With the new server merges does anyone know if there's an imbalance between the population of Empire/Repub? I've had an interest in playing republic, but i remember Republic always seemed a lot less populated.

It will probably take less than a month, i haven't even been playing that much due to studying for exams but basically in one week i have half of my BM gear and now they made the change so you get even more when you lose. I lost today and got about 95 comms, it really shouldn't be hard for people to get full BM in 2 weeks.

I definitely think its more complicated than people are making it out to be. It shouldn't be how many people, but how much HPS VS DPS. In addition to that, people are forgetting that there's such thing as line of sighting and interrupting meaning that the dps's up time has to be taken into account too. There's no such thing as a perfect balance and there probably is never going to be. I know for a fact i play an operative healer and one Sent/Mara can take me down but ONLY if i stand there and let him beat on me. But obviously i'm not going to do that, i'll move around stun him, cc him etc. In short i think the answer to this is that there isn't a certain requirement of people that is needed to take down a healer. There are many different aspects that should be taken into account, like the environment, skill, gear. However If i had to choose a certain number of people required to kill a GOOD healer i would say 1.5-2, 1.5 meaning one dedicated and someone throwing occasional damage out. P.S. i have no trouble healing in games i think people make healers out to be far more squishy than they are. If you're not moving and taking damage to the face you should probably expect to die. Especially if you're not using the skills that you're given, like CC's and Knock backs. For the record im an operative healer who averages about 350-500k a game. I have 900+ Expertise and i'm mostly in BM Gear. I can usually survive with 2-3 people on me if i play well and if I'm lucky i can toss out an occasional heal. We may not all be at 100% but i can still prolong there death.