i think op healers were kind of doomed from the start by sharing a class with the "burst stealther" archetype you end up with extremely low utility - both offensive and defensive - and a punishing resource system to limit sustained output (TA, and energy to a lesser extent), in order to keep concealment from being OP, especially in PVP. interrupts are bad for ops because the resource cost on our flash heal is stupid, so we're incredibly reliant on kolto injection, and can be locked down effortlessly by interrupting classes.

a third faction is the only way to balance objective-based world pvp

that doesn't change the crap set bonuses

if you want to be the best possible pve healer grinding ops and hardmodes, then you should absolutely make a sage. no question. if you like to pvp, especially world pvp, scoundrel is an awesome choice.

i want my quests now i want my xp now i want my loot now i want to quick travel to the place where i kill the next set of monsters and i want them to die now and i want to have full hp when i'm done so i can move on to the next one now now now now now now now now now now now omg this game sucks i'm so bored i already have 5 level 50 alts

cool story bro

recency bias. they're all cesspools.

i would totally punch them right in their stupid face, amirite

indeed, the greatest thing about the internet is it lets people imply that they would punch people in the face when, in reality, they would never do such a thing

they probably don't care mmo players are the worst people on earth and everyone knows it they also pay out the *** for games and everyone knows it bioware knew what they were getting into

completely true for me

you mean bombs that do insane cc? you're also the only one who can use hotrigged speederbikes

yea but wouldn't the typo be something like "turrte"? i'm just wondering how "turrent" happens. the "n" baffles me.

are you talking about the reduced activation time talent? because mercs and sorcs have the same 2-pt talents at the bottom of their trees.

i can't take anyone seriously who regularly uses kolto pack

how does "turrent" happen? can anyone explain that to me? T-U-R-R-E-T: every letter is on the top row of the keyboard. N is way down at the bottom. how does it keep making its way into this word?

Salvation (Sage's 31-pt talent) is a powerful AOE heal with nice little bonus HOT tacked on. The HOT is double what Kolto Cloud heals for, and finishes in 10 seconds instead of 15. Kolto Cloud is god. awful.

maybe he means an intelligent mmo gamer would have gone biochem from the start

only the Rakata reusables are BoP

great post, need more visibility on this issue

ironically operative/scoundrel have much more flagrant imbalances than shock/project operative flashbang has 60 sec cooldown, scoundrel's has 90 sec cooldown operative healing talent "accomplished doctor" gives 10/20/30% healing increase, scoundrel's "accomplished sawbones" gives 5/10/15 scoundrel's melee stun roots the player in place during the animation, operatives can do it on the move bioware doesn't seem to care

spoken like someone who has never used harpoon

to be fair this is a really dumb way to tell a player that the respec cost has changed

the ball resets because when you pull the ballhandler to the safe zone they score lol

i really loved the sawbones spec and vid. hopefully you decide to respec again some day