Combat Medic Archive

Pistol or Carbine with a very good speed rating, since throwing meds/poisons are timed with your weapons fire rate, the faster the weapon, the quicker youll get the heals out.

Well, you'd at least have to use a ranged weapon for a while to get Ranged Weapon Support 4 which is needed for Combat Medic.

I use a pistol, and I like it a lot. It's also been said that a pistol's high speed helps the speed of your healing while in combat because you don't have to wait so long between attacks.

The only other weapon I'd consider would be the carbine. The pistol and carbine have good range capabilites that go along with being a CM. If you were using a rifle, you wouldn't be able to heal the tanks (because you'd be too far away) for most of your CM career. Once you became Master CM, I guess it wouldn't matter too much.

You could also go with weapon that keeps you in melee range and use the combat XP for Ranged Weapon Support, but then you'd have to have Novice Marksman and Novice Brawler, which might be a waste of 15 skill points. You'd also have the ranged healing problem as you'd most likely be too far ahead of your riflemen and would have to run back to heal them.

Pistol or Carbine should keep you right in the middle of your group which is ideal, in my opinion.

I recommend a good, fast carbine with a consistent damage range. Carbine is a good complement to the support role of medic -- at least the way I play it. It was a lot cooler back before the big posture-change nerf, because you could knock targets to kneeling (or prone) from the back of the group to prevent their advance, and then provide cover to the tanks as they moved in to mop up. Keeping mobs pinned down is a little more problematic now, but I have too much invested in Carbineer to back out. I am still happy with the range, damageand rate of fire results I get, though.

you can technically use any of the ranged weapons. For speed you got pistols and carbines...but if you go rifleman id suggest getting a spraystick in addition to whatever main weapon you want...the spraystick is basically an energy rifle form of hte FWG5.

And since the changes to kd...suppressionfire is not nearly as useful as it once was. which is wierd since if the target is using a ranged weapon too...it can fire back still...not like the TKA/bh kd's...and with the "run and gun" fixes to hitting...warningshot doesnt work too well either...since you'll usually be using this while running away.

Hello, I'm Millions Valentine. I recently quit BE to become a Combat Medic. My only problem is, I'm having a hard time deciding on a Combat-Class to go with it. I'd like some opinions. It doesn't HAVE to be a ranged-weapon, just tell me what you think works best.

I agree with the folks here. Pistol or Carbine. You have to take into the fact that rifles also take more mind cost than the other guns too.Atleast i think. Its been a while.Plus a CM is a busy runner. He cant be chillen all prone and away from the group. yah even with ranged healz i always seem to be runnin after something lol.

CM/Pistoleer has worked beautifully so far with me. DX2 pistolmaster sliced plus stopshot, fanshot has been very nice. Oh and another thing. Carbines stop you dead when you shoot i believe. and so doranged heals. thats 2 dead stops too many when you need to get places.

Carbine has greater utility and damage than a pistol, and only slightly slower. Blinding people works wonders in PvP with the changes to hitting while moving...miss miss miss.

I tried em both and I found the the Carbine is often more dangerous to yourself than to the enemy. The high HAM costs and the melee damage bonus are killers for the medic.

Pistols are weaker in the end than Carbines with no state effects and no fancy pool specific attacks (besides chest shot 2 at novice pistoleer) and no ranged knockdown. They are solid damage dealers and fast.

Between the two I found Pistol to be way more enjoyable, but I spent a lot of time soloing (with a pet) and back then KD worked.

-z

It really depends on if you're planning on mastering your weapon. If you're a master rifleman you can still shoot a t21 every second, so don't worry about the timing if you want to master. The big problem with rifle is the 2.5 x damage in melee you take, and if you're in group its not a bit deal. And go up counter snipe 3, that gives you an AoE attack and i can frequently hit from 2-3k on unarmored guys with a t21.

Rifle is my personal favorite ..umm spraystick

Just the path of the rifleman is HARD - 2.5x melee dmg anyone? , also lower weapon/combat xp in groups (approx. 30-50% of xp others get). If you pick up pistols or carabines your life will be MUCH easier.

lol uh best weapon AOE mind poison C...

why bother with anything else...

doesnt really matter what you use then as long as u get that off...

and since getting that off usually means you areon the move...stick with a weapon that doesnt stop ur running motion to fire...

other than that....

I'm almost master carbine, i like it alot, however i'm currently thinking that NO weapon is the right weapon. I tested this lastnight in PvP, and ZERO melee damage penalites allowed me to live a lot longer than usual vs the tons of pets rebels usualy have in dearic when i visit. as well as not having to worry about any stupid timers.

I have to disagree with the majority here.

Rifleman is the best combination with combat medic for the following reasons:

1) Spraysticks are as fast as pistols...infact....T21s are as fast as pistols at master rifleman.

2) You want all your stats migrated twards your mind attributes anyway (from being a medic)

3) As a Rifleman/Combat Medic...you can be the mind pool nazi like me....Muhahaha