What I love about SWTOR pvp

There are a lot of threads complaining about this or that (not questioning their validity, there a lot of issues currently), so I thought I'd take the time to state what I love about swtor pvp, in the hopes of bringing in some perspective.

My background is that I've played WOW, swtor, rift, gw2, skyforge, neverwinter, blade and soul, aion, tera, dark age of camelot, wildstar, eso online, and many other non mmo games.

For mmo pvp atm, I love swtor, and here's why (I'm on harb for reference):

1) Gearing is awesome. Every other single mmo takes forever to pvp gear. In some cases, it takes months, and also in some cases, you can spend months gearing up and not even have BIS. Swtor gearing makes it super easy at max level, and super easy with bolster below max level. I have geared up multiple wow characters with arena gear (even this season, warlords season 3), and it just takes so much time it's insane. In some cases by the time you get the gear you don't even want to play your character anymore because you're burnt out from the grind. Rift pvp-don't even get me started on it. You will spend months gearing up to end up with non BIS gear.

2) Lowbie pvp is really good and fun and has fast queue times. With bolster being a thing that works extremely well, I find on any char/spec at any lvl I can do pretty well. For some games, there are no lowbie queue pops at all, not to mention massive gear imbalances. I know that in swtor i could pvp lvl 10-65 with any class/spec and have a lot of fun doing it. That's a big deal, as other games can't provide that.

3) Small warzone sizes (8v8). I love this about swtor. Think being 3v1d sucks? What about 10v1d? I cannot stand zerg play in pvp whatsoever, because 3v1 isn't skill at all, so imagine 10v1? That's all that happens in zerg play. In zerg play your windows for opportunity are very small, and most often you get run over by the pack. In rift, for instance, melee is almost obsolete, because people refuse to be in the front of the pack due to the large warzone numbers.

4) In regs, all class/specs are viable. Now, that doesn't mean everyone else thinks so, and that sure as hell doesn't mean that there won't be 500 sorcs and juggs, but still, you can do well in regs on just about anything. I've been playing a lot of IO Merc and lethality operative, and loving it. (Yes, arena is a different thing and not all class/specs are top tier viable).

5) Map design. Yes it sucks that we have so few maps, but I honestly love the swtor maps we do have. I think they do an awesome job of encouraging group vs group pvp around a focal point. If anyone has played Alterac Valley in wow, you know what I'm talking about. You can literally get lost on that map. I much prefer, personally speaking, the symmetric maps that promote whole group fights.

6.) Enchant/boosts system. I love that you just augment your gear, and throw on a stim. This is very, very different from a lot of games. Rift for instance, I need like 6+ consumables (3-4 hr duration) and a different rune for each piece of gear.

7.) No bots, very little hacks, etc. Although it might seem like a pain to not be able to macro or have addons in swtor, its actually a huge blessing. Other games, * cough * WOW, have massive amounts of bots, cheats, hacks and other exploits that happen ALL the time. It gets very annoying when you're doing a rated bg in WOW and the enemy flag carrier starts flying across the map, lol. Bots are also a massive nuisance. I personally have seen maybe two instances that could've been hacking in swtor and it could have been lag on my end.

These are the main reasons I mainly do pvp on swtor, and some of them have a pretty big impact. If there are things you like about the game, you can post here too. I know there's a billion things that need to be fixed, but sometimes it's nice to focus on the ways we do actually have fun in this game.