A couple of notes on your build: good luck finding the armoring for the bracers and belt. You can use Advanced Skill Armoring 25 instead and they will still be better than the unslotted bracers. Thank you though, I have edited the example and have added Advanced Skill Armoring 25 to the armoring section. Also, switch out the enhancement in your leggings for Advanced Quick Savant Enhancement 26. I prefer to have 1 Campaign Relic of Boundless Ages and 1 War Hero o Relic of Boundless Ages so that I have the on-use ability to replace an adrenal. Adrenals are pretty expensive, and I'm not a biochemist so I don't have a reusable one. However, the math will show that the War Hero Relic of Boundless Ages will give you more HPS than the Campaign Relic of Boundless Ages.

I added some healing tips to the end of the guide. I hope they help.

I suggest grabbing both of the 2 piece set bonuses over just grabbing one 4 piece set bonus. I explain in the spoiler why I only suggest grabbing the 2 piece set bonus for both the Campaign and War Hero set. They both have to do with one of your biggest heals, Kolto Cloud. The 4 piece set bonuses aren't as useful. The black hole implants have more cunning than the rakata pieces and that is why I suggest to take them over rakata. Yes, I think it's a good idea to recover the lost stats with enhancements.

Last updated 04/07/2014! Important updates: Updated for Patch 2.7. Added Crit v. Power analysis with math! Introduction Hello, my name is Brian and I main a sawbones scoundrel from the Jedi Covenant server named Bayani. I don't consider myself an amazing player, but I do know that I love being a healer and that I am absolutely in love with the scoundrel healer of The Old Republic and I've done my fair share of studying and learning. This guide is meant to offer a starting point for endgame scoundrels to work on their gear and attributes, as well as for people to learn better uses for their abilities. Much of what I learned is credited to the several Scoundrel healers I have had the pleasure of healing with, such as Inovisible, other useful guides (like Classicks's and KeyboardNinja's), and personal research. The Big Question - What Attributes Should I Stack? Cunning v. Endurance – Choose Cunning. Cunning will always benefit you more as a healer than Endurance. In operations, your tank should be taking the bulk of damage and there should be no reason for you to focus on survivability. Your healing and your tank’s ability should cover this. Power v. Critical Rating – The short answer: 100 to 500 will suffice depending on your surge and alacrity, after that just stack power. The long answer: Critical rating after 2.0 adds much less to your critical chance, but you will still see some benefit from critical healing for the earlier hundreds of critical chance. If you do prefer, you can stack some critical rating, and know that although its diminishing returns curve is not harsh at all, the tradeoff with power is harsh. For the most part, the more power you trade for critical rating the lower your healing effectiveness is. This is highly dependent on your surge rating, but in general the first few hundred points in critical rating is still useful for scoundrels. This is mainly due to three things: 1) Accomplished Sawbones in our skill tree gives a huge 30% critical healing bonus to Underworld Medicine, Kolto Pack, and Kolto Cloud -- your 3 biggest heals. 2) We benefit from diagnostic scan critical heals to gain back energy. 3) There is so much surge available with the current tier of gear that critical rating gains some value. The benefits of critical rating are really felt when burst healing someone from under 10% health to max. With crit and surge combined this is easier than just stacking power. I'll explain the math in the spoiler. Alacrity v. Surge – The short answer: Have alacrity at least 450 and surge at least 247. Do whatever after that. The long answer: Alacrity is a great stat to have now that it also reduces the global cooldown and speeds up energy regeneration. You'll need at least 440 alacrity to reduce the cast time of Kolto Pack to the global cooldown. You'll need 450 alacrity to use 11 global cooldowns before having to refresh Slow-release Medpac instead of 10 global cooldowns with alacrity below 450. Most guides will tell you to get alacrity down to 0, then stack surge after that. For people who care about diminishing returns, Surge sees heavy diminishing returns around 247. You can choose to stack alacrity after that, but most will still find the marginal benefits of critical healing bonus from surge more useful than the marginal benefits of alacrity. The scoundrel has many instant cast abilities so you can get away with less alacrity. I don't have any hard math on which is better. The spoiler below contains details about each attribute. Best-in-Slot Gear - Picking the Right Pieces Use this section to plan your gear. Ear Enforcer’s Ear - Critical and surge. Field Medic's Device - Critical and alacrity. Field Tech’s Device - Power and surge. Implants Enforcer's MK-X Package - Critical and surge. Field Medic's MK-V Package - Critical and surge. Field Medic's MK-X Package - Power and surge. Field Tech's MK-X Package - Critical and alacrity. Professional's MK-X Package - Power and alacrity. Relics There are 3 relics you mainly want to switch between depending on the fight and the situation. Relic of Focused Retribution – 30% chance to gain a 6 second primary stat (for us, Cunning) boost with a 20 second cooldown. Relic of Serendipitous Assault – 30% chance to gain a 6 second power boost with a 20 second cooldown. Relic of Boundless Ages – 30 second burst of power on a 2 minute cooldown. Color crystals Advanced ??? Hawkeye Crystal - Power. Advanced ??? Eviscerating Crystal - Critical. Barrel Advanced Skill Barrel. Armoring The best armorings you can find are Advanced Skill Armoring from set bonus gear for the PVE 2- and 4-piece Field Medic set bonuses. Mods All operations mods are bought using token drops from 55 Hard Mode operations. All commendations mods are bought using ultimate, elite, or basic commendations. All MK-2 mods are dropped. Advanced Artful Mod - Power. Advanced Keen Mod - Critical. Enhancements Advanced Quick Savant Enhancement - Power, alacrity. Advanced Adept Enhancement - Power, surge. Advanced Insight Enhancement - Critical, alacrity. Advanced Battle Enhancement - Critical, surge. Augments Advanced Overkill Augment 28 - Power. Stacking these will net you 2.6 more units of bonus healing but no boost to tech critical chance. Advanced Skill Augment 28 - Cunning. Stacking these will net you less bonus healing but a small 1.25% boost to tech critical chance, among other benefits from cunning. Skill Tree - I Hope You're Using Sawbones I've recently adopted Classicks's skill tree for more utility. I found Scramble to be very useful in many fights. If you'd like, the points in Scramble can be used in Smuggled Med Delivery instead so that you don't need to generate the upper hand before battle. A personal note, the point in Open Wound in the Dirty Fighting tree can go elsewhere. If you miss the healing bonus from Defense Screen's collapse, put that skill point in Med Screen in the sawbones tree. Also, Classicks notes that you can use the 2 points in Mortal Wound and Open Wound in the Dirty Fighting tree in Holdout Defense in the same tree instead for fights that require more movement, as you can use Blaster Whip not only to move faster but generate a stack of the upper hand as well. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#701MffrzGRRzcsZ0cZG0oz.3 Energy and Upper Hand - Our 2 Resources It's important to note that you have two resource mechanics rolling for you. The first is energy. You have a fixed amount of energy that regenerates at a different rate depending on how much you have. The more energy you have, the more you regenerate. Keeping your energy above 60 is very important. The upper hand is generated by certain abilities and will give you a bonus in healing (and damage) as well as give you access to abilities that consume stacks of the upper hand. Always have at least 1 stack of the upper hand active. Use Cool Head when your energy drops to critical levels. If I see my energy drop below 50, I usually just burn through abilities then pop Cool Head. Healing Abilities and When to Use Them Slow-release Medpac - SRM usually nets the highest amount of healing for scoundrel healers and is our bread and butter, signature, world famous healing ability. It's a very slow heal over time ability that can be stacked up to two times per person. SRM ticks 6 times, 3 seconds apart, and each tick has a 30% chance to grant the upper hand. This can only occur once every 9 seconds. The more people you have stacks of SRM on, the easier it is to maintain the upper hand. Keep 2 stacks refreshed on tanks, sage healers, and raid members that are expected to be taking a lot of damage to maintain the upper hand. There are also a few fights when you are expecting raid-wide damage and can easily prepare by going around and casting SRM on all raid members. Kolto Pack - KP is a heavily underrated ability that grants a moderate heal and a small heal over time afterwards. Please, do not remove KP from your quickbar. Although it is a resource hog costing an upper hand like EM and the same amount of energy as UM, it provides more healing than EM and has a lower cast time than UM. If you have at least 440 alacrity, the cast time of KP matched the GCD so it will effectively have no cast time at all. Why is KP so good? Not only does it provide a decent heal up front but the heal over time (and scoundrels are famous for their HOTs) is a very decent HOT and will help you help keep your tank topped off. If you have 2 or more stacks of the upper hand and over 80% energy, KP is the best ability to use. Kolto Cloud - KC is my favorite ability. It's an instant cast rapid heal over time that hits 4 targets, the one you use it on and 3 within 10 meters of that person. KC, when used properly, nets the second highest amount of healing for scoundrel healers. With talents, crits, and the PVE set bonus, this becomes a very powerful ability. This should always be used if you have the energy and there are 3 or more targets clumped together. Emergency Medpac - EM is an instant cast ability that consumes a stack of the upper hand. It doesn't consume a stack of the upper hand on a 10 second cooldown. Use when you have 2 or more stacks of the upper hand and less than 80% energy. Underworld Medicine - UM is your biggest heal and also is one of two heals that require a casting time. The casting time is long and easily interrupted. UM grants a stack of the upper hand. UM should be used when you have only 1 stack of the upper hand or an ally is missing a large chunk of health. Diagnostic Scan - DS is your only channeled heal, and is a very short, 2-second channel. With all the talents, lots of crit, and high surge, DS becomes an extremely nice, quick, and free heal that gives energy back. Use as soon as you dip below 60 energy. Triage - Triage is your cleanse. This is very important in certain fights. Please know when you need to use this. Keep track of debuffs on raid members and know which ones need to be cleansed and who needs to be cleansed first. How to Heal - Should I Follow a Rotation? If you want to maximize your effective healing per second, by all means follow a rotation. But if you want to be a truly effective healer, you need to be reactive and be able to adapt to the situation going at hand. I usually keep a few things in mind while healing to decide what heal is the best heal to use at the time. 1. If the target suddenly starts dropping health, use the largest possible heal with with respect to the amount of time you can estimate their health will drop. Use combos to consume all your upper hand liked EM + EM + KP then use UM. 2. Keep Slow-release Medpac refreshed on several targets (most importantly tanks, sage healers, and raid members expected to take heavy damage.) to maintain the upper hand. 3. When at 2 or 3 stacks of the upper hand and above 80% energy, use Kolto Pack if it isn't on cooldown. Use as often as possible. 4. Use Kolto Cloud at a lower priority than Kolto Pack. Use as long as you see at least 3 people near each other. This should be on cooldown unless you know you need to save it for when you need a big heal for multiple targets. 5. When at 2 or 3 stacks of the upper hand and less than 80% energy, use Emergency Medpac. 6. When at 1 stack of the upper hand, use Diagnostic Scan if you're low on energy or Underworld Medicine otherwise. 7. If someone is missing a huge chunk of health (30% or more), use Underworld Medicine then Emergency Medpac immediately afterward. I personally don't use a rotation but rather choose the best heal I can at the time, these are some rotations developed by Inovisible that are based heavily on how much alacrity you have. The rotation over 450 alacrity is VERY tight and will require a lot of practice to get all the heals in before you have to refresh SRMP. This rotation will yield really high effective healing per second parses, but we all know parsing isn't everything. Combat Abilities and When to Use Them Scamper - Use to change your position quickly. You can use it twice then it will have a 10 second coodlown. Dirty Kick - Use to stun single targets or to interrupt for 4 seconds. Doesn’t work on bosses. Distraction - Use to interrupt those abilities that need to be interrupted. Flash Grenade - A crowd control ability that will blind a target for 8 seconds or until they are attacked. Doesn’t work on bosses. Blaster Whip - A combat ability that generates a stack of the upper hand from melee range. If you're healing in melee range, this is a great way to generate the upper hand when you have no stacks and if you have the Holdout Defense talent in the Dirty Fighting tree, will grant you a small movement speed boost. Vital Shot - A combat ability that does damage over time and does a decent amount of damage especially with the Mortal Wound and Open wound talents. Use when you need to help out with DPS. XS Freighter Flyby - An area of effect ability damage over time ability that does a good amount of damage but takes a long time to cast and a chunk of energy. Really only used at the beginning of fights or when a lot of area of effect damage is needed in the fight. Back Blast - A combat ability that must be used from behind the target but does a good amount of damage. Use when you need to help out with DPS. Shoot First - Really situational. You need to be behind the target and in stealth to use this ability. If you're in position to use it in the beginning of the fight you can but you are better off using Flyby. Burst Cooldowns - Oh Sh*t, Why is Everyone's Health Dropping? Pugnacity is an ability that increases your alacrity and grants a stack of the upper hand. Use if you have 0 stacks of the upper hand or during a burst healing phase. Use a Triage Adrenal for dependable burst. The reusable version is fine, or you can go with the nano-infused version if you can afford to buy these. If you aren't a biochemist or you can't afford adrenals, you may want use a Relic of Boundless Ages for a burst cooldown that provides you with a significant power boost that will net a lot of healing if combined with Kolto Cloud and Slow-release Medpac. Defensive Cooldowns - Oh Sh*t, Why Is My Health Dropping? Surrender - Instantly lowers your threat by a moderate amount. This isn't really necessary if you have good tanks and damage dealers in your group. Use if you pick up aggro from the tanks. Defense Screen - Your main defensive cooldown. It absorbs a moderate amount of damage for 15 seconds. With med screen, will also increase healing received. It should be used when you're expecting a spike in damage for a short amount of time. It has a minute long cooldown. Dodge - A defensive cooldown that increases your chance to dodge melee and ranged attacks for 3 seconds. This can be used in stealth. This also works as a self cleanse so that you can use Triage on a tank or DPS instead. Use for self cleansing or right before you use disappearing act to stealth rez. Disappearing Act - This will drop all your threat and put you in stealth unless you have any abilities ticking at you. If you don't have any dots ticking on you, use this to drop back into stealth. Healing Tips - Because Sometimes Common Knowledge Isn't Very Common Depending on skill tree - Start in stealth If you take Smuggled Med Delivery in the sawbones tree instead of Scramble, starting in stealth will grants you 2 stacks of the upper hand immediately after you break out of it thanks to a talent in the skill tree. It’s no longer necessary to build up stacks of the upper hand before battle. Healing from melee range Healing from melee range isn't always a bad idea. In fact, being in melee range gives you another way to generate the upper hand using blaster whip. If you don't have to stand in range to avoid damage, or if you have a strong sage healer in the party to throw salvation on the melee group, healing in melee range is possible and probably a good idea. Being able to get a quick stack of the upper hand for an Emergency Medpac while you have no upper hand and when someone drops below 20% can prevent many wipes. Reviving in combat Besides your combat revive, you can also revive allies if you don't have a DOT ability ticking on you, you can drop all threat, you have no SRM running on anyone, and if you can avoid taking damage. A great combo is to dodge right before using disappearing act. Make sure you do this after your SRM has fallen off on all targets or you will be put back in combat. This will put you out of combat and will allow you to revive an ally without wasting your combat revive. Use extremely wisely, as you can be easily interrupted by an attack that you could have expected. If you are going to attempt a stealth rez, make sure you won't take any damage as this can easily be ruined. Cast cancelling Underworld Medicine/Kolto Pack If everyone is close to being topped off and you aren't pressed to heal, you can start casting Underworld Medicine/Kolto Pack then move or jump to cancel the cast if the target doesn't take any damage. This will save energy. Cast cancelling is also useful if an ally's health is suddenly dropping. Just jump or move to cancel your cast and throw an Emergency Medpac. Underworld medicine and Emergency Medpac combo The biggest heal you can dish out is a combination of Underworld Medicine and Emergency Medpac. Underworld medicine will immediately grant you stack of the upper hand that you instantly consume with Emergency Medpac. Approaching a tough pull You can build stacks of the upper hand before a big fight by casting Slow-release Medpac on multiple targets or casting Underworld Medicine and recovering energy with Diagnostic Scan. It’s also a good idea to get 2 stacks of it on the whole group when approaching tough pulls or for the initial phase of a boss fight. There are also tough sections of fights where you’ll know you need 2 stacks of the upper hand on all raid members in 8 man. Conclusion Please leave any feedback or anything you'd like me to add to this guide. I hope that you've learned at least a little bit more about the sawbones scoundrel by reading or skimming through this guide. ***

The Elegant Modified series are all level 50 orange gear. These schematics are obtained from Investigation missions. Maybe you can try those.

Hello! I'd like to know if this armor is available in custom variants. http://i46.tinypic.com/28h3cbo.jpg Even if it's in a different color, I'd like a set with this look. I've tried looking at trooper threads here to see everyone's armor but I can't seem to figure out what these are called.

Like the title says, buying TD-07A Blackguard Bracers. My in-game name is Bayani. Let me know if you're willing to part with these!

Can anyone tell me if there is a specific mob who will drop this, or do I just grind elite mobs on Coruscant? Thanks!

This is something I'm hoping someone would test out. My goal with this is to have more survivability and utility. I can't really test this because my Commando is only level 20. ^^; http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#800rfM0RdddkVZMIk0o.1

I'm wearing Muse Lower Robes, and they look like white pants. http://www.torhead.com/item/aaFMdIR/muse-lower-robe#screenshots I believe I did get them in Alderaan. I'm not sure.

Casual players play less but pay the exact same price that you "hardcore" gamers pay. In fact, I bet MOST of the ToR population is made up of casual gamers, not hardcore gamers. This is fact: casual gamers that are guild members won't be able to heal HM/NiM ops because they won't have the gear to help them. Force management will be so much harder with our force regeneration ability costing 11% of our health (after talents). Also, the longer cast time of our "big" heal is doubled, and our alternatives to that big heal are a smaller, very force-inefficient heal, and a HoT that requires us to channel--stopping the channel prematurely significantly reduces returns on force.

Please tell me if I understand this correctly: PVP Gear Centurion Gear Bought with centurion commendations. Centurion commendations drop from champion gear bags. Champion gear bags can be bought with warzone and mercenary commendations or by completing PVP daily/weekly missions. Champion Gear Bought with champion commendations. Champion commendations drop from champion gear bags. Champion gear bags can be bought with warzone and mercenary commendations or by completing PVP daily/weekly missions. Battlemaster Gear Bought with battlemaster commendations. Battlemaster commendations are from PvP matches above valor rank 60. PVE Gear Tionese Gear Obtained from mini bosses in hard-mode flashpoints or normal mode operations. Columi Gear Obtained from final bosses in hard-mode flashpoints or bosses in normal mode operations. Bought with daily commendations. Rakata Gear Obtained from hard-mode or nightmare-mode operations. Top-tier Mods Dropped in hard-mode and nightmare-mode ops.

1. What are the different tiers of PvP armor and how do you get them, i.e. what's the difference between champion, columi, and rakata gear? 2. What are the different tiers of PvE armor and how do you get them, i.e. armor dropped from nightmare ops versus armor from hard mode flashpoints? 3. Can you switch out mods from any of the top-tier PvP and PvE armor and stick them in orange custom gear? 4. Can't I just roll all custom gear and update them with the best mods? If so, where do you get top-tier mods? I know there are probably a ton of threads that address these things, but they all confused me and I don't have the clear answers. I'm almost level 50 so I want to make sure I'm working towards the right goals.

I wouldn't say the histeria is worthless. Because of the reactions to the change, a lot of people are developing new healing rotations and getting rid of old crutches that they relied on heavily. It's definitely making the forums more interesting and getting people who just mash-button healed to come in and pay attention.

What kind of skill tree am I looking at for 1.2 if I want to do PvE and PvP? Right now, my Seer is at the 44th level, and while I plan on being a mostly PvE player in endgame, I am currently specialized to heal in PvP matches, focusing on spreading out CC and delivering emergency healing to single targets (I decided not to pick up Salvation). This is my current build: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#600GhMRrdddMZf00M.1 Also, what direction should I go with gear? Do I get crafted gear and load them with level 50 epic mods? I have no idea how gear works at Level 50, but right now I just switch out mods on orange gear to upgrade.

This post should be stickied.

Qyzen is a great companion for Sages. As heals or ranged DPS, not only does he soak up damage, but he keeps his threat up as well. Just send him in to attack first before you do. I have never had problems with Qyzen not leaping. He's leaped plenty as my companion.

I've only played Sith Warrior and Jedi Consular past the first chapter. The Sith Warrior story was great, in my opinion, especially since I was leaning towards the light side. I honestly felt some moments pretty deeply. Jedi Consular's first chapter... was pretty damn boring. I'm only hoping it gets better. The whole time I've felt like a tool.

Is there a full list of all working codex entries? I know there are some that are or nearly impossible to get. I'm trying to find a definitive guide on completing the codex as a Jedi Consular.

I kept W and S the same but switched A and D to strafe left and right, respectively. Q - Mind Snap (Interrupt) - Nice for interrupting channels E - Force Armor (Bubble) - Quick access to my favorite "heal" R - Force Stun (Stun) - Quick access to stun T - Force Quake (AoE) Y - Force Lift (CC) F - Rejuv (Little HoT) - Quick access for conveyance G - Deliverance (Big Heal) - Bread & butter, very easy to access H - Force Speed (Run) - Far reach for sprinting V - Noble Sacrifice (Force regen) B - Healing Trance (Big HoT) Z- Force Slow X - Cloud Mind (Remove aggro) C - Restoration (Cleanse) 1 - Weaken Mind (DoT) 2 - Mind Crush (DoT 2) 3 - Disturbance 4 - Telekinetic Throw 5 - Force Wave 6 - Force Potency (for crits) This works for me. I have all my important heals accessible by my index finger and most of my CC's close to my movement keys. I leave my DPS on the top row of the keyboard.

I'd like this as well.

I'm a player from the server Axial Park. It seems like we are a very tiny group of people in this server. We need people to please come and play with us! If you're tired of long queue times, moving to a small server like Axial Park might do you some good. There is presently hardly any economy, especially if you try to sell crafting materials. There are only a few key suppliers and I'd really like this server to grow.

The text is way too small for me to read. I need to be able to adjust this.