Combat Medic Archive

"Medics are sturdy and intelligent characters. They are certainly capable of holding there own in a fight." -SWG: Adventure Manual

"...medic should pick up some weapon skills if they want to survive a firefight." Q-3PO

maybe combat medic means a medic for combat and not a medic that can fight. And medics can fight by the way. if poisons ever work, (who knows when they will fix THAT bug) the cm can be very effective in combat.

Besides, ranged stimpacks have their uses for healing pets and melee fighters in a battle, so comabt has its uses there. But it still wouldn't hurt for any character in the game to have some fighting ability.

Yea, we should have fighting ability, otherwise what's the point in accruing combat xp?

honestly if we are all about heals drop the combat xp requirement and give us revive then

right now the sacrifice we make in skills to go CM and Doc is definately not worth the points if we dont get combat skills...

so if we are all about healing, then make us stem of medic and spend our 14 points on weapons skills...

yeah, that was a bone-head post by Q. I don't think he meant it the way it sounded. Maybe he meant just a basic medic, A noobie with just some medic skills really wouldn't have much chance in a fight.

At least I hope that's what he really meant.

From Official guide (that was aproved by SOE and may of these are written by SOE employers):

"Patching up wounded is not all that the Combat Medic can do however; the discipline also requires a high level of ranged weapons skills. Extensive training up through the Specialist levels in pistols, carbines, rifles and ranged weapon supoprt has taught the Combat Medic a few special moves and abilities when it comes to a firefight."

So there, devs said it, guide said it, game said it via requirements - how many proves do you need that combat in medics comes from ranged weapons and poisons ?

The guide is also based on the beta template for Cm which required full mastery of the marksman class not just ranged heals...

so I would be very careful taking any of the guide at face value. If CM had to master the marksman tree that would make them as hard to make as BHs and thus we would be complaining even more about how underpowered we are...