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

I did a lot of Google searching before I posted this and the one and only quote directly from a Dev that I could find regarding PvP healing is the below and it's pointless. We know why they put the trauma debuff in. Useless quote below.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showt...496#edit789496
"That's pretty much it. The trauma debuff is used to offset PvP and PvE group balance involving healers against on the PvE balance numbers numbers. We could also just change the numbers (health, damage) in the rest of the game to achieve the same effect, but that'd be much less efficient." - Georg Zoeller


Questions:
Why do they think the debuff is fair, works, and makes any sense at all? What do they think of the PvP medal system in regards to healers? Do they have any plans to fix both of these broken mechanics for PvP healers? These are the questions I need answered by a Dev. There has been far too much discussion on the topic of PvP healing over the past few months with no word from a Dev on the topic aside from the above post.

I agree with the tunnel vision ... that's why healbotting in warzones is bad. Dps can play stupid but thx to babysitter in the back he gets away with it. Not to mention all the balance issues with pug healing vs premade healing, not limiting number of heals per pug etc etc ... I am not saying pvp healing is not fun for you. I am saying in this form it's not right for pvp.

And if you like challenge ... playing proper hybrid is much harder than just healing.

That is going to annoy some healers for sure, then. I'm the kind of player who likes doing a bit of everything, so I don't mind.

I still don't get why a pure healer should be rewarded less than a pure dps in SWTOR pvp, though.

I'm not sure you've effectively put yourself in a healers shoes here like you might think.

Tossing out taunt for you is a one button click *on your current target* and guard is a fire and forget once per scrum

For a healer to grab these extra medals they have to pretty much stop performing their role and start performing in a completely different way, targeting enemy after enemy, ignoring their *real* targets (teammates)

Imagine if, while dpsing, you had to completely ignore your enemies and had to click on all your nearby teammates and use a global cool down before you got back to healing ?

That's what it's like to chase medals as a healer

Don't even talk about heal medals for dps. If biochem gave a healer only medal every warzone just for clicking a button people would be up in arms

Bottom line, medals come easy as dps because they pretty much happen automatically without any extra effort. Not so for healers.

Oh, I play dps, for what it's worth

I didn't mean overhealing as in healing people who are fully healed, I mean healing someone who is at 75% and not currently taking damage when there is an enemy right in front of you planting a bomb.

As far as the system not encouraging team play by healers? I have to disagree with that. The reward system places VASTLY more importance on winning a match that it does commendations. So much so that I almost never even notice how many commendations I get. Winning 3 matches a day is worth 10 bags a week, commendations maybe 1 or 2 more.

Using the words healbotting again just proves you either don't understand PvP healing or didn't read my entire post.

I would like to add...

I think one easy fix would be giving protection medals for healers.

Like my Sage, I have shield I cast, if they made it the same as Tank Guard we would be fine. That would be a couple obtainable medals and encourage protecting and team work.

Nah, I use it to annoy healers ^^.

Aside from the fact that I'm 30% less effective in PvP (while everyone else is still 100% effective). This is one of the issues that really irks me as a healer.

The trauma debuff really doesn't slow me down too much, and I do think without it I'd be stupidly hard to kill, but I just don't like the implications of a blanket 30% debuff to my effectiveness.

I regularly heal in premades and get 5x or 6x medals with anywhere from 300-600k Healing done, mostly depending on how much of a fight the other team is willing to put up.

This is just absurd. Any Advanced class with a tank offspec can EASILY get 11-12x Medals. With Biochem and some effort they should get 13x or 14x.

The guys I play with regularly get anywhere from 10-14x medals per game, while I'm averaging 5-6x medals per game.

They of course get the MVP votes because people simply vote for the guy with the most medals/DMG done.

Then people complain about lack of healers in PvP. Maybe this is because to get more than 6x Medals I have to spend half the match attacking people. It's just absurd.

Furthermore in games like Huttball scoring the ball yields 0 objective points as does doing 150-200k Healing on JUST THE CARRIER.

The whole thing is a good example of how everyone, including developers view healing in a game.

So not only do I have to heal with a neon blue, clunker-face UI, but I get very little to no rewards for doing so, even when I do 500k+ healing.

I simply don't understand the thought process and feel that healers should get bonus medals for healing other targets, and get credit for kills made by players who have recently received a healing effect from us.

Trauma needs to be reworked too. I'm in very good gear. Champion/Rakata/Columi mixture for PvP and getting a 5k Heal as an operative is something I really have to work at. Good thing I have Biochem so I'm guaranteed that medal, but still it's quite ridiculous.

Doing 5k DMG is EASY.


The worst part about the whole thing is that I can respec Concealment and get 8-10x medals per game and have a hell of a lot more fun, especially when I'm Solo Queueing.



P.S:

To all you high school drop outs who think healers should be "Doing DMG to get medals" you should really put your thinking caps on. If I have a spare GCD and someone who is SPECCED FOR DPS isn't topped off, then what do you think is a better use of that GCD? Healing the DPS (my job) or trying to subvert Bioware's medal system by doing 500-1000 DMG on the target?

Guess which one I'm going to do when I'm playing in a premade? The game should be about team work, not about dancing around a system that is specifically unrewarding to a full 1/3rd of the Trinity.

Ok ... here is a quiz for you. You get pug warzone ... out of 16 ppl you get 8 healers who refuse to put dps abilities on their quickbars. What do you thing will happen in the warzone ?