Combat Medic Archive

I'm debating moving over from CH to CM.. and I was curous as to how they compare.. Moreover I was curious as to what type of DPS(damage per second) rates do poisons get.. A's B's and C's.. good and bad ones.. Could I take down monsters by thowing poisons at em and just waiting, Thats kinda what i do now with CH.. send my pets in and wait for them to kill the monster.

Hope somebody can help me. Thanks!

Well, just to break it to you, there is a very small chance that you could toss a poison at anything but a kreetle to watch it die...poisons/diseases in PvE are useless without a group of people helping you.

As for DPS, I can only comment on C's, my 553 damage per 6 second C poison is my best, that works out to 92dps, then of course you can stack a B ontop of that and maybe get 150dps, so really, it would take a long time for you to just sit back and wait for things to die by tossing a poison at them.

It already takes forever for my pets to kill things lol.. best my pets do is around 140 dps...

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Phomeister wrote:
It already takes forever for my pets to kill things lol.. best my pets do is around 140 dps...

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Ya, but you can have 2 of them...plus if you don't have other combat skills to say you'd be screwed waiting for a poison to kill something is an understatement, at least with pets the pets keep the aggro most of the time and you don't get hit too much.

Actually thats about 140 dps total.... The last CH nerf really hurt us bad.. We can't pull out multipe good pets anymore. It's so balanced that the best we can hope for is a really high level pet that does that high of damage(140dps)..

If I was to pick up 2 or 3 pets i could have out at the same time.. they'd have like 6000ham with no armor and do about 100 dps total... CH blows hard now.

Well if you're a master CH you could try and get a merek death's head, they do 540-740 damage every 2 seconds, that's not bad, better then what we can do.

well the pets have thier damage reduced by armor and resists while the cm i don't think does

CM's get no defenses of any kind.

not ranged, not melee, not defense vs X, no accuity, nadda zip, zilch, nothing.....

We do get Master Scout level Terrain Negotiation (for running for our lives)

You also needed to factor in a pets tohit ratio as well. A pet that can hit for 500 points max is great..but it aint so great if it only hits 1/3 of the time. Poison damage hits every time.. and for full damage. I was bored last night and switched from CH to master CM.. and yes one application of C poison does a little more damage than a master CH high level pet. I havn't experimented with stacking poisons and stuff..but i assume it'd cause a lot more damage.. Thats how much CH's suck now.