So upon reaching level 50 I decided to mess around with the Mercenary Healing tree, Bodyguard. It’s a blast! It seems to play a lot like a Holy Paladin in that you have heavy armor, cast time direct heals with only one HoT (A talent you take adds a HoT to one of your heals) and one not so great AoE heal. The good news, however, is that your AoE heal can be talented to add a buff that increases healing received and your final talent is an instant cast heal on a short cooldown.

Although the heals have some pretty long cast times, you should know that your secondary attribute, Alacrity, is exactly the same as Haste in WoW: it speeds up cast time and reduces channeling time. So for stat priorities, it looks like you want aim, alacrity, power then crit, but as time goes on I’m sure we’ll see more and more info come up.

For a talent tree set up, this is what I’m currently running with:

http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#300rfRMRzcdkqZrMoZb.1

So the important thing is to manage heat and cooldowns appropriately:

Rapid scan generates 25 heat, has a lengthy cast time but can crit for a huge payoff.

Medical Scan has a talented 9 second cooldown, and heals for about the same amount as Rapid Scan but applies a talented HoT and armor buff, it also has a faster base cast time! Always cast this the moment it comes off cooldown since it also has a lower heat cost than Rapid scan as well.

Kolto Missle fires at an area and heals everyone it hits, and applies the talented buff that increases healing recieved. It’s short cooldown also makes it easy to top off DPS and the Tank in a pinch so see if you cant get people to group up!

Kolto shell is great for making sure you dont have to worry as much about your tank. It works like Earth shield.

Finally, Emergency Scan is FANTASTIC when you want to nuke heal a tank in a pinch. Its got a decent cooldown though, so plan it out.

Rapid shots can also be used to top of DPS and Tanks to full if needed, but doesn’t generally heal enough for it to be worth the global cooldown.

The biggest ability to watch for is building 30 stacks of charge and burning your Supercharged Gas ability. This makes Med Scan have no cooldown, cost less heat and makes Kolto Missle place a buff on people that reduces damage taken by 10%!

But the biggest help it does is vent 16 heat… doesn’t sound like much, but when you can use it spam one more heal potentially staving off death for a few more seconds, it’s worth it.

If you get aggro, Activate your Chaffe Flare ability to get rid of some aggro, pop your shield bubble, Kolto Armor.

This spec isn’t exactly the quickest way to level, but you’ll never die… which is always fun!

Grokk out!