I read it some forums about pvp gear and i have some questions about it. One of the reasons i quit Aion was the huge amount of time i had to spend to get some pieces of pvp gear just because without u suck badly on that game(on pvp). Even if ur skilled u cant do shit without those and is geting rly frustating after a while.

 1.how long takes u to aquire pvp gear in swtor

 2.pvp gear can be good in pve also or i have to switch all the time gear if im geting ganged(thats kinda anoying)

 3.i can be competitive with good pve gear in pvp or is like in aion , without it u suck

  Thank u(sorry for my english)

Originally posted by carpatian

 I read it some forums about pvp gear and i have some questions about it. One of the reasons i quit Aion was the huge amount of time i had to spend to get some pieces of pvp gear just because without u suck badly on that game(on pvp). Even if ur skilled u cant do shit without those and is geting rly frustating after a while.

It's a theme park game, that's how they roll... it's about gear and less about skill.

 1.how long takes u to aquire pvp gear in swtor

Like Aion & AoC that I know of for a fact... you can start acquiring pvp gear at low levels... in many cases it would be more benificial just to save all the PvP points for end game though.

 2.pvp gear can be good in pve also or i have to switch all the time gear if im geting ganged(thats kinda anoying)

I remember looking at the numbers and thinking it would be great in PvE also... don't recall a PvE/PvP seperate stat honestly.... Just high stat numbers

 3.i can be competitive with good pve gear in pvp or is like in aion , without it u suck

Ultimately you will suck... that's the point of having both types of gear... to excell you in one direction or the other. Enemies are targeted and non-skill shot attacked so skill plays less of a role than gear like most theme parks.

  Thank u(sorry for my english)

English was better than many people who only know english.

From what I remember reading, and someone can correct me on this if I'm wrong, the best PvP gear is about 10% worse than the best raiding gear at endgame.   I do know that recently one of the guilds in beta cleared Eternity Vault with many members wearing PvP gear, and were actually a bit overtuned for it.  Of course, just because you CAN wear PvP gear in a raid situation won't stop the min/maxxers who run the raids from demanding that you wear the PvE stuff.  But as far as I know, PvP gear doesn't gimp you like in other games.   

  Then my only problem it will be if im going to spend points on geting low lvl gear or to wait till im geting high and buy nice end game items. But still dependens and how long takes me to farm for those ..

So in other words, people that do PvE endgame raiding will reign supreme in PvP?

There's a bonus PvP stat and a bonus PvE stat thats pretty much the only different between top end pvp gear and top end pve gear....

I'm not sure of the numbers but you can be very competitive in PvP with PvE gear, it's not like Aion where if you don't have PvP gear your toast....  I hate games where one set of gear is 10000x stronger the next set below it... thats how Aion did it and it was lame..  One of the reasons I quit that game.   PvP gear should give you an advantage not a "I win button" which is what Aion did with its PvP gear.

Originally posted by carpatian

  Then my only problem it will be if im going to spend points on geting low lvl gear or to wait till im geting high and buy nice end game items. But still dependens and how long takes me to farm for those ..

It'll take a bit of dedication. Don't think many people can give you a set amount of time because many of us didn't go deep into the game... I personally wanted to save a lot of it for launch.

Originally posted by robsonic

So in other words, people that do PvE endgame raiding will reign supreme in PvP?

No? This isn't Rift were at launch the PvP gear was maybe 30-40% of the Raid gear.. and 60% of the T2 dungeon gear

 I think if there is not so much diferences in betwen pve and pvp gear(just some bonuses) il just focus on geting the pvp staff and il be set . i rly hope is not aion style and that makes me happy :)

Originally posted by robsonic

So in other words, people that do PvE endgame raiding will reign supreme in PvP?

Sounds about on par for an MMO these days.

IIRC there was a stat that only PvP gear had that increased your PvP performance, so I don't think raid gear will be better than PvP gear in PvP.  I don't remember what is was called, sorry.

No pve raid gear wont be better then pvp gear best raid gear is -10% compared to best pvp gear

same rthe other way around if you want to raid in your pvp gear

if in not misstaken entierly i think it was called valor but dont quote me on that

I'll come up with another question then.

Is it possible to play at the endgame PvP ONLY and that way acquire ENTIRE PvP gear set? (As oppose to WoW where at some point it was impossible to get any weapon via PvP unless some arena rating was reached)

I noticed at lower levels during testing that PVP gear was better too... I'll be hopping in and out of questing to play HUTT BALL anyway, I can't get enough of it!!

What kind of time is involved to get the 2 different kind of sets to the same level, do they compare with each other well or does one take more time than the other?

Originally posted by heimdall22

I'll come up with another question then.

Is it possible to play at the endgame PvP ONLY and that way acquire ENTIRE PvP gear set? (As oppose to WoW where at some point it was impossible to get any weapon via PvP unless some arena rating was reached)

Yes... they said and I verified in beta that you technically don't even have to play the story after level 10... queue mini games all the way to 50 if you want or queue until you can go to the open world planets.

I have seen some comments floating around that TOR PvP is less focused on gear stats, and more focused on the player. 

It doesn't seem that gear is useless, but rather that good players are not going to 'wtfpwns' by other players, simply because they do not have the 'best' gear.

I didn't pvp much in the last build, but the build where they still had the npc's who sold the lower level PvP gear the best PvP gear the NPC sold would give you a 5% bonus in pvp damage and 5% reduction in damage taking during pvp...  but they might of upped it in the last build, not 100% sure... someone mentioned they thought it was now 10% bonus....

Originally posted by robsonic

So in other words, people that do PvE endgame raiding will reign supreme in PvP?

Originally posted by monoth

I didn't pvp much in the last build, but the build where they still had the npc's who sold the lower level PvP gear the best PvP gear the NPC sold would give you a 5% bonus in pvp damage and 5% reduction in damage taking during pvp...  but they might of upped it in the last build, not 100% sure... someone mentioned they thought it was now 10% bonus....

 

Originally posted by Loekii

I have seen some comments floating around that TOR PvP is less focused on gear stats, and more focused on the player. 

 

It doesn't seem that gear is useless, but rather that good players are not going to 'wtfpwns' by other players, simply because they do not have the 'best' gear.