Combat Medic Archive
Thread: Master Rifleman/Master Combat Medic...How do you do?
I have been this combo for quite a while. In my opinion it's a great combo, except that I do get a lot of hate tells in PvP, but mostly from people that succumb to the jawa ion. I've never received hate tells about CM poison/disease usage. Considering I started both profs in October, long before either of them were flavor of the month (actually, quite the contrary, I was told Rifle outright sukced), those hate tells are particularly annoying.
At any rate, in small scale raids, I find my CM skills are mostly limited to healing. I can heal my friends from a distance, which is absolutely awesome. I rarely will use my CM skills on another player, because quite frankly, my jawa or T21 will take them down much, much faster. I mean 300-500 mind dmg per second blows away any CM poison/disease. It's not even close.
1:1, where the CM skills come in the most, is against a defense stacker. If I'm miss, miss, miss, forever with my rifle, then I'll bust out the poisons/disease. But mind you, during a 4 second throw, a lot of bad things can happen.
In a large scale raid, with lets say 20+ ppl, then a CM can start using AoE poison/disease to some effect. At this scale, the opposition is bound to have docs. At first, you'll probably catch them unaware, but after a while, the other side will either go quickly away, or they get real smart, real fast.
Rifle, on the other hand, is almost pure pleasure. headshot 3 and strafe 2. With enough mind secondaries (BE brandy, canape, music buff) you can fire these 2 specials at will, and not be burning your own mind (that's right, zero mind usage). I frequently PvE without buffs, just with brandy/canape, and youcan tackle all but the most demanding of critters just fine this way (let's get real, you still aren't going to solo a Krayt).
Rifle has its weaknesses. I'm not going to say I never lose, but when I lose it's usually because I'm outnumbered, or I'm up against another rifle who probably hasa krayt jawa (sure would like one of those).
Summary: Rifle is fantastic. CM is great for area heals. CM poison/disease is used infrequently in PvP, but when used can be a tide turner.
Zito75 wrote:
These guys are confusing me...I'm a Master CM/Master Rifleman and I wreak peoples mind pools...it's awsome...no matter what, if I live or die, that person has got his mind at 1 for a while
agh to add on to this...Master Rifleman/Master CM is a PvP template...Rifleman is nasty in PvE too, no doubt, but CM is rather pointless besides healing other people...the mind heal comes in handy a lot, even though it gives you some wounds.
I can kill from a distance, which helps a lot in dealing with my wookiee glass jaw.
I don't PVP, but I'm awesome support to a team, and I can solo well. And I deal out more damage than anyone I ever group with (including some major damage builds).
Biggest issue: you'd better have someone who gives you WPs for med resources and good meat suppliers. I have 4 points spare, and nothing to use those on. No artisan, no scout.