Can the crafted rakata gear be reverse engineered? I'm looking at the armortech rakata belts and bracers and they are arguably bis with a augment mod slot, if you could get the Re'd prefix's on them they would be far and away bis (though a pita to make). Just wondering if anyone has made an attempt or seen anything on this.

Crit, then power. I have not found much gear with surge so not sure how effective it is. The argument against alacrity is that it would just increase the amount of filler shots needed to manage heat. Though some have said they notice a increase in speed of heat loss with alacrity. Think more testing is needed with that stat still.

For BH, regardless of AC or spec, Aim is your main stat. Well and endurance obviously for a tank but that's on all gear anyways.

What level are these ratios from? Do the amount of a stat needed per% curve as you gain levels like other games? I would assume they do but not alot of testing done yet.

Np, as i said constructive criticism and defiantly a good starting point when your lower level and getting used to the class. My first few groups all i did was heal cus thats how it was done in all the games ive played before. But Its all a mater of play style and the group your in. Ive actually been surprised at the number of times ive joined a heroic quest and wasn''t the only healer in the group. Lots of Sorc running around heh. Still as i said great guide. Lots of good info for healers on this board.

As is mention above as you level you will get some talent that help manage heat. Any situation that you have to spam rapid scan your going to have heat trouble. Super charged gas is very helpful in this as is the talent that drops the cost of rapid scan after a healing scan. Also make shure you are weaving rapid shots in as well. Even if your tank is down 1/2 health stay calm, hit a rapid shot then your rapid scan. I find when i panic and start spamming heals is when i over heat. When i stay calm and weave rapid shots and dont spam anything i can heal indefinably.

Good guide but I would like to point out a few things I (constructively) disagree with. You mention that during super charged gas to never use rapid scan, but with talents (forget the name) using healing scan lowers the heat cost of your next rapid scan. With this talent the total cost of healing scan + rapid scan is the same as a single rapid scan. Rapid scan also heals for more so its a efficient idea to follow healing with rapid. As for the only healing never damaging i again have to disagree and say its more situational. As a lvl 31 ive found my self in many flash points and heroic quests where the tank just isnt taking much damage. While you can sit there and spam rapid shots on your tank you could just as easily hit the mob with those rapids too (and still stack csc). I feel an empty heat bar is wasted potential. Tabing over and hitting an unload is fine when everyone is topped off and you heat is empty. Obviously dont do so much as to impede your ability to heal if a burst of damage come in, but no reason to heal someone who doesnt need it just cus you like green . Again its situational.

Strange i ran hammer last night (as a BH) and all the drops were force gear. 2 lightsabers, a robe, and something else. Its looks random to me.