Combat Medic Archive

I agree with you on everything but incap poisoning is an exploit. Corpse diseasing yes, that is an exploit.

I disagree with those being exploits, maybe they are griefer tools, but they have a valid place in tactics.

Number one thing in combat is not what you might think. It is not killing your opponent. How can I say that? In real life terms itis the truth.Incapacitating your opponent is much better in combat terms that actually killing him because your opponent is out of the battle longer, it takes two people to care for every single wounded person. So what does that mean about the game?

Well if you want to stop the zerg tactic, then you have to have poisons. Send your combat medic out on the field and let him poison all the incapped players. This will cause them all to stay out of the battle longer while you can take important ground. Simply deathblowing them causes them to all respawn and conduct the zerg tactic which is very tough to break up.

The disease does the same thing or even better, diseases forces them to go to the medical center and be healed of their mind woulds, taking them out of the fight even longer.

I have a feeling the devs new exactly what they were doing when they put these abilities in the game for combat medics. That is our power and what makes us special, yeah people don't like it.

I also have a theory on the nerf thing. People have realized that if they scream nerf enough, then the devs will listen to them and make the nerf. This was a horrible precident to set and one that needs to be rectified right now. The devs have tools at their disposal. or at least they should, that will let them know how much damage is being dealt by each character class and how many deaths are being done by each class. They should analyze this data and make their own determinations about what should be nerfed and what should not. What they are doing with NOT talking to anyone on the boards is exactly what they should be doing in relation to balance issues.

However, I think I can hear that tell-tale sound of the big nerf bat being wound up. I expect to feel the hard smash to the side of the head before too long.

WHY would anyone want to nerf a poison? I can't even use an area poision A and I have advanced combat medic support. The poisons I can use, if you're afraid of the 21 points of damage a tic they do to everything I have poisoned then sell your blaster an buy a moisture farm cause any newby marksman with a CDEF pistol has better dmg output than that.

agree!!

pls look at the DPS the eyeshot, and rifle can do with the hitech weapons and slice!!

/sign

I read the nerf poison thread you were taliking about and it's just a rant by someone who doesn't know what the heck they're talking about. I can't remember word for word but this was some of the things they were saying about our poisons and what should be done to them.

He mentioned that our poisons do over 1k damage a tick.

He said our poisons should be limited to one use every 60 seconds and can only target one stat every 60 seconds.

He also said our poisons never get resisted

He also said our poisons should not incap and leave the poisoned stat at 1

There was also a mention that our poisons should stop as soon as we're DBed

In the end it was your typical everyday rant of how one person got killed by this class and didn't like it so he goes crying to the devs for a nerf.

so i wandered into the SWG duscussion forum, and lo and behold , a thread about nerfing poisons, aptly called "NERF MIND POISONS NOW!!!".

now, ive been climbing up the CM tree all week and im now an expert CM and med tactician. even with low level poisons and disease, this is the most fun ive had in the game since i started...a unique attack, fun, and it makes ur crafted poisons extra special. i fear however that the devs might cave in and nerf one of the few skills i still enjoy in this game. lets hunt down these nerf herders and explain to them that our poisons are by no means as powerful as eyshot or FT's. its our only combat attack.if its nerfed, then my last enjoyable skill will be gone, and i fear i will be as well.

COMBAT MEDICS UNITE!!

p.s. i do however agree that corpse poisoning/diseaseing is an exploit, as is incap poisoning.