Doctor Archive

I know that this is probably beating a dead horse, but it's just so annoying to see commandos owning every pvp for the same reason everytime. No one can cure on Fire, even master doctors, so incapped people that are on fire just accrue major wounds while lying there. It's basically a contest of which side has the most flame-thrower toting commandos. What's the point of being a master doctor if you can't cure every status effect?

Seeing as how fire is such a common thing, rather than a specific fire state heal why not just have artisans able to create fire extinguishers. Simple enough solution that would reduce teh effect of flame throwers, since there are a lot of complaints that they are too powerful. Anyone can use and they cure the on fire status.

I tend to agree. Just because ther are other ways of curing fire should not invalidate a Medic-type from having the ability to do it as well. (For those that don't know Fire can be removed by either swimming or dropping prone and moving around.)

It did make it up to #10, though, and considering it was a brand new issue to the list, that's a pretty good positioning, overall. It may not be directly addressed like out Top 5 was, but it might get it some attention, at least.

That's a good suggestion also. It doesn't have to be a doctor only deal. ANYONE should be able to put themselves out. I just hate seeing the commandos have a monopoly on the pvp field because no one can do what they realistically should be able to do.

Wait.. Stop, Drop and Roll works to cure fire?

Are you serious?

I must have missed that somewhere.

I've never tried it personally, but I have seen others state that it worked for them. Not that they could realistically do such a thing in most combat situations, though.

Especially if the commando has a TK friend waiting for you to go prone so you have a terrible melee defense...

But there are many times when the battle is over and there are all these people in the Anchorhead Med Center screaming to be healed and they are still burning.

I want to know if I can just tell them to Stop, Drop and roll to put out the fire before people start curing wounds.

I also have an issue related to this. I am a master doctor. Naturally, I buffed up a lot right before a big battle. Lo and behold, there was a flame throwing commando on the other side who gave me some 2k health wounds. Finally, it took it's toll and I died. When I spawned back at the cloning center, I immediately was incapped and when the time ran out, I didn't get up. I was stuck in that position until someone could finally drag me out of the cloning center and heal my wounds. I think this was due to the fact that I had accrued more wounds than I normally have points for. Whatever the reason, it's just another reason to give doctors, or everyone, the ability to cure On Fire status.

Sith, That issue (Refered to as Perma-Incap, I believe) is a bug that the devs said is fixed in the next release.

We can only hope.

I'm not sure if non-living things can be set fire currently (AT-ST's, Droids, Vehicles once they are released) but it would make some sense for these to be effected by fire, and in some cases catch fire themselves. Also harvestors, turrets, and faction bases also ought to be susceptable to fire (assuming they can be attacked, I don't think many structures can). Whatever solution is presented for the on fire status ought to cover everything.

As far as I know only players and pets can catch fire which simplifies things and a medical solution would be fine. This may also be something to bring to armorsmiths and tailors, give them the ability to create fire-proof suits. I suppose that is partially possible with armor that has a high fire resist.

lol, if the devs don't do something about it soon, it might come to that.

Does anyone else care about On Fire status being incurable?