Combat Medic Archive
Thread: Is the Combat Medic Overpowered?
Zarlor wrote:
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.
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
Zarlor wrote:
I don't disagree that there are some issues here, but the arguments seem to keep coming around to the amount of damage that CM DoTs do as beng the problem, when I just won't buy it. You're right, CMs were virtually non-existant before the 75% reduction, because we were, in effect, already 75% reduced compared to everyone else. The reduction just brought everything else in line with us in PvP. It's not our fault if folks got used to it being that way and thinking they should be able to jsut ignore CMs completely in PvP. In that respect I think the balance really is there.
Talk about the amount of damage itself, however,and I just can't seen anyone making a viable case here.
I'd say a good non-spider venom poison does around 400 every 8 seconds. (400 * 30) / 8 = 1500 DPS. I've seen 1000 dmg spider venom poison that ticks every 10 seconds. (1000 * 30) / 10 = 3000 DPS.
Couple that with CMs being able to toss through walls/floors and it basically defeats the purpose of PvP.
I've said it once and I'll say it again. Every other skill/special/attack in this game can be effectively countered without relying on an active player running behind you (doc) EXCEPT poison/disease.
Achilles467 wrote:
Ok, (400 * 30) / 10 = 1200 DPS and it all hits, there is no reduction.
Well, once again I have to ask... What are you arguing here? Is it that AoE attacks are overpowered? Is it that allowing 30 people to bunch up closely for attacks should be allowed? Is it that there needs to be more resistances added to the game?
Zarlor wrote:
Is it that there needs to be more resistances added to the game?
Message Edited by WhosScrufyLooking on 03-04-2004 09:19 AM
Achilles467 wrote:
Zarlor wrote:
Is it that there needs to be more resistances added to the game?
Chef food should exist that give users around 90% resist to poison/disease. Don't complain that this is too high since I can make food that resists 93% of *all other damage types* for around 10 attacks.
Maybe you should stop crying and be a doctor. Perhaps you're too ignorant on the fact that you want to be a defense stacker and not pick up some basic skills to cure yourself the poison or the disease.
Look at it this way, if you're one of the many get hit with poison and you heal your own, you can effectively go and kill the Combat Medic instead of come on to this board to moan, groan and **edit** about it. Stop bitching about things that you can control yourself. Let the others worry about themselves. You'll be much better and could acutally complish something if you stop worry about others and do something about it.
Achilles467 wrote:
Ok, (400 * 30) / 10 = 1200 DPS and it all hits, there is no reduction.
TsunamiKata wrote:
Achilles467 wrote:
Chef food should exist that give users around 90% resist to poison/disease. Don't complain that this is too high since I can make food that resists 93% of *all other damage types* for around 10 attacks.
Maybe you should stop crying and be a doctor. Perhaps you're too ignorant on the fact that you want to be a defense stacker and not pick up some basic skills to cure yourself the poison or the disease.
Look at it this way, if you're one of the many get hit with poison and you heal your own, you can effectively go and kill the Combat Medic instead of come on to this board to moan, groan and **edit** about it. Stop bitching about things that you can control yourself. Let the others worry about themselves. You'll be much better and could acutally complish something if you stop worry about others and do something about it.
Since when are chefs defense stackers? /boggle
As I've said before even a pure crafter can survive*any* attack from *any* other profession via armor and buffs, neither of which help at all against a CM. You're also assuming I can attack the CM who's usually abusing the LOS issue.