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

If this was the goal they did just as poor of a job of it as they did with rebalancing Grav round. The high level Commando healing talents just aren't worth it, abilities like Trauma Probe and Field Aid cost too much to bother with most of the time in a way making hybrid specs actually more desirable. On a certain level I have a hard time justifying buying much past Kolto Bomb (Tier 3) as a Commando atm, which was definitely not the case pre 1.2 basically it just means Commando hybrids should spec more into damage.

A lot of crazy assertions in this thread, too many to list. Here's what I think:

The goal in PvP is for skill to make the biggest difference. (Anybody disagree with that?) The second biggest factor should be gear. Somebody with much better gear should be able to hold their own or beat a better player with vastly inferior gear. A much better player should be able to beat somebody who is better geared, at least some of the time.

Assuming you don't disagree with the above:

1. Equally skilled, equally geared players should have an equal chance to win a 1 vs. 1 fight. It should NOT matter if they are Healers, DPS, or Tanks. A hard goal to achieve, but I think Bioware is trying.

2. 2 v 1 should greatly favor the 2.

3. DPS'ers opinion is they should be able to kill any non-dps'er 1 v1.

4. Healers opinion is they should not be able to be killed by less than 2 other people.

5. Tanks don't have opinions, they are just dumb meat shields (j/k).

My point is, pre 1.2 Sages/Sorcerers were VERY hard to kill 1 v 1 and even 2 v 1. It was, in my view, imbalanced. If Sages are usually losing 1 v 1 to DPS now, it is imbalanced the other way (I'm not saying that's the case). There are enough variables and strategy that two equally skilled/geared people fighting ten times can go 5-5. That's the ideal. That's balance. If one or the other wins 10 out of 10, that's a problem.

And for the record, I'm a Sage who spends most of his credits switching between DPS and Healing...

The real problem, was that a bunch of terrible players who don't know how healers worked, complained very loudly about the state of the game.

It seemed to them that a good healer could tank 3 or 4 of them at once, and of course it must be overpowered.

What they didn't know, was that a good dps duo working together could easily neutralize even the best healers on the server, it just required knowing how healers function (typical example, people stupidly filling a smugglers resolve bar before he hits 30% health)

Bioware listened, and the result is the terrible state of affairs that is 1.2 (where if anything, the required skill level has dropped to an alltime low).

Its pathetic really, but rest assured it won't last when it becomes apparent to the terribads that the better teams on the server can now drop their entire group in like 10 seconds (you think I am exagerating.. I am not).

You're missing the point. You die faster, but your enemies die faster too. If you buy 3 seconds for a team mate, chances are he removes a enemy from the fight, leaving you with a short window of numerical advantage. You don't win a fight healing, hammer it in your head. You win a fight killing.

People say a healer vs a DPS should be a stale mate. Not really, they should kill each other roughly the same amount of times - and I underline that it should always end up with someone dead. But if you as a healer choose to never attack who's killing you, it's not anyone's problem but yours. Be proactive and start slapping people around while you slow down their DPS race. If you kill the enemies and you have 100% HP left, 50%, or 10%, it's all the same.