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Kuildeous put it very well. There had to be some cost for using the mind heal and the devs wanted that to be wounds. They didn't want mind healing to be something someone could spam non stop or use a lot during a fight, it would make the ability as things stand now far too powerful. If someone isn't capable of understanding that then thats a pity I suppose, tho from what I've seen most seem able to understand this and agree with it. Heck even the Medic Correspondant, Doc Correspondant and CM Correspondant where all in agreement with it. I guess you can never make those whiney, "I want it all" people happy. They do provide some amusement tho at least.

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Ravenmist wrote:
Kuildeous put it very well. There had to be some cost for using the mind heal and the devs wanted that to be wounds. They didn't want mind healing to be something someone could spam non stop or use a lot during a fight, it would make the ability as things stand now far too powerful. If someone isn't capable of understanding that then thats a pity I suppose, tho from what I've seen most seem able to understand this and agree with it. Heck even the Medic Correspondant, Doc Correspondant and CM Correspondant where all in agreement with it. I guess you can never make those whiney, "I want it all" people happy. They do provide some amusement tho at least.

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You're find that most Doc's or CM's are both docs and CMs. Which means that they want to heal ppl as a primary job on the field and off.

I'm a master CM/carbineer I fight with my abilities I would like to take a group (although not much in this game can't be soloed) and fight all day long but with this system I can't because I would have to go back to the cantina (cause a high level dancer won't come fight because they'd rather take up ...music or ID instead of a fighting ability.

I'm agree that Dancers should heal mind wounds whole heartedly...but to get wounds when I heal others is rediculous. will I have to change what kind of stims i use? if not..will an AE stim that heals everyones ham be a death sentence to me?

It's the HAM system that is messed up.

It should be a 4 bar system with the 4 bar being untargetable/hitable and only gets used when /flourish, healing, special shots...etc.

this will keep the riflemen/carbineers/pistolleers etc. hitting the respect bar.....will mean all HAM bars are healed equally...and the forth bar limits how many heals/specials can be spammed..

I have yet to see a logical debate on why that HAM system won't work...but making the mind healable only by a certain class...and a class when they do heal minds will be rendered out of battle for awhile still allows the classes to hit the mind to be GODs in PvP.

Apollo

Mind shouldn't be handled totally different than Health or action.

There needs to be some other way of limiting spamming heals, specials than it being mind which is targetable and a trival way of healing it.

Apollo

I agree, but with the current system the other heals drain your mind pool and it doesn't make a lot of sense to most I've talked to to have the mind heal drain your health and action, doesn't exactly fit or help much. Also if it did drain your health and action if it didn't drain them a whole hell of a lot you'd end up with the endless HAM situation which of course is what the devs where trying to avoid. So unless an entire new system to handle heals/ham cost is made, there really is no way for the mind heal to work like the others do that makes sense.

ok, lets try to put this to rest... lets take an example:

right before i got /healmind myself, Warryc (the CM correspondent) and i went out krayt hunting with a whole bunch of people. i had to take my CM instead of my dancer, since i needed the med xp... and darn i regret that now Warry was only healing people's mind when they're mind incapped, yet at the end of every kill he ends up with 1/4-1/3 of his mind bar black (keep in mind he's a wookiee, he has tons HAM to start). as he accumulate more BF, the damage to his stats increases in every heal. we spentas muchtime trying to heal his wounds (with a few entertainers)as we didfighting. it would've been such nice xp for my dancer

for those of you who think that CMs will just pick up novice entertainer to heal themselves, i'll safely say that it'll be near impossible, unless the person invests in something like novice musician/dancer. for any big hunts, people will have to start bringing higher level entertainers along. ihave no problem with the whole mind wound thing... it's a lot of wounds, but after all a little downtime at the cantina is always fun

"but to have to rely on a class which is rarely seen on the battlefield because the are too busy macroing their way to master or Roleplaying in a cantina 24/7 is rediculous."

If you can't find a Dancer/Musician on the battlefield, make it worth their time to be there/go there. I dance in a "combat" zone Cantina ALL the time. While not specifically a battlefield, there's always action close by. I'm also very much inclinded to go to where people want/need me.

I did not AFK-macro my way to Master... I didn't even know how back when I started. I used it from time to time, and I still do now... but the "work" I do while AFK is a pittance to my value while actually playing. While roleplaying in the Cantina is a worthwhile addition to thegame, especially on some servers that lack any imaginitive RPing, Dancer that are AFK are missing out on SO much, especially since our Mind buff gave our profession some serious worth.