Combat Medic Archive
Thread: Combat Role fo the CM post CU
I agree totally on the "everything attacks me when I heal them". They take away paralyze (well totally make it USELESS) and now when you area heal you get mobbed. OMG what do they have against CM's anyways. Now just another profession to wonder why it is in the game. Not sure this was progress. I was liking CM until today.
Ibacca
Well I've been playing the new CU for about a week now. Master Rifles/Master Medic/Master CM....just respeced on Saturday to get rid of Master Medic. Am now Master Rifles/Master CM/Pistoleer 0004
Personally I like the new revamp. As for group healing....I don't use area heal unless absolutely necessary....takes a lot of mind and you have to get close. I have found that I can fight and heal at a distance rather effectively, it's a matter of timing.
Not sure if I'm going to keep pistoleer....only cuz I have friends who are going BH and I'd like to be able to join them when hunting Jedi.
Currently, CM is the fastest way to commit suicide inside SWG. It seems that every time you heal a friend, you gain his aggro on you. Needless to say that after healing a whole group, all aggo NPCs on the area will always attack you, not your friends, so you'll be dead quickly.
Ziabull, try to enter any cave with some friends and start healing. Then try to get ranged, where will you go ? come closer again, and see how you are the real tank of the group.
To me the decision has been clear after a couple of weeks with CU, I respec'd my character and forgot about CM. I liked to help other people even though I was not gaining combat xp, but this is too much now.
Good luck to those holding on CM or doc !
Ziabull, try to enter any cave with some friends and start healing. Then try to get ranged, where will you go ? come closer again, and see how you are the real tank of the group.
Well actually I have been in a cave. Nightsister hunting. My primary role was to support my 3 friends. I let them take the lead and let them fire the first shots on all targets. Yes other NPCs that they weren't directly fighting sensed my presence and came after me, but not all of them and we all survived rather nicely.
I truly believe that to be a good CM you also have to have a good group to hunt with. One that is organized and fights with stratagy. Not attacking everything nilly willy.
My current template is MRM/MCM/Novice BH 3/0/1/0
Ziabull wrote:
Ziabull, try to enter any cave with some friends and start healing. Then try to get ranged, where will you go ? come closer again, and see how you are the real tank of the group.
Well actually I have been in a cave. Nightsister hunting. My primary role was to support my 3 friends. I let them take the lead and let them fire the first shots on all targets. Yes other NPCs that they weren't directly fighting sensed my presence and came after me, but not all of them and we all survived rather nicely.
I truly believe that to be a good CM you also have to have a good group to hunt with. One that is organized and fights with stratagy. Not attacking everything nilly willy.
My current template is MRM/MCM/Novice BH 3/0/1/0
Absolutely, there need to be atleast two people who are observant enough to pick out the additional aggro and contain them. There is a reason for the question marks that pop up over creatures heads. If that mob isn't rooted, taunted or knocked down before the exclamation point pops up then people are not doing their jobs. When a 5 man crew can effectively tear through 7 level 82's at a time with only one incapp (albeit of course it was the CM:smileysurprised
then you have aggro controll kicked.
