Doctor Archive

I will soon be a master medic on Kettemoor. I cant decide if I want to be a doctor or a combat medic, both have their ups. I also am a carbineer and soon a squad leader. Any suggestions and reasons why...

Mr. Black

Doctor is primarily a wound remover, can buff stats, raise the dead, and remove poisons/diseases.

Combat medic has long range healers, an area of effect heal, and can cause diseases and poisons. Except for the long range heals it is worthless at best and a just a grief causer otherwise. Now let me explain that. The poisons and disease just cause low end DOTs and cause massive wounds. For mobs wounds are meaningless, they don't get healed and reducing a stats does nothing(unless you just wound it to death and don't cause damage). For PvP the poisons/dieases cause wounds which do nothing for the battle, consisdering how quickly they are over. However you now force the player to goto a medical center and remove all thoses wounds, just causing grief.

Side note. I started off planing to go pistol/doctor/mixture I have since switched to stopping my medic at a few in doctor and taken creature handling. Creature handling is extermily powerful that if you plan to do combat you are foolish not to take it. pets work great as meat shields so you take less damage, so less medical is needed and to heal just leave them out when doing other things.

Best to read about the upcoming nerfs in Creature Handling (in the CH boards hehe) before going down that road. SOE is always concerned with class balancing... so be sure you want to go down that road before you begin training.

On a lighter side of CH though... I see many master CH's selling Graul's and Rancor's. You can use a very strong pet like this as long as you have trained as a Novice.

-BD

I have read what will be happening to CH and it just does not matter. Even as a novice CH with a pet appropriate for the level it is better then having 2 other people. Great meat shield that takes huge amounts of damage, and does better decent damage. If they are planning to bring the CH down to other levels, then the recent changes are nothing.

I have recently discovered how great medic skils are! I am a novice pistoleer and a smuggler (Wont be for long). Instead, I have decided to focus on the pistol and the healing. Which is better Doctor or Combat Medic and why?

Each have play issues. I suggest you scan the boards and read what issues the players are having. Both professions are very viable (if they correct the serious issues) and very complimenting in the field, because each was designed to do different things.

Personally, I am going to Master both. Almost finished (2 Tier 4 Skills left) with Master Doctor and getting ready to gear up for Combat Medic

is it possible to even master smuggler and a advanced medical profession?

havent dont the mater but i know if u master CM and Doc and get pistol specialist 4 u hafve 4 points left..

considering that u need to spend 19 points for brawler....

I dropped combat medic last night in favor of mastering doctor and pistoleer, with a snippet in carbinier and of course the mandatory scout and artisan rows (terrain negotiation and survey)

Dropped CM a couple weeks ago. Besides CM borks, rez, /healwound; and/healdamage self;are the only effective abilities in PVP right now. That frees up skill points that can actually be used effectively.I too have pistoleer, survey spec and exploration spec.