PvP Healing, by far the worst experience I've ever had as a gamer

If you want durability, don't play a healer.

I heal by clicking the targets portrait then pressing my heal. If you can't do that AND keep up with the pace of combat, you're a terrible player.

@OP: You are probably just doing it wrong.

My bff Hau is a 4x Glad RSham and has zero problems PvP healing. Loves it. If I could, I'd swap my AC in a heartbeat to Sage because PvP healing is incredibly strong.

Just keep in mind that if you get interrupted you can still cast any other heal in your arsenal.

It leads to oh so fun matches where half the players are healers and nobody can die ever ... immortal group fighting other immortal group ... very exciting pvp.

Why not, people have been playing healers in PvP forever - what makes it any different from healing in PvE? We keep up our teammates so they can do their job. Otherwise, everyone is just dying way too much and not getting objectives. People don't have fun when they die as soon as they run into combat.

QFT. I've seen this too many times before. DPS just don't get it. They want us to keep them alive but they also want us to be an easy kill. And they want to have healers every where they go so they qq if they don't have any. Can't have it both ways.

That's fun for me as a healer, but if people aren't dying it's the dps's fault for being bad, not the healer's fault for simply doing their job. You have one or two healers that are keeping everyone up? Gang up on them, you're entire team. Silence, stun, knockback, whatever CC you have to prevent them from healing themselves. Then everyone focus dps them. Bam, they're dead. No one can survive a CC/DPS gang bang, it's not rocket science. Then mark them number 1 and repeat every time they rez. You're telling us that we need to work with our team to keep ourselves alive in this game? How about your work as a team to kill the other teams so called immortal healers? Goes both ways.

Even in the 20ish pvp healing sucks as operative...

My heals are 80 per stuck and tick, alone a lvl 18 already did hit me with 2000 dmg hits. Wasting time on sticking up heals in this game, instead stun em and dish out the dmg. The healing is way too low in comparison the damage output.

This game has so far the worst pvp i played in an mmorpg in lower lvls..... played DaoC, Shadowbane, Vanilla WoW.

A heal is always helpful, a heal should swing that particular battle into your favor again. It shouldn't cancel out like 40 things the enemy does to hurt you. Your heal should help slightly and that character should be smart enough to get outta battle, turn a corner go around things. Not fight in the middle of no where.

Like I said in another thread. Let the sick teams show everybody how to do it (show me how to do it, I'm not saying im sick at all). We can all sit back, relax and watch how they know best how to win with healers etc, and we'll take that info and play with it. Let the game evolve.

When a ~2k heal takes almost 3 seconds to cast (2.5 + lag) and someone does 2k+ damage with instant/channeled skills or 1-1.5secs cast skills that also interrupt your heals (or add 1-2 seconds more to the cast time if you are lucky), and they also place DoTs on you and CC (every class has CCs, and for some classes 4 secs is enough to drop you from 60%hp to 0, or close enough to finish you before you can cast the next heal) it's pretty hard to keep up. That means ANY dps can kill a healer in 1v1 if they know their skills and rotations and save their CC/spikes for the right moment.
Don't tell the healers to learn to play when they only can win vs a DPSer if they know how to play and the DPS doesn't. Tell everyone else to L2P if they get owned by a healer. In most games, healers just spam heals and survive until they run out of mana. Here you can't outheal a dpser unless you hide behind something to break their skills, but then you can't heal yourself and die even faster. Also, everyone has a 90s CD on healing consumables that heal more than half of your HP and place a HoT on you. That's enough to outheal any damage a healer can do while it's trying to heal himself. And if healers run out of force we can't use force potions or anything, running out of force means dying. For dps running out of energy/rage just means they need to use their crappy rage building attacks for a while and then start pewpewing again.

In group PvP it's even worse. You can't dps at all because you can't spare any heals. If they see you heal they focus you and if they don't insta-kill you, you are stunlocked for 10s+ until you die.

I'm not complaining. I know how to play a healer, I'm close enough to 50 to know how the healing in this game works and I'm waiting to hit 50 (I'm pwning every rebel I see in Voss BTW, out of WZs PvPing as a healer isn't that bad, maybe I'm lucky and only find noobs around, or maybe the bolster buff is breaking the game for the healers in WZs) and get some PvP gear before I decide what to do (maybe respec into dps or maybe level my dpser alt). I understand playing a healer in this game is a pain and I'm fine with it, I still enjoy it even if heals are underpowered. We may be useless in PvP at this point, but maybe with PvP gear and some more alacrity/crit/purple not-consumables we will become useful at some point. That's why I'm waiting for endgame until I decide what to do. Having my cast times cut off by a 30% would help a lot, I'll give the alacrity a try and see if it helps, along with some def.

You have to constantly work at it to be any good. There are no addons to do most of the work for you.

can anyone tell me why my heals hit for less in bgs than in open world. Im a 50 consular and my channel heal crits for 1200 per tick open world, and crits for 990 in bgs.

Also, why is a lvl 10 dude having more hp than me in bgs, and also why do they hit far harder than i do?

I had enough of not being able to outheal even 1 dps attacking me, so i rolled dps spec and am now running around ganking lowbies in open world. Thanks bioware for not making lvl caps for pvp