Combat Medic Archive

i want to master both, any advice on which i should go with first??

I've heard many people advise CM first so you can disease pets and cure them for good XP, but I would say doctor first.

I did doctor first and once you can buff well (0/2/4/0) you can make money and gain XP very fast. Doctor XP works for combat medic as well and you can gain over 4k XP per set of buffs while getting paid (xp from buffing is 1/2 of actual buff..so if you buff for 1500, you get 750 XP). So, go group with friends, hang out in a cantina or get a MCM to disease your pet until you are 0/2/4/0 doc, then that is all the real "grinding" you have to do.....other than crafting, of course, and there isn't a real easy way through that, although macros help.

I would do CM first, at least until you can get AoE heals and AoE poisons. You get medical exp for poisons so the AoE abilities help a lot.

I did CM first (actually I did doctor first, got bored and reset it, now Im doing doc again). If you get bored, just go to the cantina, throw some AoE stims, mind disease some people for the entertainers (and often get tips for it). You wind up making a few friends, getting free mind buffs, and making some money. Nice and relaxing, plus a well timed AoE stim is worth several thousand medical xp in a crowded cantina if you can deal with being TEFed most of the time - though a lot of overt enemies dont seem to bother with me when Im TEFd. Not sure whether thats since Im a CM or because Im the one healing the dancers.

Now instead of CM/Doc Im going Tinkerer - in Horizons, another MMORPG The last straw for me was dumping a ton of money into my harvesters, factories, and structures and leaving town for a few days on business - only to find when I came back the money was back in my bank and the server had been rolled back. Lost all my houses, which were holding the now non-spawning advanced component resources I had, and 50+ crates of primo CM stuff, Krayt goodies, all my spare deeds, etc. Lost everything due to SOEs ****-up and I dont have the patience to accumulate it all over again.

thanks to all....

decided to go doctor first...i leveled all of the crafting yesterday, figuring the enhancements would get me mad XP and money along the way. so i would think leveling CM would be a breeze....

thank god for macros!!! never used them until recently, but man do they save so much time!

thanks again!