7.8 Sawbones / Medicine SWTOR Guide

Continual "Spamming" of Underworld Medicine will lead to exhaustion (yellow bar depletion).  I throw in steady uses of Diagnostic Scans if I see my energy going below 50%.  Diagnostic scan can also be used on the move, so swap to it if heavy movement is required and your SRMs are actively ticking away.

If you overdid it with spamming your heals and reached exhaustion or are in danger of running out of energy, this ability will bail you out.  It is on a moderate cool down.  I typically use this, then some Diagnostic Scans to get me back in the green before I resume healing.  If I know I have this up, I will typically spam my energy heavy heals and drain my yellow bar to exhaustion and then come back, as described.  This is particularly good for extreme situations that demand very high levels of healing from you.  I try to keep it in reserve for emergencies.

You may have noticed that you have an extra heal button on your bar that I have not spoken to yet.  Kolto Waves is a very inefficient AoE heal.  Only use Kolto Waves when you can hit the entire group with it (6+ team members).  Using this to only heal a couple raid members is a complete waste of energy and is ill-advised.  It is far better to SRM 1-2 players vs Channel Kolto Waves.  It is a very long channel; you cannot move, and the heals are low compared to the other options listed above.  Avoid this ability unless you know you can get the whole group.

I often find it easier to heal if I let a DPS that is taking too much damage die.  It teaches some nice lessons to encourage moving out of the damage, verses allowing them to continue to think they are invulnerable as my fingers bleed for them.  I typically save this ability for my cohealer or tank.  If a talented DPS went down, sometimes I will help them.  It depends on how much they pay me.  We are on a scoundrel after all.

This is our cleanse.  With it, we can remove those pesky debuffs that are afflicting our group.  Classes with self-cleanses (basically everyone except Vanguards and Snipers) should clean themselves where possible.  Always ask folks to self-cleanse if you have a sizable number of afflictions to clean off.  You need to grab the ones that cannot help themselves and typically yourself and the tank.  You'll see below that Dodge, one of your defensives can also be used for a self-cleanse, making scoundrels excellent at cleansing quickly.

I Typically either use this on cool down or save it for burst windows I know are coming where the tank will need me to react to large incoming damage.  A lot of scoundrel healing is knowing what is coming and predicting the healing.

A strong defensive ability.  This increases your chance to dodge (not take damage) melee and ranged damage by 200% for 7 seconds.  It also acts as a self-cleanse. 

A Notable defensive Cool down as with our Skill point choices Disappearing Act gives us 2 seconds of Dodge/Evasion.  Along with dropping our threat completely, this will protect and cleanse us, just as Dodge would.  It is great to use on those extremely cleanse heavy fights.

This ability makes the scoundrel very fast on its feet.  Effectively able to "roll out" of AoE circles quickly.  I use this practically on cool down when on the move.  While rolling, your chance to dodge melee and ranged attacks is increased by 30%. 

Pugnacity is a huge Offensive/Defensive Cool Down as well as a self-heal.  It increases our Alacrity by 10% for 20" heals us for 5% health every 3" (about 30% HP) as well as a Damage Reduction of 20%.  Using Pugnacity as a Defensive cool down is sometimes needed due to the class's lack of excellent defensives.  It is a DPS loss to do so, but so is dying ;) 

This ability puts an absorb screen on us, that absorbs 32k damage.  Stays active for 10 seconds or until the damage threshold is reached.  Gives us a 15% for 6" DR when it collapses.