Actually that doesn't appear to be true, my sub ran out a while ago, I just loiter to see if any of the forthcoming patches appeal to me enough to throw more cash at bioware.

Front loaded usually means in a more immediate form. a clean heal effect rather than a hot for example.

Having just played an unnamed games beta weekend (admittedly it was primarily a press/media phase) and having access to thier devs for chats about balance, the ethos of "continuous improvement" and how metrics need context rather than slavish devotion, I was astounded by the fact that Bioware is just not as open or forthcoming about information. I don't even remember a time in the swtor beta where the devs were as professional as the other games team are (though they are still in beta, and as I said, most of us playing were some form of journalist). I would personally like to see thier inhouse team run some content, just to see class make up, talent set up and gear levels just to see how they play to make an operative healer as fun and "viable" as the force user version.

Initially, they were correcting you, not trolling. SInce you ignored them, and thier helpfull offer to prove themselves, they started to troll. Doesn't mean they are wrong though. If you still feel that you are a strong healer, fair play to you but if like me, you have all 3 healer archetypes and have tested them in identical circumstances (only variation was as an operative, I have a sorc rather than a sage as my secondary healer, my other 2 are republic) you'll know just how much easier you can make your second healers life, by simply not playing your op/smug healer.

The voss 1 is good, 6 commends and fully moddable.

Then use that for your "real" pvp fix, this is a stat/gear based MMO, developed and advertised as such. It has issues with cast times, lag, synching - autoface while not fixing these, at least acts in partial mitigation.

Well, everytime its happened to me, the 1st attacker always wins, them or us.

Well, trust me when I throw in with "I have all 3 healing classes at 50 and the sage/sorc resource management makes it by far the easiest to use" I used quotes, since a lot of you believe a class with a variable, limited resource poor with a bonus random element can even have a chance of competing against a class with simply nore tools and a stable pool size. You don't. My operative can heal almost anything, with the caveat that it's a whole lot less fun and rewarding than doing the same thing on a sage. My commando holds the middle ground here, though makes a superb main tank healer.

Damn you to hell. I was gonna use that link.

I think Jesse Cox says it best .... Madness, grats insane grinding fella !

You repeatedly tagged a boss with no intention of killing it, but just to prevent them from trying ?

Well, not anymore ( I'm in this weekends GW2 beta so am scouting it for my guild, the joys of being a media employee ). I think this is the last day my swtor accounts active but hey, only posting while I patch up ( GW 2!!!1!!!1!!!)

Remember, he's the lead combat dev so in the whole top trumps thing, he wins. I wish he at least gave me the slightest confidence in him.

Oh yea, forgot about evasion, my bad. Hell, I play healer so much anyway, so I don't kill anyone on my op

My last wz was pretty comedy, a voidstar where the repubs had 7 commandos and a sage vs our team, that had 3 mercs, 3 powertechs, a sniper and my operative. That grav round sound makes me shudder still. Oh yea, the sage beat my healing done, the git.

I also play healer commando and healer operative, but experimented with thier dps forms on guild mates (duel faction guilds are great eh? ) to build up understanding. I used to be fairly keen on pvp in swtor.

Dude, get the Zork outa here !

They can't cleanse force based dots either, so maybe thats where my sage has the advantage ( and bubble of course, oh, knockback is also handy)

All I can really suggest is find one of your guildmates of the offending class mirror and practice. When I was interested in pvp, I duelled pretty much everyone, to work out where they could be countered. I know a duel is a controlled test environment, but it's all practice. Worst comes to worst, level up one to see where they can be weak.

How much HP do you roll with in pvp then pete ? Because as I said, my hybrid spec sage eats pretty much everything except well played sent/marus and occaisional monster juggs.

Would you accept nose-candy ? I hear it was popular in the 80s. Also, I quit after a really shoddy customer support experience, so I'll limit my future bioware interaction to ME3 (the multiplayer in the demo, is fun)

Are these ops in a rakata/BM mix or what ? I have never once seen a post nerf operative or smug 50% a champ geared player of any class in 1 gcd.

Ok, from that I really have to ask, given the GCD is 1.5 secs and his opener+backstab will (if he is reallllllllly lucky) take 6k total off you, are you missing mods ? Because not to be sarcastic, my sage has 18k hp in similar gear+pvp buffs and well, I can eat operatives. (my own operative is heal spec so tends to stalemate smuggs till team help arrives)

I'll make the assumption that you ain't at full health when the bad man appears. If you are does he- A: Knock you down, hit you once, dissapear then knock you down again ? B: Pull out a large comedy boxing glove ? C: Rely on the ranged guy shooting you at the same time to make a fast kill ?

Wow, I'm not really sure if the original poster is trolling deadpan, or genuinely just called out Bob and RuQu. Edit- having just reread it, where is he getting the time to do all that ?