SWTOR: PvP in 2.4

[Mharz]

PvPer listen up.  Big changes are coming in 2.4 and many of them are steps in the right direction.

http://www.swtor.com/info/news/blog/20130812

I'm going to read up and digest them, then post my commentary here.  You should do the same.

New Changes -

Ranked 8v8 will be removed.

Three new arena maps will be added for death match, last man standing type 4v4 arena matches.  Winners will be determined by the best 2/3.

There will be ranked and normal modes for arenas.

There are two modes for arenas, solo and group (you form a group in a similar fashion as you would for normal wzs now).
Matching for groups will happen now based on ranking and role.  No more 4 healers in top end PvP gear v. 4 tanks with no gear.

You can no longer spend skill points in warzones which will basically eliminate WZ respec.

Removal of the Free to Play warzone limitations.

A new Huttball map!

2.4 planned for deployment on the PTS 8/16

[Tbone]

Arena sounds interesting. It's good they are fixing ranked warzones to 4v4 that can be queued solo. That's why we never did ranked - it was hard enough to find 8 people to do raids, nevertheless 8 to do ranked. And then even if you did have 8, there's no guarantee that anyone else is queuing.

[Tecknik]

Hooray!  More fucking Huttball! /sarcasm

Arenas sound interesting, though. /serious

Also...

Removing the F2P restriction for entering the Warzones

Can't believe you didn't bulletpoint this, Mharz.  It's kind of a big deal.

[Mharz]

Removing the F2P restriction for entering the Warzones

Can't believe you didn't bulletpoint this, Mharz.  It's kind of a big deal.

Not to me, I sub.. but.. for you.. I'll add it! 

[Tecknik]

Removing the F2P restriction for entering the Warzones

Can't believe you didn't bulletpoint this, Mharz.  It's kind of a big deal.

Not to me, I sub.. but.. for you.. I'll add it! 

I'm still subbed as well but I know there are people who have unsubbed recently, including people who used to do WZ PVP.  Those people will soon be able to continue PVPing.

[Zooey]

Interesting

[Cyil]

Did I mention that being off FA time by 13 hours sucks.... stupid work getting in the way of fun.