Doctor Archive
Thread: I love the new doc profession.
(We still got p0wned.)
sweeno987 wrote:
haha! i put my master doc tag back on too. i used to keep it off because of all the tells. lol .now no one hardly ever bothers me! wonder why? i guess its because the combat upgrade made us so much more useful!!! lol. i call BS. we are useless. the only time someone even talks to me now is when they want me to heal their wounds or come to the middle of know where to rez them. yea..... thats what im good for now, and i'd me more than happy to do those things to better the star wars galaxies community as a whole. after all... that is my job. customer service. lol. NO WAY!! not this guy. i love the few tells i get because its the only way i can express my displeasure with what has happened to my doc. lol. im not even polite about it anymore. now i just tell people to kiss my @ss and go roll their own doc if they want healing or rez's. i really could care less what any of YOU think about what i do. most everyone left are post CU anyway so most of you dont even know what its like to be a real SWG doc. a noncom!! please someone ask my doc to come heal or rez them today. lol. im in aspecially ornery mood. only way i get my jollies. hope i get to ruin someone else's gameplay experience today. hell. thats the only reason i havent respec'd yet or left the game entirely. im gonna get my pound of flesh first. haha! yea im an A-hole. who cares. screw the galaxy. hehe. im a grumpy turd and happy to be so.
and in PvE I'm a great tank for our group.
guyvii: i know that no one who is left in this game will understand my argument. the people who are left either like the changes for one reason or another, or didnt play pre CU so they dont know any difference. thats understandable and its great you guys enjoy playing your game. what a lot of you fail to realise though is that when a person such as myself first decided to roll a doc toon, they most likely did it for different reasons that people do it for today. when i made my doc, i did occasionally hunt in groups or guild hunts, but that was usually just to gather avian or to break the monotony. i had no desire to be a combat medic. some docs from back then did want to participate much more in combat, but i would say the majority became doctors to buff, rez, heal, and manufacture meds. see. back then, we could go with a group and be their heal/rez monkey and still maitain our dignity. we provided a valuable service to the group and got valuable resources in return. or at least i did. i would hunt with a group and provide them with free buffs, free heals, free rez's and long range combat support. they in turn either let me buy the resources they collected during the hunt at a reduced price or let me just have them all together. most of the time though, i was either crafting, buffing, or just sitting around with other doc buddies shootin the breeze. it was a very social atmosphere for me. that was my chosen play style. it is the reason i invested tons of real life time and money into my account. if there would have been a disclaimer or something that said my time and money would be for nothing when the combat downgrade came into effect, then most likely i would not have wasted all that time and money developing my character, developing relationships, and certainly not manufacturing my now completely worthless meds (meds that i spent millions upon millions to produce by the way)
to me, this combat downgrade has made my PERSONAL gameplay a huge waste of time and money. the reason being is that i invested all this time and money in a character that no longer exists. the shell of the character is still there, but is now totally different. to me it would be like having a master architect and waking up one morning to find that they had removed the architect profession from the game and replaced my skills with brawler or marksmanship skills. skills that were not even comparable to the skill set i had worked so hard to achieve. the doctor profession as it exists now, is NOTHING like the doctor profession that i worked to master. anyone taking up doctor now would be taking it up for completely different reasons. therefore those people would be completely different types of people from myself. more combat and group fighting oriented. now thats great for people who want to play that way, but it really sucks for people like me who never wanted to be that type of doctor. if we did, then we would not have taken up doctor in the first place. perhaps combat medic or just a combat prof with enough medic skills to use good stims.
everyone has different play styles. i have no problem with that and encourage everyone to find one that suits them and enjoy it. the play style that i actually bought this game for in the first place simply has been removed from the game. it does not exist anymore and my hard work and time invested in my toon, i feel, has been wasted. i will respce soon. perhaps i will find something i like and continue to play the game. i really would like to find something that i enjoy as much as i did when i played the pre CU doc template, but i seriously doubt it. from my perspective i feel as though i have been let down and misled. almost robbed even. to me, its like someone stealing my account or erasing my character. sure i have a respec. thats nice i guess, but i never wanted to respec in the first place.
double posted. edited because i cant find a delete option.
Message Edited by sweeno987 on 06-23-2005 11:10 AM
At first, everyone saw Doc as useless. Everyone dropped Doc. It was wimpy. No one wanted a Docs around. The respec period ended, and Docs became an endangered species.
As wounds slowly increased, people started missing us. We grew in demand. People also gained a deeper understanding of the new system. They slowly figured out that more healing was better, especially against the end-game mobs. Doc/Tank is a highly effective combination. Those who kept Doc in their template slowly showed the community that Doc *IS* effective. In a three person, level 80 group, my Doc/Fencer tanked and did twice the damage as the two ranged folks combined. And that was with a Ryyk blade and under-effective healing!!! (That, and all those Xris missions taught me how to max my damage output and manage my pools.)
With the next publish, Docs and combat medics will come back into their own again. They will have the oomph that they should have. The SP investment will be more worthwhile. We will be effective wound healers again. Those who dropped Doc and don't have any respec left will kick themselves.