Combat Medic Archive
Thread: Advice for the remaining points after Master Doc/Master CM
How very curious, I've just come here to ask exactly the same question 
I am Master Doc and Master CM, I am mostly an assist character, ya know keep them all alive. Poison to kill quicker. As far as I can tell Rifles is the only one to go for if you are doing PVP simply because of the mind/head shots that you get even from 4004, however I am currently workign on getting my rifles up to that level and am finding that as far as damage goes I am capable of two types, none and nearly none. There are no real decent guns available to you at that level and you are probably stuck with a speed sliced laser rifle because you simply are not going to be able to fire at any sensible rate with a damage slice.
I have already done 0404 Marksman which gave me pistols and I found it to be oki, against MOBs I switched my mind poison to health poisons and just bled and body shot2'd them. The bonus with this profession being that you don't have to deal with heavy cost on your mind, which as a rifleman you always do, it allows you to wear hefty armour without your mind running down due to specials.
Imho the question rreally is PVP or PVM? Who knows I may fall in love with marks 4004 but so far I'm not enjoying it.
There ya go, thats my two cents. Now for some real peoples opinions
Thanks for the comments, I appreciate any input and found it helpful. I probably would do more PvE than PvP and I realise I'm not going to be doing great deals of damage. Not really knowing much about CM I just wondered if one would compliment more than another.
Larrsthebaptist wrote:
How very curious, I've just come here to ask exactly the same question
I am Master Doc and Master CM, I am mostly an assist character, ya know keep them all alive. Poison to kill quicker. As far as I can tell Rifles is the only one to go for if you are doing PVP simply because of the mind/head shots that you get even from 4004, however I am currently workign on getting my rifles up to that level and am finding that as far as damage goes I am capable of two types, none and nearly none. There are no real decent guns available to you at that level and you are probably stuck with a speed sliced laser rifle because you simply are not going to be able to fire at any sensible rate with a damage slice.
I have already done 0404 Marksman which gave me pistols and I found it to be oki, against MOBs I switched my mind poison to health poisons and just bled and body shot2'd them. The bonus with this profession being that you don't have to deal with heavy cost on your mind, which as a rifleman you always do, it allows you to wear hefty armour without your mind running down due to specials.
Imho the question rreally is PVP or PVM? Who knows I may fall in love with marks 4004 but so far I'm not enjoying it.
There ya go, thats my two cents. Now for some real peoples opinions
Additional comments, re pistols. If you do choose pistols you can still solo and you can solo some fairly hairy mobs. With the stackable effects of the health poisons and a semi decent bleed and bodyshot2 you 'll do oki as a solo player, but as Jfangjust mentioned you'll be better in a group. And you will allow the group to succeed where previously they had no hope. My advice would be to try both out, even try Carbs out as well, it doesn't take long to to get up any of those trees really. As son as you pick the one you like, get yerself a great gun.
My current weapon of choice is
Protteus wrote:
If your serious about MCM/MDOC and need something to supplement it for PvP, get rifles 4. No don't use a laser. You should carry 1 weapon and only 1 weapn, a Krayt Jawa Ion Rifle. At lvl 4 marksman you would probably want to get it speed sliced. Use expert head shot. This is the best PvP damage you can dish out, ap1 stun, mind dmg.
BZZZZ, wrong answer. Rifle 4 is okay, but find a rifle with the highest possible accuracy mod, because without it, you'll never hit anything in PVP. You only need to do a few points of damage, so anything will do, really. One good choice is getting some good speed tissues, and using them to make a fast E11 rifle with an advanced stock, which should put the ideal range mod at around +75
Personally I think carbines is the way to go.
You won't hit a barnyard at 5m with just rifles IV, damn near the same sad story with pistols IV except you'll do even less dmg.
To me carbine IV seems the better route.
Asteroids wrote:
Hey all,
I've been a Doc for ages and thought I'd also take up Combat Medic for a bit of fun. I plan on mastering CM and keeping Master Doc.
I'm just wanting some comments and suggestions as to what to do with the remaining skill points, as I really don't mind and will probably go with something that appeals to me.
I was thinking ranged support 4 (required)which would leave me enough to go to 4 in either pistols/carbine or rifles. I've been a pistoleer and carbineer and both were fun, so I was thinking maybe rifles 4.
How effective is rifles 4 say vs carbines 4 or pistols 4 (might be more appropriate on the marksman boards) or does it not really make much difference. I'm just wondering if the skills and type of weapon from one of these trees may compliment Combat Medic more than another.Go with pistols or carb as speed to get last point of damage in is better
I'm MD/MCM and I use rifles. Problem is, in order to be able to shoot anything I have to be 30-50m away, which takes me out of healing range (for everything but ranged/area heals, of course). Also, if you're in combat your lag will heal, so if you're like me you /peace before healing anyways. If you're hunting with a group, you don't need to worry about putting out damage with a gun. Forget about it, you suck at it anyways. 
If you really want to shoot stuff, keep a pistol on hand so you don't have to go out of healing range.
But if you'd rather solo, I'd recommend a rifle. Then being out of range is a good thing.
Niyne wrote:
I'm MD/MCM and I use rifles. Problem is, in order to be able to shoot anything I have to be 30-50m away, which takes me out of healing range (for everything but ranged/area heals, of course). Also, if you're in combat your lag will heal, so if you're like me you /peace before healing anyways. If you're hunting with a group, you don't need to worry about putting out damage with a gun. Forget about it, you suck at it anyways.
But if you'd rather solo, I'd recommend a rifle. Then being out of range is a good thing.
Once you've invested just about every last skill point in MD/MCM, you're not going to have enough left over to be a ranged offensive force.
I'd say go with carbines or pistol as a last ditch defensive measure only. Your only real offensive power is poison/disease cannisters; your primary role is support to people with serious combat templates.