Combat Medic Archive

Over on the Eclipse servers, I was one of the first Combat medics in the game. While everyone else was running round playing at Doctors, I was the third on Eclipse to make MCM, after coming into the game 3 weeks after release.

I loved being a CM to begin with, people in hunt groups showered praise on my incredible ranged healing ability, and the light shows i could create in a Cantina(even tho the stim was broken) was something almost no-one had ever seen before.

Then the Poisons/diseases got fixed, oh joy. For a short time, I was the scourge of the server, nobody had the faintest idea how to defend against my poison attacks. CMs were so rare in PVP (in fact there were only two of us active back then) that most folk had no idea whatsoever what a "poison" state was until they keeled over.

Then two things happened. First, LOS was introduced for CM poison and disease. This removed a lot of my favorite tricks. The second thing was, I ran out of skill points. To be an effective CM means having Novice Marksman, the full support line, plus 4 boxes of Doctors craft, as well as my CM tree. Therefore, i started to feel the pinch, as my scout skills had to go so as I could keep my pistol skill.

Sadly, it seemed that the extra points id had to shell out soon meant other players started passing me in not only killing ability, but in survival ability. The huge increase in quality of Stim Bs meant that people no longer looked for Medics when forming hunting groups.

Whats more, we seemed to slip slowly down the list of priorities for the devs, shown this patch by the fact that after over three months they have finally corrected a typo in the ranged Stim E. The AE disease is still fubared because of a wrong multiplier, the Advanced Resilience compound still doesnt load. We still have poison components that use Doctors skills, we still get nothing for killing things with a Com Med weapon, poison.

So i found myself in a position where i was unwanted in PvE groups, hated in PvP because the only way i could kill folk was to exploit the revenge TEF. Although people are crying out for Combat Medic Merchants, because nothing we make is usable by anyone other than a Combat Medic, there just are not enough customers to make it work. No matter how you view the COMBAT in COMBAT medic, it just doesnt fit. So i decided to take action.

I can now be found on Eclipse, as a Novice Weaponsmith. I didnt want to be a Weaponsmith, I wanted to be a Combat healer, but sadly this game doesnt have one. Whats more, looking at what the developers are giving their time to, it will not have one for quite some time, maybe never. After having devoted so much of my time to training, poison manufacture and PvP, it saddens me to have given it all up, but to be honest i dont feel like ive given up much

I hope they fix you guys soon, I hope they realise that Com Med is the most lost and pointless profession in the game right now. But ill bet they dont