Combat Medic Archive

how needed is survey for a cm i mean can our resources / meds be bought?

Indispensible, IMHO.

Some of the resources can be bought, but let's face it to make a truly EFFECTIVE pack, you need to be able to get the besty of the best in resources, and very few surveyors are out there getting the resources with the stats a CM needs. I've long wanted to give up Surveying, but I just can't see any way to viably do it, even after checking the bazaar for the entire galaxy for the resources I would need.

Just my opinion, though.

well what stats on resources are needed? I know overall quality, but what else?

Depends on what you are meaking, but generally you'll need thinkgs like Potential Energy (mostly for power/potency), Unit Toughness (for charges, generally), Conductivity (for range, generally), Decay Resistances (for durations, generally) and I think there are one or two others, depending on what it is your are making.

saying im making poision.

In that case, pretty much all of the above, then. And you need to get a good fungus for your organic resource, to boot. Never see that on the Bazaar.

If you want to make advanced components I can't say that I have ever seen things like Tolium or Elaton Reactive Gases, Class 1 Radioactivers or Class 2 liquid petro fuel (among others) on the bazaar either.

You want to make the best poisons you can? I thihk you are pretty much stuck having to keep surveying to achieve that. No doubt about it, in my mind, that CM is a crafting profession.

I agree. However there is one other option if you don't want to get surveying skills. Make friends with one if you can

if you can find the resources for adv. components, stats are secondary.

finding the resources for adv. stuff is the trick.

so yes, survey is invaluable.

yeah, if you can find close friends who have it, or a guild who has a real good miner then you can get away without it. otherwise, its pretty hard...

Survey is one of those needed requirements when you are using a crafting class because you cant rely on someone to get the supplies to you. Personally they should lower the initial class cost of points from 15 pts to 5 pts. Freeing up some points so they can have them to spend on something else. Plus it will allow character's something to work towards instaed of just having a stopping point on character advancement.

Or even better alternative is to make sampling an artisian skill and allow medics to raise their survey levels through medic. Thus letting us to set down harvestors to get the supplies we need.

You can do just fine without survey on a populated servers (like Chilastra). Note the names of the players selling them on the Bazaar (and by the way at the moment you can buy EVERY resource on Chilastra, I just did yesterday - all 14 different ones for advanced components), messgae them and offer good price for bulk qty.


You will be amased at how much time you save.

People need to start using www.swgcraft.com. Go check for your servers resource and if its there get somebody to find you a high %. Pay them if you have to. Save yourself the 29 points.

Survey is, in my mind, not just needed but essential to the class.

Rickard