I use the medic spec. 1. I think the spec is generally well-received by the community, and only on rare occasions do I feel my fellows would rather have a different healer. This is with regards to the more powerful ops-wide AoE (area of effect) heal provided by Sith Sorcerers, which some boss strategies incorporate as a method of dealing with various mechanics. 2. I feel the medic spec is reasonable powerful, and with the right skill and knowledge, it can overcome all healing tasks. However I feel the spec is mostly about the management of resources, and the lack of power behind the spec's HoT (heal over time) spells feels like a letdown. I feel this spec is powerful, but not very interesting to play.

Exotech are significantly better.

The IA is a pretty hard type, the emotions lie under the facade. I think this particular fact was expressed excellently in the VO.

Answering the question in the title: no.

9 Act 1 was a bit of a trek, but it had a dramatic and unforgettable ending. Act 2 was completely messed up exciting (very very good) the relatively low profile of it made it a fitting follow-up to the overturning ending of Act 1. Act 3 made me mad, and it was not because the story was bad. Also reveals some surprising secrets about the galaxy. All-in-all a complete package, with excellent VO, intriguing characters and a plot that takes you around all things Star Wars, while maintaining the look and feel of a secret nameless agent. I would rate the female IA VO(by Jo Wyatt) the better of the two, but that is entirely my own opinion.

Nice guide, it will take a while to go over. I main an operative healer, so I am by no means an unexperienced or ("new") player, but I am leveling my sentinel (lvl 37 by now) and just curious about what the different play styles are within the sentinel specialization. Sparing myself from reading lenghthy guides about stuff I mostly don't care about I was hoping for a short-form answer Thats all!

So I tried to read it. But the incredibly poor typography stopped me from bothering. I gather it's an incoherent ramble on what the OP thinks will "SAVE TOR FROM TEH COMPETITORZ" although I saw the first point was something about mounts, so I lol'd and made this reply.

I'm new to sentinel and have only tried the focus tree. Can you explain what the differences, and key mechanics changes are between the trees. I know focus deals with burn damage.

The answer is. It's *********** ridiculously hard... to do right. Designing a proper AI and develop the heuristics of such a system is incredibly hard.

I have one way or another ended up solo healing most encounters in the game. It's not like it was easy or anything. People died as a result.

The operative healing rotation I prefer is in fact KInj -> Kinf -> DS/(KP/DS) since SP is **** and not worth using unless someone needs an instant heal. Kinf with the set bonus is worth it, it crits more often than not making it worth the TA which only other purpose most of the time is to cast SP, and any time you would cast SP you regain TA, unless you can take a break and use SP for multi-target healing.

I always PUG and I've never experienced any abuse. The problems described by the OP seem like some sort of myth, and it rarely happens at best (in my experience). Of course it might depend on the personality of the person behind the healer, I have an outgoing, and open attitude, and I am quick to figure out solutions tailored specifically to our problems in our group in particular, with other words I often take the lead. I can't recall having recieved anything other than praise from the players I PUG'ed with. Maybe once in a while, a problematic tank will imply that he's been healed through the FP once before and it was "much easier", but I tend to call ******** on that in a convincing manner. The key to a good group dynamic is to be friendly and open to suggestions, revised tactics and new ideas. If the DPS of my group are not meeting the enrage timers, I adjust my playstyle to do more damage instead of trying to replace one of them.

It can be confusing because f1 targets you, and you appear in the operations frame as well, meaning you will have to filter yourself out or in depending on need when figuring out what button to press. I only use the f-keys to target if I'm only using 1 hand to play for some reason, one of those lazy times where you use your right hand to hold up your head, and then keyboard turn and all the rest because you can.

Hopefully there will be no best healer in the grand scheme. A sorc/sage will outperform the other healers with their AoE heal in situations where the group is able to remain in a small area, this is almost negligible in PvP. An operative/scoundrel healer is quite mobile and will outperform the other healers in situations of high mobility where their instant cast heals will be effective in providing small amounts of healing to a lot of people. I don't really know enough about merc/commando to say anything for certain, but from what I have heard they will be slightly superior in situations of low mobility where they can focus on the tank. Hopefully none of these advantages are so great that they will dwarf the other classes.

I feel the same way, but mostly because I just wasted a GCD on baiting an interrupt, and the dude neither goes for it, nor tries to interrupt the actual heal. Also, cool site, I will give it a look in the morning.