Combat Medic Archive
Thread: Is Now A Bad Time To Pick Up Combat Medic?
I been pvp'ing lately on my alt with poison and disease resist buffs and they do help, but I still get hit by some nasty ticks sometimes.
The effectiveness of CM's in combat depends on how prepared others are now. A group that is unprepared for CM will get decimated.
As for healing, no other class, not even doctors, are as effective at healing. The ability to throw area stims in pvp or pve and heal like thirty people in a radius for like 1000 damage is pretty damn nice
The Death Watch Bunker actually feels a lot easier with CM's in the group
somerandomuser wrote:
After the nerfs is the best time to pick up a profession.. you don't have to 'unlearn' anything..
lol, that is a novel way to look at it.
PORNALICIOUS wrote:
tell the 47 overt rebs i killed in 4days that cm sucks =p
MANDOZER
dang, where do you find those? most everyone i threw at was buffed, and those that weren't had a doc on /follow. lol
Qi-zen wrote:
Combat Medic is good support profession...we all know that the nerf was coming for pvp. CM was neverintended to be anything more then support...Some would like it to be an elite profession, but that was not the intentions of the Devs...now if you wannacomplain about theamount ofcredits for the professionthat’s another matter.
0={Qi-zen shin}=> BoC Radiant
TKM/Doc/CM ultimate killing machine
i beg to differ. the "official" handbook (prima) and the devs (at least at some point) have indicated that the role of cm in combat was to be a very potent one, especially in the line of poisoning. the decision to pursue that approach, vs. one of "support" (which i gather you take to mean healing) was clearly to be made by the individual cm. and given your pointregarding the skill investment, it should be as elite a combat prof as any other, just as bounty hunter and commando should be. we are simply the latest in the growing line of disabled profs.
Feralcom wrote:
For PvE I would choose CM if you usually group with others. If you are usually solo, Doc is better.
So if your solo, CM will not do much for you. You can’t heal your own mind and there is no need for ranged or AoE heals. By going Doctor, you can also cure and buff yourself.
In groups, CM is much better than MD. AoE heals rule over Doctor and Mind Heal is awesome when things go wrong.
Poisons just don’t work well in PvE. Weaker mobs die before they can set in and tougher mobs don’t even notice. I have yet to find anything in-between. I’m sure it helps, but it is way insignificant compared to what the melee and ranged weapons do.
It is still a great profession. The nerfs didn’t hit PvE CMs too hard. Things are pretty much the same for me as before the nerfs.
generally, i agree with you. but cm is really only helpful in certain situations in group pve atm imo (hehe, lots of abbr). the vette and dwb are good examples. but on a recent weekend, in a group of three doing level 199 janta missions, i never once needed my cm skills through an entire evening of play. buffs and melee skills were all that was needed.
we have been talking about having guild activities where we do pve un-buffed, just to try and recapture some of the fun when there is an actual threat to us. if you are unbuffed vs. higher level pve, cm is great for healing support.
Qi-zen wrote:
<< in a group of three doing level 199 janta missions, i never once needed my cm skills through an entire evening of play. buffs and melee skills were all that was needed. >>
That was my point...why would you need buffs to hunt Janta missions if you are a CM + Combat profession ?
Ihunt Jantas/Mokks w/o Armor or Buffs and using only my TKM skills with CM.
If i were to hunt on a planet where the Mob content is much higher, then i would use Buffs/Armor.
I always keep reading posts that CM skills are only needed in groups...Where is this statement coming from in the manuel ?
CM with any Combat Profession is a viable Solo template
0={Qi-zen shin}=> BoC Radiant
TKM/Doc/CM ultimate killing machine
talking others into playing against high level mobs is a tough sell. i prefer group play, so i gotta go with the flow. but the idea is the same. just say no to buffs and armor! lol
in a similar vein, with just buffs, or maybe plus some mabari, any master fencer can solo jantas, too, without cm. so cm is still not really needed/helpful in high level pve in most cases.
i liked the endor advise from another post, too. will try to tempt my guildies into that...
Qi-zen wrote:
<< in a group of three doing level 199 janta missions, i never once needed my cm skills through an entire evening of play. buffs and melee skills were all that was needed. >>
That was my point...why would you need buffs to hunt Janta missions if you are a CM + Combat profession ?
Ihunt Jantas/Mokks w/o Armor or Buffs and using only my TKM skills with CM.
If i were to hunt on a planet where the Mob content is much higher, then i would use Buffs/Armor.
I always keep reading posts that CM skills are only needed in groups...Where is this statement coming from in the manuel ?
CM with any Combat Profession is a viable Solo template
0={Qi-zen shin}=> BoC Radiant
TKM/Doc/CM ultimate killing machine
You're doing more damage in 1 second spin attacking than you are every ten seconds with a poison. Only nighsister elders and DWB yard trash are worth poisoning. Hope your swoop is full condition when they start shooting or throwing debis at it.
CM suxxors in PvE....hoped you would have read the other posts on it by now.
<< You're doing more damage in 1 second spin attacking than you are every ten seconds with a poison. Only nighsister elders and DWB yard trash are worth poisoning. Hope your swoop is full condition when they start shooting or throwing debis at it.
CM suxxors in PvE....hoped you would have read the other posts on it by now >>
Rofl... first things first, yes ive read all the posts about this subject and lets not confuse tactics with efficiency.
Those are the ppl that rely on Buffs/Armor...aka god mode. Which is boring & lacks any true understanding on tactics, when you can spamunarmhit 3 all day.
If you think CM is only useful for group/high end content then you're wasting skill points on a profession that you don't need. Btw, I never leave my vehicle out on hunts only - onlynewbies do that.
Try doing30k Janta/Mokk missions unbuffed/armored maybe thenyou will see what i'm talking about
