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Thread: any other field docs have this concern after the nerf is active?
UTech wrote:
Forgotten are the docs that do all 3. I craft to stock my med vendor, I do bufflines when I feel like it, I'm a field doc healing and buffing my group. The guys I hunt with make a point of collecting meat when they hunt with me, and give me a portion of the herb and avian they collect as payment for the heals/buffs/rez's whatever. Doc is my combat role and I thoroughly enjoy helping my friends .. as a team we are a formidable force and my presence makes that team stronger. I am Master Doc/TKA/Hunter/Surveyor and love the variety that template brings. If you don't want to heal during a hunt, take down your title and put up your combat title, nobody will be the wiser. But the first bleed or stateinflicted on your team and I bet your finger will just be itching on the /firstaid or /healstatehotkey.
I don't mind providing the heals, it's not like it costs much for a state heal when I have thousands and thousands of unitsof good resources sitting in my crafting station to make them from, stuff it only cost me like 0.3cpu to harvest and little more than factory time to create. I craft the meds, and I make money selling them, orI make money from the groupmissions using them. What's the difference?
My 2 cents, anyways.
/agree
Naliro, what you're going on about is how you want to ROLEPLAY your doctor template. Yes, a field doctor is great for helping others when in need. No, its not a requirement for anyone to do so if they don't feel like it. Having a doctor template may be for your own reasons only. I've done all three of those types you posted. If you feel like you're losing out on money from being a doctor I think you would be better off from dropping all of your doctor skills and picking up Combat Medic. You could still heal the sick and lose out on lots of money without any real money gathering base from your medical skills.
As a Master Fencer/Master Doctor I still have enough points left over to pick up Novie Artisan or Novice Scout +1 extra box to harvest my own meats or survey my own resources. I have no vendor to sell medical supplies and instead have to rely on a friend/guildmate's vendor to sell any at all. I visit SWGcraft.com religiously in search of liquid petro 4 and whether or not Talus water vapor is over 900 to get resources for my own components yet I'll still make it to a DWB raid or just hang out in a Janta solo group hoping someone loot some blood which I can buy off of them. I blow through lots of credits being a doctor but I make them back x2 easily. The amount of cash saved from being able to self buff is phenomenal when you think about it.
I think I can safely say I can count myself as a veteran doctor. Yet age in a profession seems to be eclipsed by laziness as I've seen with many other doctors. If you're just starting out I can understand not knowing little tweaks or how things really work. But failure to research and actually practice your entire profession is well...inexcusable.