Basically stuff that is coming this month, or in the very near future.

Level 50 Bracket Warzones

New Warzone

Updated Ilum

Ranked Warzone Matches

PvP Stat Tracking

Open World PvP Loot Drops

more Warzone medals for different objectives

Guard Optimizations and Target Optimizations

more level brackets and the ability to choose which Warzone you want to play in.

http://www.swtor.com/blog/new-year%E2%80%99s-pvp-update

What lvl can you start PVP? Just noobing it up on Tattooine lvl 26 Merc.

@crazyleaves: You can PVP at any time, your stats are just temporarily increased so you can do more damage and have more health while in PVP. The downside is you will lack many key abilities that you'll be getting at later levels, but it's still fun.

I'm pretty sure they said their also adding 3-6 new bosses to the Eternity Vault dungeon. I'm going to see if I can find a link to that quick.

Edit: Found it, the operation is the Kragga palace and it triples the size. The post also mentions a new flashpoint.

http://www.swtor.com/blog/sneak-peek-james-ohlen

@CL60 said:

Open World PvP Loot Drops

This would be awesome to see.

They need to add some sort of competitive pvp mode. People are already playing premade huttballs so why not add ranking to it?

@Jimi said:

They need to add some sort of competitive pvp mode. People are already playing premade huttballs so why not add ranking to it?

Ranked Warzone Matches

PvP stat tracking

Those are both in the update.

@crazyleaves said:

What lvl can you start PVP? Just noobing it up on Tattooine lvl 26 Merc.

You can start queuing at 10. Click the button on the lower right of your minimap.

What are the rewards for PVP?

@oasis789: You get warzone commendations (which I think change in tiers as you level), as well as quite a bit of experience and credits.

I'm level 24. After queuing last night and mostly failing (I'm spec'd Sawbones), I made about 10k credits and enough EXP to hit another level. I also traded in my 250 commendations for an Orange-level custom jacket (which was better stat-wise as well as in looks than my old jacket) and a belt.

It's good stuff, and enjoyable, although I'm not a fan of the gated warzone. The Voidstar, I think?

@CL60: I'm an idiot. Ignore me.

@Young_Scott: Yeah, I don't really care for Voidstar either.

Cool, looking forward to those updates ^^

@MB said:

@crazyleaves: You can PVP at any time, your stats are just temporarily increased so you can do more damage and have more health while in PVP. The downside is you will lack many key abilities that you'll be getting at later levels, but it's still fun.

I am going to have to try that out. I'm intrigued by the "boost-to-level" PvP design to get new players right into the fray. I can also see entirely how lacking later abilities will be a huge detriment -- I experienced this while "sidekicking" in City of Heroes/Villians in high level content where I may have had upped damage/health but lacked mitigation talents which put me at a singular disadvantage. ξ

quick /dance