Combat balance, what's your bitch?

[SnakeCharmer]

Combat balance.  What problems do you have with it?  Two bullet points max, 15 words or less each point.

Go.

[Venkman]

You preparing an executive summary or something? :)

Only one bitch:

Gunslinger: Cover System: not enough world objects to fully mitigate. So, relegated to using the portable cover system that only mitigates 20%. Plus it makes you stationary, but that is less a bitch and more just a "yea duh you knew that at level 2 chucklehead" issue.

[Trippy]

I can't cut people in half with my lightsaber

[Sjofn]

Gunslinger:

I am too fucking squishy for the shit they expect me to kill in my class quests with just Corso "the Derp" Riggs as a companion. It feels like they've balanced it for scoundrels. Who can heal. But I fucking can't.


Consular:

Nothing.  Unless bitching about companions counts, in which case "they take too long to give you all of them."

[Ingmar]

Jedi Guardian: buttons that don't work AT ALL on gold+ mobs are stupid. That's basically it.

[01101010]

Nerf sages.

[Mrbloodworth]

Most NPC's die, so I'm happy.

[Nebu]

Gunslinger:

I am too fucking squishy for the shit they expect me to kill in my class quests with just Corso "the Derp" Riggs as a companion. It feels like they've balanced it for scoundrels. Who can heal. But I fucking can't.

At level 40 my sniper got a healer companion and everything got better.  I'm guessing it's the same on the Republic side.

[Sjofn]

Probably, but it's fucking stupid to make me wait that long for a damn healer companion (as the smuggler gets theirs really late too).

[Nebu]

Use evasion often.  I find that, the ae stun, and knockbacks help a ton as well. Detaunt seems worthless though as the tank companion is terrible.

[Venkman]

Gunslinger:

I am too fucking squishy for the shit they expect me to kill in my class quests with just Corso "the Derp" Riggs as a companion. It feels like they've balanced it for scoundrels. Who can heal. But I fucking can't.

Mostly not having that problem at 31, except for the Tatooine class quest againt the mob dude and sith chicks. Two Elites and I'd get her down to like 2% but consistently die. I kept thinking i had to solo it but it turns out you can bring anyone else with you as long as it's not a Smuggerl.

I agree we're pretty squishy, but not overly so. Between distract, evade, that smoke screen, the aggro dump, the various screens, well-timed AOE stuns, the grenade (a 1.5s stun too), the PBAOE pushback, and finding occasional use for damn-forgot-to-turn-it-off-again Harpoon (which is a roughly 1s stun too), it feels about right. I'm mostly Sharpshooter right now though, and have no idea what I'd be in a group. Opinion of one :)

[Ingmar]

You could even bring another smuggler if the right interface option is set.

[Morfiend]

Level and gear imbalance. There is a truly huge difference between a level 40 and a level 50 with pvp gear. At this point most matches are won by which team has the most 50s with pvp gear. Its really not fun.

Side note. This is going to be fixed soon as they separate out the level 50s from everyone else.

[Paelos]

Too many buttons. Simplify, man!

[Nebu]

Too many buttons. Simplify, man!

Don't you dare take away my buttons.  It justifies the purchase of a 10 button mouse!

[Nonentity]

Fix animation disparity between Imperial and Republic class equivalents. See: Dirty Kick, Full Auto, Mortar Volley, Project

Make the classes actually equal. 90s cooldown Smuggler flashbang vs. 60s cooldown IA flashbang? 15% vs 30% crit healing? Come on.

[tmp]

Consular/Shadow:

fucking game thinking Tumult can't be applied to a stunned target like, 90% of the time.
the "instant" Force Wave actually executing at the end of 2+ sec long animation.

[trias_e]

CC needs a bit of a toning down, or my CC break needs to be on a much faster cooldown.  And knockbacks/stuns are just stupid overpowered in huttball.

[kildorn]

CC needs a bit of a toning down, or my CC break needs to be on a much faster cooldown.  And knockbacks/stuns are just stupid overpowered in huttball.

Force Leap is stupid overpowered in huttball. Knockbacks/pulls are bad, but they've got shit on the ball carrier being able to just zip ahead to your newly spawned incoming players across multiple levels of the terrain.

[Sjofn]

Actually, yeah, let's go with the "fuck me, too many buttons" thing too. It's not bad on my (healing) sage, but the other classes I'm playing I can tell are going to get really annoying eventually.

[Hawkbit]

Jedi Guardian: buttons that don't work AT ALL on gold+ mobs are stupid. That's basically it.

My Powertech has the same issue; I suspect all classes do.  It's a damn big issue.  Combined with the 'too many buttons' bitch, how about they just make all abilities affect all mobs, but trim some out.

[Ingmar]

I wouldn't have a problem with it, really, if it was the usual spate of things that don't work on bosses, like stuns, etc. But I can stun a gold but then not use a pure damage ability on them? Wat?

[Threash]

Too many buttons and i am getting an eye twitch from fucking having to stare at my buff/button bar to see what lights up.  Having a priority system for combat without even the most basic macro or UI mod system is what is going to finish this game for me if it doesn't get fixed soon.  I play an assassin and a BH and both guys rely on procs/short term buffs/random abilities coming of cooldown during combat. 

[Azuredream]

Too many buttons and i am getting an eye twitch from fucking having to stare at my buff/button bar to see what lights up. 

This.

[CmdrSlack]

Oddly enough, I'm not too bothered by the lack of macros. Granted, my only experience using macros was to grind crafting in SWG and skill up in UO.

My main gripe with the buttons is that sometimes the UI can lag and instead of clicking a button, I am suddenly dragging it, which really sucks when you're trying to salvage a combat that has suddenly gone south.

[Ingmar]

Where I know I'm going to want macros is for setting up specific targeting for powers, etc.

[Lantyssa]

* The buttons.  Dear gods, the buttons.

* No permanent Lelek.

[CmdrSlack]

Is Lelek your captive Jawa? Did you ever successfully smuggle the little bastard off of Tatooine?

[Soln]

No ability to firmly toggle off companion abilities, like forever.  Looking at you and your damn harpoon-spamming-every-single-NPC Corso!

[Zetor]

Skill responsiveness is terrible, esp in pvp. If I hit a button (especially my interrupt or CC breaker), I want the ability to go off, not 'appear to go off but no', or 'go off much later' or 'go off after arbitrarily_long_animation_01 finishes'.

Also, what Nonentity said. Mirrors Are Hard? 

[Riggswolfe]

My biggest bitch would be that the pure dps classes don't bring enough dps to the table to offset their lack of crowd control/heal/tank utility IMO.

[Amaron]

- Animation / Response Issues.   Faction imbalance due to animations is just  .   Syncing often causes me to throw people the wrong way.  Interrupts don't work blah blah.
- Some classes have blatantly extremely poor damage compared to the top performers.

[Sjofn]

Oh! I thought of another!

The ground target AE marker thing is WAY TINIER than its actual area, AND IT DRIVES ME CRAZY.

[Lantyssa]

Is Lelek your captive Jawa? Did you ever successfully smuggle the little bastard off of Tatooine?

Yes.  Log-out or leaving the planet causes her to leave my company.

[Montague]

No ability to firmly toggle off companion abilities, like forever.  Looking at you and your damn harpoon-spamming-every-single-NPC Corso!

You should be able to. Expand your companions quickslot and all their abilities should show up to toggle on or off.