Rofl mate, are you fucking clueless? Your so called "self heal" that you use after a fight, is the same fucking thing as eating in WoW except you don't have to actually have it in your inventory. That out of combat "heal" as you call it also lasts up to 10 seconds which is also considered down time i.e. wasted time which isn't prevented in this game either, only shortened down.

You may call it a heal as many times as you want, but it has the EXACT same function and effect that bread has in WoW. Now get over it, jesus christ.

This post was edited by eschutaz on Nov 3 2011 06:46pm

ok im not going to argue what is a heal and what is bread with you lets just agree to disagree the point im trying to get across here is that even if your one of the 2 roles that cant be a healer you will still have a form of heal.

"LF healer vs the Emperor"
- Sure I can join
"You're a jedi knight?"
- Yes but it's all good, I can heal OUT OF COMBAT!!


Let's just agree that it's an out of combat regeneration ability, by saying it's a heal you confuse people who actually wants to roll a healer.

I doubt that the heals will function like bread does in WoW because of the Biochem crew skill. You will be making "health pack" items to keep in your inventory. The heals will most likely be a reduced amount of a heal vs. a larger amount for those "healing" class. The devs have clearly stated that they intend on people being able to solo the story arc. This is why they gave healing abilities to all the classes. The game is more focused on story. Keep that in mind.

Your so called health pack items are pots. They got a minute or two cooldown. Once again it's like saying a Warrior in WoW can heal because he has a full inventory of healing pots.
Every class has an out of combat channeling regeneration ability which lasts for 10 seconds, it's clearly not a heal. It works EXACTLY like food in WoW. The story arc is easily soloable without being able to heal, don't worry about that.

all i got to say is Know Your Role its simple.

Changing the topic today the Agent character progression video was released and yesterday a dev spoke up and said they will be giving us the info on early access very soon. but as hinted before it wont be shorter then 2 days but it wont be weeks long hinting that we might get at least a full week. to me that will be cool i have alot of places to be x-mas week and i know i will be glued to my pc the 1st few days this game is out. and it was also hinted that Beta will re open next weekend for 1000's of players to test server load and the log in server. but again it was hinted they have not come out and said this is 4 shure yet

watch interviews newbs, tanks can get a companion that heals LOL

early game play info has been given! http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20111104-0

i dont like how they are doing this 1 bit i pre ordered to make shure i could play on day 1 now they pick who gets to play on day 1

Has nothing to do with anything. You can't use companions in operations/raids nor in warzones/battlegrounds.



The only new thing here is that it's a 5 day headstart. Everything else is old news. They are not choosing who can play first, it all depends on WHEN you re-deemed your pre-order code. It's perfectly reasonable they do this. The whole point of having an early start is to gradually fill the game with players to avoid a launch with crashes. If they let everyone join the first day of the early access they'd face the exact same problem.

I pre-ordered first hour it was possible so I'm pretty confident that I'll get to play on the 1st day of early access, although I'm no longer sure I'll be playing this game. I'll most likely follow it for a while before I decide.

Pots is short for options......not to many of those in a world that magic is not a primary force

My point is that due to the fact these medpacks and atoms will function much like bread/food from WoW; the healing abilities of each class will not function the same way. Why on earth would a dev gives us two options to heal the exact same way!?


The point at the story arc was to illustrate that the gambia designed for each character to be able to heal themselves regardless of need. Which makes the game more appealing to noobs.





I will have to catch this. Haven't had the chance to check the site yet.