Bolstering In SWTOR PvP

I have to admit that I haven't followed SWTOR real closely, but the bolstering mechanic has me a little nervous.  I see many uneven matches in the Warzone.  Who is going to want a bolstered player on their team?  It leaves many questions in my mind on how it is all going to work.  I found this gem explaining bolstering.

Q: How will the Bolster system work? – Kelremar

A: If after a time the Warzone matchmaking system has not found a match of players of the same level range, then it will start up a ‘bolstered match’ where players of varying levels will have their stats bolstered to within 20% of each other. Therefore, player skill disparity withstanding, the lowest level player will be 80% as effective as the highest level player in the match.

If it is 80% of the top players than that is going to be a huge difference.  If someone gets bolstered ten levels does that just mean their health, and mana will increase?  What about your spells, and damage?  Is his weapons, and armor going to be ten levels lower?  What if everyone is max level, and one guy is 10 levels from max, and gets bolstered?  Will he really be competitive?  Will he gain any spells that maybe he hasn't trained yet being ten levels lower?

How is a bolstered player going to play?  Are they going to be inexperienced, and cost your team a victory?  I just don't see how any competitive pvper is going to be happy with this.

I remember in the early days of World of Warcraft you could queue up for Warsong Gulch with a ten level disparity.  It caused so much anger.  All the 60's would belittle the person, and tell them to leave and go do some PvE.  I know many times even one lower level player meant the difference from winning, and losing. Eventually Blizzard changed it to 60's only queueing after all the griping on the official forums for months.

This could also be interpreted that if everyone is level 40, and you are 50 that you could be lowered to level 48 to try to make it more competitive.  Once again if it was me playing I would be pissed off if all of a sudden my health, and mana was cut down to make the match more fair.

SWTOR PvP vs GW2 PvP

Which is better pvp?  Is it SWTOR, or GW2?  After watching many matches during my visit to PAX I have decided on a winner.  I like many aspects of each one, but clearly only one can be my Winner.

SWTOR

VS

GW2

Did you watch the videos?  What do you think?  Which one seems like pvp will be more fun SWTOR or GW2?  

I like the setting of SWTOR.  It is more than just a big open space with a flag.  It reminds of Unreal Tournament where you can shoot players from above, hop down, take a lift, and etc.  It opens up the pvp more where you have to be more aware of your complete surroundings.  Of course they added fire traps, and acid which kill you almost instantly.  It definitely adds to the strategy.  Do you take your chances to run across the fire trap, and hope it doesn't go off, or do you wait?  The only problem when waiting is it gives players a chance to knock you down to the bottom, or kill you, and steal the ball.  Eventually after going up ramps, dodging acid pools, and fire pits you make it across the score line.

The downfalls of SWTOR is I think the graphics are not that exciting.  I guess maybe I am not a big fan of the light sabers, and stuff.  It just doesn't have the eye candy in my opinion.  

I love the graphics of GW2.  I think the spell, and character animations are simply amazing.  I like how they color code the teams instead of just making names red.  It makes it real easy to see your allies, and your enemies.  The PvP matches I saw seemed like take a control point, and the more control points you own the more points you gain.  You definitely have some pretty good fights up, and around the control point areas.

The downfalls of GW2 is it seems mostly ground level.  There are no strategic stand on a higher level, and shoot someone below.  There are no other mechanics except getting the control points so it becomes  a zergfest in a way.  I didn't really see many off control point battles so alot of downtime running to control points to fight.

And the Winner Is......

This is a tough decision.  In my heart I want GW2 to be my game, but after watching all these pvp matches from both I have to say SWTOR got the PvP right in their Wafronts.  It was so convincing that it made me preorder the game after saying for months I was going to pass on SWTOR.  They won me over with the PvP.