As a current Combat Medic who has been leveling up while keeping my valor rank maxed out, I have to say that these changes will be interesting. In PvP I have noticed less and less of a buff with the recent patches in HP compared to others yet I have more HP than them outside of the WZ. I have noticed that Sent/Marauders tear me up as they can constantly interrupt my medic probes. Meaning that in a few seconds I am dead unless I can knock them back, cryo them, and run away far enough. I have noticed that against snipers/gunslingers that I can NOT heal through their damage and still have ammo left to kill them when they run out of ammo/overheat. One thing I have noticed though is that I can keep multiple enemy targets tied up long enough for my teammates to score in huttball, capture a turret in civil war, or planet a bomb in Voidstar. But it takes everything I can bring out to hold them for those precious 10 seconds or so. Now as stated I do play a combat medic. I went far enough up the gunnery tree for Grav Shot and the rest is purely in healing. As such I can usually rank top for healing unless there is a healing Sage in the WZ and I can rank in the top 4 for Damage. But then I came from a pvp server playing for the sith side where I had friends that played Sorcs that were Hybrids are able to do MORE damage and MORE healing that I could at the same level. So that brings to question. As hybrids, which as a true combat medic you really have to be, are we any more powerful than ops/smugglers or sage/sorcs? The answer is no. Now I can understand the reason for nerfing healing. Right now 1-2 healers is all you need for Ops. 3 if on nightmare. You HAVE to have DPS. But then again you only need 1-2 tanks period even on Nightmare modes. Why make a game focused purely on DPS? Right now in Civil War yes 1 tank and 1 healer can hold a turret long enough against 5-8 enemy for our team to get there. Heck Balefyre(Vanguard) and I(Commando) could hold a turret against 6 enemies for a very long time as long as they don't realize that I am healing him and myself while also doing damage to them. Granted him and I team up a LOT in PvP so we work well together even with no voice comms. But with the changes now. I am going to see how it turns out. Dropping our DPS by such a LARGE margin and then NERFING our healing by what 30%+ is just to much. Trauma Probe didn't do a lot. It was a very small buffer at best. When you have every class doing 1K+ damage having something heal for 250-400 a hit for 10 hits no more than what once every 3 seconds. Doesn't seem like it should cost ammo to me. Now when it comes to PvE in a non-op/non-FP/non-HM situation. Yeah a Combat Medic with our healing pet is just sick. I can take many of the champions around my level solo and win with just figuring out a few strats. Sure it takes forever but it is doable. So can we be OP'ed in PvE with our healing pet? Sure. I agree on that. But in ops,FP's, and HM's? More than once already when I was still playing on the pvp server our Merc Healers would bow out on a HM as soon as a healing sage logged on because they just couldn't keep up on healing especially in Boarding Party. I expected similar problems as a Commando but that is also why I worked out my hybrid build the way I did. To try and offset those issues if possible. Now with the changes to ammo..... Unless you're going to change more of our skill trees to improve ammo usage somehow I don't see how it is viable. I will try and figure it out as that is what I like to do. Figure out how to make things work by tearing up the box and eating it for breakfast. Bioware, keep the changes and lets see how they mesh out. But you will either need to retune the pve encounters or you will probably have to buff us back up again. Honestly you should work at changing 1 ability at a time on ANY class when trying to balance. Not change several abilities at once. For 1 very simple reason. Which ability was it that made the biggest difference? You don't know when you change so many at once. Now I will play on your test server to test things out if you like but I ask that you copy my character over so I can see how the changes will actually nerf/buff us. Because as is. I haven't even logged in today after reading these changes. Just because of how untested they truly are. Signed Tearithian Commando 30/11/0 Empress Teta Kittens of Doom

The whole concept of Need Before Greed or NGB is that if the toon actually there can use the item and it is an upgrade then it is need. If not then it is greed. That sith assassin is a douche bag for rolling on an item that is NOT for his class. Greed is the way of the douche bag and those that support greed show that they are douche bags as well. Companions are not a part of your overall character. Otherwise you could use them in Warzones, ops, etc. But you can't. Now granted you can use them in some FP's but in all honesty for that to work well you have already out leveled that FP anyways. Now IF say it was a H2 quest and both party members were using companions. Then yes logically they could call need for the companions as the companions actually provided some benefit. But then it kinda ties into my very first sentence.

Yeah I have to agree. SWG before the Combat Downgrade and Newb Player Experience was awesome with it's skill trees, that WoW stole and screwed up, and so forth. I have come across about 20-30 of the opposite faction of which I have killed 90% of them in world pvp. I agree that there should be some reward especially as it takes time to hunt and find them to kill them.

Orange stone from the World Boss on Nar Shadda but careful. It is a combined quest area.

With companions covering all gear I would say that button is already in there. It's called GREED. Use it. Love it. Enjoy it when you get something YOU can't use but your companion can.

Sorry but if your character does not need it or can not use it then you should greed on it. If you need because your "companion" can use it and take that drop from an actual player then you need to go back to WoW. NBG always follow it or you're a ******.