Just because you're ignorant of the issues doesn't mean they don't exist. That goes for everyone living in their dream land where bioware does no wrong and the game is perfect. Browse the forums. There's crippling bugs and issues with nearly every class and general gameplay. It's not my job to do your homework for you.

Go to the class forums. Heck, go to any forum. How long are you going to wear those blinders?

Honestly though, how long are people going to accept that excuse "It's only been out for X long"?

Nope. Try reading next time.

Right, I forgot, I'm unable to criticize this game and the direction the developers are taking it because...wait, no, enlighten me as to why.

Yes, because every problem with the game is opinion.../sarcasm

/golf clap Thanks for that intelligent response. Just goes to show the people who see no issues with anything are still around and remaining ignorant.

Oh sure, when I complain about the horrible electric after noise of combat on an assassin that nearly made my ears bleed I get laughed at, but when there's a slight brightness change on the hotbars it's a legitimate problem.

Sorry for the obvious reference but it's true. At first glance it looks like bioware's fixing things multiple times a week--but they're actually taking down servers to fix ONE thing. One thing...seriously. Is that all they have time for now? Too busy making the next years worth of content to pay any attention to the numerous and horrendous problems that the forums are in literal uproar over every day? They devoted two patch maintenances to barely tweaking the animation effects for hotbars. That's all they did. Are we to sit through another 200 maintenances of random, low importance, graphical nitpicks before they get to the mechanical aspects, such as some classes having talents not working? How is this acceptable to anyone?

Hard to believe it was just a couple months ago. Now look at the sorry state of things.

This is less about the surge nerf than the overall state of Scoundrels and Operatives. Broken talents, lowest dps, worst healers, we need some help.

Fix'd for you.

Figures the easiest, flavor of the month, most OP class found something to complain about. And here the Scoundrel community has legitimate complaints and is ACTUALLY ignored. Only 3 bioware posts on our forums compared to your 60+.

You kidding me? They could make the worst expansion of all time, rehash everything, mirror every flashpoint and operation, change a couple textures, add 5 more cannons on capital ships in space battles, and make every romance option capable of branching off into a huge questline of gathering 1000 flowers for your companion which drop only 1% of the time on a raid boss in quantities of 5 that the entire OP must roll for and distribute, eventually leading up to a marriage ceremony, then a bonus series where you gathering 10,000 shiny pieces of jewlery in the same manner on the same raid bosses, which only leads to a kiss on the cheek and 50 affection, AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE BIODRONES ALONE WOULD KEEP THE GAME AFLOAT.

I hope they're getting paid for their posts.

Pizza every night of development is expensive

Quit being ignorant and go to the scoundrel forums. There's plenty there to point you in the direction of bioware's blunder of the class.

Apparently. I want to know straight from Bioware how Scoundrel healing was supposed to work. As of right now we can't go below 60% energy or we hit the point of dead for energy return. We can't deal with spike damage because of this. We also have the worst thought out ability ever, Diagnostic Scan, a channeled, free heal that is negligible healing at best and is only use for letting our energy regen, but wait, we have to stand there like an idiot channeling, with a big green beam saying "OH HEY COME HERE AND INTERRUPT ME PLEASE". It's a useless ability and supposedly it's one of our most important according to bioware. And you can't say the surge nerf isn't going to affect us the most, our damage already got nerfed before, now it's going to be neutered.

Yeah, game is in tip top shape when Operations are "Marauder, Jug, Merc, Sorc, only please"

Very. You should see the veritable ****storm going on in the Scoundrel/Operative forums--It's Armageddon. Apparently for Operatives one of their most important talents isn't working live and isn't being addressed in the next patch, thus REALLY hurting their healing. Not sure if Scoundrel has the same crapped out talent, but it's fairly obvious that Scoundrel healing needs an overhaul. But knowing bioware they won't put much effort in and just nerf Sages, thus causing an even bigger mess. I mean what else are us Scoundrels/Operatives to do? We're completely useless. Bad healing, bad damage. There's no reason to take us over any other class.

The classes are getting yet another nerf. We're already the worst healers, with the worst thought out abilities (lol Diagnostic Scan), we're the worst dps with no gap closer, and now you're cutting surge down, thus affecting US the most of all the classes. Thanks guys, really, doing a bang up job killing the game all by yourselves.

If you're smart you're sticking with your scoundrel then. You know bioware will overpower sawbones and make all the people playing sages cry by nerfing their own healing, the worst thing you could do right now is roll a Sage--trust me, the nerf is coming, it's just how MMO's work. + As far as I see Sage is easy mode healing. When the buff does come for Scoundrel, and it is coming, it's going to benefit you from playing through it in it's current state so you'll not only have the buffs on your side, but the skill to make Sawbones work for you at it's best.

This. A sawbones is not the stand back and heal type of healer--that is the Sage's calling. If anything the Scoundrel is a match to the Warrior Priest of Warhammer Online. You do best when you engage in combat while you heal.

Funny, I have zero problems dpsing and healing on my scoundrel, maybe the people complaining should spend more time playing the class than whining on the forums.

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