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

Actually, the game was in massive decline prior to 1.2 due to Biowares poor handling of everything. And your only seeing this surge because of the patch. You might think you know whats going on. But you dont. All I ask, is in 3 months when fleet is back down to 24 people, that you just take one minute to remember that Dreydin guy, that told ya so

I have flame resistance, so your petty comebacks won't work. And negative responses to this, only serve to identify the other 23 people you will be standing around with.

Maybe you are right...but maybe not. I can only judge by my experiences in game on my server. And so far, my guild is more active, PvP is more active, there are more people on fleet and on the planets (except ilum, lol)

Especially with ranked WZ's coming in 1.3 (if they dont BS us again), i dont see the servers dying down anytime soon.

ya know i'm seeing the healers that were good before 1.2 getting back up to the 600k + healing. maybe it's a L2P issue ? not sayin it to be a dck but hey, i see some are adapting. i haven't played my healer because it's not on my main server so i dunno firsthand.

I think healing is FUBAR. I hear healers saying that they can't heal crap, then I play pvp and three of us are wailing on a tank with everything we got and he's healing himself faster then the three of us can heal him. I don't know how he was doing, I don't know what he was using, or if it was a cheat, but it was just rediculous. In another match, a scoundrel and myself, sage, where trying to take out an agent which was trying to take the left node, didn't matter how much we hit him, every time we took him down low on health, he'd heal himself back up to full, half of my stuns didn't work on him, it was just rediculous. I think the biggest problem this game has is the classes are unbalanced and BW has to really get this beta version turned around into a live version soon because nothing is balanced in PvP.

It is possible that you and your scoundrel friend were undergeared vs the agent. This is something bioware could have some control over and close the gap between the top and low geared players. There is, however, little that they can do to balance good players vs bad players.

So your saying your guild prior to 1.2 was getting bigger and bigger, and getting more active? And you werent absorbing dying guilds? Our guild is huge, prolly the biggest on our server. About 1 month after game launch the pop started degrading. Our core members dropped off one by one as they unsubbed. Until a group of over 50 hardcore MMO gamers was reduced to 4 of us. Until the last few weeks when we started absorbing entire guilds because they were decimated due to unsubs. As of patch 1.2 we saw a massive influx of returning players hoping the changes would spark their interest for a game that has so much potential. We have over 250 members now, and 30-50 online every night. Which is starting to decline, as the "freshness" has worn off.

Unfortunately, already we have several people that have unsubbed again as they see the game as far worse then when they quit. So the basically 20% of the "influx" has already decided their quitting again. This percentage will grow with the coming weeks. And once the free month is over, it will nosedive.

Everything I say in regards to growth and decline is consistent with xfire numbers. Which serve as a reasonable measure of game activity. I am happy for you, that your experience defies logic. But for people like me, this game has turned into a revolving door of unsubbers and fresh faces, which turn into unsubbers after a very short cycle of play.

This entire process will be a very expensive one for Bioware. Although I am sure future MMO companies will appreciate that Bioware took the time to figure out for them, what not to do.

I have 3 days left, before I ditch out. I am not sure why I even bother posting on here. I guess part of me just wants to see this fixed, so I can play and actually have fun.

Good job on PVE though Bioware, you actually improved it. If you didnt take such a large dump on PVP, I might overlook it, and keep playing.

I've just now seen this thread and only read a few pages, but this is how I feel.

Pre-1.2, there were exactly two DPS on my server that I feared: a Sentinel and a Scoundrel, both very well played. Other than that, I knew I was staying alive unless focused, and even then, I could usually get away. Even if my healing output wasn't overpowered (pre-1.2 Op definitely not), my survival probably was.

Post-1.2, my healing output is markedly increased, but my survival requires attention--not just blowing a CD but actually breaking LOS and focus healing myself. I now have to pick: heal others, heal myself, or use adrenal+relic and try to do both. I'm now forced to be proactive about positioning and survival, because it doesn't take much to put me on the ropes.

But I feel like all classes, other than tanks (whose one focus is survival), are that way now. I usually PvP with a DPS Sorc and Marauder, and those guys can melt players, but they fall apart once they're focused, which puts a strain on me (the healer) to use CDs.

PvP seems like a game of choices now--strategy instead of stamina. I prefer that. It's more dynamic.

I still hit the same numbers, so long as no one attacks me. If I am against idiots, its no prob. But soon as skilled players target me, I am screwed. So yeah, works great, if you dont AT ALL need burst. Unfortunately, burst ability is something required for survivability....So its not l2p, its adjust to lack of burst healing. And get used to waiting for a shield to let you out.

Maybe it''s my gear then, or skill. Pick a flavor...

Any who, pretty nice server then, prime-time when I check their are often 8-10 operatives online on our server, often only 2 others are lvl 50 also. Nice to see they doing so well on the other servers. Just me then, nothing to see here I guess.

And you can actually hit higher numbers now, because the damage output of DPS is so high. But again, it comes down to whether people attack you or not. I am well known on my server, so i get a mark on my head from the opposing team just about every match. So its a little harder to cast away without having to kite and hide to stay alive.

PS:I am full BM gear, and rarely get anything but top spot for healing. Before, and after 1.2.