3 medals for 524k healing ~~ nice medal system BW

I am not sure on what basis other than the OP (and many other healers) is not fully utilizing his character in the Warzones.

At the end of a match, look at the stats of everyone who gain 7+ medals. You'll see they did more than just DPS...they got protection or healed. Nearly all Advanced Classes are going to give you the ability to either gain protection points (damage mitigated from the enemy to teammates) or healing (if I have to explain this...that's why you can't get more medals).

I DPS, but I take the time to constantly make sure my few abilities that taunt enemy players are always active, so they are dealing less damage to my teammates and I'm getting more medals. Healers can do the same. Deal at least 1 damage to 10 different enemies and since you get a kill when they die...boom...instant medal. Deal a little more damage during the 10 minute match...and you got yourself 75k damage medal and 25 kills medal.

You can also skill guard objectives and heal...thus earning objective medals. The fact is...you must do more than just one type of role in a Warzone if you want to earn more medals. I will admit, it is slightly easier for a tank to guard someone and deal DPS at the same time, but that same amount of time it takes him to guard that person and stay close, is just as difficult as it takes you to target someone and click a damage ability.

You should be helping deal damage anyways when there arent that many people around. Not everyone needs heals 24/7. We're big boys and can take care of ourselves...if not...we die and you can say "I told you so". :P

That's been said 20 times already in this thread. For one thing, if we can spare the force and GCD to throw out some damage at people then the fight is not exactly a close one. Second and perhaps more important, is that we shouldn't have to do that. If I'm dpsing it should be because it's my best choice at that point in time, not because I need to farm medals. A healer shouldn't have to focus on farming medals in a warzone. He should earn enough medals by simply being a good team player and doing his best in any way possible to help his team win.

Its really sad but Bioware is not going to fix this they hired Warhammers pvp team and they hate healing in pvp, they have said it multiple times.

If you hit 400+ healing you can easily top damage charts and get 6 or more medals easily every single game. I respeced to dps and yes I lose a ton more games but I'm getting 40% more tokens, 3-5 more medals and 2-3 mvp votes every single game.

Somebody call this guy a whambulance, and get him some fries for his whamburger.

First thing I look for at the end of a WZ is heals, then objectives/protection, then medals. then DPS.


Problem with many Pvper's is that most are Tropemonkeys and vote for DPS seeing it's the Epeeniest.

Granted, when I am in a BG with a player who does 300k plus dmg, and other stats don't tell me he was farming kills and nothing else, I vote for the DPS.

While I understand your frustration, the only way a tank (or any class, for that matter) is getting 10 medals is if they are doing effective damage along with another role (tanking, healing, whatever). Throw damage out along with healing, and you, too, will get 10+ medals.

I realize that is anathema to a certain segment of the MMO population -- a healer can...use...their damaging abilities?!?!?! Yes. Yes, they can. Just like how the tank, who got 10 medals, uses his tank abilities and his damage abilities.