Let me make this easier for you. You're level 44. We're level 50. There's a bigger difference than you might think. Operatives ARE significantly weaker PvP healers. There really is no denying it. There is no optimistic way to look at the class, we do everything half as good as other classes. Not much more to it than that

Bad Grammar. Bad Spelling. Anecdotal evidence. Faulty Logic. Yup. It's a troll.

Get the pieces with Power>Crit>Surge on them. Alacrity and Accuracy are largely worthless so keep that in mind. I don't think the Enforcer set bonuses are useful past the 2 piece, which is easy enough to get. I play all 3 specs and wear my BM/Rakata Field Medic gear with 0 accuracy, minimal Alacrity, and tons and tons of power (500) and lots of Crit and Surge ~300-350

Viable, yet not up to par with other classes. It was true for Operative healers even before all the nerfs hit. Now it's slowly degrading. My Main is Full Rakata now, and Battlemaster. Guess I'll start leveling the Sorc!

Did you really come into the operative forum and defend Sorcs? Flame away my brothers.

I think the post was made as more of a "signal" that they do read even the most mundane posts in the sub forum, for better or worse.

I want to play on even ground against my opponents, so I hope they fix whatever issues you guys are experiencing.

I can 1v1 just about anyone on my operative healer. Doesn't make the class effective on the whole. Having difficultly beating exceptional players isn't really a justification for strength of the class. In group PvP we're limited more than probably any other class, we have positional attacks that are difficult to get off outside of a stun, we have no effective mitigation CD's to hit when we get focused, and we have almost no mobility. All this wrapped up in a melee package that does at best mediocre DPS.

Animation issues are intrinsic to your particular AC, and I'm not saying those aren't legitimate issues, but even without those problems the class can be quite underwhelming.

Even though I completely agree that an arbitrary glance at level 16 isn't going to yield much in the way of fruitful comparisons I can't help but agree with the statement as a whole. I think myself and other operatives feel that we're lacking in almost every specialization, we simply fill roles that are better filled by other AC's. I'm curious if the lack of comments in this sub forum is an indication that you guys are quietly working on something, or if you guys (Bioware) simply don't feel there is a problem. Furthermore if the differences stopped at a numerical basis that would be much less troublesome, one of the glaring issues is that we simply don't have the powerful toolset and utility of other classes. Many of the operatives in this forum don't feel anyone is listening. I'm at least heartened by the fact that you're here reading stuff.

Check this out Clearly you can see 75% is where you need to stop.

It's going to disproportionately affect operatives though, especially healers. Operatives healers get little to no benefit from Alacrity. We have pretty much been relying on frequent large critical strikes to do most of our healing, since Kolto Injection + Probe is about 75-80% of our overall healing. I'm not going to say we aren't viable, because I'm sure we still are, but the facts are that week in and week out we're slowly getting worse and worse in every aspect of the game. Went from 90% Surge to 77% Myself. That's a pretty huge nerf.

When you half half the tools of other healers and you're only claim to fame is 40% crit and 90% surge rating, and then they nerf that. You're up a creek, sir.

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This too

Get Champ/BM gear. Take Crit/Surge/Power mods out, put in columi gear about all you can do easily.

Sounds about right. Now calculate total number of agent Heals vs Concealment.

Maybe instead of asking how Bioware is going to fix us, we should ask for their vision for the class. What is our intended Healing niche? Where the BH is the tank healer, the Sorc the Raid Healer, where do we fit in? How is Concealment supposed to have that other DPS don't? If all we're supposed to bring is sustained DMG we should definitely do a lot more. What is the purpose of the Lethality spec outside of some fun Hybrid/PvP specs? I'd at least like to know where this ship is sailing, and I don't think that's too much to ask. Why should an operation want to bring an Operative over the other classes?

I'd say on most fights our saving grace is that the game is more limited by DPS and proper execution at this point than by Healing/Tanking. Not to say they aren't important, but the emphasis seems to be on DPS and execution. Agree with everything here as well. DS is essential. Medical Therapy doesn't work. Shield Probe 15% self heal is underwhelming for a top tier talent. RN needs reworked. If accomplished doctor and surgical probe weren't there nobody would spec that high. I'm going to try a 22/3/17 build this week in NM and see what happens. Superior energy regen, less overhealing from 7k crits.

Anyone who thinks the UI "gives you enough to work with" obviously doesn't play a healer.

I'll never and still don't understand why we're wearing an oversized bath robe when we're supposed to be the most highly trained, technologically advanced, professional killer. Seriously. Give me something. That said my Rakata looks a lot better, if only because it's black.

I tested this and I can't tell if it does or not. I believe (based on maths) that the skill is merely rounding up/down. Since the cast bar doesn't show hundreds place per second i.e. 1.55 vs 1.56 it appears that it doesn't scale. I'm pretty sure it does though. Either way, 4% isn't going to make much of a difference. At all. But what else do you get instead? Medical Therapy definitely isn't working though. Impossible to judge if the SP is effected, seriously in my battery of 100 uses I found the range to be 1300-3100 (no flask, no buffs). The variance is just ridiculous we're healers not DPS, we need consistency. Generally End game healing specs shouldn't include 10% Shiv DMG increase and Medical Therapy (which doesn't work currently).

Already farmed the Columi ones. The point is its ridiculous for me to have full rakata, but need to farm BM or farm MORE Rakata to have an effective set.

Best option for itemization at this point seems to be getting to Battlemaster and ripping the Surge/Crit/Power mods out of gear to augment the Rakata. Obviously this requires a significant time investment, but I don't know a better way besides getting tons of 140 rating gear from Ops. Alacrity isn't useless because it decreases HPS, it's useless because it decreases cast times without increasing Energy Regeneration, thus making it a useless stat.

The UI is definitely a concern for all healers, but most especially for us. This is something that really needs fixing.