a Hatred Assassin Commentary & Continuation of State of PvP - SWTOR 7.3 PvP

[@taifour2593]

I added a hatred loadout about a week ago after watching your guide and copying and pasting it. Been playing since launch but always favored deception and never tried hatred. I love it! So far my best warzone was 17k dps (and I was losing a lot of dps to my vengeance friend that dropped 20k with ctp spam). Overall though I much prefer lethality. Lethality solves all of the things I dislike about hatred - lethality has mobility, self heals, actually decent dcd’s, gap close, and some range. With catalyzed toxins tactical it also has that same kind of burty-ness as instant eradicate. And the cleave area of toxic haze is the size of texas

[@CeaseFaith]

Something I have been meaning to try but haven't, since I don't like Catalyzed toxins at all. Is running something like an increased armor pen corrosive assault tied with the auto-critical implant with it & try to use that to ensure the burst of catalyzed kills for resets. The moment people live I feel it falls incredibly flat and the armor pen talent will be less useful as you'll be TA starved and not be able to use it. Catalyzed really needs to be reworked to be more flowy with an actual rotation. Like how ultraviolet is.

[@Mbbigum]

Enjoyed the vid! Sidenote: What effect is that on the lightsaber? that trail of "fire" effect is something i havent seen before

[@CeaseFaith]

Furious Light saber, that's its basic effect. For the lightning that's volatile weapon tuning.

[@ojje2011]

What color is it you are using for the color crystal?

[@CeaseFaith]

Cyan

[@CeaseFaith]

If you guys are interested in the topic of new player experience or have experiences you want to share/want to leave some input. I have a longer thread going into this topic which was also posted with the first video. forums.swtor.com/topic/930707-state-of-pvp-things-that-should-could-change-for-the-better/page/2/#comment-9774414 A dev has actually seen this thread which is cool, but likely means little to nothing. The average new player experience is pretty pitiful and only drives people away before they even get started. For reference, PvP has never been in this state where bolster basically does nothing and new players' experience is extremely rough in PvP. The last time it was bad for new players was when expertise was around, but you'd be told promptly how important it was and it would be apparent off-rip. You would also get PvP currency while doing PvP at lower levels before hitting the cap where bolster was less forgiving. So you could not only gear via playing low levels but have a full set before you even dipped your toes into max-level PvP. Sadly, there's little to no incentive for low-level PvP outside of season grinds, which can be cool but overall takes away from the game if everyone stays in low-level PvP. Most aren't aware of how busted older set bonuses were so it's truly a noob-buster simulator, not healthy. Really no set bonus should work pre-80 PvP same with tacticals. Anyway...

[@rhavioli]

Guess I missed this video while I was taking a break. My idea would be to make all PvP ranked, that way the objective players in regs can do their ranked and arena enjoyers can do theirs, or at least bring back leaderboards so we can see who’s performing well if ranked doesn’t come back. The one problem I could see with this happening is that the current VERY defeatist attitude would make things difficult for newer players that current only PvP for conquest and admit to doing so, which I find abhorrent, play what makes you have fun, don’t force yourself to go into say arenas and get nuked as a 318ir sage that has never learned a dps rotation or their dcds outside of story mode. I know newer players don’t like going against people like us who’ve been playing for literally 10+ years and have a huge advantage. One small change that could influence this is buffing PvP rewards from weeklies as far as credits and mats, as I feel the tech frags are fairly balanced, this will bring more people to PvP, and though they’ll be newer most of the time, those few every year who fall in love with PvP will refurbish the PvP community once they really dive in

[@CeaseFaith]

Rework, mm, and yeah. Currently, I sit in q on my main pt for ages only to get backfilled it's at 60% with around 150 games. I dont actively play the Obj, but I make it possible to be played without anyone stopping them. My playstyle is just an older method of drawing attention by ability, creating numbers and advantages around the map.

[@praedonius9693]

How's the fps/stuttering in warzones now?

[@CeaseFaith]

I'm sitting around 30-40fps lowest around the ultra preset off-stream. On stream, I was still hitting around 20 at the lowest. While it doesn't seem like a lot the game's lowest FPS dips are much higher than before creating a more smooth gameplay experience, even if it doesn't hit modern games FPS it's still more smooth than before. As for AWS hosting, don't know yet. The main people whom you see stutter/desync around are ones with massive FPS/loading/network lag like 200ms / 5 fps ancient hard drive trying to load. I am hoping with AWS they can change how this works.

[@MotoCoreSteve]

Need to fix bolster and make augments affordable. The other day was farmed into the ground dying in 2 secs against a no idea premade, my team full of bots while im getting spit on and laughed at the whole time lol. Far cry from 2.0 legit feels like a korean mmo now. Gear matters way to much and ttk is way to high and dcds dont work. Tbh i think swtor is done and its gg the devs cant fix anything.

[@CeaseFaith]

Gear only matters in terms of having none due to bolster. Though the experience you had sounds right. Its really overkill nowadays with zero people functionally playing support for anything but selfish reasons 90 percent of the time. My experience is usually being backfilled into those games after someone leaves its pretty sad. They need to do something soon.

[@Justanntt97]

when u queuin w ur squad we lookin to catch y’all

[@CeaseFaith]

I've not played with more than one person in a month or two now, game is far too desolate to have more than one person with you without making games boring atm.

[@Justanntt97]

@@CeaseFaithdamn that sucks, guess I can’t return the favor from ur earlier little vids about us 😂

[@MotoCoreSteve]

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