I would recommend a rethink the the collection unlock. Boo, Boo I say.

Chat with the healer, let the DPS die. They'll learn the lesson or you can remove them . Sometimes it's hard to break habits but if they are ignoring you asking them not to do this or reminding them of their role....well, the group should know that the person isn't there for everyone's best interest!

I'm still here from prelaunch as well. Mostly lurk and don't post, and recently took a month off to try out GW2 but now I have returned....refreshed and invigorated.

I think I had two big problems with the game, both caused by my incessant Altoholism. 1) You will always level in the same places. There are no alternate zones, there are no Optional planets. There are bonus series, but in general you will do the same planets in the same order. Always. 2) The legacy system stymied my alts. Because so much of it is gated by huge costs and not just simple unlocks I had to more carefully plan out what alts I wanted bonuses on. Did I want to drop 500k on a character for faster levelling just to experience the story? I would make the money back over it's lifetime sure, but that's a big dent in the wallet of someone who also goes out to purchase Legacy armors along with gearing his own characters for various tasks at 50 (You may not believe it, but I've played since before open beta and still have only ever completed a single raid, HM KP). I realize I'm not everyone of course! I'm not good at collecting large sums of money or knocking out content, but I love the stories. I took a month break or so to test out GW2 (Imagine my disappointment at the corpse running zergfest dungeons and the sad matter of only getting cosmetic gear at the maximum level. I can't even make past content easier because of level adjustments! Still a fun and pretty casual game though), but now I'm back and must say I've missed TOR. I missed the plight of a quest giver, or the dramatic tempo in the background as my Sith rises in power, or thematic pull at my heartstrings as I must confess the truth to a new widow. It just...has that fun factor. We may get burnt out and wander off.....but I think I'll still come back to TOR as long as pulse beats in the servers. ....too bad my server is sparsely populated! Even then, I shall endure with my guildmates!

You don't need to be valor rank 50 to buy or Receive the champ bags. There's a tooltip that says you do, but it is not so.

Gunnery if you want the most mileage for all of the above.

Try healing and enjoy getting pissed as your crit drops because all of your gear has worthless alacrity on it.

Pretty much Heeeeell no. As a Healer: Heeeeeell no, but all your gear has it so you might as well regulate it to a minimum as best as possible.

There's a bug with this, it won't show up in the provided reward area(Shows up blank with a black square on it) or in the pick rewards. Submit a ticket and though it CAN take quite a while (Took mine about a week) you should be able to get it restored to you through customer service; I know I did. It'll be sent to you after a lot of ticket locks/open status with a mail that reads you get 3 item restorations over 6 months, so it is indeed a bug.