I've tried that spec sage side several times and don't really like it. The 5 second roots is good don't get me wrong, but if you're doing random warzones thats not going to save you against several dps. I prefer salvation dev spec for the added healing and really now the cost compared to the hps of your other heals is not that bad when used with rejuvenate. You can drop it down and line a lot of times or max range till you have to come back in to heal and imo that style of play is better for survival than the root spec. Also predropping it when you know you're going to get switched to is pretty nice. The root spec seems better on voidstar (defending) where you have no room to work with, however you also benefit the most from salvation on voidstar because of the cluster**** lay out of the map. The healing output is noticeably lower and casting disturbance/lightning strike for regen is only a luxury if you're probably going to win the fight anyways. I'm not talking premades or random wzs where you're already going to win. You could play those without a spec and still be effective if you have the better team.

Maybe to an extent, there are going to be faster players who are born that way. But take something like fake casting and wow (because it was brought up before). Go watch some of the old pvp videos from vanilla. You won't see fake casting at all. I mean it was for the most part non existant. Now how many years later, you see fake casting going on even in the 1500 bracket. The players evolved and got better, because imo the game forced them to get better.

You're talking to the deaf right here. 90% of these boards/playerbase don't have the awareness or general experience to approach pvp encounters with this kind of thinking. It's not their fault, the game just isn't evolved yet and doesn't reward a better level of skill.

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I don't know about mastered. All he does is tunnels one target, ccs into white bars, rarely interupts, doesn't intercede his teammates, doesn't taunt for his teammates and trinkets sleeping dart dueling an op. The editting was good though.

Yeah because there isn't a difference in interupting the end of healing trance or saving your lock out for deliverance, right? or interupting dianostic scan and letting underworld medicine get off?

More like interupting the wrong **** doesn't do anything

Go to the GTN and buy tanking mods/gear/etc then spec as a tank. Run around warzones taunting people who aren't attacking you and guarding/guardian leaping people who are taking damage. Stun/force push/awe/etc people who don't have a full resolve bar and basically just be a nuissance, stopping as much damage as you can. It's better than trying to play as dps in questing gear and not being productive. It doesn't take long to start getting centurion comms or just wait for 1.2, but thats probably not for another couple weeks. Its better for undergeared players to guard turrets and doors.

All healers need tanks to live through focus fire and stop group damage. Commandos/Mercs just have it better in survival because in between taunts and guard you can pop your shell and stay alive, but they still die just like sages/sorcs. Sages really only have grip and a ranged interupt that makes them viable. I guess they can react to damage better with force armor then a merc can, but not having the reduced casting time on their big heal is going to suck ***. Who knows, with the increase in expertise (healers benefit the most from it) it might keep sages around the same. Thats more of a blind hope. The game just sucks as a healer, because you rely even more on your teammates to live than in wow. I love it how some keyboard turning, tunnelvisioning mongoloid who can't even set up their smash right and doesn't interupt (or interupts the tail end of a healing trance lol) can basically force you to only heal yourself and even if you dead zone kite their charge, it won't be long till another bad gets on you and you die.