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Thread: Why'd u take doc.....
Iwas doc Pre-CU for the money (...i thought)
But end up being doc to help ppl after I've gone broke for the third time.
Post-CU; first day, I Hated it... but group mates loved its soI keep it.I've learned how tolike it now
I was typecasted....
Back in the early days, I did it to support my friends. Then I kept it to help my guild and make money. Then I dropped it due to the uber buffs, as sitting around buffing people is sooo boring. As a Doc/BE for over a year, I thought it was time to try combat out, but didn't want to regrind BE and doc was easy to xp in at the time. Then I played Warden on EQ2 which is a healer type to support my friends again.
Now... getting into combat more and want to do more variety of professions so got doc on only 1 toon, but I like the change.
Kept it post-cu for the same reasons.
Yoda1989 wrote:
I am a very novice player and I am onlya fighting level of thriteen and I cant seem to find anyone that is near my level. They are either too high or too low for me to really gain experience. Too high and its very small xp (like 2), too low and its the same as me doing it alone only more liabilities.... I'm at a loss.
Mobs will see your level equal to the highest level group member. Your hitpoints and stats won't change but from the viewpoint of the mobs you are level 80. As long as your group is hunting non-aggro mobs like most of the bols on Dantooine then all you need to do is toss a single heal on a hurt player, not fight, and all your earned xp will be medical xp. I've been in groups where the lowest level was a level 1 on Dantooine!
As long as the mobs you're fighting are close to the level of the highest level player in the group you'll earn a lot more than 2xp per kill.
If you're uncomfortable doing that then gain some levels with whatever weapon you're using until you hit level 15, go to Kashyyyk and hunt the little frogs near the bridge right next to Kachiro. Once you gain level 16 you can continue hunting the frogs and you can try the ro-roos. After that you can try the hostile hogs then move on to the banthas and pretty soon you'll find yourself at level 30 or so. Kashyyyk is a low to higher level soloers paradise.
Message Edited by Whirr on 06-01-2005 01:22 PM
Yoda1989 wrote:
I am a VERY recent doc (I will be finishing my last medic skill to novice doc tonight) and also very recent to the game (a week) and I must tell you that it is a b!tch to be one. That 70,000 xp for healing in combat is killing me, and ruining the game for me. Maybe if I was able to heal in a medcenter I would accept that a little better but I don't have that option. When I chose the profession from the begining I was under the impression I could gain med xp just from healing (not neccesarily in combat) from YOUR stupid rulebook. And that is EXACTLY what I want to do! But I don't have that option now............ I am begging everyone who reads this to advocate for bringing that option that is key to my career back! Please, please, please even if you are not a doctor tell your forums and spread the word! Rally the support of your profession so that ours may be healed, and you will have my eternal gratitude. I am on the Corbantis server and my name on the game is Dipalba Polo. Currently I am training in Coronet on Correlia, so if you need basic healing look me up, though as of yet I can't heal wounds........ hopefully by tonight though I will be!
Find out which planet most folks hang out on, go there, ask to join a group then during fights toss a heal or two after some aggro has been established by the tanks. I went from novice doctor to master in three three hour sessions doing missions on Dantooine.
exactly the same xp, the thing that effects it is if you fight as well as your xp will be awarded in the proportion of damage done to damage healed (combat xp for the proportion of damage you've done vs medic xp for your heals). So if you don't hit anythign at all but chuck in one heal you'll get a stack of medic xp for your troubles, this also means you can manage the aggro you draw as creatures will go for docs something rotten if you are healing a lot of damage.
Going back to the original question I used to love playing as medic 4440 & healing my group with decent stims, keeping the non-medics alive against high-end content, when the CU hit I lost the ability to heal others with stims & as I inherited an extra toon I thought why not respec to Doc. Playing the doc role in phase 4 at the village is a blast, a real challenge & very rewarding when some poor so & so is lying there dead & contemplating the 6k drive back & you can walk up & rez them!
If anything I find playing the medic role more rewarding now than pre-cu, it's harder & requires a lot more thought (& more strategic use of your various heals) but a lot of fun. I've also had some pretty hefty tips from people I've rezzed without ever asking which is nice.
Eh, I Mastered Doctor post CU to help people. After the CU I went combat medic, they had the ability to range heals which was nice but they couldn't keep me healed effectivly enough as I wanted.
So, post CU I'm back to a Master Doctor. I NEVER tell people in a group I am the doctor and will be the "main healer." I let a Jedi do that. I can't take the agro the heals give me.
So, I'm a doctor now to help me hunt bounties - it's purely a selfish reason - to keep me healed.