What does one cast do? Is anyone really complaining about not being able to get a single cast off?

Been there, done that ...and got the T-shirt, and still out healed everyone else by a long shot. The reason a sorcerer lacks in survivability more than anything is survivability and susceptibility to interrupts. This is why my operative is vastly better.

Re-rolling isn't an option for me. I have done everything I can to continue playing this game at least until GW2 releases. Unfortunately, sitting around for 30 minutes without a queue pop has ruined that. I log in and want to play ...not sit around at fleet.

I take jokes just fine. You weren't joking, you were blatantly trolling. I get it and am guilty of it myself, but this game is on a death spiral and it requires some seriousness rather than random crap clouding up the issues.

Or in the case of sorcerers, actually being able to cast a heal even if the survive long enough to.

Come on man, show a little maturity instead of being silly. I played all three healing classes and I can tell you hands down that there is a HUGE difference between them. The skill level required to kill my operative is light years beyond what it takes to kill my sorcerer. It has nothing to do with any of the garbage you spewed above and EVERYTHING to do with susceptibility to interrupts.

I am not disagreeing with what you are saying here.... I agree with it. I do think you aren't looking at the big picture of what I posted in CONTEXT of why I posted it.

It looks like you need to read what I wrote again, because you missed it.

The reason why they aren't improving open world PvP is because the game engine cannot currently handle it. Any ideas to improve the content there is just wasted at the moment.

1. This isn't a 1v1 game, so saying most of what you did is pointless to begin with. 2. Not all healers are created equally. I could care less what DPS you play, you will not kill my operative 1v1, ever. My sorcerer though, you can kill him easily if you know what to interrupt. 3. Since this isn't a 1v1 game, I would like to point out that viability in competitive and group play is completely independent from 1v1 viability. My operative excels across the board. 1v1 and NvN regardless of whether they are competitive or not because I am mobile and not overly susceptible to interrupting.

No, healing for sorcerers is where 'he' thinks it should be based off of metrics. This is grossly incorrect because you cannot use metrics to determine the viability of a class or its enjoyability. All you can really prove is that the class is adequate at putting out numbers on average, and I don't think anyone really disputes that. The problem with sorc/sage healers is that they are extremely susceptible to interrupts. Combine that with their general squishiness, and it makes for a very un-fun class to play in anything resembling an even remotely competitive game. They sure can put up numbers though against random bad players that don't know how to use interrupts and what to interrupt.

This game is anything but good. Calling it better than a non MMO is silly and calling it better than a MMO that hasnt even released yet is equally silly.

Sure, but what most people seem to be 'upset' about is paying for a game they can't play because the pvp queue times are so horrible that they end up sitting around doing nothing for far too long. Sure they have the option to stop paying, but if they are on the forums, then they still have paid for play time they cant utilize to their satisfaction.

If you thought sorc/sage healers were OP before 1.2 you obviously had no clue how to use interrupts and what to interrupts. They were laughably easy to shut down.

This is true.

*sigh* ...explains why some people were so easy to farm

Of course BW has failed so hard at keeping the pvp community interested, that I am having serious doubts that this game will ever get to that level of competitiveness.

Actually, it is better to kite dps away from the other team's healers in a guild group / premade. This lets YOUR dps burn them down faster. That is very very basic PvP strategy. Doesnt work so well with clueless puggers, but if you want to balance the game around clueless puggers, then you will have to admit sage/sorc healers need help there because without help they are screwed. We invented the term back in the old days of DAOC .... overextending the dps.

Apparently BW finds my posts hit a little too close to home. Every single post of my in this thread and all the posts of the people who quoted me were deleted. Kind of sad really that they would stoop to that, because I didn't violate TOS with any of the posts.

To be fair and more accurate, it would have to be anyone involved with running a team at any point, because the 'dev' team isn't just upper management. We could add Jordan, Johnson, Kareem, and others to Bird, etc. for their involvement as coaches, execs, etc. Jordan, Johnson, Kareem, Bird, Bill Russel in there prime vs. Kobe, Wade, Lebron, Howard, and Durant..... for example. Hell of a game imo.

I will be happy to provide my services as a healer for this. Given how clueless the devs seem about the mechanics of their own game in relation to how it actually plays out (I am looking at YOU James), it would be a slaughter. Of course if we threw James on a sorc/sage healer, it would most likely get my operative nerfed when I out heal him 5 to 1

See you -are- right, but at the same time you -are- wrong. A sorc should do what you mentioned. The problem is that it is mutually exclusive with actually putting out viable healing. That is the difference between a sorc and my operative. I can kite circles around pillars and run around the entire fight and STILL heal at the same time. A sorc cannot.

Silly thing to say. I am one of the best sorc healers in the game when I choose to play the toon. I no longer chose to play it though because my operative is far far far more capable against competent enemies and vastly more fun in general. Sure, I can log my sorcerer in and put up stupid numbers against random bad players and pugs... that is irrelevant to what people are complaining about. I can put up stupid numbers with -any- class against bad players.

Stop making random crap up. That was never possible before 1.2 unless their was a litter of newborn kittens playing the 5 enemy toons. If you want to have a real discussion and add something to the topic, gross exaggeration isn't cutting it.

You DO have a valid point that will get ignored.