Alacrity is appallingly useless for healers.

Alacrity is the best stat for healer in PvP. Hands down.
For PvE it is still extremely good but pure power is better.

If we take Adv. Medical Probe as an example, it has a base cast time of 1.5 seconds, and costs 2 Ammo. Its base Effective Cost is 2 - 1.5*0.6 = 1.1 Ammo, assuming it is used when you are in the max regen zone.

Now, use Alacrity to reduce it to 1.2 seconds (easily done with lvl 51 gear). Now the Effective Cost is 2 - 1.2*0.6 = 1.28 Ammo.

Similarly, reducing Medical Probe, with the proc to make it cost 1 Ammo) from 2 seconds to 1.6 seconds (the same alacrity as for AP above) changes the EC from a GAIN of 0.2 Ammo to a loss of 0.04 Ammo.

The math is pretty simple if you are chain casting heals for 30 seconds straight with 10% alacrity you will get 30 seconds worth of healing in 27 seconds. So not only are you casting faster you are getting more heals in the same amount of time and more times then not 1 extra heal could have saved the group from a wipe.

Hahahaha. You're cute. I can't wait to heal circles around you by itemizing properly.

Alacrity is better in PvP than it is in PvE because of the frenzied nature of battle but it's still a bad stat across the board. It doesn't affect the GCD of instants or HoTs which means no Operative/Scoundrel will touch it with a 50 foot pole, and yet it's baked into all of their healer PvP gear.

Similarly, for Commandos/Mercs it INCREASES the Effective Cost of casting the abilities it DOES affect. I'm going to quote RuQu here because he's done the math, and also put together an excellent spreadsheet found here. In essence, Alacrity FORCES you to use Hammer Shot/Rapid Shot to regenerate ammo/heat.



Sages and Sorcerers maximize benefit from Alacrity, so it's not completely awful for them, but Alacrity still PALES in comparison to the throughput offered by literally any other healing stat.


You're playing with your gut, not good math. Stop falling for the groupthink gut reaction nonsense that plagues this entire forum.THINK, ANALYZE, and then speak. You want to heal well in PvP crit, surge and power for big heals will save more lives for less cost than Alacrity ever will.