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Star Wars: The Old Republic: PvP Season One Detailed in New Blog
SBFord
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The Star Wars: The Old Republic blog has been updated with a new post to lay out the plans for the first season of competitive PvP game play. The blog gives a basic framework for how the season will begin throughout its culmination.
Step 1) Actually Start Season OneWith the launch of Game Update 2.4.3, all players’ ratings will be archived as preseason and everyone will start with both solo and group ratings reset back to the default. From that point on, Ranked games will start moving our players up and down based on the results of those games.
Step 2) Show the RatingsAs we announced on our Galactic Guild Battle Livestream, with the start of Season One we will have web-based leaderboards where players can go and see their solo and ranked ratings, and compare those ratings against other players. Players’ have long requested ways to compare their proficiency against each other, and now they will have one way to do so. Who will end atop the leaderboards for each class, we shall soon find out!
Step 3) Finish Season OneWe don’t have an exact date yet, but something in the 6-month range is our target for the length of Season One. As soon as we lock down an exact date, we will make sure to announce to the public. We don’t want to surprise people who are fighting for positions with a sudden season ending.
Step 4) REWARDSShowing off your rating is all well and good, but we also want to give season exclusive rewards for every PvP season. As we approach the end of the season, we will take a look at the ladder and break up the population into various tiers of ratings. Each tier will receive some unique rewards, with the higher tiers getting cooler rewards (as well as all of the rewards for the tiers below them). This announcement (both where the tiers are, and what rewards will come with each tier) will come towards the end of the season, but with enough time to make sure people can react to the specific breaks if they feel like they need to strive towards a specific tier.
Step 5) End the Season and Between Season BreakOnce the season ends, we will once again archive off all the ratings for historical viewing. We do intend to have a slight break between the end of Season 1 and the start of Season 2, just so there is a small “seasonal downtime” between the end of one season and the start of the next. When Season Two starts, ratings will once again reset, and we will be off and running on the next season!
Read more at the link above.
Comments
As it stands, a gear grind for pvp gear takes months to complete.
A top tier of gear compared to one just below it results in almost half out put difference. So it becomes very important to gain.
However, keep in mind, that this is a game with many different classes that have unique story and with 8 classes (advanced classes), 8 different combat styles. So a person is essentially stuck with one combat style for their pvper to be effective.
Also bw has a nasty habbit for making people redo the gear grind without adding new levels for the players. So while it takes a few months to get top tier gear, they will add a new set of gear in a few months, which is around 6 months time. They added 4 new different types of top tier gear since release in less than 2 years.
The lack of rewards and terrible gear grind is simply not worth the effort.
Its a shame that pvp was not properly developed and the only well thoughtout aspect was huttball which arguably more of a mini game. Its as if they try to make pvp such a draining experience to make up for the lack of systems, and in the same stroke discourage others from experiencing their failure of never implemnting large scale pvp.
I got top tier gear in 2.0. Took me a long while. Now i am expected to do it all over again when i just got it before 2.4. While already being outmatched by other players doing the gear grind. And no rewarding system as well. Why would i torture myself? So i can be categorized as something in their mad scientist experiment? Is this a game of love or a mad scientists experiment to see how humans function and react to such a miserable system. Rats in their boring maze. A psychology experiment.
Write bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble
lol swtor with competitive pvp? What blasphemy is this?
try making a good pvp game first alright?
EA/bioware === FAIL.
Incomparable
I agree that the gear grind for PVP before 2.0 was tough. War Master took a while to get if you weren't in the top PVP guildes.
But as it stands right now with Solo Ranked, getting full Obroan gear has never been easier. 140 Ranked Comms per win, also need to mention that they've dropped the prices on Conqueror gear and it's extremely easy to get. For casual play it would take somebody a month to get full min/max Obroan lv 67 gear.
This is the standard reaction of all who just fail at PvP, in any game. I suck at it therefore the game's PvP system suck.
you cant honestly defend star wars pvp. come on man.
Anyone care to explain the problems with SWTOR pvp?
have they done anything as far as balance goes with the classes, hearing about it being a gear grind automatically makes me assume
geargrind + faceroll class in the hands of a competent = most favored and saturated class to see through all this season one pvp.
Anyone care to dispute that im all ears.