This is the build that I currently use. It maxes survivability and is pretty awesome when you are a little low on gear. I only have a few pieces of Champ gear and I am still usually top heals in almost every warzone. If you can stay alive you can heal more. Always, always use kolto missle every cooldown as it buffs all your other heals. You also want to pop supercharged gas and kolto missle (10% DR) then spam healing scan for the hot and 10% armor buff. You can keep alot of players up this way even by yourself. If your running with a group that already has good gear that 10% damage reduction and 10% armor buff makes them almost invincible. I have kept up 2 groups of team mates by myself many times until backup has arrived. As long as I dont get focused I can heal forever. You will get enough alacrity from gear and I haven't found that it makes a huge difference in my throughput so I don't include it in my talents. I may rethink this when I get better gear but for now I need the survivability and the health that is why I chose my talents the way I did. Not that I'm famous but I am from the Vrook Lamar server and my character name is Shangri-La. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#300bfRoRdsdzqZrcoM.1

Maybe thats the problem, the only companion I ever really geared was mako. Blizz just has the gear he came with so i don't use him. maybe I'll scrounge him up some.

Yes. If it's 2 weaks and 1 strong I can handle it ok I guess but the strongs do alot of damage to me. If I pull more than that im toast. But that was something I could handle no prob as arsenal with mako. Might have to give up healing. I gotta do the dailies ya know,

So I leveled to 50 as Arsenal using Mako with the intention of healing endgame. Respecced when I hit 50 and started healing in PvP and a few flashpoints, nothing fancy. So I got the Ilum quest and flew on out there. Started with Mako in blaster stance, took me forever to kill a group of mobs not to mention I found I was VERY squishy, almost to the point of having to spam heal myself for one strong, then my heat is through the roof and I can't DPS. So I switched to Gault. Bought him some upgraded armor off the GTN as well as a new gun and knife. We kill things a little faster but still its a chain heal fest and I've died once and come close many times already. Compared to the 4 or 5 times I died from 1-50 this was alarming to me. I know BG isn't gonna be a dps machine but damn. I'm far more squishy now than I was as arsenal. I read that people are easily soling 2+heroics as a healer. My gear is alright I guess, mostly oranges I was using while leveling (level 47 or so). So what gives? Am I doing something wrong?

No offense Kuts but if their just gonna stand there and ignore you they got what they deserved. Not that you didn't play great but they seemed oblivious to the fact you were killing their entire squad.

Thats right, I said it. I do not, repeat DO NOT play an agent or a smuggler. I play a BH and that's the only thing I play. I find that warzones are quite balanced at the moment. Yeah maybe I would like to see diminishing returns on CC pan out a little quicker but other than that everything has been cool for me. Operatives attacking you from stealth is their bread and butter. All that set up takes time. You guys have to put these things in perspective. Just because it happens to you (and it's happened to me as well) doesnt mean they need a nerf. Everything is relative. Look at the scoreboard. It's highly likely that almost everyone of their kills has been 1v1 and thus is a very low number. Operatives cannot stand and fight you. Every other class can. If they have singled you out and you are their victim, well, it sucks to be you. But their kills will be far less than yours simply because of the mechanics of the kill. They are opportunists. If you present yourself as an opportunity then you are a sucker. Gotta learn how to trinket, knockback, stun and run. Heal up and then put a few missles in his face. If he's not running his *** off to get away from you he is a dead mofo. Play better OP. This game doesnt need a bunch of nerfs. I havent found any class I couldnt take down. The game is fine. Dont let it end up like Rift.

Yeah, i'm only level 41 and I gib people. It's not just tracer spam either. Don't let the haters bring you down. Its 3x tracers to get heat sigs, then heatseekers while running, then 2 more tracers for target lock, then rail shot while running (always using unload on procs). Then while you do all this you mix in some stuns and pushes. BH's have a crap ton of keybinds. More than most if you're good.

Yeah....pretty much. But it's sooooo elite.

Yeah, i'm not calling for a nerf of scoundrels because if I catch them in the open it's over. BUT I will say a level 50 caught me from stealth last night (I am 41) and he 2 or 3 shot me I cant remember. But I was dead almost before I could move. And I have around 12.5k health bolstered. It's all good though, I think they should have huge burst from stealth eve though I was cussing up a storm.

you should quit and keep working on that basement band. You'll make it someday.

^this. Yeah, having no macros and being unable to click 30 keys makes pvp pretty tough. I love it.

Everyone always says this. In every single game there is some guy who says mass amounts of people are cancelling their subs because of pvp imbalance. I think pvp is actually pretty fair. I like it. There's always going to be the pvp whiners. It's never going to end so just move on people.

Ah, the age old ploy of "being concerned for the lower players". You sir, are full of ****! You are not a 50 and you could care less about tanking 3 level 10's. You are one of the level 10's being tanked, not the other way around. Level up, get gear, get good, and win.

Line of sight. Anyone else confused?

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