It's an option in the interface, just turn it off if you don't want to see the "text" oor numerical value of their health. If you don't want anyone else to see it, screw you. I like seeing what spell i need to cast to finish my enemy OR what size heal my allies need. And incidentally, I'd like to know when to leave a WZ before it starts or not. Basically, if there's more than two people <= 15k then I'm not wasting my time there.

Just left a WZ because it allowed us to start 6 vs 8. I know that rare and it's usually 7 vs 8, but I digress. No wait, that's my point....why are Warzones allowed to run without an 8 vs 8 at all times? It's actually the exception now to see an 8 vs 8 EZ rather than a 7 vs 8. Seems like 5-6 out of 10 WZ's I run nowadays are mismatched in terms of numbers. I know big picture, the fix would be to have cross-server warzone, but jeez, at least fix the code so it pulls an 8th from the Queue. I know for a fact that it's not doing that currently.

Wait, you want more of a gap in PVP at 50? I'd rather you leave then all the fresh 50's trying to gear up, to be honest. Take the time to raise an alt or two instead of relying on gear to give you the advantage.

If you are levelling with Mako healing you, just stack Aim. If you aren't running with her, you''re going to need the endurance. Typically I've always viewed the stuff with the high endurance as tanking gear (Powertech) and the high aim as dps gear.

Seriously - I would love to see cross-server rateds open up for all these hot-shot mercs to get humbled. Every good team on our server focuses merc's down the minute they spawn, they actually come off the healers and POW, the merc is down in 2-3 seconds with a few well timed smashes/force sweeps. The good teams do that because no amount of heals/shields can save a merc when there's two melee on him. Not even for 5 seconds (when they get to dual smash again for 10-14k). So regretting putting soooo much time into this toon just to hang him up due to sheer frustration. Sure with full War Hero I can put up great damage in pug's, but I want to do rateds and can't because I'm a liability with my merc. It sucks.

haha, you're trying to play arsenal in pvp. ROFL. Switch to pyro if you're going to continue playing that toon. But you're still going to drag your team down, just not as much.

Unfortunately both the classes you mentioned are what I have; both war hero's. And they both suck. Squishest classes in game. Best classes right now for Ranked are Maraauders & Powertechs and for healing it's Operatives.

spec for heals? I've got full War Hero gear...if I'm going to regear I'd reather be able to change my AC and then start the grind for proper gear for a decent class.

I am level 78 Valor Merc and level 68 Valor Sorcerer. The two most underpowered Advanced Classes possible and i'm friggen absolutely sick of it. I've put my time in, tried every possible spec, gear combo and strategy and it just doesn't compare to being a Powertech or Assasin in PVP. Even with 1.4, and the cheesy self heal for Sorc's and the Interrupt for Merc's, we are still at a severe disadvantage in Rankeds. I will pay $20 cash or 1 Million credits to let me change, since the Dev's stil can't seem to get it right. Please.

Yes it is. On mine now waitnig for the WZ queue to pop while drying my tears from the last game.

I was playing since day 1; I first rolled a Merc BH and loved it. Arsenal spec was fun, I knew my role and had a great time in PVP and was very effective as arsenal spec. I then rolled a Sorc Healer, got it to 50 and got nice and geared for PVP. I really liked the game until back to back nerf's on the BH and then found out how truly squishy i was as a sorc healer.. Quit playing as soon as D3 came out and got bored of that quickly. Came back to this game with the 1.3 free invite and got hooked again....only to be extremely frustrated that the two MAIN toons that I have are THE most gimp at their role. So, of course, I'm now levelling a Marauder (FOTM), since Bioware just seems like they'll never realize how much of an advantage melee has in PVP in this game. I love my BH but there's just soooo many things wrong with it. It needs a serious buff in creating space and/or creating interrupts. My Sorc Healer is close, I mean really close, to being on par with the other healers, just need some kind of "oh ****" button to prevent interrupts for like 15 seconds, or a bit stronger shield when self-applied. Or for goddsakes if you're not going to balance, at least give me a chance to switch advanced classes....I would farm for weeks in order to pay for that. Seriously, i would love to see the stuns nerf'd, for every 2min on my stun breaker, I get stunned AT LEAST a half-dozen times. At least!

Go Powertech. Period. I've had a merc arsenal since day one and they've been nerfed over and over. Powertech gives you the tanking queue that you're lookng for AND it owns in PVP...

I REALLY gave this patch a shot. Did about 50 wz's as arsenal, getting facerolled by melee constantly. Tried to stay at range at all times (when possible) and finally just gave up. As of a few hours ago I have respec'd to Pyro for the first time ever and won't look back until we get a fix. Sooooo frustrating i almost quit the game all together. Damn shame, I really loved the arsenal spec. (edit: btw - full BM gear and can report up to 7k crits on HSM also. full debuffs and then popping CD's for HSM. Problem is, it's very rare to get off enough TM's without getting interrupted. Melee singles you out nowadays and just pummels you in 3-4 hits)

well i just got steamrolled in a pug vs a full premade in huttball. they scored so quick, i got only 2 medals with 130k healing. Absolutey nothing to show for it other than complete ****in frustration with this ****ed up game.

Just tonight i have entered 4 out of 6 WZ's where we were losing and I was only able to race to 4 medals on 1 of them. It's a bunch of wasted time...first the queue which is taking upwards of 5min, and then around 1-4 minutes of getting my *** kicked by premades. Now I'm not even close to being an entitlement kiddie, i put my work in. Just give me something for my troubles. Seeing goose eggs across the top of the leader board is very frustrating (no cash, no comms, no valor, etc...) BTW - i'm a healer...so little slower getting the medals, unless i can snipe someone with low health.