Imperial Agent & Smuggler - Simple Questions and Answers

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(11-15-2011 01:48 AM)AnubisXy Wrote:  At the moment, I am debating between playing a healer-focused Operative or a healer-focused Mercenary.

I like the stealth abilities that the Operative brings, so I'm leaning towards them. But, at the same time, their Energy system seems a bit problematic. It feels like it's very punishing - if you make a mistake and accidentally use the wrong ability at the wrong time, it could drop your Energy to a lower block, and cause you to get "stuck" in a hole, where you're forced to spend more energy than you're regenerating.

This seems especially true when you're having to deal with burst/spike damage. Since I'm mainly looking forward to healing in PvP, this is a pretty big issue for me.

So, I'm also considering making a Mercenary, simply because they have an easier, less punishing resource system.

I played in the beta for a few minutes at a friend's house, but I didn't have the chance to really try the class out. What are people's thoughts on how much of a problem the energy system can be, especially for fights where burst can be a significant factor?

I ran a BH for a few hours over the weekend in beta, and it looked like the heat mechanic was the same as you are describing for energy, the more heat you have the slower it went away. It started at i think 5/second and above 20% heat i think it went to 3/sec or 3/sec many have been the lowest it went to, sorry was really late and i did not sleep a lot this weekend. Didn't get to try it much mostly trying SI's.