You're terrible. I've solo'd every quest up to, and including heroic 2+ and some 4+ Zash took me not even 2 minutes to kill. Pull Khem out of AoE, Interrupt either her heal, or her chain lightening (don't need both) use stuns and overload to interrupt. Win. Stop being bad and blaming the game for your own incompetence

Your spec is your problem, try this http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#201GoZf00M.1 Those 7 in lightning are a must have. Reduced force cost and increased shield strength are amazing. From here work up your healing tree.

I really like the Dark Delirium Set from Mandalorian Raiders, with the Kalligs Countenance helm

I'm leveling as healing and PvP a lot. it's all about "pillar humping" (blocking LoS to heal quickly), saving CC's for melee who get on you, and knowing when to run and when to stay. Mucho fun though

The people who say Sorc healing is bad, are terrible healers. Plain and simple. I haven't had a single death in any Ops or Heroic modes I have done. The IA and BH have a higher regen of their healing source, but they have a much lower pool. Sorc's on the other hand have a huge healing pool, but a very poor regen (until comboing some later talents, for more info on this read the Codex (http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=856). The best tip i can give you is start out your tree like this http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#201Zf00M.1 This will give you the best foundation for low level healing. From here go up the healing tree. I plan to, at level 36 re-spec to full healing tree; something like http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#201GGMRbdbdM.1 (Please note, I PvP as I level so this has some PvP abilities such as Conspiring force). Then go my 7 back in lightening tree, then finsih of the healing tree as this will give us the best regen available through talent ability combo's.

Only Add-ons i would like are ones to customise the UI, party and Raid screen and To change the Buff/Debuff bar as it is terrible. I don't want to see anything like Heal bot, Decursive, Deadly Boss mods or anything that tells you how to play the game. just ones that alter the lay out as the present ui is very clunky

Healing is pretty easy. Even without later talents. You should ALWAYS start like this http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#201Zf00M.1 This gives you a much larger force pool and reduced healing cost. I healed through the 21 Op as level 16 (with a 22 Sith tank) pretty easily. Sith healing does start slow, but look at later talents, comboing things like Force bending (from resurgence) giving inervate +25% crit chance. Leveling i haven't dropped below 18% crit. So even with only a 43% crit chance on Innervate, via the Force surge talent you will almost always crit either the direct heal or one of the 3 HoT ticks; making your Consumption 'free'. Read the Sith Inq Codex for more details on this (http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=856) it is VERY useful and explains it in full. But the sith are designed as a healing class about managing our rescources. And also, spam Static Barrier it's a BOSS skill

So from people's experiences so far, how does healing affect PvP and what are the best/worst healers for each faction?