I know what your thinking.... that its another of those whiny threads but its not.
But i have found that it is indeed all the special super powerful BO a bilities that makes PvP so un-enjoyable at times and makes everyone whine.
Lets face it, they remove any real "fight" from the game and it all boils down to who is fastest at pushing buttons and the abilities are the end-all and be-all of everything.
However being the process of leveling a new fed toon i was astonished at how Lt PvP is compared to RA, which actually became real fights.
Because of the minimum amount of abilities available both me and my opponents have to rely on other means to fight eachother effectively.....skill, nothing but pure piloting skill and tactics, jockeying for position to take the shots, and unlike RA PvP maneuvering matters.
At RA there is really no need to aim for certain shield sides as shields can be collapsed in mere seconds as well as fully restored in a matter of seconds, which pretty much negates having shield sides most of the time.
And those abilities that one does have at Lt are pretty modest, but they do not give the so decisive effect that higher level abilities do, their impact is small but significant.
And this is what i think Cryptic needs to do, revisit Lt.Cmdr, take a good look over the whole PvP system, and try to rework it so that abilities no longer play such a primary role as they do, but rather highlight piloting skills and tactics.
If they do this i think we might actually have something that makes PvP enjoyable again for a lot of different people, except for maybe the hardcore
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