Combat Medic Archive

Finally got to try the CM Poisons = HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT

I spent about 8-10 hours arranging trades, running quests to get money and traveling to remote planets so that I could use my new CM abilities of poison.

After all of this running around went and purchased a R5 with crafting station and medical module (needed this anyways).

Sat down and crafted up a area effect health poison and found out that you need 46 "use" skill, which i didn't have yet. I thought to myself, "kinda odd i have to get master in a CM line in order to use an item I can craft much earlier".

But hey I was excited about my new skill and pressed on. I was determined to believe that Poisons where not as bad as I've been reading on the boards. Come on I mean this is kinda the "offence" of a CM.

I fired up the single target health poison, I make a 29 potency, 32 effectiveness poison. I found a Worrt(baby) and tossed 8 of them at it, 3 missed altogether and 5 more hit but were completely resisted. Hum, this is bad but maybe just maybe i had a really unlucky streak. So i fired up another 8 and finally with 4th one in the 2nd stack I hit the Worrt(baby), it did no noticeable damage. The Worrt(baby) charged me and I reflex attacked him with a punch for 37 damage and killed him. Now please understand I have 0, literally 0 skill in any type of melee at all.

So I learned 2 lessons:

1) Maybe I shouldn't disbelieve what the other CM posting here are saying about the class.

2) The offence of a reflexive punch with no experience in it at all is many times more powerful then a (cough) deadly poison made by someone who has invested nearly 1 month in his combat medic class and abilities.

I spent about 8-10 hours arranging trades, running quests to get money and traveling to remote planets so that I could use my new CM abilities of poison.

After all of this running around went and purchased a R5 with crafting station and medical module (needed this anyways).

Sat down and crafted up a area effect health poison and found out that you need 46 "use" skill, which i didn't have yet. I thought to myself, "kinda odd i have to get master in a CM line in order to use an item I can craft much earlier".

But hey I was excited about my new skill and pressed on. I was determined to believe that Poisons where not as bad as I've been reading on the boards. Come on I mean this is kinda the "offence" of a CM.

I fired up the single target health poison, I make a 29 potency, 32 effectiveness poison. I found a Worrt(baby) and tossed 8 of them at it, 3 missed altogether and 5 more hit but were completely resisted. Hum, this is bad but maybe just maybe i had a really unlucky streak. So i fired up another 8 and finally with 4th one in the 2nd stack I hit the Worrt(baby), it did no noticeable damage. The Worrt(baby) charged me and I reflex attacked him with a punch for 37 damage and killed him. Now please understand I have 0, literally 0 skill in any type of melee at all.

So I learned 2 lessons:

1) Maybe I shouldn't disbelieve what the other CM posting here are saying about the class.

2) The offence of a reflexive punch with no experience in it at all is many times more powerful then a (cough) deadly poison made by someone who has invested nearly 1 month in his combat medic class and abilities.

The A level poison sucks. The B is so so. The C level can be very deadly though. At the same time the resource cost in them and the resist rate of things makes it almost more useful to go with a blaster and use body shot 2.

Don't know about the area poison though. It only worked on the target when I tried testing it in beta and no one around the target. Was worlds better then the exactly 0 points of healing I'd get out of area stims at least to anyone.

I think the whole point for the poision and dis. are for Players and not Animals of the sort... Combat medic as I see it is in actual combat not a hunting trip... I've used Poisions on a few PCs and have had all them work. You should see the things said after they realize... Hes a Combat Med. Then everyone is after you But then I guess it helsp to have a Scout Blaster and Spraystick in your inventory... Heh Mind poison and mind shot 2 will cripple your enemy fast...and same with helth shot 2 with a health poision.

-S

Poison C's weren' t that bad. It did little bit under 3k damage for me. Wish there were D's and E's since the bigger mobs 3k isn't that much.

did you run in circles the 2 minutes for the poisons to take full effect? ,)