Yeah, he's great. I'm still betting Gault would do more dps if geared, but currently my Blizz is geared with champion/columi and he's pretty tough.

We need viable AOE healing in PVE, not PVP. We're perfectly fine in PVP. Also, OT, 500k+ on a voidstar PUG match is easy to get. All these OH LOOK AT ME I CAN PUT MORE HEALING DONE posts are retarded.

We managed a 2 hour run, even with foreman respawning. Couldn't you just run past him (even aggroing him) and just enter the building? We did that and he reset aggro, we could continue just fine. Chest didn't appear on Kragga though.

?? Foreman Crusher hits like a wet noodle even during frenzy, we always 2 man heal it easily. Or am I missing something?

Try being a battlemaster. I've been BM since before 1.1 and I've only got 3 pieces >_>

Codex not updating on SOA is a bug. It only updates a normal SOA kill, there is no HM/NM entry for some reason.

We didn't get a chest either on our weekly clear on NM (Infact, we never got a chest on NM on Kragga). Kragga himself did drop the black mount, but so does SOA, he drops the mount and there's another one in a chest.

Yes, you generally want to prioritize crit and surge over power and alacrity. Alacrity is a good stat for pvp, but sadly the way our heals work is that if we don't crit, they heal for laughable amounts.

It makes every single merc healer scratch his head once he gets healing scan. It's like a rite of passage.

I personally just find them much more useful than the 16 more heat vented on vent heat and 2% healing done. 4% less damage is very useful on some bosses (like lightning balls on the SOA fights), and at last in my opinion, the 6% increased healing on yourself with a bonus on endurance outweighs 2% increased healing overall.

From healing as a merc on all current nightmare content experience, I can safely say that this is not the case. You'll be casing almost all the time, and learning to manage heat while doing so (throwing about 2 rapid shots every rapid scan for example, when healing scan is off CD and you don't have the heat reducing buff on healing scan) Also on healing intensive fights (Second boss/es in KP come to mind) you'll do well not to spam healing scan > rapid scan as you will overheat quickly even on SCG phase. You'd want to reach SCG phase as soon as possible, obviously, but throwing the occasional healing scan will simply not do in operations, you'll be using it a lot outside SCG. As for stat priority I do agree, we'll be focusing on crit much more than other stats (surge comes on the same mods as crit so they pretty much come together), you probably won't reach 50% buffed until you get fully modded rakata gear towards crit. And regarding your talent build, you can switch out Imp. Vent Heat for Powered Insulators, and Integrated Systems for Custom Enviro Suit.

You'll be using rapid scan A LOT more than you'll use healing scan when you're healing proper content.

We had both the red HM/NM mount drop from soa on nightmare, and the black HM/NM mount drop from kargga on nightmare on the same reset. Can anyone else confirm it might be 100% for the mount to drop on nightmare?

Tank scaling really does seem bad. We cleared everything on 8man nightmare with only one tank and 2 healers (yes, including the second boss in KP) Some fights don't even require 2 healers, and one will be more than enough.

And this is pre-1.1, so there are lowbies as well.

I'm using Blizz when I'm doing my dailies, I geared him up with columni/champion gear and he seems to be doing just fine. His dps might not be the best (which is why you might want to use a geared Gault), but he tanks perfectly even in 2 man groups, so throw in a power shot/explosive dart here and there and mobs should go down rather quickly.

I agree with those points. Especially the Kolto Missile issue, I mean why design an aoe heal that heals 3 targets (let alone sometimes healing full hp targets). I guess BW wanted mercs to be main tank healers, but the current design is making aoe healing completely useless as a merc, and truthfully, why bring a merc when you can bring another sorc that has a godly multi-target aoe?

I seem to be getting a similar bug when healing on my merc. Most of the time when I activate both at the same time (when they actually do react to both clicking, most of the time I actually have to click one and then the other so it will actually respond) and click my healing spell, it'll heal alright, most of the time anyway, but it will still do the cast bar which seems to lose the whole point of the spell.

And for Imperial, take a shuttle from the intefleet transport to Ziost Shadow and go to the mission deck, from there go straight up the ramp and to the right.

Just let us trade those useless tokens for commendations or something, even centurion is better than duplicates.

He might have just AoEd everything. I have every single quickslot filled but 2, so I wouldn't call it "easy to play" BH arsenal might be, but healer isn't easier than other classes. But yeah, not that the amount of filled quickslots is what makes a class harder. The BH hate has to stop, go hate on operatives/scoundrels for their insane burst damage. http://i42.tinypic.com/103u4r9.jpg

We didn't mindlessly click it, we followed the diagram and made no mistakes.

We had the same thing happen to us when attempting both hard and nightmare. It just locked on the 4th row. Does anyone have a conclusive answer as to what we're doing wrong (or is it a bug?) our strategy was just to run between the two pylons. We did figure out the actual order and did it in the least amount of "uses".

Yeah, it's pretty retarded that the only way for me to get the 5k heal medal is through the rakata medpac. But hey, more medals for the DPS/tank classes, because they are the ones that are always lacking them amirite

I reached a level 50 bountyhunter bodyguard. I've got 7.25% expertise, 33% damage reduction from armor. And an 50 operative can bring me to 50% while I'm in his stun. We don't always have all our CDs to pop, and unless we do, we're good as dead. How is that balanced.