Combat Medic Archive

If I die in pvp 90% of the time it's due to a single combat medic causing more than half the damage.
That in itself isn't a problem but when it's me and 20 other people all at the same time it becomes one.
Either take a 75% pvp reduction like everyone else or stop it from being an AoE.

My story is a little bit different. I was a Master TK, Master Doc back in November. I wanted to start going after holocrons to try & open Jedi. However, before I started that, I wanted to try Combat medic first. I dropped TK, and using the healing XP I had maxxed out, I buffed a few people, did some crafting, and I was a master CM a few hours later.

Our PA is intelligent, and has established Master crafters in each class. (I'm one of the best AS on server myself) I went to our CM crafter, picked up some psycho poisons & diseases, and went to town.

My first reaction to the class was: Wow. TK was very powerful, but CM was unbelievably abusable. You just have to play it smart, and you can decimate people, esp in base wars. For a lot of combat, we setup a forward line of CM's, Docs, and Riflemen. CM's toss at 76-88m with our poisons, darting up, & back out. If anyone chases us, the Riflemen target them, & take them out. If they send a lot of people against us, we rain down poison & disease, and evac. As they chase us, the poison/dis tick away. The people that burst get pwned by the riflemen. The ones that don't back off will die to the rifles after hitting 0 mind in about 16 seconds.

It's almost too easy. Just gotta abuse it right.

MCM - 169 pts
Master Elite Combat - 92pts
Master 2 Elite Combat Ranged or melee - 169pts
Master 1 Elite Melee and 1 Elite Ranged - 184pts

The Elite Combat professions recieve various defences and offensive abilities, but a MCM only recieves 2 offensives abilities and zero defensive ones. Yet the MCM is ruining the game as will are deemed overpowered.

Many indicate that the MCM is akin to heavy artillery support, perhaps but we have other abilities which define our class.

Before you run off and decide to cry of the nerf, look at the class as a whole.

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XingYuen wrote:

Master CM in a few hours... Spent another hour buying all the resources I need. Another hour crafting my final products. Instantly could handle any other elite combat profession without issues.

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Try playing a CM for more than a month...

The reason why everyone is mad at CM's at the moment is cause after they kill us they are still getting the disease and poison tick.

I remember before the 75% damage reduction in pvp I got killed by BH's eye shot in 2 hits poison killed me in 2 ticks but no one used it because it was too much work for the SAME result. Now it takes eye shot takes 10-20 hits to kill me, but the CM poison still kills me in 2 ticks, thats why people use it now, you get BETTER results than a combat class. Before you didn't. the 75% reduction was not to give you an edge the devs are jsut slow.Its been 6 months and they jsut fixed the carbineer spelling for heven sake.

for those of you who say its only fair becase you have to make your own stuff well as a pure combat class I would love to make my own weapons but I can't unless I become a weapon smith, you get a choice pure combat classes don't get.

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sony-is-a-thief wrote:

I remember before the 75% damage reduction in pvp I got killed by BH's eye shot in 2 hits poison killed me in 2 ticks but no one used it because it was too much work for the SAME result. Now it takes eye shot takes 10-20 hits to kill me, but the CM poison still kills me in 2 ticks

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Ummm.. yeah, but it would take 20 seconds for those 2 ticks. An MBH should be able to get in 20 eye shots in that same time frame for more damage, so I'm not sure I see the point there.

my point Zarlor, is simply that in the context of pvp combat medics before 75% reduction did 10x less damage per second than combat classes now they do the same or even more, this is a huge change in balance. I'm not saying it is totaly unbalance, rather the class went from a support to a front line combat class over night.At the same time armor got better, defenses got huge mitigation was implimented but nothing was done about CM's you guys never had it better. The Devs have added tons of defenses for regular combat classesand now there is a food that blocks 100% of damage for several hits but there is still nothing for poisons. You see in pvp CM's are overshadowed by all the pure combat classes where in pvp it is almost the other way around, there isa lack ofconsistancy.