SWTOR 3.0 Operative Medicine Healing Guide by Orderken

SWTOR 3.0 Operative Medicine Healing Guide written by Orderken of Pot5.

Contents

• 1 Intro to 3.0 Operative Healing
  • 1.1 Utilities
  • 1.2 Gear
• 2 Rotation Guidelines
• 3 Energy & Tactical Advantage
  • 3.1 Energy Management
  • 3.2 Tactical Advantage
• 4 Heals for a Single Ally
• 5 Heals for Multiple Allies
• 6 The “Stealth Rez”
• 7 Dealing Damage
• 8 Cooldowns
• 9 Other Abilities
• 10 Maximizing Your Healing Performance
• 11 Healing Model Spreadsheet
• 12 About the Author

Intro to 3.0 Operative Healing

For Ravagers or Temple of Sacrifice on Hard Mode, Operative is a suitable healing class. Its healing output is the highest, but it has major weaknesses.

1. Handling high damage to a single ally: Fine if this ally has 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe. Weak if this ally doesn’t. In either case, Mercenary and Sorcerer are ahead.
2. Handling high damage to multiple allies: Strong. Mercenary is close. Sorcerer is behind.
3. Resource management: Fine. Like an Operative, a Mercenary must manage resources, and resources limit healing. A Sorcerer’s resource management is trivial and doesn’t limit healing.
4. Synergy with co-healer’s class: Fine. Pairs well with Mercenary or Sorcerer, but Operative-Operative is the weakest pairing.
5. Mobility: Fine. Mercenary is close. A Sorcerer’s mobility is incredible.
6. Handling mechanics: Fine. Sorcerer is close. Mercenary is far ahead, because Hydraulic Overrides outshines every personal utility available to Sorcerer or Operative.
7. Passive damage reduction: Strong. Mercenary is close. Sorcerer is behind, having the lowest Armor and lacking a Utility that increases damage reduction for all area effects by 30%.
8. Dealing damage in the healing Discipline: Weak. Sorcerer and Mercenary are far ahead.

Utilities

Skillful

• Nanotech Suit: Reduces damage taken from area effects by 30%.
• Chem-resistant Inlays: Increases damage reduction by 5%.
• Infiltrator: Increases movement speed by 15% and effective stealth level by 3.

Masterful

• Med Shield: Shield Probe heals you for 5% of your maximum health when it ends.
• Endorphin Rush: Adrenaline Probe recharges an additional 15 Energy immediately.

Heroic

• Evasive Imperative: At most once every 1.5 seconds, being attacked reduces any remaining cooldown of Evasion by 3 seconds.
• Revitalizers: Stim Boost grants Revitalizers for 15 seconds. Revitalizers heals you for 5% of your maximum health every third second and increases damage reduction by 20%.
• Augmented Shields: Increases the amount of damage that Shield Probe can absorb by 30%.
• Escape Plan: Reduces the cooldown of Shield Probe by 5 seconds, Escape by 30 seconds, and Infiltrate by 60 seconds.

In general, Augmented Shields>Escape Plan>Revitalizers. If a fight, such as Bulo, has adds with Ranged or Melee attacks (i.e., white damage), consider Evasive Imperative.

Gear

Optimal gear for a typical Operative healer follows. For further discussion, or if you wish to optimize gear for your healing, see Section “Theory and Interactive Model”.

• Set Bonus: SOR 4-Piece Field Medic’s and Dread Master 2-Piece Field Medic’s.
• The SOR 6-Piece reduces the cooldown of Kolto Waves from 10 seconds to 9 seconds. This Set Bonus is almost always worthless, because it’s unlikely to increase the number of times that you activate Kolto Waves.
• The Dread Master 2-Piece increases the healing done by Recuperative Nanotech by 15%. This Set Bonus is more valuable than any other available to an Operative healer.
• Having two pre-SOR Armorings sacrifices Cunning, Endurance, and Armor, but is well worth it.
• Having two Dread Master rather than Revanite Armorings increases your expected total healing about 3.3%. Even having two Arkanian rather than Revanite Armorings increases your expected total healing about 2.8%.
• To minimize Armor lost, prefer Hands and Feet for the pre-SOR 2-Piece
• Augments: Power > Cunning, but the difference is small (0.125% for all 14).
• Power versus Critical
• With 14 Power Augments, the amount of Critical that maximizes expected healing is about 371 in Resurrected gear or 435 in Revanite gear.
• With 14Cunning Augments, the amount of Critical that maximizes expected healing is about 353in Resurrected gear or 417in Revanite gear.
• Alacrity versus Surge: Among your Ear, Implants, and Enhancements, 3 have Surge and 7 have Alacrity.
• Relics: Among relics of the same tier, Serendipitous Assault >= Focused Retribution > any other.
• Accuracy: None. Accuracy has no effect on healing an ally.

Rotation Guidelines

In combat, no rotation is ideal for long. A healer’s job is triage. Decide who most needs your next heal by anticipating damage and cooperating with your co-healer.Guidelines for choosing your next ability follow.

1. Maintain 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe on each tank at all times.
   • In general, refresh each tank’s Kolto Probe with Surgical Probe.
     • Surgical Probe costs half as much Energy as Kolto Probe.
     • Surgical Probe provides additional healing.
     • Spending a Tactical Advantage on Surgical Probe helps you maintain Tactical Medicine, which buffs your healing done by 3% for 6 seconds.
   • Until you can rely on your sense of Kolto Probe’s duration, you may wish to set a tank as your Focus Target.
2. Use Kolto Infusion almost on cooldown and almost always on a tank.
   • Including its HOT, it heals for about the same amount as a Kolto Injection that crits.
   • Its HOT is unlikely to overheal an ally taking frequent damage.
   • Spending a Tactical Advantage on Kolto Infusion helps you maintain Tactical Medicine.
3. Use Recuperative Nanotech almost on cooldown.
   • Prefer to have at least one tank within range of each Recuperative Nanotech.
     • A HOT is unlikely to overheal an ally taking frequent damage.
     • Recuperative Nanotech grants Invigorated, which increases healing received by 3%. This buff is more valuable for tanks than non-tanks.
     • Unless your entire group stacks, which is uncommon, reaching a tank sacrifices less of Recuperative Nanotech’s potential healing than Kolto Waves’.
   • Plan ahead to reach close to 4 allies with Recuperative Nanotech. Most often, this means targeting
     • a melee DPS or
     • yourself, after positioning yourself to be its hub.
4. Burst healing a single ally
   • An ally with 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe
     • In general, Kolto Injection + Surgical Probe. Repeat if necessary.
     • If he might die before Kolto Injection finishes, Surgical Probe until this isn’t the case.
     • If he’s a tank, substitute Kolto Infusion for Kolto Injection unless you have Field Medic’s Critical Bonus.
   • An ally with exactly 1 stack of your Kolto Probe.
     • If you have Field Medic’s Critical Bonus, Kolto Injection.
     • Otherwise, Kolto Probe + steps for an ally with 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe.
   • An ally without your Kolto Probe.
     • In general, Kolto Injection.
     • If he might die before Kolto Injection finishes, Surgical Probe. You’re ill-equipped to assist this ally. Your co-healer must assist immediately.
   • Reserve Stim Boost for burst healing a single ally, especially one without 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe.
5. In general, use Surgical Probe immediately after Kolto Injection.
   • This is sensible resource management.
     • Kolto Injection grants 1 charge of Tactical Advantage.
     • Using Surgical Probe with 65 or higher Energy allows you to regain up to half of the net Energy cost of Kolto Injection.
   • If the ally whom you healed with Kolto Injection has 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe, Kolto Injection + Surgical Probe is good burst.
   • If the ally whom you healed with Kolto Injection doesn’t have 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe, Surgical Probe a tank who’s not at full health and has 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe.
6. Kolto Waves is situational.
   • Kolto Waves is a terrible use of time and Energy unless it heals at least two allies. Furthermore, unless it heals at least three, prefer to spread, stack, or refresh Kolto Probe instead
   • Kolto Waves versus Recuperative Nanotech
     • You can use both, rather than just one. For example, if melee (including tanks) have Recuperative Nanotech, look for an opportunity to Kolto Waves ranged (including healers).
     • Prefer Kolto Waves if your group is stacked or burst matters. For example, Kolto Waves > Recuperative Nanotech for topping up allies before the end of Underlurker’s Cross.
     • Though Recuperative Nanotech heals much slower than Kolto Waves, it often provides greater total healing.
       • If Recuperative Nanotech heals 4, Kolto Waves must heal 6 with every wave to match its total healing
       • If Recuperative Nanotech heals 3 or 4, Kolto Waves can’t match its total healing relative to activation time (HPCT).
7. With your ample remaining time, spread, stack, or refresh Kolto Probe among non-tanks.
   • Kolto Probe is ideal for topping up non-tanks.
   • Kolto Probe prepares non-tanks for imminent AOE damage.
   • Kolto Probe allows you to invest “excess”Energy (i.e., passive regeneration that would be lost, because you can’t exceed 100 Energy).
   • Among non-tanks, prioritize those whom you expect to
     • take damage more times than other non-tanks (e.g., the DPS kiting Raptus during Dread Council),
     • take more damage than other non-tanks (e.g., a Sorcerer, who has Light Armor and no Utility to reduce all AOE damage by 30%), or
     • be out of your range more often than other non-tanks.

The Story-Mode Hero

This approach’s one and only goal is maximizing HPS. In Revanite gear, it can sustain up to 13k HPS without cooldowns.It’s appropriate from time to time, such as for the final phase of Titan 6 or Dread Council.

In general, however, it’s a tremendous disservice to yourself, your co-healer, and your Operation group, because it replaces the keen triage, burst EHPS, and teamwork with one’s co-healer that are the hallmarks of progression healing with mindless HPS farming.

1. Maintain 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe on 8 allies at all times. For each “round”, refresh as many as possible with Surgical Probe, which is about 3 or 4 out of the 8, and refresh the remainder with Kolto Probe.
2. Sprinkle two or three abilities unrelated to refreshing your Kolto Probes into each round.
   • Below are a few of many examples.
     • For an Energy-negative round, Kolto Waves and Recuperative Nanotech.
     • For an Energy-positive round, Kolto Waves and Diagnostic Scan.
     • For an Energy-neutral round, Kolto Waves canceled as the GCD finishes, Recuperative Nanotech, and Diagnostic Scan canceled as the GCD finishes.
   • In each round, the abilities unrelated to refreshing your Kolto Probes must have activation times(before Alacrity) that
     • total at least 3 second,ensuring that you don’t clip the penultimate tick of your Kolto Probes, and
     • total not more than about 5.1 second, ensuring that none of your Kolto Probes expire.
3. If circumstances cause the next ally in your refresh order to lose your Kolto Probe, move on.
   • Having 7 allies with 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe is preferable to having 8 allies with only 1 stack.
   • For this ally whom you’ve passed over, in general, restack your Kolto Probe once each round on schedule.

Energy & Tactical Advantage

Energy Management

Each second, you regenerate Energy: 6 if your Energy is 60-100; 3.6 if 20-59; or 2.4 if 0-19.

1. Having 60 or higher Energy almost all of the time is crucial.
2. If your Energy is high, Surgical Probe helps you avoid or defer Diagnostic Scan.
   • If your Energy is 65 or higher, you gain about 4 Energy with each Surgical Probe.
   • Unfortunately, if your Energy is 25-64, Surgical Probe is Energy-neutral.
3. If healing isn’t challenging, use Diagnostic Scan before an activation that otherwise would drop your Energy below 60.
   • The GCD that Diagnostic Scan triggers will finish just before its second tick. If you must cancel it to activate another ability, in general, allow its second tick to occur.
   • If your Energy is 60 or higher, you gain about
     • 16 Energy with a full channel or
     • 11 Energy with a channel canceled upon its second tick.
4. If your Energy will fall below 60, because an ally is in peril or healing is challenging, you have two options.
   • If the present emergency should be brief, and if healing afterward should be manageable for your co-healer, you can recharge with consecutive Diagnostic Scans. While Energy is 20-59, you gain about 11 Energy with a full channel.
   • Otherwise, activate Adrenaline Probe after your Energy falls to or below 35.

Tactical Advantage

1. You gain Tactical Advantage as follows.
   • Healing with Kolto Injection grants 1 charge.
   • Each heal from your HOTs (Kolto Probe, Kolto Infusion, or Recuperative Nanotech) or from Kolto Waves has a 30% chance to proc 1 charge. This proc can occur at most once every 6 seconds (Alacrity reduces this).
   • Activating Stim Boost grants 1 charge.
   • Exiting stealth grants 2 charges.
   • Attacking with Backstab from stealth or with Shiv grants 1 charge.
2. You may have up to 3 charges of Tactical Advantage. Charges last 24 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this), and gaining a charge refreshes this duration.
3. These abilities cost 1 Tactical Advantage.
   • Surgical Probe. But it immediately refunds the Tactical Advantage that it costs, unless this refund has occurred in the past 10 seconds (Alacrity reduces this).
   • Kolto Infusion
   • Carbine Burst
   • Tactical Superiority
4. Have at least 1 Tactical Advantage at all times, in case you need it for Surgical Probe.
5. Spending a Tactical Advantage on a heal (i.e., on Kolto Infusion or Surgical Probe) grants you Tactical Medicine.
   • This buff increases your healing done by 3%.
   • It lasts 6 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).
   • You’ll have this buff almost all of the time if you use Kolto Infusion and Surgical Probe as discussed in Section “Rotation Guidelines”.

The Sections below describe and offer advice about each ability. Unless noted, Alacrity reduces every figure related to time.

Heals for a Single Ally

See Section “Theory and Interactive Model” for activation times or healing amounts with gear that you select.

Kolto Probe

Description

• Kolto Probe is instant, has no cooldown, and costs 10 Energy.
• An ally may have up to 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe.
  • Using Kolto Probe on an ally without your Kolto Probe grants him 1 stack. This HOT heals him 6 times, once every third second for 18 seconds.
  • Using Kolto Probe on an ally with 1 stack of your Kolto Probe grants him a second stack and refreshes your Kolto Probe’s duration. This HOT heals him 7 times, immediately and once every third second for 18 seconds. The amount of each heal is double what it’d be from 1 stack.

Use

• The ability that you use more times than any other.
• For further discussion, see Section “Rotation Guidelines”.

Kolto Injection

Description

• Kolto Injection is a 2-second cast, has no cooldown, and costs 20 Energy.
• It heals a large amount.
• Each completed cast grants 1 Tactical Advantage.
• Field Medic’s Critical Bonus, a buff from the SOR 2-Piece Field Medic’s Set, causes your next Kolto Injection to crit.

Use

• Healing a single ally whose health is low.
• For further discussion, see Section “Rotation Guidelines” >#4.

Kolto Infusion

Description

• Kolto Infusion is a 1.5-second cast and has a 9-second cooldown.
• It costs 20 Energy, or 18 Energy with the SOR 4-Piece Field Medic’s Set, and 1 Tactical Advantage.
• It heals a moderate amount immediately and grants a HOT that heals 9 times, once every second for 9 seconds. In total, it heals for a very large amount.
• Spending a Tactical Advantage on it grants you Tactical Medicine, which increases your healing done by 3% for 6 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).
• Upon being healed by Kolto Infusion, an ally receives Resistant, which increases internal and elemental damage reduction by 3% for 45 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).
  • Resistant doesn’t stack, regardless of the number of healers giving this buff.

Use

• Ideal for healing tanks.
• For further discussion, see Section “Rotation Guidelines” > #2.

Surgical Probe

Description

• Surgical Probe is instant and has no cooldown.
• It costs 5 Energy and 1 Tactical Advantage. But it immediately refunds the Tactical Advantage that it costs, unless this refund has occurred in the past 10 seconds.
• If an ally has 2 stacks of Kolto Probe, healing him with Surgical Probe immediately refreshes Kolto Probe at no additional cost.
• On its own, Surgical Probe heals a moderate amount. With the immediate heal from refreshing 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe, it heals agoodamount for an instant ability.
• Spending a Tactical Advantage on it grants you Tactical Medicine, which increases your healing done by 3% for 6 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).

Use

• Refreshing 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe.
• Burst healing a single ally.
• Energy management.
• For further discussion of a use above, see Section “Rotation Guidelines” or “Energy & Tactical Advantage”.

Diagnostic Scan

Description

• Diagnostic Scan is a 2.1-second channel and has no cooldown.
• It has no cost. Each time it crits, it recharges 2 Energy.
• As a channel, it’s immune to pushback.
• It heals 3 times, but not immediately. A full channel heals a moderate amount.

Use

• Energy management.
• For further discussion, see Section “Energy & Tactical Advantage”.

Shield Probe

Description

• Shield Probe is off the GCD and has no cost.
• Its cooldown is 30 seconds, or 25 seconds with Utility: Escape Plan (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).
• It can absorb a large amount of damage for you, and only you, for up to 10 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).
• With Utility: Med Shield, Shield Probe heals you for 5% of your maximum health when it ends.

Use

• Learn to love Shield Probe. It’s off the GCD, has no cost, absorbs more than a Sorcerer’s Static Barrier with Utility: Augmented Shields, and heals you with Utility: Med Shield.

Toxin Scan

Description

• Toxin Scan is instant, has a 12-second cooldown, and costs 10 Energy.
• It cleanses up to two physical, mental, or tech effects and provides a small heal.

Use

• For PVE, when Toxin Scan can cleanse an effect, it’s almost always better to cleanse it than heal through it.
• For PVP, Toxin Scancleanses certain CCs.

Heals for Multiple Allies

See Section “Theory and Interactive Model” for activation times or healing amounts with gear that you select.

In SOR, every ability that may heal multiple allies in one activation is “smart”. If more allies are within range than the ability can heal, the ability selects those allies whose percentage of maximum health is lowest.

Kolto Waves

Description

• Kolto Waves is a 3-second channel. Its cooldown is 10 seconds, or 9 seconds with the SOR 6-Piece Field Medic’s Set.
• It heals up to 8 allies up to 4 times, including immediately. Each wave costs 7 Energy.
• Its radius is 8 meters.
• As a channel, it’s immune to pushback.
• A full channel heals a large amount.

Use

• The GCD that Kolto Waves triggers finishes halfway between its second and third ticks. If you must cancel it to activate another ability, always allow its second tick, and consider allowing its third tick, to occur.
• For further discussion, see Section “Rotation Guidelines”.

Recuperative Nanotech

Description

• Recuperative Nanotech is instant, has a 15-second cooldown, and costs 20 Energy.
• Its target is the ally whom you’re targeting or, otherwise, you.
• It grants a HOT that heals 10 times, immediately and once every second for 9 seconds, to the target and up to 3 other allies, each of whom is in line-of-sight and 10 meters of the target.
• In total, it heals a very large amount.
• Upon being healed by Recuperative Nanotech, an ally receives Invigorated, which increases his healing received by 3% for 45 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).
• Invigorated doesn’t stack, regardless of the number of healers giving this buff.

Use

• For an AOE heal, it’s very good for tanks.
• For further discussion, see Section “Rotation Guidelines”.

The “Stealth Rez”

Exiting combat with Cloaking Screen gives you the opportunity to resurrect a fallen ally with Revive, salvaging a boss kill or a speed run.

Resurrecting an ally with Resuscitation Probe, Onboard AED (Mercenary), or Reanimation (Sorcerer) debuffs every group member. This debuff prevents further use of these abilities for 5 minutes, but doesn’t prevent a stealth rez. In addition, a stealth rez doesn’t apply this debuff to any group member. Therefore, a stealth rez is limited by only your ability to finish Revive, a 6-second cast, before reentering combat and Cloaking Screen.

The following can cause you to reenter combat.

• When you use Cloaking Screen, an ally in combat has a HOT from you, including if he has full health or hasn’t yet been healed by this HOT.
• When you use Cloaking Screen, an enemy has a DOT from you, including if this DOT hasn’t yet attacked it.
• After using Cloaking Screen, you affect an ally in combat or attack an enemy. Examples follow.
  • You give an ally in combat who has full health 1 stack of Kolto Probe, which won’t heal him 3 seconds.
  • You heal an ally in combat with Recuperative Nanotech or Kolto Waves though you weren’t target him.
  • You grant Tactical Superiority to an ally in combat.
• An attack hits you.
• An enemy reenters combat or a new enemy enter combat (e.g., adds spawn).

The following won’t cause you to reenter combat.

• Healing yourself or an ally who’s not in combat.
• Gaining a Tactical Advantage.
• Receiving an effect from an ally in combat, including a buff (e.g., Bloodthirst or Ballistic Shield) or a heal (including from an Annihilation Marauder in your Party).
• An ally having a buff from you, such as Invigorated or Resistant, that he had before you used Cloaking Screen.
• Dodging an attack, including with Evasion.
• Canceling a cast that had an ally in combat or an enemy as its target.

Executing a Stealth Rez – Best Practices

1. Inform your group.
2. Use Kolto Probe on yourself. This fresh Kolto Probe serves as a timer for when you may use Cloaking Screen.
3. Continue to heal allies, but use only Kolto Injection, Kolto Waves, or Diagnostic Scan. You may cleanse with Toxin Scan, as well.
4. Before the Kolto Probe on yourself expires, locate the body of a fallen ally. You must be nearby, because Revive’s range is 10 meters.
5. Immediately after the Kolto Probe on yourself expires,
   • remove any DOTs from yourself with Toxin Scan or, if necessary, Evasion,
   • target a fallen ally, and
   • Cloaking Screen > if available, Evasion > Revive.
6. If AOE damage is about to occur, instruct the ally whom you’ll Revive not to accept until you’ve given permission.
7. If, after completing Revive’s cast, there’s another fallen ally, immediately cast Revive on him. If he’s more than 10 meters from you, use Exfiltrate to close this gap. You may Revive an unlimited number of fallen allies until you’ve reentered combat.

Executing a Stealth Rez – Advanced Tactics

1. As noted below, you may attempt a stealth rez sooner than described in Best Practices #2.
   • If you know which ally has the HOT from you with the longest time remaining, you may use him as your timer, rather than a fresh Kolto Probe on yourself.
   • Alternatively, instruct your group members to click off all HOTs from you. (You don’t need to click off HOTs on yourself.)
2. As noted below, you may use abilities other than those listed in Best Practices #3.
   • The duration of Kolto Infusion or Recuperative Nanotech is half the duration of Kolto Probe. Therefore, you may use either while the Kolto Probe that’s your timer has more than half of its duration (i.e., 4+ ticks) remaining.
   • You may use Surgical Probe on an ally who doesn’t have 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe.
3. If you know that there won’t be AOE damage that might hit you, there’s no need to use Evasion after Cloaking Screen.
4. If more than one ally has died, but damage will prevent you from using Revive for all of them, spearhead a “chain rez”.
   • Instruct an ally whom you’ll Revive not to accept until after this damage has occurred.
   • Further instruct him to use his Revive on another fallen ally before he reenters combat.

Additional Advice

1. If Resuscitation Probe is available, in general, don’t attempt a stealth rez in the following circumstances.
   • The fallen ally is your only co-healer.
   • The fallen ally is a tank, and
     • both tanks are required, or
     • a tank swap is approaching.
   • The fallen ally is a DPS, and the present phase, or fight as a whole, requires the fallen ally’s DPS.
   • Your co-healer is unlikely to keep everyone alive while your HOTs fall off or you’re casting Revive.
2. When in doubt, try it. If it fails, use Resuscitation Probe. Later, determine why this attempt failed, so that your next attempt during combat with this boss is more likely to succeed.
3. Know when and where AOE damage will occur.
   • Even if Evasion is available, it lasts for 3 seconds, only about half of the time that Revive requires.
   • Evasion dodges only Ranged or Melee attacks (i.e., white damage), and offers no defense against Force or Tech attacks (i.e., yellow damage).
4. Know when adds spawn.
5. In many fights, you may need to wait until a specific time or phase for a successful stealth rez.

Dealing Damage

Capitalize on every opportunity to deal damage.

In general, the priority for dealing damage is as follows.

• For a single target:Corrosive Dart > Backstab > Shiv>Snipe >Rifle Shot. In general, Rifle Shot has the highest priority if your Energy would fall below 60 otherwise.
• For multiple targets:Fragmentation Grenade > Carbine Burst

Corrosive Dart

• Corrosive Dart is instant, has no cooldown, and costs 15 Energy.
• It’s a DOT that ticks 7 times, immediately and once every third second for 18 seconds.
• For PVE, maintaining this DOT is straightforward if you set the boss as your Focus Target and adjust your User Interface as described in Section “Maximizing Your Performance”.

Shiv

• Shiv is instant, has a 6-second cooldown, and costs 15 Energy.
• Its range is 4 meters.
• Attacking with it grants you 1 Tactical Advantage even if your target resists it.

Backstab

• Backstab is instant, has a 12-second cooldown, and costs 15 Energy.
• Its range is 4 meters. You can’t attack a target with it if this target is facing you (a 90 degree angle).
• If you attack with it from stealth, it grants you 1 Tactical Advantage even if your target resists it and can deals more damage.
  • This is an excellent opener when your group enters combat. It allows you to begin a fight with a high-DPS attack and 3 Tactical Advantage (2 from exiting stealth).

Snipe

• Snipe is a 1.5-second cast, has no cooldown, and costs 20 Energy.

Rifle Shot

• Rifle Shot is instant, has no cooldown, and has no cost.

Fragmentation Grenade

• Fragmentation Grenade is instant, has a 6-second cooldown, and costs 20 Energy.
• It attacks your target and up to 7 other enemies within 5 meters of your target.

Carbine Burst

• Carbine Burst is instant, has no cooldown, and costs 15 Energy and 1 Tactical Advantage.
• It attacks up to 8 enemies within a “cone” in front of you. This cone has a radius of 10 meters and a central angle of 45 degrees.

Cooldowns

Stim Boost

Description

• Stim Boost is off the GCD and has a 2-minute cooldown.
• Activating it grants 1 Tactical Advantage and increases Alacrity by 10% for 15 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).

Use

• Reserve Stim Boost for burst healing a single ally, especially one without 2 stacks of your Kolto Probe.

Adrenaline Probe

Description

• Adrenaline Probe is off the GCD and has a 2-minute cooldown.
• It recharges up to 50 Energy over 3 seconds.
• With Utility: Endorphin Rush, it recharges an additional 15 Energy immediately.

Use

• Energy management.
• For further discussion, see Section “Energy & Tactical Advantage”.

Cloaking Screen

Description

• Cloaking Screen is off the GCD.Its cooldown is 2 minutes, or 90 seconds with Utility: Advanced Cloaking.

Use

• For a stealth rez, as discussed in Section “The ‘Stealth Rez’”.
• To lower your threat to zero with each enemy. Prefer Countermeasures, so that Cloaking Screen remains available for a stealth rez.
• For PVE, it’s very rare to be Tactical Advantage-starved while healing. If you have exactly 1 charge, however, and you’re certain that you can save an ally only by two consecutive Surgical Probes, hit Cloaking Screen immediately before the Surgical Probe that otherwise would spend your final Tactical Advantage. This is a desperate move. You should be confident that you can’t proc another Tactical Advantage in time from HOTs, that your next Surgical Probe can’t refund a Tactical Advantage, and that this use of Cloaking Screen is preferable to letting this ally die and using Cloaking Screen for his stealth rez.

Other Abilities

Exfiltrate

• Exfiltrate is instant. It has a 10-second cooldown if, and only if, you reactivate it in less than 10seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce these).
• It rolls you up to 12 meters in your camera’s direction.
• While rolling, your chance to dodge Ranged or Meleeattacks(i.e., white damage) increases by 30%.

Evasion

• Evasion is off the GCD and has a 1-minute cooldown (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).
• It increases your chance to dodge Ranged or Melee attacks(i.e., white damage) by 200% for 3 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).
• Activating it purges all removable enemy effects.

Crouch, Take Cover

• Each is off the GCD and has its own 1-second cooldown.
• For Hateful Entity, the secret boss in Operation: Scum and Villainy, each grants you immunity to this boss’s area pull and area knockback effects, though not to the single-target knockback effect of Dread Touch.

Countermeasures

• Countermeasures is off the GCD and has a 45-second cooldown (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).
• For PVE, itlowers your threat with each enemy by 25%. Use it proactively, especially after adds spawn.

Flash Bang

• Flash Bang is instant and has a 1-minute cooldown. It has a range of 10 meters.
• Using this on an enemy blinds it, and up to 7 other enemies within 5 meters of it, for 8 seconds. Damage breaks this blind.
• For PVE, including Grob’Thok or Revanite Commanders, an AOE CC can be useful for adds.

Tactical Superiority

• Tactical Superiority increases Critical Chance by 10% for Operation group members within 40 meters.
• It costs 1 Tactical Advantage.
• This buff lasts for 10 seconds, and its cooldown is 5 minutes (Alacrity doesn’t reduce these).

Maximizing Your Healing Performance

User Interface

Tailor your UI for healing.

• All crucial, time-sensitive information should be visible simultaneously. Therefore, Operation Frames, Action Bars, and Player Castbar should be adjacent and just below your character’s feet. Configure these using the Interface Editor.
• Under Preferences > User Interface, enable “Show Cooldown Text”.
• Operation Frames
  • Set “Buff Scale” as low as possible. Increase “Debuff Scale” until debuffs are prominent.
  • For your usual Operation group, disable “Show Health Text”. This is clutter rather than useful information.
  • Disable “Show Only Removable Debuffs”. Debuffs that may deal substantial damage to allies often aren’t removable.
• Using the Interface Editor, enable Focus Target and Focus Target Castbar. Certain bosses have casts or channels that deal substantial damage to allies.
• Using the Interface Editor, for the Player Buff Tray, enable Highlight Options > “Highlight Effects” and Sort Options > “Personal Effects”. This makes it easy to see your procs.
• Using the Interface Editor, for the Target Frame and Focus Target, enable Highlight Options > “Highlight Buffs” and “Highlight Debuffs” and Sort Options > “Personal Buffs” and “Personal Debuffs”. This makes it easy to see your effects, such as a HOT on an ally or a DOT on an enemy.

Datacrons

Gain up to 50 points of these stats through Datacrons.

• Cunning
• Endurance

Legacy

To increase each stat below by 1% for every character in your Legacy and Faction, complete all of the quests that one of the listed companions can offer.

• Accuracy – Skadge, Scorpio, Khem Val, or Broonmark
• Critical – Gault, Ensign Temple, Andronikos, or Vette
• Healing received – Mako, Doctor Lokin, Talos Drellik, or Malavai Quinn
• Maximum health – Blizz, Kaliyo, Xalek, or Lt. Pierce
• Surge – Torian, Vector, Ashara, or Jaesa

Though optimal gear for healing has no Accuracy, increasing Accuracy through this Legacy perk helps you interrupt, crowd control, ordeal damage.

Consumables

Unless noted, Alacrity reduces every figure related to time.

Stim

• An Advanced Anodyne (purple quality) Stim provides 198 of your Primary stat and 81 Power for 8 hours (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this).

Adrenal

• An Adrenal increases a stat for 15 seconds (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this) and is off the GCD.The cooldown shared across all Adrenals is 3 minutes.
• For PVE, an Advanced Anodyne (purple quality) Triage Adrenal provides 750 Force or Tech Power.
• For PVP, a Warzone Adrenal increases Damage Reduction by 15%.

Medpac

• A Medpac heals you and is off the GCD. A Medpac can’t crit.
• PVE
  • The cooldown shared across all Medpacs usable outside of a Warzone or Arena is (a) the remainder of your present combat or (b) 90 seconds, whichever is longer.
  • An Advanced Anodyne Medpac restores 7535 to 7892 health immediately and an additional2875 health over 15 seconds.
• PVP – A Warzone Medpac restores 35% of your maximum health and has a 90-second cooldown.

Grenades

• A Grenade is an instant ability. The cooldown shared across all Grenades is 3 minutes.
• PVE – Grenades that stun or root can be useful for certain adds, such as during Styrak on Nightmare Mode, Grob’Thok with Nightmare Power, or Revanite Commanders.
• PVP –Grenades are very useful.
  • A player affected by one or more of a Grenade’s effects receives Bastioned, a buff that grants immunity to all effects of further Grenades for 3 minutes (Alacrity doesn’t reduce this). Bastioned doesn’t persists through death.
  • If a Grenade has a stun or unconscious effect, this effect respects resolve.

Healing Model Spreadsheet

Note that there are multiple tabs to this spreadsheet. There is also an option to view this spreadsheet in full screen mode by clicking the button at the bottom right corner.

Download link (save to your computer to edit):https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=531C2CE33B536A51!157&authkey=!AH6Y02KGyIo6I0w&ithint=file%2cxlsx

About the Author

Orderken is a healer for <Hates You> on Prophecy of the Five.