Combat Medic Archive
Thread: New CM question
HI I just got master Medic last night which was a breeze, and now I'm moving on to CM. Medic was a holo prof, but Ifigured I'd try CM out because my guild coulduse one right now heh.I've read through the FAQ and did some searching around, but I still have some questions. Obviously, I want to get to master as soon as possible, so I'm looking for the quickest route. From what I've read the crafting part is pretty straightforward, and just requires a decent macro and lots of resources. The part that I'm confused about is the healing portion. It seems that the most popularmethod is using ranged stims in a busy cantina. I'm not too concerned with crafting my own stims, so I'll be buying them from a vendor. When do I get the ability to use ranged stims, and at what levels should I start using better stims? Any idea on what tree to go up first? Thanks ahead of time 
-K.F.
Go Support 4, Distance 4 then Speed 4. Personally I'd get some AE Poison A's (Any stat) and go to a durni lair (or any low HP mob lair will do).Poke the lair till about 10 or more come out at once, holster your weapon, peace and spam the poison.
At CM0002 you will get the xp equivalent to the rated effectiveness of the poison pack plus your effectiveness bonus. At CM0004 you can start using better poison packs, like AE Bs. At CM1004 your damage on the packs will start gaining more of a bonus to damage and distance. At CM4004 your bonus to damage and distance will be maxed until you reach Master. At this point you will fly through the Speed tree in approximately 30 minutes or so.
Now you may ask "But won't mobs die with so much poison being applied to them?" No, thanks to the +1 nerf the Devs have introduced the easiest way to Power Level a CM.
Another question you may have is "Will I still gain xp for applying a poison pack to a mob with only 1 HP?" Yes, you will gain full XP but it just won't do the damage. Spam the pack like mad. I recommend you buy or make some poison packs made with Rancor biles to maximize the charges. A good pack made with Rancor Bile can have upwards of 90-190 charges on them.
Happy hunting...
Gnuut wrote:
Go Support 4, Distance 4 then Speed 4. Personally I'd get some AE Poison A's (Any stat) and go to a durni lair (or any low HP mob lair will do).Poke the lair till about 10 or more come out at once, holster your weapon, peace and spam the poison.
At CM0002 you will get the xp equivalent to the rated effectiveness of the poison pack plus your effectiveness bonus. At CM0004 you can start using better poison packs, like AE Bs. At CM1004 your damage on the packs will start gaining more of a bonus to damage and distance. At CM4004 your bonus to damage and distance will be maxed until you reach Master. At this point you will fly through the Speed tree in approximately 30 minutes or so.
Now you may ask "But won't mobs die with so much poison being applied to them?" No, thanks to the +1 nerf the Devs have introduced the easiest way to Power Level a CM.
Another question you may have is "Will I still gain xp for applying a poison pack to a mob with only 1 HP?" Yes, you will gain full XP but it just won't do the damage. Spam the pack like mad. I recommend you buy or make some poison packs made with Rancor biles to maximize the charges. A good pack made with Rancor Bile can have upwards of 90-190 charges on them.
Happy hunting...
Wow that's sounds like a great idea. Can I use the area poisons A's at novice CM? Also, umm do you know a city with a CM trainer that has low level, high spawning lairs close by?
-K.F.
KannonFoddOr wrote:
Wow that's sounds like a great idea. Can I use the area poisons A's at novice CM? Also, umm do you know a city with a CM trainer that has low level, high spawning lairs close by?
-K.F.
Depending on the crafter of the packs you may have to wait till you get the first or second tree in support. You may have to use single poison packs till you get the XP to use the AE packs. Same concept, except don't hit the lair, pick a single weak mob,spam the poison and you will get full xp for him.
AE poisons are generally higher level than singles. Check out the CM crafters in your galaxy and ask them if they have any low level AE packs. They should be able to get some decent 50 eff, 35 med use Point Blank Poison packs made for you.
Coronet has pretty decent spawning for Durnis butterflys etc (south of Starport). KorVella is a little better on spawns but I can't remember if they have a trainer or not. Theed has alot of spiders just past the river. Mos Entha or Mos Espa I believe have a trainer and both have Kreetle lairs just outside of town.
Happy Hunting...
Wow Gnuut, thisworked great! Once I found a CM vendor on my server, I bought some Rancor bile mind poison with 5Combat medicineuse and 83 charges. I think I bought 4. Then I found a Chubba and poisoned him over and over until I got support 1,2, and 3. Then I had +50 incombat medicineuse. At this point, I was able to use Area health and poison A's which were 43 CM use. That's when the xpstarted to fly. I found a newbie spawn area and started area poisoning every yellow dot I could find. Then I made a simpleloopingmacro named "poisonmacro" like this:
/applypoison; /pause 6; /macro poisonmacro
On throws where most of the poison stuck, I was getting well over 1000xp per throw, which was over 6k per minute. Hehe I've never done anything this easy SWG before. Well all I have to do is craft now, but I just wanted to say thanks for the great advice. If it weren't for that, I'd prolly be payingsomeWookie totumble for me right now 
-K.F.