3.3, the death of dps spec off heals? lol

I wasn't around when that thread was up, but I would've posted that Priming Shot needs to be nerfed to a 1.5 second cast time and the instant Tracer Missile proc should be removed.

Stating facts now is considred whining? I don't even know why I'm surprised about you hostility. A man can't say a bad word about Sages, whether they are right or not, or challange your biased comments without you white knighting.

Maybe if you were to think through what you just said you wouldn't make such a fool of yourself.

1. Interrupting selfhealing is of the highest priority, I'm baffeled that you think anyone would care to interrupt Vindicate as much as Rapid Scan.
2. Vindicate can be used on the move, Rapid Scan can't. That's a huge advantage right there.
3. TK has additional interrupt immunity at a possible 26.6% uptime.
4. Both Sage dps specs have a good enough resource management to not need to worry about it at all (Madness only in AoE situation), while Mercs are ****ed after 2 Rapid Scan.
5. Quote me where I complained about Benevolence, I'll be waiting...

Maybe tone down the bigotry next time. I only said Sages still have a resource cooldown and then you snap at me...

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You're not funny. Go away.

I'm not trying to be funny.

Don't bother with sorcs/Mercs, they have to manage their energy and stay in one place.
Go with healing scoundrels/ops, they don't give a **** about energy, spam instant heals, have HoTs all over, laugh at your focus and will soon get buffed in order to run even more around freely while keeping an entire team alive

First, please learn what the word "bigotry" means. You are the first one who resorts to personal attacks when someone disagrees with you.

Vindicate can be used on the move with Force mobility. That's a utility cost, even if many people take it anyway. And, there's the whole point of it still costing two seconds of cast time.

Dark Heal can't be used on the move, however. And it's the directly analogous power to Rapid Scan. I note that you didn't mention that. And you talk about being biased.

Where is this great resource management for Balance/Madness? Please enlighten me, especially how AoE has anything to do with it? I'm genuinely confused by that comment. After these changes, there is no way for either Balance or TK to spam Benevolence over and over without crashing their force. And we don't have a power like recharge cells. Just Vindicate which costs us 2 seconds of cast time to recover less than half the force Benevolence costs.

Next, I never said YOU complained about Benevolence, I said people. Unlike you I am careful with my word choice.

Finally, I absolutely will defend the class I like to play against the irrational hate people exhibit on these boards. I have called for nerfs for Sorcs/Sages in the past (actually I have argued for it just yesterday in the thread about Backlash), and I will again if warranted.

Yeah. After reading all of the different opinions and theorycraft before PTS is even up, what I get is people say "sorcs buffed! Mercs nerfed!"

From what I get out of the PTS notes so far is, sorcs use more energy now, will run out of energy faster... And mercs lose an oh-crap heal and gain a smaller spammable heal?

In effect, the sorc change could overall lessen the healing output of the sorc in a long battle.

The dps merc change will allow the merc to sit off to the side and give some limited support healing but loses an on-the-run instant heal. Unless I missed something?

Anyway, if this happens, the dps merc will still be in the same boat of inability to survive any type of focus. Their biggest problem is totally ignored. As is the healing merc.

I am surprised they actually think they need to nerf some of the healing output on the healing mercs instant no-cost heal though. It's already pretty crappy?

I believe the change to the 6 piece set bonus for PVP set lowering the cooldown by 3 seconds on kolto waves is to stop ops from using the 2 piece bonus set from PVE that gives +15% to recuperative nanotech (3 targets healed AE).

Right now, most ops in PVP mix the PVP set with 4 pieces and use 2 pieces from the PVE set because the 1 second cooldown for kolto cloud was not as beneficial as the bonus to that 2 set. I am curious as to if this change will change ops preference to using the pve set fro the two piece bonus.

All the theorycrafting is fun. But, don't complain on forums before trying it. All of you, if you care enough to create posts on the changes, log into PTS try it, and then give your opinion on how it goes gamewise.

We all know metrics and theorycrafting is useful to get an idea of how things MIGHT will be, but until you get in the game and try it, it's not fair to judge or assume anything.

Death of every DPS spec.

I really wish they see the errors of neglecting PvP like this, when the last PvPers unsub.

Exactly. I'm going to test it out, but Sorcs/Sages do have some experience with Benevolence/Dark Heal costing this much. And it wasn't a good idea to try an spam it.

So I'm guessing it's more healing, but at more cost.

Mercs are trading a slightly longer cast, but significantly more power heal (Healing Scan) for a slightly shorter cast, weaker but spammable heal.

So more healing at more cost. But it's really worse for the Merc because if the nerf to Kolto Shot is as bad as it was the last time this was on PTS, this is a massive nerf to Mercs. I really hate that people complained so much about Kolto/Med Shot. It really wasn't that bad, but everyone treated it like it was irrelevant so the devs went ahead and made it so.

Agreed. Can't wait to try all this out.

I highly doubt I'm the first one, and I didn't resort to personal attack because you disagree with me, but because you were hostile toward me without provocation. I didn't turn this conversation into this mess, you did.

You brought up Vindicate vs Rapid Scan out of nowhere, I never mentioned that comparison. And now you even bring up DH vs RS. How the hell is it biased that I didn't???
Here:
Devour: Force Leech deals 25% more damage when used on a target affected by your Affliction. In addition, each time a charge of your Deathmark is consumed, you gain 2 Force.

Do you even know your class?
Not careful enough:
How is this irrational hating?
If anyone here is irrational, it's you.