I have done my best to stay positive since the 1.2 healing changes were first posted as patch notes a few weeks ago and I'll try to continue to do so through this post.
I'm full corruption spec and with the exception of a week when my guild needed dps for an op I haven't played any other way. I spend the vast majority of my time in game PvPing. My schedule is erratic making it difficult to run in premades.
I PuG. Almost exclusively.
I make no claim to being great at this game. I have four pieces of BM gear. My best ever total healing in a wz was 650k. Most games I do anywhere from 250k - 500k depending on conditions. Patch 1.2 has reduced those numbers obviously. I have still been able to break 500k a couple of times this week but have also seen a few games where I didn't get over 200k.
What has changed more than raw numbers is my subjective experience of pvp encounters in this game. It used to be that if I was jumped in a wz (and I am talking mostly about huttball here of course) I had a fair shot at surviving by kiting and 'LoS'ing the assailant. If they didn't chase hard, or I managed to get to a team mate, I usually survived. If they were particularly tenacious, or outgeared me by a ways or I ran into one of their team mates I usually died. Either way I was unable to contribute to my team's bg effort until I either escaped or died and respawned. Now, with the changes to expertise, the nerfs to sorc healing and the higher proportion of recently buffed melee in warzones, I just die. Quickly. I have no means to control the outcome. Even if I am able to put up 300k or 400k healing, all I feel I am doing is running around futilely trying to patch up team mates until a marauder or a gunslinger or a shadowor a vanguard notices me and then it's release time.
The devs have built this system to be balanced with at least a couple of healers and guard all coordinating. At least it seems that's what they were going for. They want to promote teamplay. I get it. In my previously 'OP'ed state, without Vent or Mumble or a dedicated guard bot there was a small niche from which I could contribute. It doesn't feel like that's there anymore.
I'm hoping someone out there can show me how I am wrong and how to get back to feeling like more than dead weight.
