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

Didn't take a genius to know that the combination of increased damage through multiple sources and the huge healing nerfs, would result in the mess we have now.

Just the expertise changes would have made the job harder for healers with much more damage being put out, both to ammo/heat etc situation and survivability, the nerfs on top of that was only ever going to take it too far and some people, myself included, said it before 1.2 went live...

BW as usual didn't listen and those that said PTS changes were final and for bug testing and nothing more, were proven right

Lol, be patient if this game is anything like RIFT, every patch will nerf another class and beef up another. Roll a few toons and play the flavor of the week. Or just hunker down and wait for the next patch. It's really, really hard to balance classes, and with the legacy system thins will get really interesting.
You might find the advantage you desire in the legacy, or not.

I agree. Hm's and PvP I could do before are now next to impossible to heal. Not enough healing per heat generated. 200% increase of heat cost to Rapid scan from Critical Efficiency(8 heat to 16 heat after Healing Scan.)

That should not be the case though,all classes DPS specced should have an equal chance if same geared,same is true as far as healing.

The fact of the matter is,is that healers were almost immortal or very hard to take down and with groups of three or more it became pointless.

Look at all the WZ's that had eight sorcs/inquis for months any Repub could tell you that was almost a daily occurence for months,now ask yourself and be honest why shouldnt a fully same geared scrapper not even break 30% off of a Powertech? thats crazy so i as a scrapper just avoid certain classes?

They removed a bug,now you guys are more inline i have respected to Sawbones and am doing just fine imo,but i never had insane healing numbers with damage like you guys did with your hybrid builds.

The biggest problem with this patch and people thinking that healing is fine is the illusion of numbers.

"I did 300k healing. I think this patch is fine."

Numbers are meaningless. The day the patch hit I did 570k on my operatve. None of it mattered. People where dropping from 50% to 0 before my 1.8 second heal that hits for 2200 could go off.

Just because my hots and aoe were constantly ticking and giving me a big total healing number at the end of the game, does not mean that I was actually able to keep anyone alive.

Pre-1.2 4 team healers were the ultimate trolling team. It was disgusting. It was repelling. As a DPS i am very happy with the healing nerf. This is what we all were asking for on forums since the game was released. Leave the healer where they belong: support role. People should die in Warzones, not participate in a HPS vs DPS contest.

So instead PVP is now an all out 'who can do the most DPS' fest.

What you're basically saying is you want PVP to be designed based around the class you play. And you're moaning because healers are saying they want it based around how their class style plays?

Hate to tell you this but most healers (and probably a lot of tanks) would say that WZs are now broken and highly favour DPS classes.

Same can be said for you and for the OP. You played a FOTM class role. In fact you got so ballsy, then you did not even care to get out of LOS of snipers and gunslingers. You could just stay in front of them and heal and heal.

You wanna know what? Healers deserve this patch. You wanna know why? Because I couldn't kill them. Seriously, I COULDN'T KILL A HEALER.

I think that as a DPS player, first and foremost, it's very stupid that a class can regenerate his HP. Seriously, what's the point? If I'm hitting some abilities, that say that they do damage, how fair is it for another class to have some other abilities that can recover that HP they just lost? I don't think its fair at all. If I attack a guy, he should die, not stand there, recovering his HP, while he friends come over and beat my face in. Have you guys seen those healers at all? They all stand there, in the back, between like 4-5 other people, doing nothing... I mean, each one of them has like 4 heals, I have to use like 10 DPS abilities.. Of course, back before 1.2, they used to stand there, tanking my damage while I got beat up by the 4-5 guys.



Now, I can just go in and smash them. They deserve it, I say. It's only fair that one DPS should be able to kill one healer in few seconds since healers are support class only. If you want to heal, you better bring some tanks and other people to protect you cuz I'm gonna KILL YOU.

Sometimes I do think, maybe, Bioware's content and such was easy, maybe they just nerfed healing to make it hard. This wasn't like a good nerf when I think about it because in reality, they should adjust other thing, not nerf healing to make it harder, because if you can't heal or are out of resources, that will make the fight harder, right? I'm not sure who is more lazy when it comes to this. Those stupid healers hitting 4 buttons or Bioware who thinks their content is going to be hard cuz people can't physically heal.


I don't really care. As long as there are no healers around, I'm happy. I can just sit there in my corner and kill people all day long... just the way it should be.


P.S.

If I see a healer, I kill you.


Next time, don't try to heal so hard. Maybe then Bioware won't nerf your *** into the oblivion because they're either to lazy or to stupid to change their codes to allow for more dynamic, engaging and fun fight. But hey, if you can't heal, your dps will die, your tanks will fold, you'll lose a fight and Bioware will be satisfied. They don't really care if you quit, smash your keyboard of PC, or yell really loud to the point where you neighbors think you're insane.