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

Yes, Outnumbered, a concept that even a baby could deal with in WoW.

Healing in PVP is not all that effective. You will have a hard time even healing yourself with DPS on you, its a waste of time to even try honestly, they will out damage you. Your better off DPSing, I will heal but its normally to try and keep someone that is beating on me busy longer so someone else can gank him. Or to heal another player enough that the people attacking him give up and wander off or at least keep them busy for a bit to let someone get an objective ETC.

But the real reason I heal in PVP...medals. I can easily do 75k healing and damage in a single match and that gets me two medals...Plus you can also get some defender points from it and the ezmode 2.5k heal crit medal.

inb4 logic resounds throughout the thread

Also remember, it's team based. If you as a healer get ranked and sure right away then your team either sucks or aren't near you. A tank guarding you will cut the dmg you take by a ton, can also taunt whom ever is attacking you which drops the dmg 30% if they attack anyone but the tank. Plus said tank might have hold as well. And that's just what one team member can do to help. Learn to play and find friends who knows how to play.

I wouldn't base your judgement of PvP healing on the game in its current state. Right now, things are a mess. You've got level 10s with 1/3 of their skills going up against decked out 50s. You've got players that are new to MMOs and don't understand how warzones should work. You've also got 4 player PvP premades with lots of experience. Basically, I've only played about 3 warzones that I would say were evenly matched. All the other ones were either us rolling the imps, or the imps rolling us.

If you're getting frustrated, just don't bother queuing until level 50 or so. There's really no point in taking warzones seriously until that point.

Actually..this IS a L2P issue...This is NOT wow...Adapt your playstyle to THIS game and you'll see a HUGE difference

I've played full healing spec in beta and pulled 400k+healing matches as a sage, I've toned it down now to hybrid seer/balance spec now and I face roll just about anyone who I fight. Experiment, the game has been out for 3 days... lots of class balancing to come.

I know that a solid majority of people have never had an experience with the following example, but it needs to be made because it makes perfect sense...

Healing in SWTOR is NOT at ALL healing in WoW... And along the same lines, neither is tanking...

Healing in SWTOR IS healing in Warhammer: Age of Reckoning...

Just from the following comparison: Sith Inquisitor / Goblin Shaman

- You have 2 basic cast heals that seem to heal for a less than desireable amt of dmg... One smaller and faster, one bigger and longer...

- You have a instant small heal + HoT that modifies your casted heals...

- You have 1 AoE group heal (in this game, GTAoE, in W:AR PBAoE)

- You have a PBAoE knockback

- You have an instant cast stun

- You have a cast time CC

- You have a instant cast shield

- You have (and this is the most important part) Tanks that have PvP viable guard and taunt mechanics to debuff the oncoming dps' damage.........

Anyone playing a tank coming over from WoW DOES NOT HAVE THE TANKING PVP EXPERIENCE NECESSARY TO BE EFFECTIVE IN THIS GAME!!!

There is a learning curve, and it will take a while, but coming from both WoW and W:AR, I must say, the WoW comparisons are completely out of line. No one who has only played pvp in that MMO has dealt with a system like this. Not saying you're all incompetent, but I'm saying that you need to adjust your thinking.

I personally made sure the best fluid guard / prime target taunting tank I've ever played with made a Powertech on my PvP server, in my guild, and at 50 he knows it's his job to be attached to my hip! Here's a fun fact, tanks, you get to be lazy, cause if you're next to a healer, the opposing force WILL COME TO YOU!!!

I do believe that heals could use a percentage buff, but no more than 5-10% just to keep up a little more with the combo output dps that's currently in game. But NOTHING ELSE NEEDS TO BE DONE!!!

Dear SWTOR healers - Get a tank, have him guard you, and debuff the highest melee dps threat that comes near you, make use of your stuns and knockbacks, and LoS ranged dps. YOU WILL WIN! HARD! AT LIFE! AND AT LIVING!!!

I see the same setup as was in W:AR, where if you're playing intelligently, and using the tools you have at your disposal, you will appear to the other team as unkillable...

Don't stand and spam... Run and gun!

Emperor Punjab
Terentatek
Formerly of Ostermark

PS - If there's anyone who read this the whole way through that actually played W:AR, please explain how I'm not full of Shiz... Thx!

Ya thats all great but your missing the point. The other classes don't have nearly as much reliance on others. Even without our low heals, its pretty much a dps fight anyway.

As a healer I've been with someone using guard with me the whole time, I find it almost not possible to die with that even being kicked since i can just get peels from that person as well. Maybe I'm wrong but it's a whole different world as a healer if you have guard on you that's for sure.