Blizzard failed to fix the same mechanic (Vanish) for Rogues in World of Warcraft for YEARS. There were the same exact bugs, it still breaks occasionally. It's apparently a difficult mechanic to get to work in MMOs? I don't know...

PvP Sawbones: I play exclusively PvP heals on my Scoundrel. I find that when unharassed we are insanely potent healers, rarely being outhealed by other classes. Harassed however, even LoSing, using defensive cooldowns (including Vanish that frequently breaks), full self hots, there is little that can be done to avoid eventual death in a 1v1 situation. 30% below spam and hots are not even close to enough. Something I would like to see is an energy costing shield similar to the Sage shield (which would replace our defensive screen). It could still have a cooldown, but be significantly reduced. I just think without guard we are extraordinarily squishy. The class is very fun to play though.

This, so so so so this ^^^^

Nothing has happened to my server, still sub 50 server TOTAL on during peak hours for republic. Completely unplayable during anytime other than 8-10pm EST. 2 hours a day? Rofl I know there is a method to the madness and there must be people (somehow) worse than Bondar Crystal, but we have to be tomorrow, no?

There are people out there like myself who could no longer stand the insanely low population on the server that I was FORCED onto at launch from early access with my guild. Sorry that I wanted to actually play the game I pay for and decided to server transfer... There is no argument against this, none at all. If you argue against it you are obviously luckily enough to play on a server that has a playable population. I could give other descriptors but my last post explaining this exact thing got removed for speaking too much "truth". I guess the truth hurts. I'm a total fanboy on this game, but they make it harder and harder every single day. Again, for many many many players it was either pay for a game that was unplayable, unsub, or reroll.

Top heals in pvp matches over 90% of the time. Got 684k healing in Voidstar the other day. I know it's not a record, but yeah. AoE heal on CD and spot HoTs whenever possible. Stuns, shield (healing to self increase)--->medpack = huge instant health gain. The only problem I have is no matter how good you are there are still some classes where no matter what, they will eventually kill you. It's unavoidable. I think they need to work on 1v1 Healer vs. DPS resulting in stalemates if the player is good. I can interrupt, stun, heal, on CD and regardless, eventually, I will die. Of course, play with ONE person that knows what they are doing and can protect you, you'll be seeing 300k every match no matter what. Additionally, we thrive when we are not being harassed. Keep people off of us and we are simply dirty.

wrong. If you NEVER stop healing, with no pauses, filling in any lulls with diagnostic, you will rarely run out of energy with other buffs/CDs Do i use it all the time? no, is it useful in maintaining energy in pvp? hell yes

top heals every pvp match, that's why

^^^This. God, I love people referencing playing on a terribad pvp server as evidence....

I'm in total agreement. No comparison between Sage healer pvp and Smuggler healer pvp. I don't even know why I leveled my sage at all. I was really hoping that Sage healer would be closer to Disc Priest than I previously thought. Switched to dps, all i am is a cast spamming dps that can't bring anyone down. No one wants to play a "support" class in pvp. I want to be able to deal with people AND use my unique abilities to survive and support.

The running joke on my dead server is that many of us past hardcore WoW players that came here for a change and/or casual play or even new hardcore play are considering going back to Wow just to be able to play a game that we pay for. As of right now, I'm paying for a game I can't play. GG there BW, GG. (Note: i love how you totally hooked me in with better pvp play in 1.2 as Pub actually wins now, so I committed to 6 months, then 2 weeks later, everyone leaves the server, well played BW, i concede defeat, well played...)

This, not being able to play the aspect of the game whenever I want is so so sad....

Please I'm begging you. Address the issue of low population servers. As a paying customer I cannot enjoy my favorite part of the game (PVP) when I want, because there is no one on unless its typically 6pm-9pm. And no I don't have an unusual playing schedule, but on days off I'd like to be able to play in the morning, which right now is impossible. Sure I can log on during primetime, but being restricted to those times (and even then it's iffy) is a terrible model for an mmo. Please discuss the option of merging servers or cross server pvp. Seriously, I don't want to quit this game because I can't actually play it....and that's what's happened, queue times aren't the issue, population is the issue. Everyday people make statements in general about how dead our server is. Sure I am jealous and also happy for people who visit this thread and say "what are these people talking about". Frequently, the vast majority of US servers are "Light", when 1.2 first released, my server Bondar Crystal was "Standard", sad and pathetic. I never thought I would say this because the game got bad, but I might go back to WoW, at least I can play the aspects of the game I want WHEN I want.... Thanks

Wow. I've been reading all of these threads thinking. "what are people talking about" I got 50 on my smuggler healer 5 days ago. I have been doing exactly well, if not better than I was doing previously. Losses are 6-7 medals at the least during a full real match. Upwards of 14-15 medals for wins. If you aren't getting more than 3 you are either afking or not doing everything you can (objectives, stunning, helping finish off a dps) to help your team. A good player doesn't "just heal". Sure, that's your primary role. I call total and complete bs here. Sorry. Also, I out heal or get a very close second in heals every match against full BM healers and get just as many medals with my recruit gear. These are also not premades I'm playing with.

I'm not well geared, top heal most matches, and when I win, 80+ comms, good valor, and credits. Losing seems a little less, but ZERO? Nope, not one person on my server has said anything about this supposed "issue". I've heard you need to actually play in the match to get rewards....seems like an interesting concept.