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Please help with picking classes for best healer/support.
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Hi all, I am starting to follow this game and the way the classes work seem to be a bit confusing from the normal type of mmos.
My question is what is the best healer and the best support/back up healer for both sides? I see the sage is best for jedi and I assume the sorc for sith? I do notice other classes have heals but I do not know which to pair with which really. Any help would be appriciated. Thank you!
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Thinking consular and inquisitor right?
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Bioware has stated that all healers are equals unless u choose to make them hybrid builds. So a smuggler can heal as well as the jedi counselor. They just heal diffrently the counselor has more straigh heals while smuggler has hots.
Same with sorcerer and the ia. They mirror the counselor and smuggler. Same with tanks they are all equal if specced right.
that is cause they want u to choose your class and ac based on yoru playstyle not story or role they fill.
i cant remember the exact ac for heals on the smuggler and ia but i do know there heals are suppose to be just as good as the counselor and inquisitor. They just work diffrently.
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What crawled up your butt lost. I am tired of the people pputting tor down but im gonna play it enjoy the stoory and ride and have alot of fun. ill stay in wow also.
there are alot of wow haters and tor haters on this stie but play the class u think ull like and enjoy it. Im with lost on that part. Each and every person should choose there own games.
If u like gw 2 good for u if u like tor so be it. Why people care what others wanna play is beyond me. Im gonna play tor and wow and i might try gw2 wheres its not a sub game i might not.
That said healers are suppose to be equal but u should choose who u wanna heal on based on the type of class uw anna play.
Its been my experance from what im alowd to say....that sage is the best light side heeler/off heeler and for dark the sorc is the matching class but honestly play what ever class you enjoy the most just have fun I dident find a shortage of any one class so the all work well.
I know my wife will play the main healer and I tend to like support/off heals so whatever is going to be the main spec people want in the group for main heal and off heal/support each side is what we would be interested in. Ty for the responses guys, still want a little more incite please.
You know... having no defined healer role could actually work in an mmo.
Any class could be as good a healer as the next, if specced right.
This might go some way to bringing back respect for those who choose to heal, rather than people pigeonholing you into a healer role because you choose a certain class.
Healing is largely a thankless role to play in today's mmo's and there's always the wise guy in chat who will whine because you choose to dps rather than heal in a particular encounter.
Play the game how you like, the idea is to enjoy your time out.
right now all we can really go on is what bioware has said, and that is that all healers can be main healers. will someone ultimately find the "the best one?" probably but they are designing it with the mind that they are all viable. however they will do healing differently, so if you prefer one style over another, you may want to choose based on that
the healers are(not any particular order):
Republic
class: Trooper Advanced class: Commando skill tree: Combat Medic
class: Smuggler AC: Scoundrel skill tree: Sawbones
Class: Consular AC: Sage skill tree: Seer
Empire
Class: Bounty Hunter AC: Mercenary skill tree: Bodyguard
class: Imperial Agent AC: Operative skill tree: Medic
class: Sith Inquisitor AC: sorcerer skill tree: Corruption
for more info you may want to look at these:
http://www.swtor.com/info/systems/advanced-classes
http://www.swtor.com/news/blog/20110408
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/367/feature/5273/Advanced-Classes-Interview.html
http://www.askajedi.com/2011/09/06/halls-of-healing-healing-in-the-galactic-republic/
http://www.askajedi.com/2011/09/21/halls-of-healing-healing-in-the-sith-empire/
hope some of this helps
Imo the Consular will be one of the "main healers" for Republic side.
As for Sith, i would tend to go for the Agent.
The Jedi Counselor/Sage was a lot of fun. Good healing, and good in combat.
I played the Sith Sorcerer in beta and did really well healing.
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