Combat Medic Archive

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aeuralis wrote:

Since I am a MD/MCM, my role on the battlefield tends to be one of heals with a side order of poison/disease. But i don't think that we should be limited to that. I think that if i wanted to mix CM with a elite combat profession, i should be able to deal a great deal of damage with my 169 skill points invested in CM.

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If I understand what you are saying then you feel that the side role that your current template is limited to a support class in a Base Raid or in a Large Scale Battle? Also you feel that CM should be mixed with another Elite Cobat proffession to make you more effective? If I am correct in my understanding what ranged combat profession would you choose?

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KnightHawk420 wrote:

I never succumb to that throw away cannon fodder role.. Just not my thing anymore. I don't start chucking poisons now unless I'm sure I got a chance to live to see those who I poisoned die.

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So you also feel that you are used as a suicide bomber of sorts in these engagements? What do you propose be changed to make the Combat Medics role in battle not only survivable but effective?

lol, reduce our offensive power and we wont be canonfudder any more
little joke, but in some way realistic. i am shoot first because i am a major threat to the enemy.
if we get stronger, that will only increase, and i will be the major target, even before any doc or squadleader. our offensive power is strong enough.
just give us some knockdown defense.

the wounds during the mind heal should be given to the healed one, not to us, or may be divided between us and the other one. so i wont have to shout at some stupid one who is spamming specials in the dwb, with mind under 500.

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santachristo wrote:
lol, reduce our offensive power and we wont be canonfudder any more
little joke, but in some way realistic. i am shoot first because i am a major threat to the enemy.
if we get stronger, that will only increase, and i will be the major target, even before any doc or squadleader. our offensive power is strong enough.
just give us some knockdown defense.

the wounds during the mind heal should be given to the healed one, not to us, or may be divided between us and the other one. so i wont have to shout at some stupid one who is spamming specials in the dwb, with mind under 500.

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So you belive that because of your abilities you are targeted first? If that is the case do you know of any strategy that would allow you to do your thing with out getting that feeling of having a target on your tummy?

I have read many complaints from Combat Medic’s that claim that they are being used as throw away cannon fodder in Base Raids and Large Scale battles. If you could change the way that you are used in a base raid or large scale battle how would it be defined?

Message Edited by BULLROACH on 10-07-2004 01:01 PM

I don't see myself in the GCW..

I sit around and watch PVP..

i watch other CM's tossing poisons i can't cure..
i watch everyone get all kinds of wonderful states i can't cure..
i watch everyone die to mind damage that i can't cure without hurting myself.. nor can i cure it as effectively as i could cure health/action if anyone around ever lost more than 100 of either stat
i watch all the corpses that stay corpses because i can't resuccitate them..
i watch everyone on fire that i can't put out..


*sigh.. so ya.. i don't see myself in the GCW at all..

sorry.. i wanted to play a combat medic.. as the person chiefly responsible for keeping my squad pulling the trigger.. i don't have the tools to do that.. Doc's do..

others see CM an entirely different way.. and they're sure to comment later

na, i feel fine beeing one of the first targets of my enemies. i took this profession because i want to be a major threat in pvp. as i am now, i will have to accept that the enemy wants the major threat to be dead .

but in order to be able to help my squad a little bit more, give us more knockdown defences. because i am usually killed with the knockdown dizzy thing.
then maybe i want some more "combat medic" skills in my profession. i want to heal and "cure" on the field. give me anti disease and antipoisen cures.

i should craft components of this stuff, and the master doc should craft the final cures with my components. the master doc, and the master combat medic should be able to use those cures on the battlefield.

the disease issues are discussed somewhere else i believe.

one more idea....

this idea is listed somewhere in the forums....
what if a cm could have a pistol, or a bowcaster where he can shoot the poisen or maybe poisened bullets or arrows over bigger distances. lets say 50 m at least.
so i can be at a bigger distance when i throw my poisen, and i will be able to compensate my 4 seconds delay.

well, in order to force the community to work together, the cms should again craft components for the weaponsmith who finish the bullets, or the weapon.

I agree that combat medics should be able to rez, cure disease/poison/states in the battlefied just the same as docs, difference between docs and combat medics is that docs buff, and combat medics toss poisons/diseases.

ehm, sorry, do you work anyway as beta tester or sth like that?

I wanted to thank you all for expressing yourselves and your concerns. I am trying to revamp the way that Base Raids and Large Scale Combat is done in the game. I have been studying the game mechanics and the Professions to see how they “can” work in the current “broken” system. I think I have some great ideas and have done some small scale testing and most of it has come back very positive. There are a few areas for improvement and I am looking to those that know the Professions best to give me a better understanding of their capabilities and limitations. I have tried to play as many of the Professions myself to make sure that I know what it is that I will be doing with them. Your comments have been very helpful. I now know what the role of the Combat Medic will be in my forces.