27 April 2012 Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event begins. Warzone queue times go through the roof.

I wish my Operative had 9000 armor.

It is quite simple if you just make it up.

Reserves. I very rarely used Affliction. I very rarely used anything besides Bubble, Innervate, Resurgence, FL, CD, Shock, and our CC abilities.

I've been getting used to the 21/2/18 build that we discussed a few days ago in another thread. It is quite fun and versatile. I had back to back games of 5+ MVP votes, the first I was 325k dmg (2nd) and 175k (3rd) healing, the next game was 180k (3rd) damage and 375k (1st) healing. Was pretty happy with the results.

My thoughts-- 1. Without KP, you will have significantly less TAs, espeically in games that actually matter (i.e. vs non-awful teams that actually attack you and not let you free-cast). KP is still a good amount of healing on the target, and helps your own survivability well. 2. If you don't have energy managment issues, you are likely either on a team that is very healer heavy, or your opponent is DPS-lite, undergeared, or bad. Talented DS is necessary, imho, for PvP that matters. 3. RN is very strong now in 1.2. It doesn't have the raw healing of the Sorc AoE, but you don't have to stand in one spot to cast it or get the benefit of it. It will help you and your team surivive for sure. 4. The changes in TA from 1.2 has moved me from someone that never used and hated Infusion, to someone that uses it all the time. Any time I'm at 3 TA and the target it taking real damage (ie, SP isn't going to help much), I'll cast the 1.3 second Infusion that will crit for 4300-5k, and save 5 energy.

These are features in poorly designed games. More people will stick with a game that is fun vs. a game that is a gear grind.

At some point, you get to the point where there will be times that no amount of patches or fixes will enable bad players to do well.

I do about the same amount of instant cast healing on my Operative and Sorc. Both classes require channeled/casted heals to keep anyone alive, including themselves.

Having both an Operative and Sorc healer, I do similar amounts of "instant cast" healing in both classes, SP + HoTs vs. Bubble and Resurgence. In both cases, to actually keep people alive for any real length of time you will have to stand still and cast/channel something.

People rerolling will continue to likely be mediocre/bad on whatever new class they choose. They feel it is because it is their class holding them back.

False.

All healers who have slightly above average pvp skills have no problem surviving while their cooldowns are available.

You are overestimating how much healing SP actually does. It certain helps a bit, but it is far from I-win. I'd still trade it for the bubble any day of the week.

How do I get my Kolto Infusion to be instant? Irony.