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Hey Folks,

I gave up my Combat Medic skills to go doctor as I feel it's more useful for the way my group plays. Do people have any tips on how to get crafting xp? Do you use factories, or just hand grind?

My first Doctor mastered crafting by grinding C-series Medkits and Stims. This was during the first and second week of the game. Things were slightly different then.

My most recent doctor mastered by auto-grinding Biological Effects Controllers as you've read earlier in this topic and probably in numerous others.

My challenge has never been with medical crafting XP but rather with regular medical experience from healing.

I have heard the following tactics for regular medical exp:

1) heal entertainers
dance and music only slowly drains an entertainer's action bar. Too slow to master doctor healing efficiently in my humble opinion.

2) heal people sampling
sampling frequency is too slow and drain on action pool too low. Too slow in my opinion.

3) heal wounds in medical center
if you're lucky and have good medkits, you can get good exp per treatment. The problem here is sometimes access to wounded people. Not enough wounded anymore, in my humble opinion.

4) semi-ethical: duel a friend and /deathblow
you can duel a friend in town near a cloning facility and then treat the wounds generated by death and cloning. The problem here is that mind wounds need to be treated which wastes time. Can be good if there are a lot of high level entertainers in Cantina.

5) go out with a group and heal damage
Fast if you don't die and get a good group. Constant healing unless there's a lot of running around - missions.



I'm not sure the next tactic has been posted before - but it probably has.

- get a naked marksman-based friend to help you
- bring a lot of Stims
- ask friend to quickly train Novice Brawler
- Unarmed and naked, the friend can attack newbie blue/white mobs while spamming
Warcry and Intimidate.

Warcry and Intimidate currently really drain a person's health and action pools but not mind. They also prevent attacker from doing much damage, making a battle against an easy mob last long with plenty of big heals.

just find someone with a tumble skill. Like marksman or something. When using it they drain their action all the way in about 15-20 seconds. Get about 60k xp per hour if the conditions are right. But how quickly you level doctor is not the point of this game. So I don't recommend it

Manual grinding of BEC or ABEC's if you got the resources. You don't get XP from factories so that route doesn't work.

At the moment with all the lack of content, I think mastering your desired profession is *exactly* the point of the game.

Sitting for hours with medkits in the clinic and waiting for customers is hopefully *not* the point of the game.

tumbling friends, curing wounds are two quick ways. If you make it to res have some friends duel and db each other. I made doc the long way on my old server, this time I had friends tumble and db each other for me. Granted I didnt do it all the way (how horriblely boring that day would be) but for a box here and there it breaks the monotony of waiting in med centers and groups gettig wiped out.

The cantina can work well if you don't have any other medics in there and you have one or 2 master musicians or dancers that knows how to burn action quickly, I know this from being a master musician, shooting to get master doc too (right now at 3 2 2 1). The trick is to get the performer to spam coloredlights and/or spotlight and flourishes, with the macro I have set up to burn action on my musician I can burn about 200 action every 10 seconds, yes you read that right, I can empty my action pool in less than a minute, that feat is achieved with 3 spotlights and 10 flourishes within a 10 second timeframe, specifically 10 flourishes all together once every 10 seconds and a spotlight once every 3 seconds. So hurry and get ur performers to do this so the devs will take note and reduce the action costs of our specials hehe.

That was for med exp obviously, for crafting, well you can tell by my skills that I'm having trouble with that too hehe.

A better way to grind medic xp is to find a friend who can use any of the tumble moves provided by Ranged Support Abilities 2 (Marksman). Have them create a macro that loops them tumbling. You, fully loaded with stims in your inventory, create a macro that keeps healing them. Buffing the tumbler's action helps a lot to. You can average about 200-300 xp per stim use.

Oh, and to gain quick Doctor xp, use the tumble method to get the Enhance ability. Find someone who sells Enhancers (D's preferably), and go to a really busy starport (Coronet worked for me). You need a med droid for this, but I made over 30K in a few minutes.

Dr. Zhaun

I found that what works for me is actually pretty simple. Get yourself a droid with a 110 med rating. On my server (Kettemoor) I bought one with 110 med rating and a food/chem craft module for 8000 creds. I'd imagine you can get something just as inexpensive on other servers. Now go about doing whatever you normally do, hunt, craft, explore, whatever. Whenever you find yourself in or near a town, whip out the droid and heal anybody that you see who needs it. I'm a reb and recently, I've been doing missions out of Anchorhead (because my harvesters are nearby) and I tell ya, there are a lot of hurting people in that town. And no one ever complains if you walk up to them, heal them, and don't beg for tips. This has to be the most painless way that I've found to get medical XP. Every two missions I'm back in town to get more and the place is packed with ailing folk. Also, at the same time, see if anyone has a pet out that needs wounds healed. They can just feed them, but if you get to them first, they usually don't mind! This worked for me.

Jibean Magkoc
Kettemoor

Doh. I just re-read the thread and realized that the original poster was looking to grind med CRAFTING XP. Sorry to waste space.

I just came a master doc my self and how i got my med xp was to get a high leveld pet have a commando flame it (burn) to get massive wounds then have a stock load of health wound packs and heal the pet you start off gettin 300-500xp but later on you can get up to 1k xp per heal and a high lvld pet healing it you can get 20-30k withen 15-20mins

now for crafting xp that took me some time but my main event was grab a crap load of lok wheat and tatt fiberplast and just sit down and start crafting adv biological controllers(ps make sure inv. is pretty close to empty and you have at least 4 craftin tools so you can easly switch with out waiting for one to finish) i would make them tell i had all i could hld in inv. then i destroyed them all and started over with process create destroy create destroy.

of course you may not have the paitence i do but i got doc craftin 3 and 4 withen 6hrs may be hard to believe but it's true.

Zrakes

vlacyn