Healing reduced by 30% in pvp. WHY!?

I tend to be in the camp that says that its been a week since the official release, most people are still not max level and those of us who are are not fully geared up so it is a bit early to tell how the whole thing will balance out.

As it stands I've seen healers do very well, I do agree the UI is bad but it sucks for all of us and we all wish that Bioware wouldn't have outsourced the UI to DE's kids as a school project. Oh and I'm also on the side that says that 90% of the knockbacks/pulls could probably be remove and the game would be more fun.

And no, I don't play a marauder.

if something changes somehow at 50... thats great news for me!
in the 40's healing magnitude it still is a BIG issue at least, so the people saying "its low lvl issue" is simply not true.

even if at 50 something happens, the only things I can think of being expertise and tech/force power oriented gear, it still leaves a pretty big part of the game completly healing unworthy.

if you dont play marauder/sentinel I dont see how you have problems interrupting heals tbh... I still dont know all classed well but I am pretty positive that all of them apart from those, have pretty solid interrupts and CC.

bottomline is a healer must be able to keep a friendly up against 2 attackers at least, not counting the tactical aspect ofc, sheer numbers, cuz he needs to be able to fullfill his role for his slot, aswell as makeup for the loss of dps/mitigation for him not being dps/tank.
and he should at least be able to, or have the chance to keep himself up against at least 1 attacker.

This isn't WoW. If you hadn't already realized, the Interrupts in this game only prevent THAT ability from being used. There's no school lockouts.

Urgh, this whole post is just ridiculous.

The healing is fine as it is in pvp.

No, if you can do this and your friendly isn't a tank that is unbalanced and exactly what pissed on the poor abused carcass of WoW PvP. If you can keep a friendly up against 2 attackers, you can keep yourself up against one with ease, and if that's the case and the definition of balance hasn't changed, then healing and dps are not equal and by the definition of the word "balanced" not balanced.

Expertise is going to be a massive part of PvP, anything pre-50 means nothing as far as balance. No one should ever be suggesting nerfs or changes if they haven't played at 50.

Also I'd like to know why BW didn't itemize lower level pvp gear with expertise. Why is it only a level 50 stat? Silly.

And you are just plain wrong about being able to keep someone up against two attackers. There are MANY reasons that is ridiculous in swtor.

CC is not as widespread or easy to get off as in WoW, Most CCs have long cast times, require stealth and no combat. The only difference here is a few instant stuns and knockbacks. Again, not nearly as bad as WoW.

Interrupts are not the be all and end all for a healer. In WoW, if you got interrupted by a mage or lock, or even a melee when being zerged, it could easily mean your death. In SWTOR, Interrupts only prevent one spell. You can go straight to your next spell.

Even based on what i've seen pre-50, this game seems very balanced. Tanks have a role in PvP, Healers are not too overpowered or underpowered(they win Warzones), and DPS doesn't seem to be too high at all. Except maybe a few burst classes, but I'm going to wait until 50 before I comment on that. Even as an assassin I've taken a very long time to kill certain heavy armor classes, especially tank specced.

I hope that is the case, I really do, and I also hope they itemize expertise for low lvls aswell then... because if people are only ment to pvp at lvl 50... then dont allow warzones pre-50...

this has nothing to do with WoW... and there is nothing imbalanced for a healer to keep a ally up when its getting attacked by 2 oponents if hes not being hit/CC'ed AT ALL, its the bare minimal a healer should be able to pull off to warrant his spot in a OP, for reasons explained in the previous post.

in a 2v2 scenario for exemple, if one of them is a healer, then he HAS to merrit his spot and his specialization by being able to support his ally against the other team of 2 oponents period, if not, its always better to be a tank/dps instead.

Either you are flat out lying, or those DPSers suck beyond belief.

Umm not really. There's a danger here when escalating healing. Healers are not better than DPS. This game doesn't have small scale arenas like WoW and thus doesn't need to be balanced around that. You balance around Warzones, if a healer is standing in the back being protected by tanks and dps with CC and interrupts(on a competent team), then he can very well do this and more. I've seen it happen.

A friend and I played WoW in which one of us was always a healer, and one of us was always a stealth dps. The two of us could win an entire bg with cc, and massive heals. All day long. It was cake. We came here, and after a few matches we raged a little. Then we realized how much fun it actually was to LEARN TO PLAY OUR *********** CLASSES for once. I absolutely love the way our heal/dps team works now. It's still just as viable as it ever was with us, we're just having a lot more fun learning to work it out.