Companions at endgame are pointless and serve no use at all honestly, unless you are an anti social *****. I have 2 companions in full Rakata and 1 in full BM Gear..... they do nothing at all.... except pick flowers for my stims. The entire companion system is an overrated mess. Aside from them adding a little pointless backstory for each one, they don't do anything.

All of Chapter 3 i.m.o. was poorly written and horribly thought out. You spend 2 chapters raising to greatness, only to end up some sith twerps ******? Um Bioware, little tip here. When taking the time to build me up into the republics most wanted.... DON"T turn me into a pawn of some guy I could kill in 3 min. If I have the skills to kill him AFTER then I clearly had the skills to kill him BEFORE I accepted his stupid idea. You fail Bioware at giving REAL CHOICE. I should have the choice to NOT assist anybody and take a far more crazy selfish way out... The diversity in the story is so horribly transparent that I didn't even care after chapter 2, I just pressed spacebar + 1 a ton. It is sad when the best selling point of the game turns out to be the most overrated part.

You lost this fight before it ever started honestly. If the sorc knows what he is doing, then right from the start his shield+AoE Healing ring lets him sit there and spam dps on you without concern. He can re-apply the shield over and over and just keep placing the healing ring on the ground. In a situation where he actually has to heal, HA! he can top off his life bar and go back to you in short time. I have a Valor 73 BH Combat Medic, and let me tell you..... they are not very fun to play atm. Currently with all the changes made to heat, and our overall ability to just freaking heal, we are not a good class to try and 1v1 another healing class that can Dumbfire Heals from the start of a duel then spam dps. Sad thing is..... my level 43 Tankassin is able to put out base dps numbers of 2.5k and 3.3k on shock/thrash crits. My Rapid Heal and Healing Scan are on average putting out those same numbers with no crit.... in full WH/BM with augments. So when my Tankassassin is in full WH gear with aug slots all for crit/surge/power I will be hitting shock crits of almost 5.5k - 6.5k... in the end the math doesn't scale at all in favor of the BH Combat Medic. Abort leveling that class honestly and move to a better healer with more mechanics. ATM I find sorc healers to have the most USEFUL utility out of all the healers..... BH has the worst hands down for Healing Utility.

BH Story is horrid. I listen to the Dark Tower series on my lunch breaks and when I see the crazy plot twists and creative narrative in those books...... then come play some SWTOR.... I feel like I am watching a children's show. The reality is that whoever did these stories most likely had a great idea, but then Bioware's method of translating them sorta butchered them imo. Overall.... BH Story is pure garbage, and I would tell anybody playing one to just skip the main story as fast as you can.

A combat medic and a sage would be a better healing team imo. But double combat medic.... HA! impossible even on Story mode without every single person being ranged and perfectly avoiding dmg.

If you must started your merc and have no prior understanding of how the class played, you should be fine. The real issue with all the QQ is from the players who started at launch and became accustom to a certain play style. With the current changes in 1.2 ( rather dramatic changes ) people have in some case had the "Rug swept out from under them" and now are upset. All I can say is DON'T go healing right now, as it is currently the most poorly designed spec atm.

THIS.... THIS... and more THIS.

Sorc / Op / BH That is my opinion with the current changes to 1.2 The real issue is that I find as a Merc healer I need to be carried since my AoE and utility healing is garbge. Compound the issue with having one of the worst resource systems in the game, and we can't put up very decent healing for long in Raids. What I have found is if you pare a BH/Sorc or BH/Op you can do FAR more being a focus healer on the MT while the OP/Sorc supports with HoTs and GOOD AoE healing ( That freaking Sorc healing ring is seriously so helpful it is game changing ) I have run HM EV and HM KP with a sorc partner after 1.2 and found it to be a little rougher on heat but doable. When I whent into a Pug STORY MODE EC with double Merc healing.... we seriously couldn't get the first boss down, since our AoE healing and healing resources are so weak..... story mode I would normally blame some fail on the group but honestly soon as I stepped out and let a sorc heal it was 100% easier, and I have been healing for a very long time... In so many words, "Healing as a BH in pve is not rewarding, and honestly stressful after 1.2"

Have to be honest, you are 100% wrong. Nerfs and buffs are one thing, BREAKING A CLASSES FUNCTION.... that is BAD GAME DESIGN. Learn to stand up for yourself and put your foot down, if I see some guy slapping his wife around in public I don't just stand by and say.... "Well that is his wife, she will just have to learn to deal with it" No, that ***** is wrong and needs to be addressed, the same way these developers keep slapping us in the face. I refuse to be slapped over and over and just sit there with a smile on my face. If I didn't pay a monthly fee I would sit in the back and keep my mouth shut, but the fact I pay a monthly fee for these developers to go and take something that WAS FINE, and then break it based on THEIR half baked belief that the class needed a massive Nerf is BS.,

1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, oh crap there was a darkside choice..... meh....1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, 1 + Spacebar, Please Bioware let us have a feature that turns your MMO back into the classic style where I don't HAVE to deal with spamming 1 + Spacebar, to get the damn mission over with. I am not saying remove the ingame videos with audio.... .just simply let us turn off the movie feature while accepting and turning in missions. Just let us turn it in or take it and move the hell on.

Hmm, I wont lie I feel the same thing. However I wasn't sure what to give credit to for the change. Increase in Expertise has without a doubt made an impact on damage taken, but I don't see the expertise def math at all. Also I feel that we are at a shifting point now where the Healing Debuff in WZs should be reduced and or flat out removed. As it is right now, HEALING just can't keep up the HPS as well as DPS Toss in the fact that our Heat Mechanic now has been so brutally destroyed that we can at best now burst heal for 5 seconds before we are heat capped and left to watch people just MELT around us. As it is right now this class is very frustrating to play, and honestly you have to be carried now with a guard and decent geared player who can peel dps off you.

Full Rakata BH Healer here, been healing since Beta, had a 50 in beta... seen the full evolution of this class. Let me tell you in so many words "They, kicked, us, in, the, NUTS!" This class at best has to be carried now by a Sorc/Op healer. The AOE buff they gave us is a joke when in full Rakata it procs for AT BEST ON A CRIT 2k on average it will hit for 1k..... so 4 targets..... 1k each..... that is a 4k heal split into 4 people..... how the hell does that add up into an AOE heal.... aside from the brutal and swift kick they did to all our Heat mechanics along with healing %.... they pretty much killed BH Healing outside of PVP... and even in PVP if we are being mugged on with no guard.... we melt. A simple truth OP that you cant deny is that the general healing community is upset.... when that happens it isnt some pie in the sky myth that healing is broken, clearly THERE is an issue here that needs to be looked at.

Healing in this game is so unrewarding atm. I really feel it is time to remove the -30% healing debuff in WZs

Nobody said anything about Auto target. If I want to auto target you I will just make a macro on my keyboard that does so. What I want is the ability to not have to WASTE TIME swinging my camera around to find targets that are marked. The limited view from most of the posts in here is frustrating at best.... think outside the box people. This would be an epic addition for HEALING as well. Being able to mark a Main Tank ....or a tank that has guard on you, and quickly select heal him for emergency healing.... these are also things that stem from this targeting system. Stop acting as if all this will do is make it so everybody just 1 shot melts your face, and start realizing that it is a versatile tool that is being gimped currently by poor design.

Development doesn't work the way I think you are assuming it does. There isn't one super team that works on everything, they do have people where their entire job for this game is to refine the installed systems and polish what currently is clunky. THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF THE FEATURES I'M TALKING ABOUT.