Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) Healing Community

The Healer Survey that was submitted to the community last friday has come to an end at over 700 participants. Thank you all who voted!

I will bring up some of the interesting statistics I found, there wasn’t much that we didn’t know already though. The results does confirm what the common belief is, that in fact a lot of people are quite upset of the changes.

As I said when i created the survey, it’s very difficult to judge what a community feels like as it’s mostly the people who dislike things and who complain who actually are vocal. The people who still enjoy the game are usually in the game enjoying themselves. With the data at hand we can see that there is still quite a big chunk of people who still enjoy healing in the game and are satisfied with the current design, but it is clear that most people aren’t satisfied. Also keep in mind that these statistics are biased towards the ones that aren’t very happy with the game for the same reason that was stated above.

The most interesting thing and what I personally like the most is that a lot of healers are very willing to wait it out and keep doing what they love despite the design. As you can see in the chart below the amount of people who believe they will continue healing is very high. We can also see however that most of the people who are very dissatisfied with the game aren’t interested in playing the role anymore.

During this whole discussion that has been going on since 1.2 some Classes has, more than others, been meaning to unsubscribe because of all this. I’m happy to see that it’s still a minority and most people are still happy continuing playing, either on their healer and on another role. Below you can see the amount of people who are intending to unsubscribe divided per Class.

And last, how many are actually using the Combat Log? Not many it seems. The chart below is for PvE only, the PvP number was significantly lower.

You can find all the raw data here if you want to have a look yourself.

Alternatively you can use the code RuQu created on the official forums and have a look. Here’s what he had to say about that:

So I whipped up some code that will process the results for you and create a bunch of Google Doc charts. You can download it here. I filed it as “deprecated” so it doesn’t show up unless you specifically look for it. To save my sanity you will need to do a couple of simple tasks before it will work. First, move and delete the time stamp column and the column with flashpoint/WZ etc in it. Since the WZ column is comma separated inside of it but variable in how many entries it had, it was going to be a headache to auto-parse it. Second, I only processed results with all of the questions answered. This filters out a few (including mine) where people leave an answer blank, but it is still over 550 results so far. Again, for the sake of my sanity. Finally, download the results as .csv, and put them in the same folder as the program. Run the program from the command line with the file name as the argument and out will pop your answer. I currently have it as HTML with pretty graphs, but you’d have to host the resulting page somewhere yourself since apparently Google Docs doesn’t display uploaded HTML files. I can change the output format to .csv for easy input into Google Docs. You would then need to create your own charts from the uploaded data, but it would easily shared once you did so.