I'll give you that there are situations where no one would survive and the longer the focus on you goes the lower anyone's survivability falls to zero. But that isn't a slam on CM, that is fact of any class. I am saying I would take a CM over just about any class, definitely other heal classes, in a burst/focus situation.

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You'll run into levels like this as heals that just drag, all specs get this but heals seems more susceptible I used 4x until I got the next 2 guys and then swapped between them. 1. Hotkey 4-X's Flameguard ability and pull with that and use it whenever it's on cool down. It does good damage and buffs his Defense so you can spend more time on dps 2. For most fights keep 4-X in dps mode, he'll still hold threat and he'll dps a ton more, switch him to tank for boss fights. 3. Keep 4-X geared. If you aren't cybertech, make friends with one. He is either awesome with good gear or poo with average, not very forgiving. 4. Once I got a better hang of all this I'd do all but boss fights with incendiary cell active for the extra dps. If all else fails, go back to Tatooine and re-do quests or do quests like the bonus series if you skipped them to get you over the hump.

I dunno, my CM is pretty mobile and I've done all content through TFB HM as well. While they may not be as mobile as a scoundrel, that's a far cry from saying it isn't any good at it. HammerShot, KB, TP, BI account for about 80% of my healing and all of those are instant, but everyone's strategy is different and stat allocation is flexible enough to allow for multiple play-styles.

Can we have it change colors with color crystals like other classes get to?

We just finished TFB HM last week too (that last fight just sucks, BOOOORING) and definitely agree that stacking aim augs is the way to go. But the gear itemization on the new stuff seems like you need to buy 3 of everything to get the armor, mod, and enhancement you want. Next piece of gear I get i'm going to try and learn the new mod. Learning the 53A 41Pow from Blackhold was a godsend.

Hood down robes. Trooper pants that looked like armor not sweatpants with lines on them. Hood down robes. Shadow armor that didn't look like Liberace's wet dream. Hood down robes. Avoid anything that resembles making a player look like a banana. Hood down robes.

Just you. I didn't have any trouble with her romance arc.

Get one of those fancy mice with the 12 keys by your thumb, best decision i ever made. I put all my dps abilities on my thumb and all my utility abilities on 1-=, that way you don't have to choose what you have to get rid of.

PVP in general in this game is painful and more often than not, broken.

I'm only 23, but so far Sab is a breeze (and a blast) leveling. Usually groups of mobs take about 10 seconds to take out and my only real issue is that the bosses take about 20. Tanks in FP's don't really like be because AOE threat generation blows so hard at this level that I usually end up with piles of adds on me, but they die pretty quick. As long as the tank hangs onto the golds I rarely die.

That would be you.

Haters gotta hate... Disclaimer: I only PVE I love my CM, but it comes down to your play style. Other people have said it true though, tougher for lower skilled CM's to get by than their counterparts on other healers. And takes a special person and some serious attention to your gear to compete at the top end.

Whenever I make a new character I have to spend the first ten minutes rebinding all the keys. Can't we have this feature either be "set as default" or at least be saved and then loaded somehow?

Make it change with our color crystal.

The way your original comment came off was that you stated the class as a whole was garbage, and then made a point about PVP specifically. If that was not your intent then I appologize.

Because it would be AWESOME!

I think garbage is a bit of an overstatement, especially when looking at PVE since most OPS mechanics favor ranged.

I can understand your preference more now that I know you PVP, I don't do that at all so it didn't factor at all into my thought process.

With all DPS pretty much within a few points of each other (regardless of what people say) it is 100% playstyle. If you enjoy ranged go commando, if you like being more up close and personal, go vanguard. Now if a group leader prefers ranged over close combat or vice versa that's nothing you or the AC, no matter how well played, is going to have any control over.

Really in the end its up to you and what your style is.

I've done all of these except completing 2nd phase of TfB and I can say I've never missed having a better shield. 1. You already get 70% pushback resist as it is 2. Shield does enough on it's own that if I get a chance to pop it it mitigates most of the damage anyway 3. I've never been "interupted" in PVE. I've been stunned, but those are two different mechanics. I just think you're losing too much to counteract damage that can be better handled with proper footwork and better positioning. When I do use recharge cells, i'm hella desperate (think TfB Big K and your other healer is channeling nanites) and I really want those 2 extra cells now.

I think this is what i love about CM healing so much. It seems we have to be more creative with our combos, order, and "rotation" than any heal class I’ve ever played. Seems to fit the hole role-playing aspect of the class, we may not do it pretty, but at the end of the fight you'll be alive and most of your appendages are still connected to your body. In my book that aint bad.

After reading more stuff I've changed my habits on this a bit. However, most phases of most fights (we're working on last guy TFB HM atm ) I don't need to do much more than spam KB and HS. I use BI on cooldown which usually ends up hitting someone that has Kolto Residue on them anyway. *But* when I'm going to be doing both KB and BI to fill someone up, I still make it a point to do KB first if possible, every little bit helps in some of those burn phases.

But it does restore an energy cell.