Sith trooper viable?

Just a quick warning for anyone considering using him in a EP team, he has one HUGE advantage, and one minor disadvantage. The positive is that his AOE is basically a full-health heal, plus the protection bonus. The problem is that he CANNOT gain the health benefit from inflicting a debuff with basic when countering. The debuffs have to be applied on the toon's turn for the health gain to happen, so he can only gain health from his basic when he is on his turn.

Just keep that in consideration when you're considering him or Shore.