[Remove Guard from PvP?]

My buddy is a vanguard and I play a commando healer; in some PvP sessions the 2 of us can hold down a voidstar door by ourselves against 5-6 attackers; and then sometimes, only 3-4 attackers can take us out quickly.

 

it all comes down to strategy and the attackers party makeup. If they can stun me enough to where I can't get off heals to heal the tank, the tank goes down and then I'm a sitting duck. If people just concentrate on the tank and don't stun me, he and I can sit at that node the entire match and never die.

 

Guard isn't broken, it is a very necessary part of the tank/healer combination. Just use teamwork and tactics to defeat it, it isn't that hard really.

 

Or, you can always do what some select empire players on my server like to do:

- Start off PvP with full white resolve bars, and always have them up

- have immunity to stuns, always

- zip back and forth like a blur constantly

- float around above the ground

- <enter your favorite zomghackzorz here>

[Which advanced class is more in demand for raiding?]

I play a commando healer, and really don't have any issues healing in raids. there are aspects of healing where Commando isn't quite as good as Sage for group healing, as kolto bomb only hits 4 targets within a fairly small area. Single target healing, as well as healing using Hammer Shot can keep a typical group up no problem.

 

The one area I found difficult as commando healer is the descent during EV; during the Soa fight when you have to descend multiple times, the falls do a lot of damage, and a sage healer does much better keeping the entire party up than a commando healer can do. Can I do it? sure - I've done it before, but it is tough and takes party members being really helpful in staying in range etc.