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.

Every class has an important role they can play in Huttball. You just need to figure yours out, apparently.

I friggen love Huttball. Can't get enough of it. As a merc, I've carved out my role of keeping the upper levels clear of the opposing team. They get on my turf and they either get booted off with jet pack & rocket punch...stunned in the fire or just plain killed. If i have our side cleared, then i move to their side and do the same. I know I drive people nuts with my pushbacks, but that's the whole point of it. Stay off my turf and stay away from my ball carrier and we're good, see?

I've found when healing that the lack of medals are 'usually' made up for with a WIN (bonus valor) AND MVP votes (more bonus valor). Don't be so damn short-sighted OP.

Pubs do just fine on my server. I solo and group queue and they win 9 out of 10, but they almsot always run premades. They have no problems with Ilum either....couldn't even take central base at all today because they had it on lockdown. I'm on Infinite Empire btw.

yeah the best guy on my server stealths away with full health after destroying me. I know there's a skill/gear gap (i'm only level 59 valor and he's full bm) but still, i'd love to at least make it a challenge for him. it's quite embarrassing to be so ****in helpless against another class. I do fine 1v1 against other classes, but this **** is making me wanna quit the game. And the heals instead of white damage makes sense, i'll try that next time. Bacially just survive the burst?

Sincerely. As an Arsenal Merc - they've definitely turned out to be the rock to my scissors. Between the stuns & interrupts I can barely get any kind of flow going. Here's a few things I've been doing, but I would love to get any tips/tricks that might help me survive. BTW - I'm in full Champion gear with Crit/Surge in every slot possible. -I'm very liberal with stealth scans, I try to drop them a LOT -Stutter Casts to provoke the interrupt -obviousl jet boost to get range -rocket punch when possible. -explosive dart to keep them out of stealth (the only timer dot we have) -and of course rapid shots when I'm interrupted -i always save my power surge (no cast time) CD for facing operatives to avoid the interrupt any other tips?

I read most of this rubbish and yeah, all great debates. But after I got about 3 pages and NO ONE had mentioned the fact that we have a system that allows pre-mades vs pugs, i had to make a post. That's the major concern i have with scaring away the casuals from PVP. That and the fact that you had a bunch of hardcores shooting straight to 50 only to farm lower levels for the first 3-4 weeks, getting easy BM gear. Now when they aren't levelling alts, they are getting their kicks farming fresh 50's and carrying their guildies. Just persevere and you'll be more skilled in the long run after having to deal with such adversities.

First off, here's my current situation: Toons: Level 50 BH Centurion Merc (dps) / Level 16 Sith Sorcerer (heals) Gear: AMD Phenom II x4 970 (3.50 GHz) / 4gb RAM / ATI Radeon 6670 / Windows 7 / Dual LCD High Priority Issues: Random crashes to desktop - joining a WZ, entering an FP, starting a quest dialogue, entering a room that automatically starts a dialogue and even just standing there reading mail. This happens way too often and have tried everything I’ve come across both within the forums and outside of the forums to completely fix this from my end however I have minimized the occurences. Loading screens take way too long – I’ve gotten booted out of WZ’s before I’ve even finished loading. I’ve missed tons of WZ queues because I hadn’t even finished loading from leaving the last WZ. The screens take so long it makes me not want to travel to other planets because of the abundance of load screens it takes…loading docks, orbital stations, shuttles, etc. As a result of this, it seems everyone is just congregating on the Imprerial Fleet and lagging it to all hell. Imperial Fleet - We need more than one congregation point for folks to talk in one General channel. Fleet is already becoming intolerable. Ability Delays – just horrible, every single ability tends to lag for unknown reasons. Tracer Missle LAG, stun shot lag, Unload lag…in fact often Unload shows it’s channeling but it isn’t firing and when I kill someone with it I just keep shooting them until I use another ability… I’ve now played a sorcerer up to level 16 and found the same issues with all abilities. Dual Spec Implementation– I want to be able to heal in PVE and kill in PVP and NOT have to respec and reconfigure toolbars every time…oh and change all my gear... Gear Swap set up – I need the option of having one click gear sets. PVP dps set, PVP heal set, PVE dps, etc… Champion Bags – this drives me nuts…I’ve only got 6 Champion pieces now and have actually gotten 5 separate Main Hand tokens…the randomness is just weird, why the hell is this set up this way? I just don’t get it UI Issues -Would like to see it scalable (just watched the video and it looks like good stuff is coming, thank you!). -Would like to see a combat log so I can see what the hell killed me and learn more about the classes/npc’s I’m facing. -Would like to see some type of DPS meter so I can not only compare myself to others in the group, but also so I can work on different rotations and maximize my performance by seeing real results. -Target of Target – there’s several reasons for this, we need to be able to see the target of our target, not just be able to target there target. -a Threat meter - even though I've got an aggro dump as A BH and react quickly with it, I'd like to know when I'm approaching the point of no return...especially when i'm on cooldown with that talent. All that being said, I'm definitely not giving up on this game any time soon. There are TOO many good things about the game to keep me hooked for quite some time. However, this ability delay thing has already thoroughly pissed me off on several occassions and there's gonna be a point where I just say screw it. This is the deal breaker issue for me...but I've got enough other stuff to do in the meantime while this, HOPEFULLY, gets addressed.

This is great and how it SHOULD be. Watched for a few minutes and thought "working as intended". Good stuff. Unfortunately, it may be the ONLY server working this way.

I like it the way it is right now to be honest. Last night I literally stuck through 11 losses in a row to the same fully geared Lvl 50 premades on my server. Knowing that I'm able to leave and take my chances on joining a little more competitive WZ is reassuring. Of course our server may be a little different, we had a republic guild race to 50 and have been farming low levels for weeks and have now completely outgeared everyone else on the server. In the future when 50's have their own bracket...sure I'd be down with this suggestion.