Ahh now we're getting to it. That's exactly the feedback I was after. Thanks. Your point on Haunting Presence is excellent, and I'm sure I'll work that into my template. Now you mention it, I'm trying to work out why the hell I had reservations about losing such a small healing bonus, for 2 whole skill points. Crazy. On to your Purge on CD point, timewise I just think there's better things to use my GCD on. DoTs are so ineffective nowadays, that I feel it's easier to out-heal them, than cleanse them. I can either pull a 5k heal taking 2.5 secs, or a cleanse that will waste a GCD and stop a DoT that will probably only do about 2-4k damage over an awfully long time. Another over-simplification I know as sometimes there are multiple DoTs, but still I think the point is mostly valid. The effort it takes to monitor those around you and the DoTs on them just led me to a place where I would only bother cleansing myself and my tank. I've only really cleansed DoTs to get rid of movement impairing effects; something I certainly need to improve on. Lastly onto your hybrid built. Building further into lightning to gain utility, rather than the dmg of the madness hybrid that another has posted on this page, is certainly the way I would go if I did decide to hybrid. The PvP role I play, as I explained above, is more about filling a support role, but that must include supporting objective play as well as healing your team mates. The utility those points in Lightning give are incredible and would certainly hugely help in supporting objective play... but I still don't think it worth ditching revivification for. You describe revivification as extremely situational, which it is, but I think a good healer can overcome that. Revivification offers a stabilising heal, that you can then build upon with the rest of your arsenal. Its best attribute is that it helps keeps the peripheral members of your team alive, whilst you triage heal yourself, your tank and the other healer. With revivification, I would just have to let them die unaided. If I might simplify just once more, it's basically revivification vs electric bindings, and I would personally prefer the AOE heal.

I have a few friends with a similar setup to you, and it must be more fun to play, but I personally think you make too many sacrifices to get there. It's no exaggeration to say that revivification usually provides 50% of my healing in a WZ. It's excellent for use when you're casting consumption too. Similarly, losing those 7 points in Lightning is quite a sacrifice - 20% less effective bubble, and losing the 9% force reduction cost of healing (although the part I snipped from your quote, explains that your hardly need that with madness). They’re some rather painful concessions. I do completely agree that 1.4 has been great for us though. I initially groaned when I saw the knockback change, but even that has turned into a bonus. Now it's instant, it's far more controllable. But mostly, like you say, Fadeout is incredible. What a difference. Melee classes are suddenly far less potent against us. I do realise that there's a trend for every single advanced PvP healer spec, to move away from getting your AOE at the top of the tree in favour of damage trees. I've always taken the opinion, however, that we aren't built for solo action in WZs. Our biggest responsibility is to keep our specialised dmg dealing friends alive, who will be much more effective at dealing damage than our handicapped hybrid could ever be. Our biggest contributor towards a damage score is in the maintenance of our team mate’s output, not in directly pitching in ourselves. Clearly this overly simplifies the situation – contributing to a spike in Alderaan to clear a node before the respawn, and similarly in Voidstar, is massively important; but I’ve always believed there are more situations that benefit from a full heal spec, than don’t. Finally, your point on sith purity is well made, but just brings up the problem, where do you get the point from to afford it? I completely agree it’s needed, but, in case you haven't followed the changes (which aren't yet updated in the skill tree I linked) fadeout now removes all movement impairing effects when force sprint is activated, and force sprint is, of course, now on a much shorter cooldown.

It's a known issue.

(after a little snipping)

Yep I've been noticing this with scavenging too. Must be a bug.

Just to be clear, I was asking how other people changed their skill point priorities post 1.4, rather than moaning about having to pay 0 credits for a reset.

It's part of the UI customisation, not an option in preferences. Go into Interface Editor, click on the "player frame" and "target frame" in turn and select the option "show information text" for each.

I'm quite surprised that we didn't get a reset, as there are some significant changes to our tree. How has everybody been dealing with this? Fadeout and Dark Resilience seem unmissable now, for PvP at least, and Force Surge seems skippable. Skill Tree Sith Purity has fallen by the wayside, but I found myself only using it sparingly anyway. How have others been dealing with the change?

A few quest story lines require you to click on the intercom to hold a crew meeting. I think the inquisitor does this a few times for instance. As for the escape pods - no idea.

But the question you must pose is, would a merc, for example, who was fully geared and who knows his spec, be able to do as well as that? I personally think the answer is not as easily.

Wow, somebody posts to try and get friendly advice on how to gear his toon, and you still cannot help but spout this doom and gloom agenda. I myself am neither a bioware apologist, nor a fervent critic, but I just couldn't get this Churchill quote out of my head after reading your posts: "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.."

Mockery: "What stat do I use?" Oh, Master, I use willpower of course.

Exactly lol.

It's amazing that you guys are giving all this advice, without even bothering to ask what res he will be running at. This is perhaps the single most important consideration to take into account, to answer the question can this run SWTOR at max, and you've completely ignored it.

No. I'm a healer, and there is nothing less fun than rolling with a bad PUG, as you are so reliant on your team whilst playing that role. I'm not going to stick around whilst bad DPS inflate their end-WZ stat egos, and refuse to help their healer. I'm not going to stick around whilst people put personal duels over the objectives, in an objective game. And I'm not going to stick around when people do not announce incs and such. Playing in such circumstances is simply not fun, and we are all, after all, playing this game to have fun.

What about this? http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/CyberPower_Z77_Configurator/ You would need to add on a GPU upgrade, and I would advise adding the extra case fans, a power supply unit upgrade (to about 600W) and, of course, the cewl blue lights, so everybody knows you're a nerd, but it seems to be working out far cheaper than bestbuy.

That is an extremely nice PC. That will run nearly anything maxed at 1920 1080. Sorry to be a pain though, but the problem is I think you're paying over the odds. It is a good package, but you don't need an i7 to game. In fact some of the best i5s outperform the i7s in gaming. Furthermore 16GB is a little silly. 8GB is more than enough (although, it must be noted we will probably all be switching to 64bit gaming when the next console gen comes out, so who knows). Surely there's some American here who can point the way to a good website? Best Buy (who I know little about - they barely exist in the UK) seem to be intent on sticking rather noticeable bottlenecks in every system you've listed so far. I only mention this, because I know you're stretching your budget now. There is value to be had out there, and I'm sure somebody can help you find it. There's no doubt that PC is excellent, but I'm sure there's a better option for you.

In my country at least, the difference between the 550Ti and 560Ti is twenty pounds. The difference in performance more that demands that upgrade. And that was before the new gen arrived. It's just silly paying $1000 for a computer, and not putting the small little cherry on top. The difference is extremely noticeable.

I'm not sure I can accurately compare though. Things just cost different amounts across the pond, with tax and just different ways of selling issues abound. I'm hoping there's an American around who can point you to a good deal, because I suspect that £700 for this is too much.

That second one you list is a 560 not a 560Ti. It would probably run SWToR perfectly fine, but I still don't think you're at the ideal price v performace point of the scale. An excellent reference tool is this link here. It lists all the GPUs in order of their effectiveness. I want to emphasise that the computer would probably run ToR fine, but for the amount you're paying, I don't think it's value for money, as it will obsolete relatively quickly. We're definetely into the realms of my personal opinion though, so feel free to ignore me. I should also point out that I'm a Brit, so can't really comment on the value of the sale you're showing me. I have no idea what a computer costs in the US, just what is good value, and what isn't in the GPU scale!

Then I would suggest you wiil struggle. The 550Ti, IMO, would not be a viable option. Although SWToR is very CPU heavy, so you might get away with it, I think the GPU would create a rather obvious bottleneck in your system, and cause you to struggle on other games. It's a lowish end card. The general consensus is that the 560Ti is the best price vs performance in this gen. Edit - I should also add that the Nvidia 600 series is trickling out now too. I must confess I have little experience of it myself, and haven't been keeping up with the hardware press about it. At the very least, it should reduce the price of the 500 series for you though.

We need to know what resolution you will use before anybody can make an informed comment. The 550Ti might well struggle at 1920 1080.

They are stat for stat on augs. You get exactly the same amount of power, that you do willpower on level 49 purple augs. You should still go for a willpower aug over power though (from the link above):

Resolve augs are best. So is the search tool Sticky Healer Guide (Look under gearing) Previous recent thread on the subject

Pretty much this. I have dark blue numbers showing up now too, but why on earth do you feel you have to moan about it? 30secs to decipher your security number you say? Yeah right.