Combat Medic Archive

To all,

In today's patch notes was an inclusion that more monsters would be getting medium and strong disease attacks. I'm all for that.

The following post on the CH thread seems to imply (i found it a confusing read) that 3 critters are tamable having meduim and strong disease secondary attacks:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=creature_handler&message.id=95949

I'm not stomping my feet against, it but I think we as a profession should have a bit more information about these guys.

What's the probability of the secondary attack coming? What's the potency of the disease given it has stuck?

I'm happy with seeing CHs get more diversity given the nerfs they've had and will continue to have to mitigate Pet Wars, but it's my hope that a CH cannot equal or surpass a CM in use of disease with a pack of frothing critters.

As a side note: I think in particular the cloning line of that post somewhat bothered me... "...now let's got black out some HAM bars..." (might not be exact). The tone here embodies every complaint aimed at both us and commandos.

Jacore, MD/MCM, Tempest

As a almost master CH I have had quite alot of experience with pet abilities and they don't really use special attacks as much as they should... This is my opinion though. The thing is as a Combat Medic you guys get to choose which type of disease you want to use. We CH's have no control over the randomness of our pets special attacks... and I'm sure most of the pets have health disease which isn't that big of a deal compared to mind disease that seems to be popular. I actually thought of dropping CH/pistoleer for CM/pistoleer instead because of the mind poison... but I like my pets =) I happen to see this post when I was looking through the latest posts section and figured I would post my thoughts. I know CH isn't the most liked profession.. and I know people seem to hate us even after being made into an almost useless proffession. But as for the disease pets use specials maybe once per fight... I have gone 20 fights once before a pet even used a special... I personally would like to see it work a little more often like maybe once every 2 fights... or maybe let us have some sort of control over what specials we can use but thats my opinon and I'm sure people will flame me for it... but oh well.. the point is disease from pets won't make a big diffrence at the current time because specials only happen once in awhile not every fight... atleast my Webmaster only poisons every once in awhile... Hope this sheds some light for you...