It's active for a full minute after engaging in combat. It is also procced by healing players who are in combat. If you're playing properly, there is no reason it would ever fade away.

I would suggest that the game design of Huttball doesn't promote organization and optimal play. But that's off-topic. During a match, I do my own assessment of value to the team, and if someone is very valuable, they get MVP. In all other scenarios, I MVP healing and protection. Very rarely does anyone have anything but 0 in the protection column. Usually, Kills and Damage get most medals and overall MVPs. Not only is it frustrating, but there's little appreciation of good healing - even in the games' own PVP reward calculations and mechanics.

Wow. Humble much? Trust me. As a healer who is often MVP of the match, healing is incredibly painful at times, especially in PVP. Much of it is the UI experience, a lot of it is in-game score tracking and rewards, and for me, some of it is class balance, and some of it is warzone design. Some warzone game types really punish a healer quite significantly if the team doesn't gel immediately. I quit Huttball upon joining unless I'm in a pre-made group. The damage can't be healed through on the carrier, and it's constant respawning every 2 minutes against a decent team. Not to mention being tossed and pulled around like a ragdoll.

I've wanted this since the first mass beta weekend on 11/11/11.

This. This! One hundred times this. Also the fact that "T" cannot be bound to set/switch focus target. Well it can be bound, but don't expect it to work.