In most cases it cant really be two bubbles back to back. Once you have a bubble casted on you, for 20 seconds you cant get another bubble from -ANY- sorcerer. PvP gear set reduces this to 17 seconds.

Out of the box ....it puts a debuff on you that prevents you from having another shield from ANY sorcerer for 20 seconds. I suppose you knew that?

Rep zerg camped the imp respawn all night last night on my server.

Sadly you cant spec to the top of all three trees at the same time. You are completley ignorant of the class.

If you are a sorcerer specced for the best heals, you do almost no damage and can only keep yourself alive against a competent equally dps that knows how to use interrupts if and ONLY if another player is assisting you via peeling/guard/taunt/etc... or against rdps by breaking LOS. In addition, if you are a heal specced sorcerer ...you dont have the 'blindness' ability when your shield ends and you don't have the root on knockback. You also dont have the top tier ability that is currently ignoring resolve in regards to its stun. Also, as a tank ...you are not a DPS spec. A DPS can break the bubble with a single hit ...hell, half the time the bubble gets broken and you still take 1k+ damage from the hit. Tell me exactly how a heal spec sorcerer is OP when our biggest heal lands for roughly the same as a hit from a DPS, but takes twice as long to get off due to cast time? Not to mention the fact that if you were even semi competent, you could interrupt the heals and lock the ability out......

That is a heal spec ability and sorcerer healers, if anything, are grossly underpowered compared to the tools they have to keep people alive and the amount of damage other classes/specs are capable of. Do you also have any idea how the shield work? Once you cast a shield on someone, you cant cast it on them again for 20 seconds (17 with set bonus). It only mitigates the damage equal to approximately one heal as well. Also, you cant spam force lightning to regain force as a heal spec sorcerer. In order for us to regain force, we typically have to break combat in seethe. We do have an ability to get a free consumption after an inervate, but it only returns slightly more force than what you spent to beging with using the inervate ...at the cost of a channel + a gcd. Please, before you spew nonsense, at least have an understanding of what you are talking about.

So all the idiots crying about the aoe knockback root..... just move it to high in the healing tree and the problem is solved. It makes no sense that the sorcerers sacrificing everything to provide group suport in the form of healing have the worst defenses. We already cant do anything remotely close to real damage.

I did the reverse .... 550k heals and 100k damage. Not too hard in voidstars. Of course the damage was worthless as it was mainly splashing AE around by neccessity due to how badly the medal system ****s healers, but um yeah.

As a heal spec sorcerer, I feel grossly underpowered compared to every other mmo I have played going back a decade. I can see how the dps specs can be OP due to the fact that you get better defensives and actually have the damage to kill people, but running as a pure healer is definitely not OP. Sure a few noobs complain about heal spec combined with guard, but you arent facing one person then ...you are facing two working together.

You need to reevaluate your opinions. Perhaps define the diference between competent and good.

Healers seem to get shafted in the MVP department in pugs. Honestly though, what is being done for the most part if MVP trading. People that queue with each other make sure each one of them gets the MVP votes.....

I have seen 500k single target from a player and 800k splashing ae in a voidstar.

That sadly is not entirely true. Sure it is mostly true, but there are extremely competitive matches where I as a healer cannot afford to waste a single global cool down splashing dps around or someone dies. If there is someone helping me heal, well thats a different situation.

It was an extremely competitive match. You cant get those numbers in lopsided fights.

Umm grats? Voidstar is easy to put up damage and healing numbers in. I have done 300k in a voidstar as a full heal spec sorc (and 300k healing) because we had a second healer and I just force stormed in between heals. When nobody is really dying in 2 seconds, it is easy to inflate numbers.

On a side note, I have one piece of gear with expertise on it. My life expectancy against an operative is 2 seconds roughly because I wont live past the stun if they are geared. Against most other players with expertise, my life expectancy is only a few seconds longer. Anyone that is halfway decent at this game, knows to use interrupts on healers ...it is the interrupts and resulting lockout that kills us easily. Yes ...I will surivive a hell of alot more once I get gear. This is in response to the clueless person posting previously that said 4 people couldnt kill a sorc with no expertise.

I was under constant pressure to keep people alive so never had a chance to splash people with damage in a voidstar. 620k healing 12k damage (all from CC) 4 kills 4 medals 0 MVP votes. If that doesnt cry flawed system, then you are pretty ignorant. I was THE reason we won the match.

Take note on what I actually wrote, not what you think I wrote. Yes a good healer can make a difference. No denying that as I am pretty sure the 500k+ in healing I can spit out in warfronts make a difference.

Maybe because some people started late, were gone for the holidays, and have more of a life than you?

If they nerf sorcerer healing at all, it will go from being almost no reason to running heal spec to NO reason at all to. Healers in swtor have the least amount of tools available to them to keep people alive in any mmo I have played to date, dating back to the launch of DAOC. In PvP that is .... I could care less about mindless PvE encounters.

COmbat medic isnt a sorcerer. Irrelevant

In order for a healer to be worth running in PvP you have to be able to negate 1 dps completely even to break even. In other words, a healer using all his/her tools and doing nothing but healing should be at a stand still with an equally skilled/ranked/geared dps utilizing all of theres, including interrupts. From a sorcerer perspective, this quite simply isnt the case at the moment.