Healer class?

[Kurwa]

Just wondering if there is any rumors about healers or how healing in like raids and such will work?

[Syr]

I haven't heard about any healer classes, and I cant think of any pure healing classes in the lore either. Maybe they will have a Force Heal or Medic ability, or First Aid like WOW.

[Rell]

Good question Kurwa.

I've mentioned a thousand times already that I enjoy playing support classes in other MMO's and I was hoping that SWTOR brings some form of healer to the table.

Some good theories I read were about droids being able to control various other types of droids and using them as needed: i.e.: healing, combat, etc.

[GreyEagle]

Master Doc/TKM

[Ambrosius]

It would be cool if they could make raids and such work without actually having a healer class but I wouldn't mind having it really.

[Nuo]

In KOTOR, you had the Heal talent tree that could be used by any Jedi. I imagine that a similar ability will be available to Jedi as an AOE heal in a similar fashion. Droids (if they are in fact a player class) will most likely have to fend for themselves because a Force Heal won't affect droids.

[Hemophage]

I posted a comment in another thread about this same idea. Apparently, it has been announced that there will NOT be any non-combat class. So my question was are they going to go Diablo 2 style, with Medpacs for everyone, or they going to have a talent tree for each/some classes the combat medic(trooper) force healer(jedi) Life stealer/healer (sith)??? interesting ideas

[Thelxepia]

Apparently, it has been announced that there will NOT be any non-combat class.

I will probably in the vast minority with this particularly sentiment, but if this turns out to be true, I will be profoundly disappointed. If they did that, they could redeem themselves for me with a skill tree sort of approach covering various sub-topics, and how specialized you get in them depends on where you spend your points. That's what I really liked about the original SWG skill-tree approach -- near infinite flexibility without allowing one character to have it all.

[Samael]

why would anybody want a healer class in a mmo? this is the one game i dont want to have to be shouting LF Healz!!!

[Velcor]

why would anybody want a healer class in a mmo? this is the one game i dont want to have to be shouting LF Healz!!!

Not having a healing class would make raid encounters very gimmicky...