Sorcs and Sages need 2 Stances so they cannot Heal and DPS at the same time.

Actually I find it that the healer hybrid is quite blanced. Even though they can deal moderate damage, and heal moderate damage, they cannot deal high damage or heal for high amounts. Here is a comparison:

a) full spec'd healers usually heal 300k-400k damage.(mostly due to their AOE heals)

b) full spec'd Damage dealers usually deal 300k-400k damage.(mostly due to their AOE attacks)

c) Hybrids with more healing usually heal 150k-200k, and deal 150k-200k damage.

I tend to find this balanced actually. Of course you will find some healing hybrids who deal more than 200k damage, or heal 200k damage but usually when they do so they sacrifice one category for the other. For example if they deal 250k damage, they usually only heal for 100-150k damage total. It's balanced.

Amen brother!

This is something i have been thinking for a while now, why keeps my merc from doing uber damage and healing at the same time....

2 things:

1 heal = 25% of my resources(3 ammo), and if i go below 8 ammo out of 12, i regenerate slower and slower....
Stances, i get good bonuses from using one or another...


The funny thing is they nerfed the SHADOW/ASSASSIN hybrid spec for doing too well, but somehow they totally missed sages/sorcerers....

So please BIOWARE, nerf the sage/sorc hybrid spec... the dps ones are fine but the fact that they can compete for most dps and most healing during the same warzone is a bit too much....

Pics or the 500k damage on both sides is b.s.

I want to know this pro sorc who can do 500k damage and 500k healing at the same time.
I know this is not wow but something like shadow priest shoeuld work fine. Remember priest can't heal in shadow form.

and one last thing. Aside from the heal rejuvenate for sage(and the sorcs equivalent), there is no way a sage/sorc that is a hybrid healer/telekinetic balance spec can heal and do damage at the same time. It is always one or the other. They don't have the luxury of having the Salvation heal where they heal multiple targets over time like a fully spec'd healer can. Rejuvenate does not heal that much overtime, and I doubt it is the one heal that is going to make or break things and push hybrid healers over the edge with "500k healing and 500k damage at the same time" in any warzone whatsoever.

Thats not right at all. Assassins could vanish and instantly heal for 9 k, thats a pretty stupid comparison to make.

Waaah it isnt fair.

Bioooowware. Make the bad sorc go away. Im going to tell my mummy.

All classes should be able to spec 40/40/40 like them and get 500k dps and heals or i quit.

I pruv yu rong wid math.

Because you are looking at a stupid, useless number. If you do high damage. its due to AOEs. High heals, which are in all reality not simultaneously not the highest in the wz at the same time, are likely mostly passive heals that don't help your team meet the objectives.

If you do the highest, best healing as a sorc/sage, that is helping your team, you are NOT doing much damage to anyone.

If you've rolled DPS, you are throwing some bubbles that get counted as heals, you MAY cast a heal on someone else in a quiet moment.

They doesn't make them any more "special" than anyone else who can roll up in stealth and then whale on them, for example, or use any other "special" abilities.

Well, sorcs have the worst burst dmg of all the classes in the game. So yes we can keep doing an even dmg all the time, but we cannot burst anyone down.

Oh, ok, so they showed they don't want any class to be able to do two roles... by changing how one class worked. Sure, you're making sense now. Ops can't damage then heal, mercs can't damage then heal, PTs can't damage then throw out a couple taunts.

Also, you're wrong- I've topped medals many times as a PT and Guardian- including top protection plus damage. I've topped damage and healing as a marauder... a class that can't even heal. Topped damage easily as a sniper- topped damage and healing as an operative- and everyone knows mercs regularly top damage and healing.

Oh, wait, you're talking about yourself. Yeah, certain players with a certain level of skill sometimes cannot top anything ever. That's kind of how the game goes though. I guess we should be impressed that a class can spam aoe heals, aoe damage and dots, do no burst and lose because their healers easily outhealed the damage being done with their own aoe heals.

Frankly, I have not seen a single post by a sorc bragging about 800+ damage that didn't say 'DEFEAT!' above it. Grats, sorcs can play terribly and get big numbers, and grats to you for thinking big numbers are more important than wins.