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Perhaps I am mistaken (i hope so), but it seems for group oriented folk the buffs are useless. I mean what group of 8 wants to stand around for 24 minutes getting fullybuffed?? (6 buffs 30 secs between each, 8 chars). I suppose they are great for solo, but..gah..It does not seem to be a very group friendly world.I am hoping I am totally wrong or missing something? Can any of you smart folk comment. Thanks

training in wound speed line can considerably lower that time...

If you're in the group with them, the secondary stat buffs are no biggie, as you just regen their HA for them. I stick to health and action pool in big groups, and just put a secondary on someone pulling one stat down a lot with specials (usually carbineers).

This has worked for me while my group and I are hunting Endor:

Rather than spending half an hour or whatever buffing up everyone in the group on every stat, I find it's far more useful to simply buff during downtime.

Roughly, it goes something like this:

Make a health/action/quickness/whatever buff pack. We all usually use /followon the leaderas we're running around, so I'm usually 0m away from *everyone* any time we pause (which, admittedly looks very goofy, but works very well for this) and with my med droid following me, I can simply buff as we run along. I can usually burn through one buff pack getting everyone's whatever up between battles. Not only that, I can usually craft a few experimentedstims in prep for the next battle since I don't really have to pay that much attention to where we're going (thanks to boththe med droid and the leader, respectively). This has the addedbenefit of keeping everyone else who wants buffs also following the Squad Leader.

With the sped up wound time, I can usually burn off at least one buffpack per downtime. Doing just this (and only using buff A/B and StimC since I don't have a factory and med crafting goes up like a snail) I have pulled off 60k + MedXP in one four hour hunting trip. I'm quite certain that there are true powergamers out there who would merely scoff at this XP pittance, but I think it was a nice cherry on the top of an evening of fun running around with friends.

Hera -- Master Medic who was just going to take a few points in Doctor until they got Combat Medic working and will now hit Master Doctor before the first CM fix.

For some reason, I'm pretty sure that I can only buff in city or campsites, even having my med droid out outside of those areas gives me the (you must be in a hospital or campsite) to do this error... I'll check again, but has anyone else had this problem? My 2-1B has a level 5 med chip.

you need a surgical droid

I had no trouble buffing outdoors with my med droid, he has the max med module though.

Droid shape does not matter, all that matters is that you have a medical module installed in teh droid you are using.

Don't forget to get a Droid Battery (in top level inventory, mind you, not in a pack) and use the Recharge option on your Droid's Radial Menu when you are out in the field and get the "campsite" message. Chances are your droid is in a *Low Power* state and just didn't tell you in a way you would normally notice.