How may DPS attackers should healer be able to defend against?

But people crit with certain abilities for as much as 10k ... you are not suggesting healers should have a heal that heals for 30,000 in one cast are you?

No, I suggest every damage dealing skill/combo should be 1/3rd of what a healer is able to heal on the same period of time (instead of 1~1.5x), but then stealth classes wouldn't be viable anymore.

No, I suggest every damage dealing skill/combo should be 1/3rd of what a healer is able to heal on the same period of time (instead of 1~1.5x), but then stealth classes wouldn't be viable anymore.

I never really agreed with the implicit and ineffable connection between Stealth and Enormous Damage. I always thought proper design for stealth should play on the whole invisibility aspect, and not the "then I shove my foot up your ***" aspect.

To a certain extent, it still works in PUG Voidstar, where stealthers will give the attacking team a slight advantage by making it harder for defenders to know how to split up. IMHO what makes stealthing non-viable in Voidstar is that the two doors are a bit too close to each other and the spawn.

However, given that this is the design we have - and BW / EA is not going to take chances with anything remotely experimental - your point does stand.

This is why 1v1 still is and will always be an awful foundation for class balance, and the OP's question was misguided to begin with. What should happen is that a stealther SHOULD murder a healer 1v1. A better question is "how long should it take?" TTK matters.

1.2 healing changes are making healers pretty angry. And while some others (probably other classes) say it was necessary to nerf healers, some say that it was not necessary to do it so drastically.

While reading through posts on this subject I realised that I don't understand class balance as others do so I would like clarification on this issue:
How many DPS attackers (sent/mara as pure DPS) should a healer be able to defend against without dying (and of course without doing any significant damage to this DPS player)?

Solo healer ...... one or two?
Healer with tank guarding him/her ........ two or three?

This is very difficult to test as all of participating players would have be of same skill, level and gear. How many times do we find ourselves in such exact situation?

It may be designed this way, for stealth to solo healers, but the design is still flawed since this is a PVP game and the objective is to kill each other. If support classes can be killed solo then no one will play one since they are already giving up killing people.

The time to kill would have to be something extraordinarily long...so long that the kill would amount to no gain for the team killing the support class. Again because if the class is solable or killable faster than that in a pvp game no one would give up killing to play one.