Playing a sorc, hoping for a sorc nerf

Also, will messing with Sorc AoE give them pve issues?

Sage healers themselves get various tools to protect against aoe damage.

1) An Impressive aoe heal
2) Spammable bubbles that can absorb a full aoe across a whole team.

Another question is.. as a healer do you feel like you should be able to keep a group up that is being hit by 3-4 dps coordinating there attacks?

I know. Again, I'm not saying the AOE needs a nerf. It's just simply not true to say it's worthless and that's what the OP tried to do.

Will also say though, the AOE heal doesn't heal as much as AOE attacks. Although I've been told it's broken pub side. For me, I drop the heal and I get 2 immediate ticks, than it's just the AOE HOT. It used to heal for 1-2.5k immediately and the tooltip says it still should, does the imp version do this?

Clever, OP. A lot of people just look at damage numbers. I like topping damage on anything I'm playing at the moment, too, so even though I know better, I'm guilty of it. If nerf sorc complaints are mostly from seeing huge dps numbers, this would be a good way to leave sorc utility and fun intact while soothing the nerf it crowd.

Of course, arsenal BH will then top charts uncontested in the lower bracket (because there are so many of them, and so few good Snipers and melee), and arsenal really is mostly about the damage, so what could you do to them to make their numbers drop while keeping them useful?

Also, will messing with Sorc AoE give them pve issues?

I really do not see any PVE issues
For raiding I love running full lightning
People have showed me the numbers and why 13/28 madness is uber dps when compared to the lightning builds but personally I do not see the difference.

From the point of view of a kill, I'd say its worthless. For control and disruption, it's a very good tool, as you said.

As for the AoE heal on Imp side, I believe it acts the same way as the republic side now that the republic side was fixed. Though, I think there should still be a frontloaded heal before the ticks, not sure though as I haven't really healed in 2 months almost.

Yeah we do have nice tools. Again, I wasn't saying AOE was overpowered, just that it has uses and isn't worthless.

And no, I don't think that I should be able to keep someone up with 3-4 people beating on them. Unless they are getting peels, LOSing, and enemies are getting CCed, they should go down. It takes more that just heals to keep someone up, sometimes other DPS have to help as well by using their utility and I don't think a lot of DPS have figured this out yet.

You can't see the difference because there are no combat logs, and you probably have other rDPS to make up for your loss of DPS. But mathematically, as all spreadsheet numbers should be taken, hybrid is superior DPS to full lightning. Particularly because there not that many stand still and turret fights in operations.