http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=2422558#post2422558 Funny, I just made a thread about this. IMO, we need a tank more than the other healers, which can be annoying if you don't have a team able/willing to coordinate.

Sorc/Sage can take a talent that gives them the same 35m range

Sawbones are a great asset with high mobility, however it's my belief that HoTs haven't quite scaled well compared to damage (and don't scale at all with alacrity), and that our 31 point healing talent isn't where it should be. Our heals have the greatest effect of prolonging life when incoming damage is low. A tank and Sawbones can survive for a great deal of time when guard + taunts are used with HoTs and instant heals alone. Not only does it keep you alive, but you have to risk less interrupts this way. Juking is a good skill toi have, but you still 'risk' it versus guaranteed heals that cannot be interrupted. In an unguarded situation, that same sawbones will not likely see the latter half of his HoT duration, and hindsight tells us that a casted heal probably would have been more effective in prolonging life provided it wasn't interrupted. The goal of a tank + sawbones should be to mitigate the damage to either person to the point that healing over time > damage over time. Importantly, once you cross this threshold, you can shift focus without risk to either of you and help the rest of your team or spend some energy on damage (Sabo charge and back blast are the most energy efficient, I believe). Mitigation comes in the form of CC and distance control from the tank and the sawbones, plus line of sighting, and the scoundrel's mobility allows him to line of sight more frequently than other classes in the same situation. It's important for tanks to remember that Sawbones cannot dictate distance except with the use of CC and snares and actually moving away himself. Tanks should save their range dictation abilities when the both of you are under high pressure. For the sawbones, it should be your responsibility to follow the tank, and it's the tank's responsibility to be objective oriented depending on what warzone you're in.

Shockingly, some people are not at the gym to lose weight

That number is probably muddied by people who don't play reflex intensive games, and have no reflex training/adaptation.

Maybe you should hit up AA. :| Or hell, we'll make a SWTOR equivalent for warzones and call it 'WAA'.

So it's a Jesus combat rez?

My guess would be the animation time it takes a KO'd person to stand back up.

They were hoping the placebo effect and the power of suggestion were going to fix it.

They're good at killing people with bad gear. That's something, right?

Maybe it's just me, but I don't run into too many clutch situations. I don't like gearing for rare, clutch situations. I haven't done Nightmare in many fights, so if you want to argue the clutch situations arise more often in Nightmare mode, what you essentially have is a stat aimed for Nightmare only. That still doesn't touch on the fact that HoTs or instants get nothing from alacrity, so you've now got a stat that functions primarily in clutch situations, on half of our mainstay healing abilities. That's a very narrow scope of use compared to any of the other stats we use.

Alacrity hurts Scoundrels/OPs on two fronts: Absolutely no benefit to HoTs/instants and the reasoning for the OP. Instants make up a significant portion of our casting in PvE/PvP. Alacrity improves throughput in the very, very short term. There's way too much of it on our gear considering how little use we derive from it. Normally, I'm adding downtime in between casting for energy regen, so the time I would have gained from Alacrity is lost in the artificial down time. And gathering. And fleet pass, quick travel, and exit area. Woo.

You played Neocron, didn't you?

Dodge for Scoundrels exists solely to be used before Disappearing Act because of Lucky Dodge. Once you get in the habit of using it, it really helps Disappearing Act go off, but it's annoying pressing two buttons for one function.

Against geared players, this only works on tanks or someone guarded.

Nah dodge is off GCD.

Lucky Dodge -> Vanish, by the way It does have a small place in PvE. It's very easy to switch from PvP to PvE in this game, so redoing those bars that often would be a pain.

A straight comparison is hard to do, because we have Upperhand / Tactical advantage to also use. We also regen a higher percentage cost of our healing spells naturally (no idea what Sage/Sorc regen with talents is like). We also regen during the GCD (it's 1.5 ticks) which is subtracted from the net cost of the spell. From the tooltips: Basic heal is 25% of our total resources. Quick heal is 20% of our total PLUS a stack of Upperhand/TA Instant Heal is free, but costs 1 Upperhand/TA HoT is 15% - since we have to stack it twice to do anything, it's actually 30% AoE HoT is 30%

Some things I'd consider: Hot ticks reduce the cooldown of adrenaline probe by 1s. Can only occur once every second. Alternatively, reduce the cooldown by 30s to 1min. Evasive Imperative needs to be scrapped and reworked. 2 skill points for a 3 second, +20% run speed buff on a 1 minute is pitiful. Medical Engineering needs to have the RNG removed. It may not be a big issue now, but it will be once people get more skilled. Med Shield doesn't feel worth the skill points. Recuperative Nanotech needs a buff because it's weak in PvE and PvP. I feel Diagnostic Scan needs to do something else. I realize it's essentially an auto attack (a very, very weak auto attack) and energy management skill, but the cost to turn it into that is pretty high.

Kolto cloud is very limited right now, which makes us pretty lame.

Kolto Cloud is really only useful when damage numbers in your warzone are below a certain point. There's rarely small amounts of low damage AoE going on - it's usually a bunch of single target fights with some AoE spike damage from big moves. Kolto Cloud is rarely the difference between survival and death because it simply doesn't heal for a ton with the higher HP pools and damage going around. It can be hard to know when Kolto Cloud was actually worth it because when you sink a large amount of energy into something that has to return its initial investment over 15 seconds (an eternity in PvP), you can easily find yourself in a situation where that energy would have been better spent elsewhere.

Out of curiosity, we knew we could continue moving and firing after the Mortar Volley cast bar finished, right?

Corso is so flimsy compared to some other tanking companions I get early on. T7 is a beast for instance.

Winning nothing is also no fun.

Aren't you just adorable