Currently healing Bounty Hunters have to "charge up" to get their 30 applications of Supercharge before a pull (particularly in OPS) by two methods: 1) Rapid Shot (3 charges per shot) 2) Raid Scan (6 charges per scan) Both of these have a down side. Rapid Scan generates 25 heat so you have to "Recharge and Reload" to reduce this before a pull in a FP or OPS. Rapid Shot, although produces no heat, annoys the heck out of raid members especially if there are a couple of Merc healers. Therefore, to keep pre-pull preparation time the same so as not to give a quicker way of generating the supercharge: Why not make Recharge and Reload generate the 30 stacks of Supercharge over the duration of the channel.

The general direction of the game goes like this: 1) level to 50 doing normal mode flashpoints (FP). 2) at level 50 do normal mode FPs and start on hard mode FPs (Black Talon is a great one to start with). Also gear yourself though collecting the Columi and Tionese tokens dropped off bosses and trade them for better gear. Do the daily (repeatable) quests in Belsavis and Ilum to get Daily Commendations (just Google "daily commendations" for a list of repeatable quests. (these are for ear and implant upgrades). Buy gear off the GTN (I got most of my initial healing set from there very cheap which was good enough to heal Hard mode FPs). 3) Start on Operations 8-man EV and then KP. Then hard modes. Then nightmare modes up to 16 man. People tend to only run the higher level operations with their guild. If you are not in a guild and want to join an Operation (a so called "PuG" group - stands for Pickup Group) then you'll need better gear than is usually required as the people in the PuG will rely on you having better gear if you are lacking in experience - basically lowers the risk to the group (please note I'm avoiding the argument of skill > gear here for simplicity sake).