Jedi Archive
Thread: Bac.. before I drop master healer..
Short and to the point: No, not in this development cycle and possibly for the life of the game
Mastery of Healer has only been good for one thing which was 1 vs. 1 pre-CU. If you were Imperial you never progressed up the ranks in FRS because what would normally cost you say 500 force in total heal would cost an addition 200+ per rank as one went up with whatever the old 4/x/x/x heals costing around 1k per use at chancellor. Total heal only worked best for oneself but was nice to have in a group but the force cost didn't warrant the use for others most of the time. In addition, pre-cu and even post-cu a good doc/cm build was far more desired and especially now since anybody can out heal a Master Healer with just 4/x/x/x in either Doctor or Combat Medic. Worst part of this is that it's only about 150 points less of healing from either Master Doctor or Combat Medic making mastery of these two professions pointless.
If it's of any consolation, Healer could always be given the Powers treatment in which the developers constantly "tweak" the system in order to bend over the discipline. Sure some things needed to be adjusted by adding stuff such as innate armor and force defenses making 80% of our attacks worthless in addition to adding a 15 second cool down on choke (remember a target cannot have more than one choke dot placed on them at a time) which is not only pointless but ludicrous; however, some would defend the devs by their doing so since choke is not included in a FOTM build.
Overall do what you think will be best for you at the time for there is absolutely no telling what the developers will do to this or any profession let alone the overall game. In addition, don't expect the correspondent to answer any way outside of what a developer would tell you and don't expect him to voice your concerns over an issue unless he's directly effected. Your best bet is to ask Tanks to see if he can bring this up to the developers in the correspondent forums as he's displayed competence in understanding issues over the Jedi discipline and more inclined to point them out than our very own correspondent.
Master Healer here...
I share the same sentiment. I am already looking at various templates that interest me for my token respec. The only thing that has stopped me is the new FRS system. Waiting to see what it will bring so I can get the most bang for my token respec buck. Tho I think FRS = canceled sony account.
Sad how "balance" changed adecently poweredprofession to utter disappointment.
My issue is that I really want to play healer...
I love to play support roles.
I was always a Cleric in D&D and I am often the medic/doctor in our pnp games.
So I cant simply start to regrind into something I do not feel for or want to play.
I still would like to know the same though... if there's no plans about fixing healer ever I would want to know as soon as possible, so I can decide if I want to go for something I do not want to play, or go to another game.
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