A Healer's 1.2 Grievances: The story of why healers are upset

Then you've never met a competent player. I always get marked from the get go, stunned or double stunned and the ra_pe fest begins. Now I've adapted to this to but the changes to healing were not necessary....yes yes fix the bugs. The double heal crap was something I never used. I didn't know it existed until a few days ago so yeah I healed fair and square and I'm telling you the nerfing FB to DI was unwarranted and unnecessary. Healing properly per 1.2 was hard as my survivability was constantly under attack.

And no, I did not spec all the way up. I grabbed overload with the root to live longer and still would die quite a bit as good, competent players would use their interrupts often on me. The point is not so much about heals now as it is about whining, crying dps whores who think they are gods and should be treated accordingly. As I've said before, my sniper is loving the kill fest and the qqing because the healers are starting to disappear. I actually live longer as a sniper and if you get close to me, well you are just about as dead as you were 35 meters away. Karma bit ches, Karma.

You should have un-subbed

One thing I will note in defense of those saying that healing is fine. The gear difference re-introduced in 1.2 through the hamfisted change to expertise is going to make non-Battlemaster players in a bad spot for a bit. I plan to basically junk my Champion/Centurion gear today and pick up the recruit set, basically starting over until I get full BM. Pre 1.2 playing in Centurion or Champion gear you were utterly fine against BM players if you were capable. The changes to expertise makes these sets decidedly undesirable now. Champion weapon is fairly worth holding on to, other than that it all seems to be garbage.

Fortunately it should only take a few weeks for gear to balance out again.

And yet again Sorc healers like myself is still producing huge numbers, and my pre-mades are winning.

You ever here this war quote?

"One person can shake a Empire with just a little effort and courage"

What does that mean?

A good player can shake a outcome in PvP if everyone is focusing and is playing as one.

FIN

A bad maurader perhaps. A good marauder isn't going to let you get enough heals off to save yourself even if you could somehow match the raw output.

lol assain tanks still do good dps. granted my assain tank lvl43 but to be at the top of the leader boards with 26kills and 3 deaths i doubt thatll change at 50

Those screenshots are unusual, there were hardly any healers in several warzones I ran yesterday. With 1.2, DPS trumps healing, much like the way it was when the NGE first hit SWG, healing was so bad in the NGE that pvp was all about dps dps dps.

That first Voidstar screenshot looks bad, not very many kills all around and looks like everyone was just hitting each other, I'm betting there weren't that many BM geared players to begin with- I tried recruit gear on one of my toons, horrible stats but huge expertise increase.

Yes because mediocre K/D=good dps?

Ok apparently there are healers out there that like the change to their class and to the PVP system... I would like to ask if you could please then also post what class you play, so we can understand (or not understand) why you are happy with it.

I said it before in a post... sage healers (and sorcerers too I guess) had there skills adjusted... which already should have taken care of the perceived inbalance... Since other classes also had their skills adjusted for the same reasons.

But on top of that Bioware decided to also change the expertise % of healing and damage of the PVP itself. That is the part I don't understand...

Why not only adjust the classes itself to balance the skills... ?
Or only adjust the expertise % in the PVP.... why do both?

I sent an email to Bioware asking what their motives were for doing this, just to understand... but have not received an answer yet :-)

Try fighting something other than pugs, because a competent enemy is going to easily shut you down with interrupts even if they cant eat through guard. You simple lack of perspective is telling me you are simply steamrolling pugs with a premade and trying to make that mean something more than it is in regards to your skill level.

We have absolutely no problems shutting down saqe or sorc healers in competitive play. Of course I play with good players.