The PvP team is aware of the importance of ranked Warzones and PvP rankings in general, hence allowing eight-man queuing. Apologies again for the confusion. We hope everyone's going to enjoy the feature!

[Tbone]

Thanks Ana! That's the clarification I've been looking for!