Doctor Archive
Thread: Tumbling, Pet Buffing, or Pet Wound Healing for XP?
BillS21 wrote:
Baracous wrote:Well what is "better" is to join a couple of brawlers who need experience and go to Dantooine to hunt Quenkers. You heal them, they kill quenkers, you all get paid and you might make some friends. I like to call it "playing the game"...You know I understand why you wrote this, but really there's no need to be snide. And besides, almost no one goes hunting unbuffed (espeically on Dantooine) and because of this, in field medics are hardly needed. For instance, combat medics are more for offense now than for healing. Even healing player wounds in hospitals isn't a viable way to level to Doctor. People hardly get wounded in fights (except when cloning) and when they do, they can usually find a Doctor sitting outside with a droid to heal their wounds.
The fact of the matter is that increasing low level medic skills at this stage of the game is diffilcult because no one is in need of your skills. Also, people that want to get the benefits of Doctor are not going to sit for 3 months in a hospital healing wounds. And whereas tumlbehealing etc maybe a cheap tactic and technically an exploit, it's more the fault of the game for forcing people to it.
I agree. I've spent the last month or so leveling medic in my spare time while I "played the game" I would heal entertainers in Cantinas and the wounded in hospitals when they were available...soon I started resorting to standing in the shuttleport in Coronet healing people as they loaded or waited for the shuttle. This got me to about 0-0-2-3 with Medic and I was pretty bored of it at this point so this morning I started up a tumbling Macro on my wifes character and as of tonight I've almost mastered Doctor.
Sorry, I've gone wwaaayyy out of my way to "play the game" even when I don't really know anyone else who has...but sitting around fighting with other people to heal those last 50 wounds on someone or stim that entertainer before a CM area heals everyone isn't really my idea of "Playing the game." Following a bunch of other people around while they get to fight and have fun while all I am is their stim b17ch isn't much fun either.
BillS21 wrote:
Baracous wrote:
Well what is "better" is to join a couple of brawlers who need experience and go to Dantooine to hunt Quenkers. You heal them, they kill quenkers, you all get paid and you might make some friends. I like to call it "playing the game"...
You know I understand why you wrote this, but really there's no need to be snide. And besides, almost no one goes hunting unbuffed (espeically on Dantooine) and because of this, in field medics are hardly needed. For instance, combat medics are more for offense now than for healing. Even healing player wounds in hospitals isn't a viable way to level to Doctor. People hardly get wounded in fights (except when cloning) and when they do, they can usually find a Doctor sitting outside with a droid to heal their wounds.
The fact of the matter is that increasing low level medic skills at this stage of the game is diffilcult because no one is in need of your skills. Also, people that want to get the benefits of Doctor are not going to sit for 3 months in a hospital healing wounds. And whereas tumlbehealing etc maybe a cheap tactic and technically an exploit, it's more the fault of the game for forcing people to it.
All you anti-grinders arepretty high and mighty.
Here's the crux of the matter. The Doctor class is purely support in nature. In other words, people become Doctor's to aide other people in whatever means they deem in their playstyle (that basically boils down to wound healing/buffing and state/damage healing and rezzing in combat). However, unlike other classes, a successful, fully support oriented Doctor isn't viable until Master level, or at the very least 4-4-4-0.
just got my alt and friends diseased and healed wounds with a macro, once they reached 500+ bf, sent em to cantina, rinse repeat.
with good wound packs, I got like 1K+ (some times even close to 2K) xp/heal.
WAY faster than tumbling, I mean WAAAAAAYYYYYYY faster, like you could master the 3 healing xp lines in less than one day, maybe a few hours (didn't do that whole day tho, it's still boring)
Any new guy that gets off the shuttle on an advanced planet will take a free buff, even if it's a lower level one. I actually will take a free lower one from a up and coming doc in a sec over someone selling because I like to help people out. Buffing if great XP.
I regularly go out with a group and we are more than happy to take an up and coming medic. The fact is you would have to network to do that. I'd rather have a healer than to do it myself. You do have to meet and talk with people.
I'm a TKA and if an up and coming doc wants to heal my wounds, I'd let him rather than do it myself.
To state that Doctor's are worthless until master is a ridiculous statment, and one of the more assanine things I have ever read on this board. And that includes anything from an AFK troll.
You maybe need to take out lower level guys. Novice Brawlers, or Novice Elite's always can use the help of a medic. It's not hard to find someone to group with, and I actually say that "most" of the people hunting on advanced planets is a bit of an overstatment. I'm a Master TKA and almost never get buffed unless I'm doing super high end content. Most of the time there is no Doctor on those planets, and if one asked to go out with me, I'd welcome it.
You can go to the Starting planets and find a low level group to go with you fairly easily. Also, most guilds are usually looking for good docs, and you could get an invite easy to one and have a large pool of group mates to go.
It's actually faster to level this way.
glorydragon wrote:
Following a bunch of other people around while they get to fight and have fun while all I am is their stim b17ch isn't much fun either.so take up TKA, or rifleman, or pistoler, or swordsmen, or carbineer, or fencer, or CH, or pikemen or swordsman, it realy dosn't matter which one, since you can master all of those and Doctor at the same time, heal your group, fight all you want, and have fun. I did that through TKA and now I'm working on rifleman. crafting is the worst part of the job.
Done it already. TKA and Rifleman...TKA twice in fact. There's different reasons to play the game different ways and right now I just want the skills back to use for myself, I don't really enjoy sitting in a city healing all day long, nor do I enjoy following others around healing them and you can either fight or heal but if you try to have fun fighting while also trying to gain XP while healing everyone in your group...one or the other is going to be lacking.