Orderken Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 This is an in-depth guide to healing at level 60. Its focus is PVE, but much applies to PVP. To view this guide here: [jumpto=Medicine]Operative – Medicine[/jumpto][jumpto=Sawbones]Scoundrel – Sawbones[/jumpto] To view this guide with enhanced formatting and pictures on Dulfy: Operative – MedicineScoundrel – Sawbones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orderken Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 (edited) [aname=Medicine]Operative – Medicine[/aname] Table of Contents [jumpto=Medicine - Ratings]Ratings[/jumpto] [jumpto=Medicine - Utilities]Utilities[/jumpto] [jumpto=Medicine - Gear]Gear[/jumpto] [jumpto=Medicine - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto] [jumpto=Medicine - Energy and Tactical Advantage]Energy and Tactical Advantage[/jumpto] Abilities[jumpto=Medicine - Heals for a Single Ally]Heals for a Single Ally[/jumpto][jumpto=Medicine - Heals for Multiple Allies]Heals for Multiple Allies[/jumpto][jumpto=Medicine - Dealing Damage]Dealing Damage[/jumpto][jumpto=Medicine - Cooldowns]Cooldowns[/jumpto] [*][jumpto=Medicine - The Stealth Rez]The “Stealth Rez”[/jumpto] [*]Maximizing Your Performance [jumpto=Medicine - User Interface]User Interface[/jumpto][jumpto=Medicine - Datacrons]Datacrons[/jumpto][jumpto=Medicine - Legacy]Legacy[/jumpto][jumpto=Medicine - Consumables]Consumables[/jumpto] [aname=Medicine - Ratings]Ratings[/aname] For Ravagers or Temple of Sacrifice on Hard Mode, Operative is a suitable healing class. Its healing output is the highest, but it has major weaknesses. Handling high damage to a single ally: Fine if this ally has 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe. Weak if this ally doesn’t. In either case, Mercenary and Sorcerer are ahead. Handling high damage to multiple allies: Strong. Mercenary is close. Sorcerer is behind. Resource management: Fine. Like an Operative, a Mercenary must manage resources, and resources limit healing. A Sorcerer’s resource management is trivial and doesn’t limit healing. Synergy with co-healer’s class: Fine. Pairs well with Mercenary or Sorcerer, but Operative-Operative is the weakest pairing. Mobility: Fine. Mercenary is close. A Sorcerer’s mobility is incredible. Handling mechanics: Fine. Sorcerer is close. Mercenary is far ahead, because Hydraulic Overrides outshines every personal utility available to Sorcerer or Operative. Passive damage reduction: Strong. Mercenary is close. Sorcerer is behind, having the lowest Armor and lacking a Utility that increases damage reduction for all area effects by 30%. Dealing damage in the healing Discipline: Weak. Sorcerer and Mercenary are far ahead. [aname=Medicine - Utilities]Utilities[/aname] Skillful Nanotech Suit: Reduces damage taken from area effects by 30%.Chem-resistant Inlays: Increases damage reduction by 5%.Infiltrator: Increases movement speed by 15% and effective stealth level by 3. Masterful Med Shield: Shield Probe heals you for 5% of your maximum health when it ends.Endorphin Rush: Adrenaline Probe recharges an additional 15 Energy immediately. Heroic Evasive Imperative: At most once every 1.5 seconds, being attacked reduces any remaining cooldown of Evasion by 3 seconds.Revitalizers: Stim Boost grants Revitalizers for 15 seconds. Revitalizers heals you for 5% of your maximum health every third second and increases damage reduction by 20%.Augmented Shields: Increases the amount of damage that Shield Probe can absorb by 30%.Escape Plan: Reduces the cooldown of Shield Probe by 5 seconds, Escape by 30 seconds, and Infiltrate by 60 seconds. Except as noted below, in general, Augmented Shields > Escape Plan > Revitalizers. If a fight, such as Bulo, has adds with Ranged or Melee attacks (i.e., white damage), consider Evasive Imperative.For Revan, select Augmented Shields and Revitalizers. [aname=Medicine - Gear]Gear[/aname] Optimal gear for a typical Operative healer follows. For further discussion, or if you wish to optimize gear for your healing, see my Model. Set Bonus SOR 4-Piece Field Medic’s and Dread Master 2-Piece Field Medic’s. The SOR 6-Piece reduces the cooldown of Kolto Waves from 10 seconds to 9 seconds. This Set Bonus is almost always worthless, because it’s unlikely to increase the number of times that you activate Kolto Waves. The Dread Master 2-Piece increases the healing done by Recuperative Nanotech by 15%. This Set Bonus is more valuable than any other available to an Operative healer. Having two pre-SOR Armorings sacrifices Cunning, Endurance, and Armor, but is well worth it.Having two Dread Master rather than Revanite Armorings increases your expected total healing about 3.3%. Even having two Arkanian rather than Revanite Armorings increases your expected total healing about 2.8%.To minimize Armor lost, prefer Hands and Feet for the pre-SOR 2-Piece. Augments Power > Cunning, but the difference is small (0.125% for all 14). Power versus Critical With 14 Power Augments, the amount of Critical that maximizes expected healing is about 375 in Resurrected gear or 439 in Revanite gear.With 14 Cunning Augments, the amount of Critical that maximizes expected healing is about 357 in Resurrected gear or 421 in Revanite gear. Alacrity versus Surge Among your Ear, Implants, and Enhancements, 3 have Surge and 7 have Alacrity. Relics Among relics of the same tier, Serendipitous Assault >= Focused Retribution > any other. Accuracy None. Accuracy has no effect on healing an ally. [aname=Medicine - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/aname] In combat, no rotation is ideal for long. A healer’s job is triage. Decide who most needs your next heal by anticipating damage and cooperating with your co-healer. Guidelines for choosing your next ability follow. Maintain 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe on each tank at all times.In general, refresh each tank’s Kolto Probe with Surgical Probe. [*]Until you can rely on your sense of Kolto Probe’s duration, you may wish to set a tank as your Focus Target. [*]Use Kolto Infusion almost on cooldown and almost always on a tank. Including its HOT, it heals for about the same amount as a Kolto Injection that crits.Its HOT is unlikely to overheal an ally taking frequent damage.Spending a Tactical Advantage on Kolto Infusion helps you maintain Tactical Medicine. [*]Use Recuperative Nanotech almost on cooldown. Prefer to have at least one tank within range of each Recuperative Nanotech. [*]Plan ahead to reach close to 4 allies with Recuperative Nanotech. Most often, this means targeting a melee DPS oryourself, after positioning yourself to be its hub. [*]Burst healing a single ally An ally with 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe [*]An ally with exactly 1 stack of your Kolto Probe. If you have Field Medic’s Critical Bonus, Kolto Injection.Otherwise, Kolto Probe + steps for an ally with 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe. [*]An ally without your Kolto Probe. In general, Kolto Injection.If he might die before Kolto Injection finishes, Surgical Probe. You’re ill-equipped to assist this ally. Your co-healer must assist immediately. [*]Reserve Stim Boost for burst healing a single ally, especially one without 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe. [*]In general, use Surgical Probe immediately after Kolto Injection. This is sensible resource management. [*]If the ally whom you healed with Kolto Injection has 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe, Kolto Injection + Surgical Probe is good burst. [*]If the ally whom you healed with Kolto Injection doesn’t have 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe, Surgical Probe a tank who’s not at full health and has 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe. [*]Kolto Waves is situational. Kolto Waves is a terrible use of time and Energy unless it heals at least two allies. Furthermore, unless it heals at least three, prefer to spread, stack, or refresh Kolto Probe instead.Kolto Waves versus Recuperative Nanotech [*]With your ample remaining time, spread, stack, or refresh Kolto Probe among non-tanks. Kolto Probe is ideal for topping up non-tanks.Kolto Probe prepares non-tanks for imminent AOE damage.Kolto Probe allows you to invest “excess” Energy (i.e., passive regeneration that would be lost, because you can’t exceed 100 Energy).Among non-tanks, prioritize those whom you expect to The Story-Mode Hero This approach’s one and only goal is maximizing HPS. In Revanite gear, it can sustain up to 13k HPS without cooldowns. It’s appropriate from time to time, such as for the final phase of Titan 6 or Dread Council. In general, however, it’s a tremendous disservice to yourself, your co-healer, and your Operation group, because it replaces the keen triage, burst EHPS, and teamwork with one’s co-healer that are the hallmarks of progression healing with mindless HPS farming. Maintain 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe on 8 allies at all times. For each “round”, refresh as many as possible with Surgical Probe, which is about 3 or 4 out of the 8, and refresh the remainder with Kolto Probe. Sprinkle two or three abilities unrelated to refreshing your Kolto Probes into each round.Below are a few of many examples. [*]In each round, the abilities unrelated to refreshing your Kolto Probes must have activation times (before Alacrity) that total at least 3 second, ensuring that you don’t clip the penultimate tick of your Kolto Probes, andtotal not more than about 5.1 second, ensuring that none of your Kolto Probes expire. [*]If circumstances cause the next ally in your refresh order to lose your Kolto Probe, move on. Having 7 allies with 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe is preferable to having 8 allies with only 1 stack.For this ally whom you’ve passed over, in general, restack your Kolto Probe once each round on schedule. [aname=Medicine – Energy and Tactical Advantage]Energy and Tactical Advantage[/aname] Energy Management Each second, you regenerate Energy: 6 if your Energy is 60-100; 3.6 if 20-59; or 2.4 if 0-19. Having 60 or higher Energy almost all of the time is crucial. If your Energy is high, Surgical Probe helps you avoid or defer Diagnostic Scan. [*]If healing isn’t challenging, use Diagnostic Scan before an activation that otherwise would drop your Energy below 60. The GCD that Diagnostic Scan triggers will finish just before its second tick. If you must cancel it to activate another ability, in general, allow its second tick to occur.If your Energy is 60 or higher, you gain about [*]If your Energy will fall below 60, because an ally is in peril or healing is challenging, you have two options. If the present emergency should be brief, and if healing afterward should be manageable for your co-healer, you can recharge with consecutive Diagnostic Scans. While Energy is 20-59, you gain about 11 Energy with a full channel.Otherwise, activate Adrenaline Probe after your Energy falls to or below 35. Tactical Advantage You gain Tactical Advantage as follows.Healing with Kolto Injection grants 1 charge.Each heal from your HOTs (Kolto Probe, Kolto Infusion, or Recuperative Nanotech) or from Kolto Waves has a 30% chance to proc 1 charge. This proc can occur at most once every 6 seconds (Alacrity reduces this).Activating Stim Boost grants 1 charge.Exiting stealth grants 2 charges.Attacking with Backstab from stealth or with Shiv grants 1 charge. [*]You may have up to 3 charges of Tactical Advantage. Charges last 24 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this), and gaining a charge refreshes this duration. [*]These abilities cost 1 Tactical Advantage. Surgical Probe. But it immediately refunds the Tactical Advantage that it costs, unless this refund has occurred in the past 10 seconds (Alacrity reduces this).Kolto InfusionCarbine BurstTactical Superiority [*]Have at least 1 Tactical Advantage at all times, in case you need it for Surgical Probe. [*]Spending a Tactical Advantage on a heal (i.e., on Kolto Infusion or Surgical Probe) grants you Tactical Medicine. This buff increases your healing done by 3%.It lasts 6 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).You’ll have this buff almost all of the time if you use Kolto Infusion and Surgical Probe as discussed in [jumpto=Medicine - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto]. Abilities The Sections below described and offer advice about each ability. Unless noted, Alacrity reduces every figure related to time. [aname=Medicine - Heals for a Single Ally]Heals for a Single Ally[/aname] See my Model for activation times or healing amounts with gear that you select. Kolto Probe Description Kolto Probe is instant, has no cooldown, and costs 10 Energy.An ally may have up to 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe.Using Kolto Probe on an ally without your Kolto Probe grants him 1 stack. This HOT heals him 6 times, once every third second for 18 seconds.Using Kolto Probe on an ally with 1 stack of your Kolto Probe grants him a second stack and refreshes your Kolto Probe’s duration. This HOT heals him 7 times, immediately and once every third second for 18 seconds. The amount of each heal is double what it’d be from 1 stack. Use The ability that you use more times than any other.For further discussion, see [jumpto=Medicine - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto]. Kolto Injection Description Kolto Injection is a 2-second cast, has no cooldown, and costs 20 Energy.It heals a large amount.Each completed cast grants 1 Tactical Advantage.Field Medic’s Critical Bonus, a buff from the SOR 2-Piece Field Medic’s Set, causes your next Kolto Injection to crit. Use Healing a single ally whose health is low.For further discussion, see [jumpto=Medicine - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto] > #4. Kolto Infusion Description Kolto Infusion is a 1.5-second cast and has a 9-second cooldown.It costs 20 Energy, or 18 Energy with the SOR 4-Piece Field Medic’s Set, and 1 Tactical Advantage.It heals a moderate amount immediately and grants a HOT that heals 9 times, once every second for 9 seconds. In total, it heals for a very large amount. Spending a Tactical Advantage on it grants you Tactical Medicine, which increases your healing done by 3% for 6 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this). Upon being healed by Kolto Infusion, an ally receives Resistant, which increases internal and elemental damage reduction by 3% for 45 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).Resistant doesn’t stack, regardless of the number of healers giving this buff. Use Ideal for healing tanks.For further discussion, see [jumpto=Medicine - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto] > #2. Surgical Probe Description Surgical Probe is instant and has no cooldown.It costs 5 Energy and 1 Tactical Advantage. But it immediately refunds the Tactical Advantage that it costs, unless this refund has occurred in the past 10 seconds.If an ally has 2 stacks of Kolto Probe, healing him with Surgical Probe immediately refreshes Kolto Probe at no additional cost.On its own, Surgical Probe heals a moderate amount. With the immediate heal from refreshing 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe, it heals a good amount for an instant ability. Spending a Tactical Advantage on it grants you Tactical Medicine, which increases your healing done by 3% for 6 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this). Use Refreshing 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe.Burst healing a single ally.Energy management.For further discussion of a use above, see [jumpto=Medicine - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto] or [jumpto=Medicine - Energy and Tactical Advantage]Energy and Tactical Advantage[/jumpto]. Diagnostic Scan Description Diagnostic Scan is a 2.1-second channel and has no cooldown.It has no cost. Each time it crits, it recharges 2 Energy.As a channel, it’s immune to pushback.It heals 3 times, but not immediately. A full channel heals a moderate amount. Use Energy management.For further discussion, see [jumpto=Medicine - Energy and Tactical Advantage]Energy and Tactical Advantage[/jumpto]. Shield Probe Description Shield Probe is off the GCD and has no cost.Its cooldown is 30 seconds, or 25 seconds with Utility: Escape Plan (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).It can absorb a large amount of damage for you, and only you, for up to 10 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).With Utility: Med Shield, Shield Probe heals you for 5% of your maximum health when it ends. Use Learn to love Shield Probe. It’s off the GCD, has no cost, absorbs more than a Sorcerer’s Static Barrier with Utility: Augmented Shields, and heals you with Utility: Med Shield. Toxin Scan Description Toxin Scan is instant, has a 12-second cooldown, and costs 10 Energy.It cleanses up to two physical, mental, or tech effects and provides a small heal. Use For PVE, when Toxin Scan can cleanse an effect, it’s almost always better to cleanse it than heal through it.For PVP, Toxin Scan cleanses certain CCs. [aname=Medicine - Heals for Multiple Allies]Heals for Multiple Allies[/aname] See my Model for activation times or healing amounts with gear that you select. In SOR, every ability that may heal multiple allies in one activation is “smart”. If more allies are within range than the ability can heal, the ability selects those allies whose percentage of maximum health is lowest. Kolto Waves Description Kolto Waves is a 3-second channel. Its cooldown is 10 seconds, or 9 seconds with the SOR 6-Piece Field Medic’s Set.It heals up to 8 allies up to 4 times, including immediately. Each wave costs 7 Energy.Its radius is 8 meters.As a channel, it’s immune to pushback.A full channel heals a large amount. Use The GCD that Kolto Waves triggers finishes halfway between its second and third ticks. If you must cancel it to activate another ability, always allow its second tick, and consider allowing its third tick, to occur.For further discussion, see [jumpto=Medicine - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto]. Recuperative Nanotech Description Recuperative Nanotech is instant, has a 15-second cooldown, and costs 20 Energy.Its target is the ally whom you’re targeting or, otherwise, you.It grants a HOT that heals 10 times, immediately and once every second for 9 seconds, to the target and up to 3 other allies, each of whom is in line-of-sight and 10 meters of the target.In total, it heals a very large amount. Upon being healed by Recuperative Nanotech, an ally receives Invigorated, which increases his healing received by 3% for 45 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).Invigorated doesn’t stack, regardless of the number of healers giving this buff. Use For an AOE heal, it’s very good for tanks.For further discussion, see [jumpto=Medicine - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto]. [aname=Medicine - Dealing Damage]Dealing Damage[/aname] Capitalize on every opportunity to deal damage. In general, the priority for dealing damage is as follows. For a single target: Corrosive Dart > Backstab > Shiv > Snipe > Rifle Shot. In general, Rifle Shot has the highest priority if your Energy would fall below 60 otherwise.For multiple targets: Fragmentation Grenade > Carbine Burst Corrosive Dart Corrosive Dart is instant, has no cooldown, and costs 15 Energy.It’s a DOT that ticks 7 times, immediately and once every third second for 18 seconds.For PVE, maintaining this DOT is straightforward if you set the boss as your Focus Target and adjust your [jumpto=Medicine - User Interface]User Interface[/jumpto]. Shiv Shiv is instant, has a 6-second cooldown, and costs 15 Energy.Its range is 4 meters.Attacking with it grants you 1 Tactical Advantage even if your target resists it. Backstab Backstab is instant, has a 12-second cooldown, and costs 15 Energy.Its range is 4 meters. You can’t attack a target with it if this target is facing you (a 90 degree angle).If you attack with it from stealth, it grants you 1 Tactical Advantage even if your target resists it and can deals more damage.This is an excellent opener when your group enters combat. It allows you to begin a fight with a high-DPS attack and 3 Tactical Advantage (2 from exiting stealth). Snipe Snipe is a 1.5-second cast, has no cooldown, and costs 20 Energy. Rifle Shot Rifle Shot is instant, has no cooldown, and has no cost. Fragmentation Grenade Fragmentation Grenade is instant, has a 6-second cooldown, and costs 20 Energy.It attacks your target and up to 7 other enemies within 5 meters of your target. Carbine Burst Carbine Burst is instant, has no cooldown, and costs 15 Energy and 1 Tactical Advantage.It attacks up to 8 enemies within a “cone” in front of you. This cone has a radius of 10 meters and a central angle of 45 degrees. [aname=Medicine - Cooldowns]Cooldowns[/aname] Stim Boost Description Stim Boost is off the GCD and has a 2-minute cooldown.Activating it grants 1 Tactical Advantage and increases Alacrity by 10% for 15 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this). Use Reserve Stim Boost for burst healing a single ally, especially one without 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe. Adrenaline Probe Description Adrenaline Probe is off the GCD and has a 2-minute cooldown.It recharges up to 50 Energy over 3 seconds.With Utility: Endorphin Rush, it recharges an additional 15 Energy immediately. Use Energy management.For further discussion, see Section “Energy and Tactical Advantage”. Cloaking Screen Description Cloaking Screen is off the GCD. Its cooldown is 2 minutes, or 90 seconds with Utility: Advanced Cloaking. Use For a stealth rez, as discussed in Section “The ‘Stealth Rez’”.To lower your threat to zero with each enemy. Prefer Countermeasures, so that Cloaking Screen remains available for a stealth rez.For PVE, it’s very rare to be Tactical Advantage-starved while healing. If you have exactly 1 charge, however, and you’re certain that you can save an ally only by two consecutive Surgical Probes, hit Cloaking Screen immediately before the Surgical Probe that otherwise would spend your final Tactical Advantage. This is a desperate move. You should be confident that you can’t proc another Tactical Advantage in time from HOTs, that your next Surgical Probe can’t refund a Tactical Advantage, and that this use of Cloaking Screen is preferable to letting this ally die and using Cloaking Screen for his stealth rez. [aname=Medicine - Other]Other[/aname] Exfiltrate Exfiltrate is instant. It has a 10-second cooldown if, and only if, you reactivate it in less than 10 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce these).It rolls you up to 12 meters in your camera’s direction.While rolling, your chance to dodge Ranged or Melee attacks (i.e., white damage) increases by 30%. Evasion Evasion is off the GCD and has a 1-minute cooldown (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).It increases your chance to dodge Ranged or Melee attacks (i.e., white damage) by 200% for 3 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).Activating it purges all removable enemy effects. Crouch, Take Cover Each is off the GCD and has its own 1-second cooldown.For Hateful Entity, the secret boss in Operation: Scum and Villainy, each grants you immunity to this boss’s area pull and area knockback effects, though not to the single-target knockback effect of Dread Touch. Countermeasures Countermeasures is off the GCD and has a 45-second cooldown (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).For PVE, it lowers your threat with each enemy by 25%. Use it proactively, especially after adds spawn. Flash Bang Flash Bang is instant and has a 1-minute cooldown. It has a range of 10 meters.Using this on an enemy blinds it, and up to 7 other enemies within 5 meters of it, for 8 seconds. Damage breaks this blind.For PVE, including Grob’Thok or Revanite Commanders, an AOE CC can be useful for adds. Tactical Superiority Tactical Superiority is off the GCD, has a 5-minute cooldown (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this), and costs 1 Tactical Advantage.It buffs every Operation group member within 40 meters. This buff increases Critical Chance by 10% for 10 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this). [aname=Medicine - The Stealth Rez]The “Stealth Rez”[/aname] Exiting combat with Cloaking Screen gives you the opportunity to resurrect a fallen ally with Revive, salvaging a boss kill or a speed run. Resurrecting an ally with Resuscitation Probe, Onboard AED (Mercenary), or Reanimation (Sorcerer) debuffs every group member. This debuff prevents further use of these abilities for 5 minutes, but doesn’t prevent a stealth rez. In addition, a stealth rez doesn’t apply this debuff to any group member. Therefore, a stealth rez is limited only by (1) Cloaking Screen and (2) your ability to finish Revive, a 6-second cast, before reentering combat. The following can cause you to reenter combat. When you use Cloaking Screen, an ally in combat has a HOT from you, including if he has full health or hasn’t yet been healed by this HOT.When you use Cloaking Screen, an enemy has a DOT from you, including if this DOT hasn’t yet attacked it.After using Cloaking Screen, you affect an ally in combat or attack an enemy. Examples follow.You give an ally in combat who has full health 1 stack of Kolto Probe, which won’t heal him 3 seconds.You heal an ally in combat with Recuperative Nanotech or Kolto Waves though you weren’t target him.You grant Tactical Superiority to an ally in combat. [*]An attack hits you. [*]An enemy reenters combat or a new enemy enter combat (e.g., adds spawn). The following won’t cause you to reenter combat. Healing yourself or an ally who’s not in combat.Gaining a Tactical Advantage.Receiving an effect from an ally in combat, including a buff (e.g., Bloodthirst or Ballistic Shield) or a heal (including from an Annihilation Marauder in your Party).An ally having a buff from you, such as Invigorated or Resistant, that he had before you used Cloaking Screen.Dodging an attack, including with Evasion.Canceling a cast that had an ally in combat or an enemy as its target. Executing a Stealth Rez – Best Practices Inform your group. Use Kolto Probe on yourself. This fresh Kolto Probe serves as a timer for when you may use Cloaking Screen. Continue to heal allies, but use only Kolto Injection, Kolto Waves, or Diagnostic Scan. You may cleanse with Toxin Scan, as well. Before the Kolto Probe on yourself expires, locate the body of a fallen ally. You must be nearby, because Revive’s range is 10 meters. Immediately after the Kolto Probe on yourself expires, [*]If AOE damage is about to occur, instruct the ally whom you’ll Revive not to accept until you’ve given permission. [*]If, after completing Revive’s cast, there’s another fallen ally, immediately cast Revive on him. If he’s more than 10 meters from you, use Exfiltrate to close this gap. You may Revive an unlimited number of fallen allies until you’ve reentered combat. Executing a Stealth Rez – Advanced Tactics As noted below, you may attempt a stealth rez sooner than described in Best Practices #2. [*]As noted below, you may use abilities other than those listed in Best Practices #3. The duration of Kolto Infusion or Recuperative Nanotech is half the duration of Kolto Probe. Therefore, you may use either while the Kolto Probe that’s your timer has more than half of its duration (i.e., 4+ ticks) remaining.You may use Surgical Probe on an ally who doesn’t have 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe. [*]If you know that there won’t be AOE damage that might hit you, there’s no need to use Evasion after Cloaking Screen. [*]If more than one ally has died, but damage will prevent you from using Revive for all of them, spearhead a “chain rez”. Instruct an ally whom you’ll Revive not to accept until after this damage has occurred.Further instruct him to use his Revive on another fallen ally before he reenters combat. Additional Advice If Resuscitation Probe is available, in general, don’t attempt a stealth rez in the following circumstances.The fallen ally is your only co-healer.The fallen ally is a tank, and [*]The fallen ally is a DPS, and the present phase, or fight as a whole, requires the fallen ally’s DPS. [*]Your co-healer is unlikely to keep everyone alive while your HOTs fall off or you’re casting Revive. [*]When in doubt, try it. If it fails, use Resuscitation Probe. Later, determine why this attempt failed, so that your next attempt during combat with this boss is more likely to succeed. [*]Know when and where AOE damage will occur. Even if Evasion is available, it lasts for 3 seconds, only about half of the time that Revive requires.Evasion dodges only Ranged or Melee attacks (i.e., white damage), and offers no defense against Force or Tech attacks (i.e., yellow damage). [*]Know when adds spawn. [*]In many fights, you may need to wait until a specific time or phase for a successful stealth rez. Maximizing Your Performance [aname=Medicine - User Interface]User Interface[/aname] Tailor your UI for healing. These choices are personal, but consider the recommendations below. All crucial, time-sensitive information should be visible simultaneously. Therefore, Operation Frames, Action Bars, and Player Castbar should be adjacent and just below your character’s feet. Configure these using the Interface Editor. Under Preferences > User Interface, enable “Show Cooldown Text”. Use the Interface Editor to configure your Operation Frames. [*]Using the Interface Editor, enable Focus Target and Focus Target Castbar. Certain bosses have casts or channels that deal substantial damage to allies. [*]Using the Interface Editor, for the Player Buff Tray, enable Highlight Options > “Highlight Effects” and Sort Options > “Personal Effects”. This makes it easy to see your procs. [*]Using the Interface Editor, for the Target Frame and Focus Target, enable Highlight Options > “Highlight Buffs” and “Highlight Debuffs” and Sort Options > “Personal Buffs” and “Personal Debuffs”. This makes it easy to see your effects, such as a HOT on an ally or a DOT on an enemy. [aname=Medicine - Datacrons]Datacrons[/aname] Gain up to 50 points of these stats through Datacrons. CunningEndurance [aname=Medicine - Legacy]Legacy[/aname] To increase each stat below by 1% for every character in your Legacy and Faction, complete all of the quests that one of the listed companions can offer. Accuracy – Skadge, Scorpio, Khem Val, or BroonmarkCritical – Gault, Ensign Temple, Andronikos, or VetteHealing received – Mako, Doctor Lokin, Talos Drellik, or Malavai QuinnMaximum health – Blizz, Kaliyo, Xalek, or Lt. PierceSurge – Torian, Vector, Ashara, or Jaesa Though optimal gear for healing has no Accuracy, increasing Accuracy through this Legacy perk helps you interrupt, crowd control, or deal damage. [aname=Medicine - Consumables]Consumables[/aname] Unless noted, Alacrity reduces every figure related to time. Stim An Advanced Anodyne Skill Stim (purple quality) provides 198 Cunning and 81 Power for 8 hours (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this). Adrenal An Adrenal increases a stat for 15 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this) and is off the GCD. The cooldown shared across all Adrenals is 3 minutes.For PVE, an Advanced Anodyne Triage Adrenal (purple quality) increases Tech Power by 750.For PVP, a Warzone Adrenal increases Damage Reduction by 15%. Medpac A Medpac heals you and is off the GCD. A Medpac can’t crit.PVEThe cooldown shared across all Medpacs usable outside of a Warzone or Arena is (a) the remainder of your present combat or (b) 90 seconds, whichever is longer.An Advanced Anodyne Medpac restores 7535 to 7892 health immediately and an additional 2875 health over 15 seconds. [*]PVP – A Warzone Medpac restores 35% of your maximum health and has a 90-second cooldown. Grenades A Grenade is an instant ability. The cooldown shared across all Grenades is 3 minutes.PVE – Grenades that stun or root can be useful for certain adds, such as during Styrak on Nightmare Mode, Grob’Thok with Nightmare Power, or Revanite Commanders.PVP – Grenades are very useful.A player affected by one or more of a Grenade’s effects receives Bastioned, a buff that grants immunity to all effects of further Grenades for 3 minutes (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this). Bastioned doesn’t persist through death.If a Grenade has a stun or unconscious effect, this effect respects resolve. Set “Buff Scale” as low as possible. Increase “Debuff Scale” until debuffs are prominent.For your usual Operation group, disable “Show Health Text”. This is clutter rather than useful information.Disable “Show Only Removable Debuffs”. Debuffs that may deal substantial damage to allies often aren’t removable.both tanks are required, ora tank swap is approaching.If you know which ally has the HOT from you with the longest time remaining, you may use him as your timer, rather than a fresh Kolto Probe on yourself.Alternatively, instruct your group members to click off all HOTs from you. (You don’t need to click off HOTs on yourself.)remove any DOTs from yourself with Toxin Scan or, if necessary, Evasion,target a fallen ally, andCloaking Screen > if available, Evasion > Revive.16 Energy with a full channel or11 Energy with a channel canceled upon its second tick.If your Energy is 65 or higher, you gain about 4 Energy with each Surgical Probe.Unfortunately, if your Energy is 25-64, Surgical Probe is Energy-neutral.For an Energy-negative round, Kolto Waves and Recuperative Nanotech.For an Energy-positive round, Kolto Waves and Diagnostic Scan.For an Energy-neutral round, Kolto Waves canceled as the GCD finishes, Recuperative Nanotech, and Diagnostic Scan canceled as the GCD finishes.take damage more times than other non-tanks (e.g., the DPS kiting Raptus during Dread Council),take more damage than other non-tanks (e.g., a Sorcerer, who has Light Armor and no Utility to reduce all AOE damage by 30%), orbe out of your range more often than other non-tanks.You can use both, rather than just one. For example, if melee (including tanks) have Recuperative Nanotech, look for an opportunity to Kolto Waves ranged (including healers).Prefer Kolto Waves if your group is stacked or burst matters. For example, Kolto Waves > Recuperative Nanotech for topping up allies before the end of Underlurker’s Cross.Though Recuperative Nanotech heals much slower than Kolto Waves, it often provides greater total healing.If Recuperative Nanotech heals 4, Kolto Waves must heal 6 with every wave to match its total healing.If Recuperative Nanotech heals 3 or 4, Kolto Waves can’t match its total healing relative to activation time (HPCT).Kolto Injection grants 1 charge of Tactical Advantage.Using Surgical Probe with 65 or higher Energy allows you to regain up to half of the net Energy cost of Kolto Injection.In general, Kolto Injection + Surgical Probe. Repeat if necessary.If he might die before Kolto Injection finishes, Surgical Probe until this isn’t the case.If he’s a tank, substitute Kolto Infusion for Kolto Injection unless you have Field Medic’s Critical Bonus.A HOT is unlikely to overheal an ally taking frequent damage.Recuperative Nanotech grants Invigorated, which increases healing received by 3%. This buff is more valuable for tanks than non-tanks.Unless your entire group stacks, which is uncommon, reaching a tank sacrifices less of Recuperative Nanotech’s potential healing than Kolto Waves’.Surgical Probe costs half as much Energy as Kolto Probe.Surgical Probe provides additional healing.Spending a Tactical Advantage on Surgical Probe helps you maintain Tactical Medicine, which buffs your healing done by 3% for 6 seconds. Edited April 13, 2015 by Orderken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Orderken Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 (edited) [aname=Sawbones]Scoundrel – Sawbones[/aname] Table of Contents [jumpto=Sawbones - Ratings]Ratings[/jumpto] [jumpto=Sawbones - Utilities]Utilities[/jumpto] [jumpto=Sawbones - Gear]Gear[/jumpto] [jumpto=Sawbones - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto] [jumpto=Sawbones - Energy and Upper Hand]Energy and Upper Hand[/jumpto] Abilities[jumpto=Sawbones - Heals for a Single Ally]Heals for a Single Ally[/jumpto][jumpto=Sawbones - Heals for Multiple Allies]Heals for Multiple Allies[/jumpto][jumpto=Sawbones - Dealing Damage]Dealing Damage[/jumpto][jumpto=Sawbones - Cooldowns]Cooldowns[/jumpto] [*][jumpto=Sawbones - The Stealth Rez]The “Stealth Rez”[/jumpto] [*]Maximizing Your Performance [jumpto=Sawbones - User Interface]User Interface[/jumpto][jumpto=Sawbones - Datacrons]Datacrons[/jumpto][jumpto=Sawbones - Legacy]Legacy[/jumpto][jumpto=Sawbones - Consumables]Consumables[/jumpto] [aname=Sawbones - Ratings]Ratings[/aname] For Ravagers or Temple of Sacrifice on Hard Mode, Scoundrel is a suitable healing class. Its healing output is the highest, but it has major weaknesses. Handling high damage to a single ally: Fine if this ally has 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac. Weak if this ally doesn’t. In either case, Commando and Sage are ahead. Handling high damage to multiple allies: Strong. Commando is close. Sage is behind. Resource management: Fine. Like a Scoundrel, a Commando must manage resources, and resources limit healing. A Sage’s resource management is trivial and doesn’t limit healing. Synergy with co-healer’s class: Fine. Pairs well with Commando or Sage, but Scoundrel-Scoundrel is the weakest pairing. Mobility: Fine. Commando is close. A Sage’s mobility is incredible. Handling mechanics: Fine. Sage is close. Commando is far ahead, because Hydraulic Overrides outshines every personal utility available to Sage or Scoundrel. Passive damage reduction: Strong. Commando is close. Sage is behind, having the lowest Armor and lacking a Utility that increases damage reduction for all area effects by 30%. Dealing damage in the healing Discipline: Weak. Sage and Commando are far ahead. [aname=Sawbones - Utilities]Utilities[/aname] Skillful Smuggled Get-up: Reduces damage taken from area effects by 30%.Scar Tissue: Increases damage reduction by 5%.Sneaky: Increases movement speed by 15% and effective stealth level by 3. Masterful Med Screen: Defense Screen heals you for 5% of your maximum health when it ends.Keep Cool: Cool Head recharges an additional 15 Energy immediately. Heroic Scramble: At most once every 1.5 seconds, being attacked reduces any remaining cooldown of Dodge by 3 seconds.Surprise Comeback: Pugnacity grants Surprise Comeback for 15 seconds. Surprise Comeback heals you for 5% of your maximum health every third second and increases damage reduction by 20%.Hotwired Defenses: Increases the amount of damage that Defense Screen can absorb by 30%.Smuggled Defenses: Reduces the cooldown of Defense Screen by 5 seconds, Escape by 30 seconds, and Infiltrate by 60 seconds. Except as noted below, in general, Hotwired Defenses > Smuggled Defenses > Surprise Comeback. If a fight, such as Bulo, has adds with Ranged or Melee attacks (i.e., white damage), consider Scramble.For Revan, select Hotwired Defenses and Surprise Comeback. [aname=Sawbones - Gear]Gear[/aname] Optimal gear for a typical Scoundrel healer follows. For further discussion, or if you wish to optimize gear for your healing, see my Model. Set Bonus SOR 4-Piece Field Medic’s and Dread Master 2-Piece Field Medic’s. The SOR 6-Piece reduces the cooldown of Kolto Waves from 10 seconds to 9 seconds. This Set Bonus is almost always worthless, because it’s unlikely to increase the number of times that you activate Kolto Waves. The Dread Master 2-Piece increases the healing done by Kolto Cloud by 15%. This Set Bonus is more valuable than any other available to a Scoundrel healer. Having two pre-SOR Armorings sacrifices Cunning, Endurance, and Armor, but is well worth it.Having two Dread Master rather than Revanite Armorings increases your expected total healing about 3.3%. Even having two Arkanian rather than Revanite Armorings increases your expected total healing about 2.8%.To minimize Armor lost, prefer Hands and Feet for the pre-SOR 2-Piece. Augments Power > Cunning, but the difference is small (0.125% for all 14). Power versus Critical With 14 Power Augments, the amount of Critical that maximizes expected healing is about 375 in Resurrected gear or 439 in Revanite gear.With 14 Cunning Augments, the amount of Critical that maximizes expected healing is about 357 in Resurrected gear or 421 in Revanite gear. Alacrity versus Surge Among your Ear, Implants, and Enhancements, 3 have Surge and 7 have Alacrity. Relics Among relics of the same tier, Serendipitous Assault >= Focused Retribution > any other. Accuracy None. Accuracy has no effect on healing an ally. [aname=Sawbones - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/aname] In combat, no rotation is ideal for long. A healer’s job is triage. Decide who most needs your next heal by anticipating damage and cooperating with your co-healer. Guidelines for choosing your next ability follow. Maintain 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac on each tank at all times.In general, refresh each tank’s Slow-release Medpac with Emergency Medpac. [*]Until you can rely on your sense of Slow-release Medpac’s duration, you may wish to set a tank as your Focus Target. [*]Use Kolto Pack almost on cooldown and almost always on a tank. Including its HOT, it heals for about the same amount as a Underworld Medicine that crits.Its HOT is unlikely to overheal an ally taking frequent damage.Spending an Upper Hand on Kolto Pack helps you maintain Bedside Manner. [*]Use Kolto Cloud almost on cooldown. Prefer to have at least one tank within range of each Kolto Cloud. [*]Plan ahead to reach close to 4 allies with Kolto Cloud. Most often, this means targeting a melee DPS oryourself, after positioning yourself to be its hub. [*]Burst healing a single ally An ally with 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac [*]An ally with exactly 1 stack of your Slow-release Medpac. If you have Field Medic’s Critical Bonus, Underworld Medicine.Otherwise, Slow-release Medpac + steps for an ally with 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac. [*]An ally without your Slow-release Medpac. In general, Underworld Medicine.If he might die before Underworld Medicine finishes, Emergency Medpac. You’re ill-equipped to assist this ally. Your co-healer must assist immediately. [*]Reserve Pugnacity for burst healing a single ally, especially one without 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac. [*]In general, use Emergency Medpac immediately after Underworld Medicine. This is sensible resource management. [*]If the ally whom you healed with Underworld Medicine has 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac, Underworld Medicine + Emergency Medpac is good burst. [*]If the ally whom you healed with Underworld Medicine doesn’t have 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac, Emergency Medpac a tank who’s not at full health and has 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac. [*]Kolto Waves is situational. Kolto Waves is a terrible use of time and Energy unless it heals at least two allies. Furthermore, unless it heals at least three, prefer to spread, stack, or refresh Slow-release Medpac instead.Kolto Waves versus Kolto Cloud [*]With your ample remaining time, spread, stack, or refresh Slow-release Medpac among non-tanks. Slow-release Medpac is ideal for topping up non-tanks.Slow-release Medpac prepares non-tanks for imminent AOE damage.Slow-release Medpac allows you to invest “excess” Energy (i.e., passive regeneration that would be lost, because you can’t exceed 100 Energy).Among non-tanks, prioritize those whom you expect to The Story-Mode Hero This approach’s one and only goal is maximizing HPS. In Revanite gear, it can sustain up to 13k HPS without cooldowns. It’s appropriate from time to time, such as for the final phase of Titan 6 or Dread Council. In general, however, it’s a tremendous disservice to yourself, your co-healer, and your Operation group, because it replaces the keen triage, burst EHPS, and teamwork with one’s co-healer that are the hallmarks of progression healing with mindless HPS farming. Maintain 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac on 8 allies at all times. For each “round”, refresh as many as possible with Emergency Medpac, which is about 3 or 4 out of the 8, and refresh the remainder with Slow-release Medpac. Sprinkle two or three abilities unrelated to refreshing your Slow-release Medpacs into each round.Below are a few of many examples. [*]In each round, the abilities unrelated to refreshing your Slow-release Medpacs must have activation times (before Alacrity) that total at least 3 second, ensuring that you don’t clip the penultimate tick of your Slow-release Medpacs, andtotal not more than about 5.1 second, ensuring that none of your Slow-release Medpacs expire. [*]If circumstances cause the next ally in your refresh order to lose your Slow-release Medpac, move on. Having 7 allies with 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac is preferable to having 8 allies with only 1 stack.For this ally whom you’ve passed over, in general, restack your Slow-release Medpac once each round on schedule. [aname=Sawbones – Energy and Upper Hand]Energy and Upper Hand[/aname] Energy Management Each second, you regenerate Energy: 6 if your Energy is 60-100; 3.6 if 20-59; or 2.4 if 0-19. Having 60 or higher Energy almost all of the time is crucial. If your Energy is high, Emergency Medpac helps you avoid or defer Diagnostic Scan. [*]If healing isn’t challenging, use Diagnostic Scan before an activation that otherwise would drop your Energy below 60. The GCD that Diagnostic Scan triggers will finish just before its second tick. If you must cancel it to activate another ability, in general, allow its second tick to occur.If your Energy is 60 or higher, you gain about [*]If your Energy will fall below 60, because an ally is in peril or healing is challenging, you have two options. If the present emergency should be brief, and if healing afterward should be manageable for your co-healer, you can recharge with consecutive Diagnostic Scans. While Energy is 20-59, you gain about 11 Energy with a full channel.Otherwise, activate Cool Head after your Energy falls to or below 35. Upper Hand You gain Upper Hand as follows.Healing with Underworld Medicine grants 1 charge.Each heal from your HOTs (Slow-release Medpac, Kolto Pack, or Kolto Cloud) or from Kolto Waves has a 30% chance to proc 1 charge. This proc can occur at most once every 6 seconds (Alacrity reduces this).Activating Pugnacity grants 1 charge.Exiting stealth grants 2 charges.Attacking with Back Blast from stealth or with Blaster Whip grants 1 charge. [*]You may have up to 3 charges of Upper Hand. Charges last 24 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this), and gaining a charge refreshes this duration. [*]These abilities cost 1 Upper Hand. Emergency Medpac. But it immediately refunds the Upper Hand that it costs, unless this refund has occurred in the past 10 seconds (Alacrity reduces this).Kolto PackBlaster VolleyStack the Deck [*]Have at least 1 Upper Hand at all times, in case you need it for Emergency Medpac. [*]Spending an Upper Hand on a heal (i.e., on Kolto Pack or Emergency Medpac) grants you Bedside Manner. This buff increases your healing done by 3%.It lasts 6 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).You’ll have this buff almost all of the time if you use Kolto Pack and Emergency Medpac as discussed in [jumpto=Sawbones - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto]. Abilities The Sections below described and offer advice about each ability. Unless noted, Alacrity reduces every figure related to time. [aname=Sawbones - Heals for a Single Ally]Heals for a Single Ally[/aname] See my Model for activation times or healing amounts with gear that you select. Slow-release Medpac Description Slow-release Medpac is instant, has no cooldown, and costs 10 Energy.An ally may have up to 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac.Using Slow-release Medpac on an ally without your Slow-release Medpac grants him 1 stack. This HOT heals him 6 times, once every third second for 18 seconds.Using Slow-release Medpac on an ally with 1 stack of your Slow-release Medpac grants him a second stack and refreshes your Slow-release Medpac’s duration. This HOT heals him 7 times, immediately and once every third second for 18 seconds. The amount of each heal is double what it’d be from 1 stack. Use The ability that you use more times than any other.For further discussion, see [jumpto=Sawbones - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto]. Underworld Medicine Description Underworld Medicine is a 2-second cast, has no cooldown, and costs 20 Energy.It heals a large amount.Each completed cast grants 1 Upper Hand.Field Medic’s Critical Bonus, a buff from the SOR 2-Piece Field Medic’s Set, causes your next Underworld Medicine to crit. Use Healing a single ally whose health is low.For further discussion, see [jumpto=Sawbones - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto] > #4. Kolto Pack Description Kolto Pack is a 1.5-second cast and has a 9-second cooldown.It costs 20 Energy, or 18 Energy with the SOR 4-Piece Field Medic’s Set, and 1 Upper Hand.It heals a moderate amount immediately and grants a HOT that heals 9 times, once every second for 9 seconds. In total, it heals for a very large amount. Spending an Upper Hand on it grants you Bedside Manner, which increases your healing done by 3% for 6 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this). Upon being healed by Kolto Pack, an ally receives Resistant, which increases internal and elemental damage reduction by 3% for 45 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).Resistant doesn’t stack, regardless of the number of healers giving this buff. Use Ideal for healing tanks.For further discussion, see [jumpto=Sawbones - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto] > #2. Emergency Medpac Description Emergency Medpac is instant and has no cooldown.It costs 5 Energy and 1 Upper Hand. But it immediately refunds the Upper Hand that it costs, unless this refund has occurred in the past 10 seconds.If an ally has 2 stacks of Slow-release Medpac, healing him with Emergency Medpac immediately refreshes Slow-release Medpac at no additional cost.On its own, Emergency Medpac heals a moderate amount. With the immediate heal from refreshing 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac, it heals a good amount for an instant ability. Spending an Upper Hand on it grants you Bedside Manner, which increases your healing done by 3% for 6 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this). Use Refreshing 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac.Burst healing a single ally.Energy management.For further discussion of a use above, see [jumpto=Sawbones - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto] or [jumpto=Sawbones - Energy and Upper Hand]Energy and Upper Hand[/jumpto]. Diagnostic Scan Description Diagnostic Scan is a 2.1-second channel and has no cooldown.It has no cost. Each time it crits, it recharges 2 Energy.As a channel, it’s immune to pushback.It heals 3 times, but not immediately. A full channel heals a moderate amount. Use Energy management.For further discussion, see [jumpto=Sawbones - Energy and Upper Hand]Energy and Upper Hand[/jumpto]. Defense Screen Description Defense Screen is off the GCD and has no cost.Its cooldown is 30 seconds, or 25 seconds with Utility: Smuggled Defenses (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).It can absorb a large amount of damage for you, and only you, for up to 10 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).With Utility: Med Screen, Defense Screen heals you for 5% of your maximum health when it ends. Use Learn to love Defense Screen. It’s off the GCD, has no cost, absorbs more than a Sage’s Static Barrier with Utility: Hotwired Defenses, and heals you with Utility: Med Screen. Triage Description Triage is instant, has a 12-second cooldown, and costs 10 Energy.It cleanses up to two physical, mental, or tech effects and provides a small heal. Use For PVE, when Triage can cleanse an effect, it’s almost always better to cleanse it than heal through it.For PVP, Triage cleanses certain CCs. [aname=Sawbones - Heals for Multiple Allies]Heals for Multiple Allies[/aname] See my Model for activation times or healing amounts with gear that you select. In SOR, every ability that may heal multiple allies in one activation is “smart”. If more allies are within range than the ability can heal, the ability selects those allies whose percentage of maximum health is lowest. Kolto Waves Description Kolto Waves is a 3-second channel. Its cooldown is 10 seconds, or 9 seconds with the SOR 6-Piece Field Medic’s Set.It heals up to 8 allies up to 4 times, including immediately. Each wave costs 7 Energy.Its radius is 8 meters.As a channel, it’s immune to pushback.A full channel heals a large amount. Use The GCD that Kolto Waves triggers finishes halfway between its second and third ticks. If you must cancel it to activate another ability, always allow its second tick, and consider allowing its third tick, to occur.For further discussion, see [jumpto=Sawbones - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto]. Kolto Cloud Description Kolto Cloud is instant, has a 15-second cooldown, and costs 20 Energy.Its target is the ally whom you’re targeting or, otherwise, you.It grants a HOT that heals 10 times, immediately and once every second for 9 seconds, to the target and up to 3 other allies, each of whom is in line-of-sight and 10 meters of the target.In total, it heals a very large amount. Upon being healed by Kolto Cloud, an ally receives Invigorated, which increases his healing received by 3% for 45 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).Invigorated doesn’t stack, regardless of the number of healers giving this buff. Use For an AOE heal, it’s very good for tanks.For further discussion, see [jumpto=Sawbones - Rotation Guidelines]Rotation Guidelines[/jumpto]. [aname=Sawbones - Dealing Damage]Dealing Damage[/aname] Capitalize on every opportunity to deal damage. In general, the priority for dealing damage is as follows. For a single target: Vital Shot > Back Blast > Blaster Whip > Charged Burst > Flurry of Bolts. In general, Flurry of Bolts has the highest priority if your Energy would fall below 60 otherwise.For multiple targets: Thermal Grenade > Blaster Volley Vital Shot Vital Shot is instant, has no cooldown, and costs 15 Energy.It’s a DOT that ticks 7 times, immediately and once every third second for 18 seconds.For PVE, maintaining this DOT is straightforward if you set the boss as your Focus Target and adjust your [jumpto=Sawbones - User Interface]User Interface[/jumpto]. Blaster Whip Blaster Whip is instant, has a 6-second cooldown, and costs 15 Energy.Its range is 4 meters.Attacking with it grants you 1 Upper Hand even if your target resists it. Back Blast Back Blast is instant, has a 12-second cooldown, and costs 15 Energy.Its range is 4 meters. You can’t attack a target with it if this target is facing you (a 90 degree angle).If you attack with it from stealth, it grants you 1 Upper Hand even if your target resists it and can deals more damage.This is an excellent opener when your group enters combat. It allows you to begin a fight with a high-DPS attack and 3 Upper Hand (2 from exiting stealth). Charged Burst Charged Burst is a 1.5-second cast, has no cooldown, and costs 20 Energy. Flurry of Bolts Flurry of Bolts is instant, has no cooldown, and has no cost. Thermal Grenade Thermal Grenade is instant, has a 6-second cooldown, and costs 20 Energy.It attacks your target and up to 7 other enemies within 5 meters of your target. Blaster Volley Blaster Volley is instant, has no cooldown, and costs 15 Energy and 1 Upper Hand.It attacks up to 8 enemies within a “cone” in front of you. This cone has a radius of 10 meters and a central angle of 45 degrees. [aname=Sawbones - Cooldowns]Cooldowns[/aname] Pugnacity Description Pugnacity is off the GCD and has a 2-minute cooldown.Activating it grants 1 Upper Hand and increases Alacrity by 10% for 15 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this). Use Reserve Pugnacity for burst healing a single ally, especially one without 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac. Cool Head Description Cool Head is off the GCD and has a 2-minute cooldown.It recharges up to 50 Energy over 3 seconds.With Utility: Keep Cool, it recharges an additional 15 Energy immediately. Use Energy management.For further discussion, see Section “Energy and Upper Hand”. Disappearing Act Description Disappearing Act is off the GCD. Its cooldown is 2 minutes, or 90 seconds with Utility: Advanced Cloaking. Use For a stealth rez, as discussed in Section “The ‘Stealth Rez’”.To lower your threat to zero with each enemy. Prefer Surrender, so that Disappearing Act remains available for a stealth rez.For PVE, it’s very rare to be Upper Hand-starved while healing. If you have exactly 1 charge, however, and you’re certain that you can save an ally only by two consecutive Emergency Medpacs, hit Disappearing Act immediately before the Emergency Medpac that otherwise would spend your final Upper Hand. This is a desperate move. You should be confident that you can’t proc another Upper Hand in time from HOTs, that your next Emergency Medpac can’t refund an Upper Hand, and that this use of Disappearing Act is preferable to letting this ally die and using Disappearing Act for his stealth rez. [aname=Sawbones - Other]Other[/aname] Scamper Scamper is instant. It has a 10-second cooldown if, and only if, you reactivate it in less than 10 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce these).It rolls you up to 12 meters in your camera’s direction.While rolling, your chance to dodge Ranged or Melee attacks (i.e., white damage) increases by 30%. Dodge Dodge is off the GCD and has a 1-minute cooldown (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).It increases your chance to dodge Ranged or Melee attacks (i.e., white damage) by 200% for 3 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).Activating it purges all removable enemy effects. Crouch, Take Cover Each is off the GCD and has its own 1-second cooldown.For Hateful Entity, the secret boss in Operation: Scum and Villainy, each grants you immunity to this boss’s area pull and area knockback effects, though not to the single-target knockback effect of Dread Touch. Surrender Surrender is off the GCD and has a 45-second cooldown (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).For PVE, it lowers your threat with each enemy by 25%. Use it proactively, especially after adds spawn. Flash Grenade Flash Grenade is instant and has a 1-minute cooldown. It has a range of 10 meters.Using this on an enemy blinds it, and up to 7 other enemies within 5 meters of it, for 8 seconds. Damage breaks this blind.For PVE, including Grob’Thok or Revanite Commanders, an AOE CC can be useful for adds. Stack the Deck Stack the Deck is off the GCD, has a 5-minute cooldown (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this), and costs 1 Upper Hand.It buffs every Operation group member within 40 meters. This buff increases Critical Chance by 10% for 10 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this). [aname=Sawbones - The Stealth Rez]The “Stealth Rez”[/aname] Exiting combat with Disappearing Act gives you the opportunity to resurrect a fallen ally with Revive, salvaging a boss kill or a speed run. Resurrecting an ally with Heartrigger Patch, Emergency Medical Probe (Commando), or Revival (Sage) debuffs every group member. This debuff prevents further use of these abilities for 5 minutes, but doesn’t prevent a stealth rez. In addition, a stealth rez doesn’t apply this debuff to any group member. Therefore, a stealth rez is limited only by (1) Disappearing Act and (2) your ability to finish Revive, a 6-second cast, before reentering combat. The following can cause you to reenter combat. When you use Disappearing Act, an ally in combat has a HOT from you, including if he has full health or hasn’t yet been healed by this HOT.When you use Disappearing Act, an enemy has a DOT from you, including if this DOT hasn’t yet attacked it.After using Disappearing Act, you affect an ally in combat or attack an enemy. Examples follow.You give an ally in combat who has full health 1 stack of Slow-release Medpac, which won’t heal him 3 seconds.You heal an ally in combat with Kolto Cloud or Kolto Waves though you weren’t target him.You grant Stack the Deck to an ally in combat. [*]An attack hits you. [*]An enemy reenters combat or a new enemy enter combat (e.g., adds spawn). The following won’t cause you to reenter combat. Healing yourself or an ally who’s not in combat.Gaining an Upper Hand.Receiving an effect from an ally in combat, including a buff (e.g., Inspiration or Scrambling Field) or a heal (including from an Annihilation Marauder in your Party).An ally having a buff from you, such as Invigorated or Resistant, that he had before you used Disappearing Act.Dodging an attack, including with Dodge.Canceling a cast that had an ally in combat or an enemy as its target. Executing a Stealth Rez – Best Practices Inform your group. Use Slow-release Medpac on yourself. This fresh Slow-release Medpac serves as a timer for when you may use Disappearing Act. Continue to heal allies, but use only Underworld Medicine, Kolto Waves, or Diagnostic Scan. You may cleanse with Triage, as well. Before the Slow-release Medpac on yourself expires, locate the body of a fallen ally. You must be nearby, because Revive’s range is 10 meters. Immediately after the Slow-release Medpac on yourself expires, [*]If AOE damage is about to occur, instruct the ally whom you’ll Revive not to accept until you’ve given permission. [*]If, after completing Revive’s cast, there’s another fallen ally, immediately cast Revive on him. If he’s more than 10 meters from you, use Scamper to close this gap. You may Revive an unlimited number of fallen allies until you’ve reentered combat. Executing a Stealth Rez – Advanced Tactics As noted below, you may attempt a stealth rez sooner than described in Best Practices #2. [*]As noted below, you may use abilities other than those listed in Best Practices #3. The duration of Kolto Pack or Kolto Cloud is half the duration of Slow-release Medpac. Therefore, you may use either while the Slow-release Medpac that’s your timer has more than half of its duration (i.e., 4+ ticks) remaining.You may use Emergency Medpac on an ally who doesn’t have 2 stacks of your Slow-release Medpac. [*]If you know that there won’t be AOE damage that might hit you, there’s no need to use Dodge after Disappearing Act. [*]If more than one ally has died, but damage will prevent you from using Revive for all of them, spearhead a “chain rez”. Instruct an ally whom you’ll Revive not to accept until after this damage has occurred.Further instruct him to use his Revive on another fallen ally before he reenters combat. Additional Advice If Heartrigger Patch is available, in general, don’t attempt a stealth rez in the following circumstances.The fallen ally is your only co-healer.The fallen ally is a tank, and [*]The fallen ally is a DPS, and the present phase, or fight as a whole, requires the fallen ally’s DPS. [*]Your co-healer is unlikely to keep everyone alive while your HOTs fall off or you’re casting Revive. [*]When in doubt, try it. If it fails, use Heartrigger Patch. Later, determine why this attempt failed, so that your next attempt during combat with this boss is more likely to succeed. [*]Know when and where AOE damage will occur. Even if Dodge is available, it lasts for 3 seconds, only about half of the time that Revive requires.Dodge dodges only Ranged or Melee attacks (i.e., white damage), and offers no defense against Force or Tech attacks (i.e., yellow damage). [*]Know when adds spawn. [*]In many fights, you may need to wait until a specific time or phase for a successful stealth rez. Maximizing Your Performance [aname=Sawbones - User Interface]User Interface[/aname] Tailor your UI for healing. These choices are personal, but consider the recommendations below. All crucial, time-sensitive information should be visible simultaneously. Therefore, Operation Frames, Action Bars, and Player Castbar should be adjacent and just below your character’s feet. Configure these using the Interface Editor. Under Preferences > User Interface, enable “Show Cooldown Text”. Use the Interface Editor to configure your Operation Frames. [*]Using the Interface Editor, enable Focus Target and Focus Target Castbar. Certain bosses have casts or channels that deal substantial damage to allies. [*]Using the Interface Editor, for the Player Buff Tray, enable Highlight Options > “Highlight Effects” and Sort Options > “Personal Effects”. This makes it easy to see your procs. [*]Using the Interface Editor, for the Target Frame and Focus Target, enable Highlight Options > “Highlight Buffs” and “Highlight Debuffs” and Sort Options > “Personal Buffs” and “Personal Debuffs”. This makes it easy to see your effects, such as a HOT on an ally or a DOT on an enemy. [aname=Sawbones - Datacrons]Datacrons[/aname] Gain up to 50 points of these stats through Datacrons. CunningEndurance [aname=Sawbones - Legacy]Legacy[/aname] To increase each stat below by 1% for every character in your Legacy and Faction, complete all of the quests that one of the listed companions can offer. Accuracy – Tanno Vik, Bowdaar, Qyzen Fess, or Lord ScourgeCritical – Aric Jorgan, Risha, Zenith, or Sergeant RuskHealing received – Elara Dorne, Guss Tuno, Tharan Cedrax, or DocMaximum health – M1-4X, Corso Riggs, Felix Iresso, or T7-01Surge – Yuun, Akaavi Spar, Nadia Grell, or Kira Carsen Though optimal gear for healing has no Accuracy, increasing Accuracy through this Legacy perk helps you interrupt, crowd control, or deal damage. [aname=Sawbones - Consumables]Consumables[/aname] Unless noted, Alacrity reduces every figure related to time. Stim An Advanced Anodyne Skill Stim (purple quality) provides 198 Cunning and 81 Power for 8 hours (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this). Adrenal An Adrenal increases a stat for 15 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this) and is off the GCD. The cooldown shared across all Adrenals is 3 minutes.For PVE, an Advanced Anodyne Triage Adrenal (purple quality) increases Tech Power by 750.For PVP, a Warzone Adrenal increases Damage Reduction by 15%. Medpac A Medpac heals you and is off the GCD. A Medpac can’t crit.PVEThe cooldown shared across all Medpacs usable outside of a Warzone or Arena is (a) the remainder of your present combat or (b) 90 seconds, whichever is longer.An Advanced Anodyne Medpac restores 7535 to 7892 health immediately and an additional 2875 health over 15 seconds. [*]PVP – A Warzone Medpac restores 35% of your maximum health and has a 90-second cooldown. Grenades A Grenade is an instant ability. The cooldown shared across all Grenades is 3 minutes.PVE – Grenades that stun or root can be useful for certain adds, such as during Styrak on Nightmare Mode, Grob’Thok with Nightmare Power, or Revanite Commanders.PVP – Grenades are very useful.A player affected by one or more of a Grenade’s effects receives Bastioned, a buff that grants immunity to all effects of further Grenades for 3 minutes (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this). Bastioned doesn’t persist through death.If a Grenade has a stun or unconscious effect, this effect respects resolve. Set “Buff Scale” as low as possible. Increase “Debuff Scale” until debuffs are prominent.For your usual Operation group, disable “Show Health Text”. This is clutter rather than useful information.Disable “Show Only Removable Debuffs”. Debuffs that may deal substantial damage to allies often aren’t removable.both tanks are required, ora tank swap is approaching.If you know which ally has the HOT from you with the longest time remaining, you may use him as your timer, rather than a fresh Slow-release Medpac on yourself.Alternatively, instruct your group members to click off all HOTs from you. (You don’t need to click off HOTs on yourself.)remove any DOTs from yourself with Triage or, if necessary, Dodge,target a fallen ally, andDisappearing Act > if available, Dodge > Revive.16 Energy with a full channel or11 Energy with a channel canceled upon its second tick.If your Energy is 65 or higher, you gain about 4 Energy with each Emergency Medpac.Unfortunately, if your Energy is 25-64, Emergency Medpac is Energy-neutral.For an Energy-negative round, Kolto Waves and Kolto Cloud.For an Energy-positive round, Kolto Waves and Diagnostic Scan.For an Energy-neutral round, Kolto Waves canceled as the GCD finishes, Kolto Cloud, and Diagnostic Scan canceled as the GCD finishes.take damage more times than other non-tanks (e.g., the DPS kiting Raptus during Dread Council),take more damage than other non-tanks (e.g., a Sage, who has Light Armor and no Utility to reduce all AOE damage by 30%), orbe out of your range more often than other non-tanks.You can use both, rather than just one. For example, if melee (including tanks) have Kolto Cloud, look for an opportunity to Kolto Waves ranged (including healers).Prefer Kolto Waves if your group is stacked or burst matters. For example, Kolto Waves > Kolto Cloud for topping up allies before the end of Underlurker’s Cross.Though Kolto Cloud heals much slower than Kolto Waves, it often provides greater total healing.If Kolto Cloud heals 4, Kolto Waves must heal 6 with every wave to match its total healing.If Kolto Cloud heals 3 or 4, Kolto Waves can’t match its total healing relative to activation time (HPCT).Underworld Medicine grants 1 charge of Upper Hand.Using Emergency Medpac with 65 or higher Energy allows you to regain up to half of the net Energy cost of Underworld Medicine.In general, Underworld Medicine + Emergency Medpac. Repeat if necessary.If he might die before Underworld Medicine finishes, Emergency Medpac until this isn’t the case.If he’s a tank, substitute Kolto Pack for Underworld Medicine unless you have Field Medic’s Critical Bonus.A HOT is unlikely to overheal an ally taking frequent damage.Kolto Cloud grants Invigorated, which increases healing received by 3%. This buff is more valuable for tanks than non-tanks.Unless your entire group stacks, which is uncommon, reaching a tank sacrifices less of Kolto Cloud’s potential healing than Kolto Waves’.Emergency Medpac costs half as much Energy as Slow-release Medpac.Emergency Medpac provides additional healing.Spending an Upper Hand on Emergency Medpac helps you maintain Bedside Manner, which buffs your healing done by 3% for 6 seconds. Edited April 13, 2015 by Orderken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Liquor Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Looking good. Can't wait to get back to the game in a week or so. Overseas and waiting for a laptop to arrive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jethsidi Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Mainly get into the tank numbers myself, but am thinking of branching out a bit. When you mention maximizing "expected healing" how are you calculating that? Just curious at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orderken Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Mainly get into the tank numbers myself, but am thinking of branching out a bit. When you mention maximizing "expected healing" how are you calculating that? Just curious at this point. I describe my methodology in the Model itself. In short, it's a tool for predicting the gear that should maximize your own effective healing, which you describe on worksheet "Your Healing". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jethsidi Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) I describe my methodology in the Model itself. In short, it's a tool for predicting the gear that should maximize your own effective healing, which you describe on worksheet "Your Healing". Thanks, chart helps. I just have one further question on where I seem to be doing my math wrong. You stated that you run 4/2 instead of the new 6 piece as the 15% buff to Nano gives greater healer. However, when I tried to run the numbers it broke down like this: (these are actual healing numbers from a friend of mine, who is geared with 435 Crit, 840 Alacrity/360 Surge and all Power Augments). With 4/2 Nanotech Heals for 6032 over 9 seconds. 13.8s cooldown. 6032/9 = 670.3hps (rounded up from .2 repeating) 9s/13.8s = 65.22% uptime Total healing over 300s: 300*0.6522 = 195.66. 195.66*670.3 = 131150.898 Waves Heals for 5430 over 2.77 second channel. 9.2s cooldown. 5430/2.77 = 1960.3 (rounded up from .2888) 2.77s/9.2s = 30.11% uptime Total healing over 300s: 300*0.3011 = 90.33. 90.33*1960.3 = 177073.899 So even with the buff to Nano and disregarding the fact that it has half the healing potential (4 targets vs. 8), Waves does more healing. If you switch to the 6-piece Nanotech Heals for 5245 over 9 seconds. 13.8s cooldown. 5245/9 = 582.8hps (rounded up from .7 repeating) 9s/13.8s = 65.22% uptime Total healing over 300s: 300*0.6522 = 195.66. 195.66*582.8 = 114030.648 Waves Heals for 5430 over 2.77 second channel. 8.2s cooldown. 5430/2.77 = 1960.3 (rounded up from .2888) 2.77s/8.2s = 33.78% uptime Total healing over 300s: 300*0.3378 = 104.34. 104.34*1960.3 = 198656.802 Total healing with 4/2 = 308224.797 Total healing with 6 = 312687.45 Difference is 4462.653 in favor of 6. HPS over 300s with 4/2 = 1027.42 HPS over 300s with 6 = 1042.29 Difference is 14.87 in favor of 6. And again, this is all base healing without crits and based on single-target where Waves is still winning, would still be winning on up to 4 targets and would win by even more with 5-8 targets. Negligible difference, most likely, but a win is a win. So what am I looking at wrong? Edited March 30, 2015 by Jethsidi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orderken Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) The answer is in Section [jumpto=Medicine - Gear]Gear[/jumpto]: The SOR 6-Piece reduces the cooldown of Kolto Waves from 10 seconds to 9 seconds. This Set Bonus is almost always worthless, because it’s unlikely to increase the number of times that you activate Kolto Waves. Therefore, no calculations are necessary. Glancing at your calculations, however, I noticed three issues. Your friend's figures are inaccurate. Recuperative Nanotech heals a single ally for much more relative to Kolto Waves. To ensure that you compare apples to apples in the future, I suggest the following test conditions.Heal a companion or NPC. A player might have a healing received buff, but a companion or NPC won't.Unequip any proc Relics.Ensure that Tactical Medicine is never active (or is always active). [*]The denominator in your calculation of Recuperative Nanotech's HPS, and the numerator in your calculation of Recuperative Nanotech's uptime, must be reduced by Alacrity. Alternatively, you could assume 0 Alacrity across the board, since its effects on both abilities will wash out for your comparison. [*]Using the amount of non-crit heals is a good starting point. Note, however, that Kolto Waves' Critical Chance is 10% greater than Recuperative Nanotech's. Edited March 30, 2015 by Orderken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jethsidi Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Oh, that was all from reading it off the ability pane, not actually cast. Alacrity was factored, hence the 2.77 channel time and such. Will have them actually heal something (probably one of the droids walking around fleet), and look at it again. And in a content tier that [everyone is saying] favors ranged, with potentially 6 people stacked for most of the fight, why wouldn't you be using Waves that much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orderken Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) in a content tier that [everyone is saying] favors ranged, with potentially 6 people stacked for most of the fight, why wouldn't you be using Waves that much? You've been misinformed. For 8-man, having 6 or more players stack isn't common in fights, or phases of fights, that are challenging to heal. Furthermore, even when your Operation Group does stack, you'll rarely use Kolto Waves on cooldown. Unless you were to use it on cooldown very often, reducing its cooldown by up to 1 second has little to no value. Healing isn't about maximizing HPS. Edited April 5, 2015 by Orderken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jethsidi Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 You've been misinformed. For 8-man, having 6 or more players stack isn't common in fights, or phases of fights, that are challenging to heal. Furthermore, even when your Operation Group does stack, you'll rarely use Kolto Waves on cooldown. Unless you were to use it on cooldown very often, reducing its cooldown by up to 1 second has little to no value. Healing isn't about maximizing HPS. So, we shouldn't be stacking for heals on Bulo (after each fire barrel), Torque, Coratanni, Malaphar, Walkers, Underluker, Commanders, or Revan? 6.5/10 seems pretty common. As I said, this is not my area of expertise, just asking questions to try and get the whole picture so that I know what I am looking at/for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orderken Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) So, we shouldn't be stacking for heals on Bulo (after each fire barrel), Torque, Coratanni, Malaphar, Walkers, Underluker, Commanders, or Revan? 6.5/10 seems pretty common Before I give my count, I'll refine the question. Am I using Kolto Waves on cooldown on a regular basis? Would I use Kolto Waves more times if it had a shorter cooldown? My count is 0/6, possibly 0.5/6 depending on your strategy for Coratanni and Pearl. Sparky, Torque, Malaphar, and Underlurker are easy to heal once a Group understands and respects their mechanics. I therefore disregard them for purposes of optimizing gear. This leaves 6 fights to consider. For Bulo, no, you shouldn't be in a tight stack. Spreading just a little ensures that only one player takes damage from each Barrel Throw (or from each exploding Lifter or Cart). Commanders is the same: a tight stack is more often the problem than the solution. For Walkers, Kolto Waves is used fewer times than you'd expect. You might be able to catch enough players once (at most twice) between consecutive Gravity Missiles. You won't use it on cooldown on a regular basis. There's stacking for Revan, but that's not to ease healing (except during the Machine Core). The first floor is about managing cleanses and Blades during Revan, and about healing tanks during HK-47. The second and third floors are easy to heal, and I therefore disregard them for purposes of optimizing gear. (I expect that the SOR 6-Piece would be better for the Machine Core, but several Operative healers have solo healed the Machine Core without the SOR 6-Piece.) For healers, the challenge of Blaster is spike damage to a single ally. You won't use Kolto Waves on cooldown on a regular basis. The SOR 6-Piece might be better for Coratanni and Pearl, but the amount of movement means that you're unlikely to use Kolto Waves on cooldown on a regular basis. Ruugar, the more challenging phase of this fight for healers, is about spike damage to a single ally. Since Ruugar's high-damage room-wide knockback is infrequent, shaving up to 1 second off of Kolto Waves' cooldown won't help you recover. Edited April 5, 2015 by Orderken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jethsidi Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Thank you, that gives a lot of, perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orderken Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Section "Utilities" clarified for HM Revan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnortiz Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 What is a good percentage to have your crit at for Ops Healing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjchan Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 (edited) Hi Orderken, penny for your thoughts on 3.3 with regards to operative healing? Just looking down the list Im tentatively hopeful that the net is an increase in our HPS potential. 1) KP looks HP neutral, it got nerfed in the base ability, but it looks like there's a counterbalancing buff in the medicine tree. My KP numbers looked the same from what I remember when I tested it this morning. 2) K.Inf looks like its viable to use more often (before, I would only apply if tank target health was 50% or above, now I'll probably throw it more often knowing it has more heals up front). Given that you said in your guide that K.Inf = a Crit K.Inj, AND that K.Inf has a faster channel time...doesn't a more frequent application of K.Inf and getting more GCDs mean a HPS increase? 3) K.Inj got buffed which is nice. 4) That 2% HP increase when a TA is used should pretty much be on ALL the time right? Given that surgical probe use is so frequent? 5) RN on cooldown makes up for the RN decrease, right? So by my count that looks like 1 HPS neutral change, 4 HPS increases, and 1 HPS decrease on the diagnostic scan, so 3.3 should theoretically be a positive right? Just curious what your healing model predicts. Edited July 22, 2015 by kjchan Added clarification at the bottom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsenex Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Just an inquiry, is this guide still relevant? Are Power augments better than Alacrity? When I left 6 months ago Alacrity for Operatives was all the rage. Just returning and want to optimize as best as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naholen Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Can we please un-sticky this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justmeeeeeee Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 We really need to unsticky this one this is all old information from 3.0 where is the good guide for PVE for a Sawbones for 5.0 I think some one needs to make a new guide for a Sawbones for 5.0 PVE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelbyWars Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 We really need to unsticky this one this is all old information from 3.0 where is the good guide for PVE for a Sawbones for 5.0 I think some one needs to make a new guide for a Sawbones for 5.0 PVE. seriously. they don't exist. And you sure don't want me making one!,.lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justmeeeeeee Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 Once again can we please sticky this post the information is in no way accurate for a Scoundrel Sawbones healer and is old and outdated. This information is from 3.0 and doesn't help any player today. If you want to see updated information please look at this guide yes it is PVP for the build is pretty much the same for PVE. http://dulfy.net/2016/12/27/swtor-5-0-scoundrel-sawbones-pvp-guide-by-hottie-and-doc/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaintOnASign Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 Once again can we please sticky this post the information is in no way accurate for a Scoundrel Sawbones healer and is old and outdated. This information is from 3.0 and doesn't help any player today. If you want to see updated information please look at this guide yes it is PVP for the build is pretty much the same for PVE. http://dulfy.net/2016/12/27/swtor-5-0-scoundrel-sawbones-pvp-guide-by-hottie-and-doc/ What about using the Medicine Operative guide and just substituteing the correct abilities? http://dulfy.net/2017/03/27/swtor-5-0-medicine-operative-pve-guide-by-mac/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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