Combat Medic Archive

I was hoping to get some insight into how everyone manages to climb through the healing skills. I have seen many people healing in cantinas, but I can't imagine this being doable just from the pure boredom alone. Not to mention the slow pace at which healing exp is gained in cantinas that have other people fighting for the healing exp. It seems not always easy to find a group to join to help grind through the exp and I often pass by medical centers that are barren. Any help/info on methods of gaining decent healing exp would be very helpful.

My technique is to :

1) Sit in Med centre and heal

2) if med centre empty run to cantina and heal

3) if cantina is empty run to med centre and heal

4) repeat above till bored

5) if bored, get missions and randomly heal people on way out and way in

6) got to line 1

There are a couple of easier ways than that. First, get a Master Doc to make some Wound Packs for you since they have the most experimentation on them. If you know a creature Handler and a commando or bounty hunter you just get one of them to flamethrower the Creature guy's pet. Causes tons of wounds for you to heal. Use those wound packs from the Doc and you'll be set. You can macro it as well.

The other way is to get some beefed up Area Stim As. Get a bunch of people to use Tumble to prone constantly. It'll drain their action and you can get 800+ xp for every one Area Stim you use.

Smythe,

Go to an advanced planet and group on missions. Try to find elite brawler professions who are looking to up their weapon/unarmed xp. You get great med xp while doing this and you actually learn that healing as a combat medic is a lot harder than it looks (if the group doesn't have pets). Or if you can find some newer players on a starting planet, offer to heal their group on missions. Newer players are a challenge to heal since they end up running all over the place.

This way you make money & xp, without sitting there healing a bunch of people who are macro tumbling.

Just my opinion, of course.

I probably shouldn't say this, but there is a better way even yet:

1. Fill your first level inventory with stims.

2. Find a partner who has marksman ranged tier 2.

3. Get out the macros...

The "donor" sets up the following macro:

/tumbletostanding;

/pause 2;

/ui action toolbarSlot00;

Then place the macro in the F1 slot.

The "healer" sets up the following macro:

/healdamage;

/pause 16;

/ui action toolbarSlot00;

place the healing macro in your F1 slot.

Now, the devs know about this, theycreated the code that allows for it to happen. They also put an 80,000 healing exp cap on so that you have to train up the levels periodically or waste a lot of stims while you went to watch a movie.

Use it if you wish, it is a feature built into the game for a reason. Be advised, you can't do anything else with the character while you aretumbling. no crafting, no trading, nothing but chat with your friends.

personally what i was doing was going to the narglatch caves with 2 people a brawler and a marksman, y.....i would send in the brawler and stick to healing him.....and if ever needed too threw a ranged stim or 2 at the marksman.....would end up getting bout 30k medic xp in 1 trip

I agree, go on a hunt. It is much funner than macroing or sitting at a cantina. Plus sometimes you end up meeting with periodic hunting buddies. Do a good job at healing and people invite you to go along on missions. A friend of mine takes me on missions after he saw how quickly I can heal him and his pets. He is more than happy to do the missions and split the cash since we can almost do non-stop missions. And as mentioned before go with a brawler/TKA and have them put on vibro knuckles (increased HAM special cost).

You know what may work for you as well, is instead of gnarlatches (or however you spell those things from naboo) go to Dathomir. There are always people there in need of healing and there are always pets around in need of healing as well. I know the whole corpse deal is killing us, cause the majority of people just clone and dont suffer that many wounds, they need to re-enstate corpse back into the game.

my friend went from 0 medic to master of all doc and cm trees except the crafting trees in less than two weeks by raiding with our pa everynight