I just killed him 5 minutes ago, after about 7 attempts. Had to use all my heroic moment skills. I will admit i was suffering from some annoying lag spikes and the old "action delay" (which I have been getting all day cant belive it still exists) Once he goes into the spawing phase he goes bersek and kept killing me a few hits, something is quite wrong with that boss. Killed the Dashade first time.

My Little Shadow Tank http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/3443/screenshot2012082223232.jpg

Apart from Stalkers... I did get a nice thank you note an present in the mail tthe other day

Count yourself lucky I usually get stalkers!

Thankyou both of you I got some Columi & Rakata implants yesterday and have manged to raise the stats by 2%, so I think im im ready fingers crossed .. k.

Thank you for the reply I was just wondering as I dont have any tanking implants or bracers yet... I have 20240 HP at the moment with Tionese/Columi/BH parts and two moddable pieces Damage Reduction 36.14% Defence Chance 18.62% Shield Chance 28.21 Shield Absorb 47.00% K.

Soo cute Looks great. However in game its kinda Orange http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/4053/korial.jpg

Could someone please give me an idea of what defence stats I should be aiming at before I start HM FP's and maybe SM Ops? ty K.

Wow that is a lot to read Yes it gets an awful lot harder for a healer in the level 50 bracket, You'll get marked, focused and burnt down pretty fast by those War Hero's, Its quite a tough class to play in PVP pretty much zero manoeuvrability and escape mechanisms, sometimes you just have to stand there and take it! As healer your performance is often dictated by the quality of your group, that’s not something you can really affect. In the 50 Bracket its easy to see the good tanks, dps'rs and healers, Tanks wil guard you providing you play well. Good players usually get noticed. Some things that I always try to do are; Never stray far from the your teammates Never go an defend/attack an objective on your own Use hammer shot sparingly Save all your cooldown for when you "really" need them Heal appropriately based on the attackers class Use LoS where possible to break combat Triage, Triage, Triage! Above all practice makes perfect You wont being keeping anyone alive with not quite doing enough healing or not quite doing enough DPS, I just dont feel hybrid work.. I rarely even bother Dpsing, just concentrate on doing one thing really well. Im not quite sure what you are getting at here, your healing target should be whoever can be healed/saved most efficiently. Tanks can be left a little longer as they better survivability but I always keep an eye on the other healers, keeping each other alive can often be the turning point in holding and capping objectives. RK.

I use the group finder to pug often, dpsing or healing I have not had many bad experiences, when you queue you have expect the the unexpected, if the group as whole wants to skip cutscenes, mobs then so be it, I tend to follow the tanks lead whatever.. Had a recent experience where I was healing Kaon HM where the tank argued with one of the DPS all the way thorugh. Had another group where the group finder queued me as healer instead of DPS which was funny. After about 10 mins, the tank said who's healing! at which point I realised it was me

I use it often.. and I have had very few problems, managed to aquire a columi healing set and fill in my rakata DPS set with BH pieces. I think its been a great addition to the game.

Couldn't agree more all your doing is complicating things for your group, just tonight a sentinel kept doing it. So I let him die twice and made sure his HP stayed around 50% through the trash... that put a stop to it!

Regardless of wether im healing or damage dealing, I have had very few negative experiences with the group finder, At first I was very cautious about using it, I have never been a fan of healing pugs, however my experiences have mosty been positive. I dont mind in-experienced players, if I need to help a healer in I will do, its not a big issue & bad players just need to learn too, I generally dont like to critisize I prefer to adapt,,but lazy players should not be tolerated its just unfair on the rest of the group. K.

Last week, I queued in my DPS set and spec, after a boss or two, the tank said who's healing to which I replied "not me" followed by ... "uh oh..." yes it is me! I switched to my healing gear and finished the FP without a hitch. First and foremost, as long as the player is competent and gear willing, and it should be ok. I wouldn’t do that on purpose, I generally don’t think that is fair on the rest of the group. k.

Funnily enough.. I accidentally healed Taral V HM as dps spec in my healer set tonite.... oops Aside from me doing silly things like this, the 4 set healer bonus & alacrity feel a bit underwhelming. Im sure in a raid situation it would be quite different. Well the next test is to do somehting silly like this in a raid hehe. k.

Tanks are totaly appreciated.. ...just not by DPSers. As a Healer I love seeing tanks in Warzone especially ones that guard me I will go out of my way to keep them alive. The first stat I look at is protection when deciding who gets my MVP vote. k.

Personally I like the tank to be the leader, I feel much more confident about finishing content if the tank takes charge. Assuming he knows the content

If you can find the right Moddable Helm & Chest, you can take advantage of the a bug which enables you to loose the hood by hiding/showing the helm. It doesnt work with all items I have only been able to get it to work with certian moddable item combinations. K.

Sorry I think you mis-understand me ...I use combat medic OR gunnery... but I have a mix of DPS/Healing gear and I was interested in, what people thought about the PVP healing set bonuses and how much of a loss would it be in PVE. For example in PVP I exclusively heal as a combat medic, but in PVE I do both Healing & DPS with respective specs of course. The one thing that I have noticed is when mixing some DPS gear with my healing gear, is that my max healing has increased quite a bit but I then loose the PVP healing 4 part set bonus and alacrity.

Thankyou for the replies, I have managed to split my gear between PVP Healing (with alacrity) & PVE DPS (without alacrity) but I notice my dps gear does more healing but of course I have no healing set bonus. Now... I wonder how well I can heal in PVE I was wondering wether to mix in a couple of healing specific items but the 2 set PVE bonus is kind of underwhelming.

I have; 1 x 50 Trooper Comando (Combat Medic / Gunnery) (Main) 1 x 50 Sith Juggernaught (non-speced) 1 x 50 Jedi Shadow ( Balance) 1 x 41 Trooper Vanguard (non-speced) 1 x 32 Smuggler Scoundrel (Sawbones) 1 x 28 Sith Sorcerer (Corruption) 1 x 23 Imperial Operative (Medicine) 1 x 17 Jedi Sentinel (Watchman) I prefer to heal, hence the 4 healer classes in order of preference I would say Commando / Operative / Sorcerer / Smuggler, but play a few and find one that fits your prefered playstyle k.

Hi all, I have a quandary.. in PVP and FP's I heal, and in raids I'm needed to DPS, with my War Hero/Battle Master set I have a nice healing bonus which obviously helps when PVE healing. Lately I have been working on getting Columi/Rakata/Blackhole DPS gear which have been a massive boost in baseline stats but I find I am loosing alacrity and of course the "healing set bonus" (down to 2 piece PVP healing set bonus at the moment) I guess I’m trying to find a balance, the short answer is just have 3 sets hehe, but that’s not viable right now, has anyone healed competently without a healing bonus's and a lack of alacrity, just how important are they? In my opinion I do fine without. Has anyone else tried to multi-task? (gear-wise)

I have more or less given up on the BH especially at normal/peak hours its just soo busy, considering its zone for top end questing its not very big.

I feel that I do ok, I have a mix of WH/BM a good game for me is 300k, I dont worry too much about my DPS, if your shooting an enemy your not healing a teammate and probably wasting ammo. I can never seem to keep up with sages or scoundrels no matter how well I play. There are soo many factors that will affect your final statistics every game will be different. My only problem is a lack of real mobility, I think the imperials know this, from my experience I tend to get focused and burnt down pretty quickly by small groups. Pyrotechs are the bane of my life, its very difficult to heal through almost impossible if they are better geared, constantly cleansing your self with field aid is the only way to stay alive. I usually run the other way when I see a pyrotech aiming for me I barely even use it, and its effect is pitifull.

You would think with the colour match option players would use it, rather then looking like multi-coloured clowns .. I am terribly fussy about my characters looks.