Combat Medic Archive

Well, it didn't specifically state no poison stacking, it mentioned bleed and fire, though. But we can guess it will affect poison, too. The no Combat XP thing... well we would geta LOT of it, generally, when using DoTs, but I don't think it was a ton for healing. I realize it wasn't all that useful for CMs (at least not directly, although it could be useful for a CM's secondary profession) I think it was useful in getting up into CM from Medic, so I'm not too sure why they would yank that. We didn't get any kind of heads-up on any of that stuff on the Correspondent side, though, I know that much.

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Combat XP grants were removed from combat healing, poisons and diseases. Those actions will still count towards looting permissions.

This is as it should be in my opinion. It also paves the way for them to maybe put poison incap back in, though I would doubt that highly considering the current climate.

DoT damage is now tracked for loot permissions.

See Above, essentially I see this as a way to try and fix the problems that they could not fix in the beginning when DOTs were reported to not allow looting.

XP rewards in combat now correctly reflect amount of damage that was done by dots.

There is no way to know this for sure, sometimes poisons are considered DOTs, sometimes they are not. My initial thought would be that this would now be ther area where you would get your combat EXP. If this is the case I am alright with the change.

DoT stacking has been changed so that each player attacking a target can only have one fire dot, one health bleed, one action bleed and one mind bleed.

Actually I always thought this was a little extreme. Allowing me to hit a target with an A, B, C direct and an A, B, C AoE poison on a target is a bit overpowering. This might go a little ways towards keeping another nerf bat from smacking us.

Weapon DoT effects now only work if you are certified to use the weapon

Apparently this means nothing to us, since we cannot use a poison we do not have skill in.

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This does not do much to me anyway, except Dots not stacking. For the most part I am capped on EXP anyway.

I will try to test out some of the DoT stuff when I can log in to test center. My TC resources are somewhat underpowered, though, to say the least.

Single poisons of different levels still stack (i.e. Single Cs stack with single Bs)

Area poisons still stack with single poisons.

Poison range can still go beyond 64m.

So nothing changed. Thanks for testing this.

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Pahdbacca wrote:

Single poisons of different levels still stack (i.e. Single Cs stack with single Bs)

Area poisons still stack with single poisons.

Poison range can still go beyond 64m.

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heh, thanks, saves me from doing more testing... gotta worry about city count and all now

i never see you around any more

i assume that poison and disease still have no problem stacking?

Thanks for the test, PahdBacca - can I pop a few more questions?

1) Did you try stacking different bleeds and did that stop working? Just checking to see if those patchnotes reflect Test-server reality at all

2) Did you check if different DOTs on the same pool still stack. eg. Mind Poison and Mind Bleeds?

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Pappi wrote:

heh, thanks, saves me from doing more testing... gotta worry about city count and all now

i never see you around any more

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Budhard wrote:

Thanks for the test, PahdBacca - can I pop a few more questions?

1) Did you try stacking different bleeds and did that stop working? Just checking to see if those patchnotes reflect Test-server reality at all

No, did not try that.

2) Did you check if different DOTs on the same pool still stack. eg. Mind Poison and Mind Bleeds?

Yes, bleeds and poisons stack.

Tx,

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i assume that poison and disease still have no problem stacking?

I did not test this but I do not see any reason why not.