A Healer's 1.2 Grievances: The story of why healers are upset

DPS is vastly easier than playing a support toon, I agree. I would think that would be a general opinion of people that play competitively at both in any mmo. There is reason that good support players are the backbone of competitive play.

Haha, you a funnay guy. You are so witty, you instigator you! You remind me of explosive diarrhea. You make a lot of offensive noises and everything that comes out belongs in the toilet. I bet your hate for healers stems from problems like you being 'out of LOS' when you need healing. I know I'd take a team loss just to see you bite the dust.

Is that like a food?

Played the healer role - and just accepted I would not top out the leaderboard EVER. I was okay with that. Like you - when I hustled, and dished out the healing, I would gather the MVP votes from appreciative DPS/tanks who got all the medals. I was perfectly fine with that. Welcome to life of a healer.

Post 1.2 - not only do I have a billboard over my head announcing what I do (making me easy to pick out, as if anyone with half a brain couldn't have figured it out previously) I basically can count on using TWO heals whenever needed. Everything else is interrupted, or I am perma-stunned. That is - until I die, which is one or two swings and I am back at the respawn.

As mentioned earlier - stick a fork in this one for me. *sigh* Sad, as I did enjoy the pre-1.2 PvP.

Healing is broken. We know. Its sad. I wonder if switching around expertise would fix the issue. Probably not.

Who comes to a star wars game to play the guy with the healing gun? Where's the in-combat healing in any of the original movies, tv shows, novels, comic books or trailers for this game? It is my belief that most (definitely not all - there are no absolutes, but most) healers just picked the class because they like to be OP. They just lost that "completely OP" status and so of course they are going to whine. I couldn't care less.

In my experience with 1.2 (as a wh guardian and bm sentinel and a mid-level healer), healing is fine right now. If a healer has two DPS on him he will survive longer than any other class can in a 2v1 (unless he's stunned the whole time which not every class combo can do while dpsing). And healers still -need- to be targetted first if you want to win a fight or objective where one (or more) is present. Is that right? Arguably not - it's a dynamic carried over from other MMOs and it is getting very old there - but that's firmly how it is. Healers are still the most important characters on the battleground. Since 1.2, I've won games without healers vs teams with 3+ healers but guess which side had low damage, high deaths, low kills? And guess which side got outplayed (in every one of those games)?

1v1, dps vs healer, it can go either way if the healer knows how to mix damage into his rotation.

The part where healers are nerfed by 30% in pvp is because healers are built around negating boss damage to an entire party (or raid). If they kept that rate in pvp we would need dps doing boss-level damage.

mid level healer? LOL

dude playing in the 10-49 wz is way different then the 50 wz...
how about this... finish leveling up your sage healer or sorc healer....let me know how he does in the 50 wz....

if you dont have a maurader or assassin on you all the time then the team you are playing sucks or know you are a crappy healer anyway.

if you think you can survive against 2 dpsers which are usually a maurader or assassin... then you are god man... you should be put on the pedestal...but i will bet my years salary you would not fair well against 2 dpsers like a maurader and assassin...

good luck trying to get 1 heal off...

i already know your experience as playing a healer is horse blinded... you are only talking about a healer from a dpser perspective.

a dpser will always think its easy to play a healer. but yet never plays one...

however as a healer.. i also have a BM geared dpser... i have played both... and know how both sides of the token work.

however are you sure you do? my bet is you dont because you dont even have a 50 healer

if you are sitting at a node not healing your teammates while they are trying to get another.. you are NOT doing your job...

you are farming for medals then...

sorry i have gotten well over 200k healing and gotten only 2 medals...you only get 2 medals for doing your job.

so now medals are not easily to get. Sad that they changed it to getting medals to get anything. What a horrible idea.

you have done nothing but defend 1.2 on the forums claiming to be the god of pvp yet are you actually playing the game? You must always be on teh winning side in order to have this kind of attitude.

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mid level healer? LOL

dude playing in the 10-49 wz is way different then the 50 wz...
how about this... finish leveling up your sage healer or sorc healer....let me know how he does in the 50 wz....

if you dont have a maurader or assassin on you all the time then the team you are playing sucks or know you are a crappy healer anyway.

if you think you can survive against 2 dpsers which are usually a maurader or assassin... then you are god man... you should be put on the pedestal...but i will bet my years salary you would not fair well against 2 dpsers like a maurader and assassin...

good luck trying to get 1 heal off...

i already know your experience as playing a healer is horse blinded... you are only talking about a healer from a dpser perspective.

a dpser will always think its easy to play a healer. but yet never plays one...

however as a healer.. i also have a BM geared dpser... i have played both... and know how both sides of the token work.

however are you sure you do? my bet is you dont because you dont even have a 50 healer
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1) I never said I was an expert healer.
2) I don't need more than 2 level 50 bm+ characters to know exactly how the level 50 game works. I don't need to have a level 50 healer to have an educated, informed opinion about how healing works in this game (and many, many others - it's not that different than Wow, for example, where I've played a priest, druid and paladin to at least 80).
3) I have 0 interest in playing a healer - I only did it to figure out how to beat one. It has nothing to do with ease/difficulty - see my first paragraph.
4) Healers, right now, make a very large difference in any wz (@50). I've been in WZs without them on my team and it hurts. I know several good healers on my side on my server.
5) If you play a healer yes, you're going to get attacked by good players as much as possible. If you weren't so important to your team you wouldn't be. Half of winning right now is marking enemy healers (same as pre 1.2). If they are part of a team of cc'ers and/or have tanks with them it can be next to impossible to kill them with a team of just melee dps. Come to Ven Zallow if you need to see how it's done every night.

aah it never changes does it, DPS mouth breathers thinking they should be able to win all the time. "healers getting killed ? LOL get a tank"... oh so we need a pair of players to be effective ? and yet you whine when we tell you to get someone to assist you to kill a healer ? .... never seen that argument before

as a total aside, and sorry if this has been mentioned before, i dont have time to read all 57+ pages, but..


would it help at all if marking went away when you died ? rather than persisting on people through a WZ? i havent done much since the patch, for many reasons previously mentioned to dont know if its still true, but it was often the case that if you were tagged, you were being molested pretty much coming out of the gate on a respawn