Combat Medic Archive

Alot of credit to the others that posteda lotof these ideas (Gnutt, Lexy, Texxie, Padhbacca, Tsu, to name a few) I sorta mashed it all together into a pile

Prerequisite (33 Skill Points left at Master CM)

• Master Medic


• Master Marksman

CM Tree Changes

• Combat Medic Support Line




• change the combat medic support line to require combat xp for advancment and should reflect pistoleer, rifleman, and carbineer requirements.


• Add a certification for an AP pistol and one pistol special in the Intermediate Combat MedicSupport box +10 pistol accuracy while moving


• Add a certification for an AP carbine and one carbine special in the Advanced Combat Medic Support box +10 carbine accuracy while moving


• Add a certification for an AP rifle and one rifle special in the Expert Combat Medic Support box +10 rifle accuracy while moving


• Optional addition of a "CM only" firearm certification in the Master Combat Medic Support box and one special for the weapon

• Combat Medic Medicine Crafting




• See possible medical additions, in game items stay where they are now. Increase crafting xp if new CM medicines are added.

• Ranged Healing Speed




• Add +5 to ranged wound treatment speed to each box in this line (if ranged wound packs are added)


• Change medical experience required to match experience requirements of the combat medic support line.

• Ranged Healing Distance




• Change Medicalexperience required to match experience requirements of the Combat medic support line.

• Master Combat Medic




• Add +10 to Pistol weapons accuracy


• Add +10 to Carbine Weapons Accuracy


• Add +10 to Rifle weapons Accuracy


• Add +15 to the "CM only" weapon accuracy (if added)


• Add +5 to ranged wound treatment speed (if ranged wound pack added)

CM Medicine Changes

• Allow all Combat Medic Stims to heal the mind pool


• Change Diseases toencumber a target's HAM or substat by x% over time instead of causing wounds




• diseases would stay on the target untill cured by a doctor (or target is deathblowed)


• diseases would no longer stack


• disease potency would determine the percent of reduction for each tick of the disease untill the maximum reduction is reached.


• Change Poisons so they effect the special's bar by x% over time instead of causing a damage tick (post HAM revamp)




• Poisons would stay on the target untilled cured by a doctor (or target is deathblowed)


• Poisons would no longer stack


• Poison potency would determine the percent of reduction for each tick of the poison untill the maximum reduction is reached

Doctor Medicine Changes

• Change Doctor Buffs to increase a target's base stats by x% instead of by a set value


• Change Disease innoculations so they




• migitate the effectivness of diseases


• ease the ability of a doctor to remove (cure) the disease state


• or possibly remove the innoculation


• Change Disease Cures so they




• Have a muchlower effectivness


• Have a duration like current diseases


• Have a tick interval like current diseases


• block a disease re-application for the duration of the cure (limited disease immunity)


• Change Poison innoculations so they




• migitate the effectivness of poisons


• ease the ability of a doctor to remove (cure) the poison state


• or possibly remove the innoculation


• Change poison Cures so they




• Have alower effectivness


• Have a duration like current poisons


• Have a tick interval like current poisons


• block a poison re-application for the duration of the cure (limited poison immunity)

New CM Medicines

• Ranged and area A or B level wound packs for battlefield healing


• Single target Status packs (blind, stun, intimidate)


• Armor reduction pack- reduces the effectivness of one type of damage resistance on the target. Squad Leader required in the group to utilize the "hole" in the target's armor (if armor is notadjusted)


• Armor buff pack - increases the effectivness of one type of damage resistance on the target (if armor is adjusted)

How the Poison/Disease and the Curescould work

If the cures were made to act like a CM poison toward the changed CM medicines I think things could be balanced out. The cures would be given a duration and a "cure tick", each cure tick would subtract from the effectivness of the poison/disease that is on a target. If a cure had an effectivness of 100, every 8 seconds 100 would be subtracted from the effectivness of the target's poison untill it reached zero (poison status removed) or untill the cure duration ended. So if a CM applied a venom poison with an effectivness of 1000, it would take 10 "cure ticks" (88 seconds) to cure the target. The cure time could be reduced if the target in question had an innoculation. If the target had an innoculation with a 400 effectivness rating, this would temporarly reduce the poison effectivness to 600 requiring only six ticks from the cure pack. One of the main problems between CM's and doctors is the "spamming" of area poison, if it were made so that a poison could not be appliedfor the duration of the cure, it would help to end thisunbalancedsituation. Cure duration should be no longer than current CM poisons/diseases

Current poison and disease pack values could probably be used if the effectivness and potencyrating were multiplied by 0.05 for effectivness and 0.5 for potency. If a 1000 effectiveness, 100 potency poison were used by a CM it would reduce the targets Specials pool by 5% untill the50% cap is reached. Some dev magic could beused to figure out how to work the Combat Medic effectivness modifier into the equation. Also since diseases generally have a lower effectivness rating compaired to poisons, and diseases will be the "physical" threat to players, thenumbers may not need to be adjusted too much.

Why Battlefield Wound Healing may be needed

With all the changes that are to be done to SWG, I have a theory that wounding will be the main threat for PvP and the GCW. For this reason I suggested that diseases be changed so as not to wound but instead to cause an encumbering type effect on primary and secondary stats (the same thing that happens when you wear armor) BH and Commandos can still cause some considerable wounding in battle and I think that a somewhat limited ability to heal these wounds could be used on the field. I don't think a B level area wound pack will be overpowering and this would also help to add to the role of a Combat Medic. If the wound pack is tossedperhaps a "Field Hospital" could be made into a Faction perk for doctors and CM's, or Ranger camps could have some defensive abilities for GCW skirmishes. The only concern I have is that if wounding does become the limiting factor, special attention should be given to combat professions that can inflictserious mind wounds in short periods of time. Entertainers that don't have any combat skills may want to pick some up.

Overall gameplay changes

• When a player's armor requires higher substats than the player has (buff wears off while armor is equiped)




• An Encumbered Status should be placed on the player which




• Reduces Damage modifiers


• Reduces Mobility


• Reduces Defensive Modifiers


• Reduces Accuracy


• untill the player is either rebuffed or armor is removed


• CM and Doctor Medicines could be altered so that a BE crafted Item is required for the most effective medicines.


• Any other Ideas? Comments?