There is really no massive dps imbalance like previous seasons its just healers that suffer the most in the balance department, and the forever cheesy triple carbo tactics or sorc barrier in acid that have plagued arena from creation. There are honestly only about 4 specs across all the classes that are essentially worthless this season between solo and group being IQ mercs Bodyguard mercs Pyro Pts and lighting sorcs in no specific order.

Tanks in dps gear have always been stupidly strong and the importance of tank gear is far to weak. The surge in damage thought was mostly brought on in 3.1 ish when they intially buffed tank damage on sins and jugs to bring them closer to overturned pt tank damage and buff them in pve cause dps are stupid and won't let their tanks get aggro. Those didn't translate well into 4.0 with the crit changes and general over all power creep. If ppl want to reduce tank damage I would personally just add a 10% crit damage reduction for the tank stance in addition to the other stuff it already has. Then add a new tank move called intimidate that matchs (not force to attack like a taunt) the aggro of the highest threat 6 targets max 30m range on a 35 or 40 sec cd this way the damage nerf won't hurt pve and if anything would buff pve

Madness doesn't lack single target dps if that's the excuse ppl are using for it not needed a cleave check. It has heavy single target pressure when all dots are running on a target affected by death mark that into a recklessness force leech and auto crit force lighting add into insane single target pressure with force leech being the only real move to be considered burst as it does 12-13k instantly on crit compare. The real spike of damage is due to polarity shift a 20% alacrity boost on all the inc dot damage. Madness real strengths come from its insane self reliance and actual use/playstye in combat and not theory or a drawn up paper examples. Its a ranged spec with possibly the best kiting potential of all ranged dps specs it has very strong and easy to apply and sustain cleave damage, selective single target or aoe close to guaranteed burst cycles with reck and polarity shift. Then it has high passive healing well near eliminating much need to waste gcds on self maintenance on top of the fact that it has the over tuned dark heal while being force friendly as a dps spec. Next the class in general has 2 extra cc breaks with barrier and phase walk. and lastly what i feel makes it just over the top is that they have the choice to spec into utility that well near removes the classes actual weakness which was that they are suppose to be squishiest class in the game which they are with nothing added standing still doing nothing but the ability to spec into and make the threat drop a shorter bounty hunter energy shield and the ability to spec to make their stun reduce inc damage from that target by 25%. for 10 secs after it wears off are huge. If you just look at just madness sorcs damage you would say its a great spec in a pvp environment and good in pve but not op, the real issue is that they have to much overall which is something to do with the base class. If there was something I would change with madness I think it would be how they deal damage would change the devour (lv 60) talent and instead of it needing affliction on the target to increase force leech damage it would require demolish to be ticking remove some of the mindlessness with that change. Would also reintroduce the concept of force management to the spec if it pushed to hard it would be a direct pull back on the amount of out going damage/healing it can keep up, this was actually something madness suffered from in the past but on a far more extreme level to the point it wasn't practical, and lastly reduce the healing from dark heal for the dps specs. To compensate for lighting losing dark healing power I would prob add to the lv 64 talent to reset the cd of unnatural preservation when force barrier ends and to add healing received by 3% stacking 3 times in addition to the previous effects. Sorcs for the entirety of this game have always had a top tier presence even if it was 1 spec or some silly derpy hybrid/s.

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You answered your own question i think lol:) It is very useful for those instances where u need that kinda burst on certain fights like MB for example but honestly imo tho any real type of burst is handled far more effectively by the co healer assuming they're a sage or mando not to say u won't be healing that target but the main chunk will most likely be handled by a sage or mando in those instances if double scoundrel tho I would definetly consider using especially if its obvious an obvious struggle point.

Sents as an entire class between the 3 disciplines are prob the most balanced in the entire game next to Slingers imo between pvp and pve. If anything watchmen/anni could use a slight tone down in pve, otherwise this class is very balanced. They have some of the strongest dcds for a melee class with some having dual purposes such as force camo they also have great tools to stick to a target while providing team utility, they also have clear weakness such as being susceptible to kiting while trans+ leap is on cd and if they can't leg slash. If there was one thing i would change without any need to test or think over it would be the stoic utility in the skillful tier always felt as thought that talent should just be baseline for sents.

They do this any time a new war zone is released same thing was done for Quesh derpball.

Ppl waste gcds the most valuable resource

This is nice but I dunno about leth having strong off healing the only thing that separates it from concealment offhealing is the instant cast otherwise it literally sin't stronger has no buffed healing % or anything like arsenal mercs or the ability to spam a strong heal like dark heal when it's cd isn't even shorter I guess you can be technical and say it is because you can proc the instant cast while its on cd and use it exactly as the cd time is up but meh.. While the instant cast kolto infusion for leth is strong leth is really just a madness sorc with stealth and roll. Really though this is nice and fully up to use to share plus u already do more then enough community wise but I think this is kinda bad to show simply because your going to end up with ppl saying nonsense like leth heals are to powerful etc.

Tyvm for the event was really fun and it's not easy hosting something like that so thanks for taking the time to set something like that up.

No actually they didn't touch hots after the 3.3 nerf they got, it just hurts more compared now compared to before because hp pools are larger and dps out paces healing.

Go to patch notes and click 3.3 it would revert all that . The healing dealt by Diagnostic Scan has been reduced. Increased the immediate healing dealt by Kolto Infusion, and reduced the healing dealt by its following duration heal. Kolto Probe now costs 10 energy (down from 15 energy). The healing dealt by Kolto Probe has been reduced. Medicine Surprise Surgery now additionally allows Diagnostic Scan to channel while moving. Recuperative Nanotech now costs 20 energy (down from 25 energy). The healing dealt by Recuperative Nanotech has been slightly reduced. The healing dealt by Kolto Injection has been significantly increased. Medical Therapy now increases the healing dealt by periodic effects by 5% (up from 3%). Durable Meds no longer reduces the energy cost of Kolto Probe by 5. Tactical Medicine now increases all healing done by 5% (up from 3%) for 6 seconds when a Tactical Advantage is consumed by a healing ability. The Field Medic’s 6-piece set bonus has been redesigned: Reduces the cooldown of Recuperative Nanotech or Kolto Cloud by 3 seconds. 3.3 is when operatives suffered the hot nerf it didn't happen in 4.0 its just a bigger deal now because hp pools are higher and dps classes kinda out paced healers damage wise with 4.0.

Just do what they did leading up to 4.0 kotfe take 3 specs take em to pts give them tweaks concerning areas that ppl feel need addressing. They did it with all the dps specs then they did the 3 tanks specs then they did the healer spec while it wasn't he greatest balancing done it was some of the best communication ever done in the history of the entire game. Hopefully crybaby annihilation/watchmen maras/sents don't fudge it up for the rest of the classes/specs again by going legit crazy on devs that actually take the time and write out entire dev posts on how they intended for the class to play while ironically enough the actual spec was like 2nd or 1st dps wise in pve but just difficult to play. It just didn't "feel fun" and it wasn't "easy":mad:, pretty much though if they ever do something like the small frequent patchs they had going out before kotfe people need to not go crazy on the devs, at the same time ppl shouldn't idly sit by and let them over tune certain specs and great example being sages/sorc over buffing from 3.3.

This is nothing new all tanks are able to put out high dps in tank gear if anything juggs just truly joined the party without having to be some kind of hybrid like in the past. Sin tanks in dps gear can still put out more burst than immortal juggs and pt tanks can still out dps both. The only reason ppl are seeing so many tanks in dps gear with 4.0 is that bioware nerfed tank gear for some unknown reason when they decided to stick every single mod with just defense rating cause it seemed like fun.

While pve is pretty sad atm they can't do the chaff flare 6 seconds of total immunity because of that very reason it would break pve and cause even greater cheese possibilities then it does currently especially on top of the fact that arsenal is in a top top spot for pve dps

MEU? huh....?

Operatives if they were going to get buffed it would need to be on surgical probe and the tactical medicine talent being bumped up to 6%. All the stuff ppl want buffed like kolto probes RN and possibly infusion hot portion are all the things that got nerfed in 3.3 before kotfe because they were to passively strong. I personally don't trust bioware to buff hots and not go overboard if they did. If they wanted to be lazy they could honestly just revert what they did to operatives in 3.3 and they would be good to go especially with how damage and HP pools went up considering the nerfs before kotfe came out.

I agree with all of this except that during 1.0 while we were silly strong there were no real dps threats or strong tanks like we have now other then maybe arsenal mercs and wrath chain lighting hybrid sorcs.. The game was very very unbalanced and we had low lvs fighting full bm 50s we had clicky relics and adrenals in warzones the game was pretty unstable.

Just a note sorcs do have access to the mercs DR shield on a shorter cd but shorter duration with suppression utility which is amazing. They also sort of have K.O if they take Corrupted Barrier which is a H2F

Mercs as a whole need better utility choices as someone above posted Arsenal is fine if anything a bit confused how it avoided the surge nerfs but w/e IQ needs better heat management Jet re bounder taken from the utility tree and placed back into the spec and its Cylinder proc un nerfed. Speed to burn needs separate procs for either instant power shot/ serrated shots and rapid scan Someone had this idea for arsenal but imo it would fit better for IQ as arsenals rapid scan already gets a 20- 100% power buff depending on stacks Bodyguard needs a rework, or just give it sorc treatment and buff all healing moves and lower energy costs while buffing energy regain

Only thing that was over the top for concealment prior to 4.0 was its sustain with laceration to the point it really wasn't sustain and just constant burst especially with stim boost up the rest of the abilities were fine it only needed a small nerf either by nerfing collateral strike a surge nerf on just laceration or by nerfing the culling level 28 talent one of those would have been fine (not all of them just 1). In typical bioware fashion tho they go and nerf all concealment surge boosters and even some base damage values on abilities.

I'm going based of what i saw in the video you had instances where u applied it when hp was missing from targets that should have been healed with other moves I also play all three healing Acs and have been playing from 1.0 while my sorc was my first toon I play my merc/mando the most and anyone can love the spec to death but in the current state of swtor healing and 4.0 they come no where close to comparing you can stay delusional and all but its a a fact that mercs have less output in all areas compared to a sorc even in a stand still pve scenario except for aoe stacked healing and even then u need lucky crits on the initial kolto bomb heal. When we have less output on top of poor utility point choices and power shield being our main def cd, were also hard capped on our overall healing output because of very very poor energy management the only way our energy will stay decent is if we pray to be rooted or stunned with the alignment jets utility vs great dps. Also 2.6 vs 1..1 healing is not a small gap and while i absolutely agree that highest healing isn't the most important thing you did nothing in that specific video to save anyone or even keep some plays topped off the majority of the healing done came from the sorc as well as the saves the most notable thing done was when you went back to the node to guard for half a round because you had lazy teammates. Ultimately your role as a healer is to heal you can off dps to add extra pressure or help secure a kill if no healing is needed cc key targets in the back to set up kills for dps or peel but if the spec is bad at its actual role which medics and bodyguards are there is no real point to play it other then loving the spec. Lastly the only special utility mercs provide are E-met and an instant cast mez outside of that they do nothing special team utility wise.

Ah Athiss the big dog that summons mini dogs and raid wide stuns every now and then? That fight is primarily positioning from the tank best for them to bring it to a wall and turn it so the butt is facing the party that way the knockback doesn't hit the rest of the group they also need to pick up the adds when they spawn so they don't go off to random ppl most likely the healer. The only real time I would personally say a healer should be dpsing during that fight is when the adds spawn and mostly likely just to lay down some sort of aoe knockdown effect move like motor volley or sticky grenade otherwsie should focus on keeping ppl topped off and cleansed mainly the tank as the stun can put you a bit behind especially if you don't over gear the content.. AS for the damage part for healers they can put out damage it's just a matter of sustaing a certain level of damage which they really aren't meant to do in this game the class that you choose on top of it has the most difficult resource management of the 3 healers so that really doesn't help much on that note though medics do have the highest possible damage output and burst of the 3 healers how long it can be sustained tho is an issue for them especially if you have to juggle healing with it.