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Thread: Death of my most favorite profession
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aradz
Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:39 pm
#1
From all I've read (I am unable to log on to Test Center to try anything), it appears that my most favorite profession, Doctor, will soon be a thing of the past.
No longer will I be able to craft. All the resources I've gathered over the past 1.5 years or so will be worthless. Everything I've worked hard for, sacrifised my time for, and generally moved towards was all for not.
When this goes live, I'll give it a try. Since there have been no developer posts to the doc forums, and I can't find anything concerning doctor post-CU in the dev tracker, I have to assume that the information posted (concerning the lack of crafting, giving it all over to Bio Engineer, the most overworked crafter profession in the game) will be going live at this point. As it stands, from the information I have, I really doubt I'd last a week.
I beg and plead that someday, before the CU hits, we'll get some information about this mammoth change to the Doctor profession. We'll be allowed some input on the changes, but it just doesn't look like it's going to happen.
So, I must first thank those in the forums who've written the wonderful FAQs. You really helped me out, helped me understand the profession I enjoyed most, and gave me a great resource to become the best I could. To all that have helped me in game, again, thank you, you really made this worth while.
To SOE: I truely wish you the best with all this. I sincerely thought I'd be playing SWG for years to come, and I so want to continue... but I just can't see it happening as things stand. I hope you'll appeal to a gamer of a different sort than me, and continue to do well with this game. It was my escape for a long time and I'm very sad to loose it, but I understand that you must 'follow the money' and I hope these changes allow you to appeal to a wider range of players.
*salute*
No longer will I be able to craft. All the resources I've gathered over the past 1.5 years or so will be worthless. Everything I've worked hard for, sacrifised my time for, and generally moved towards was all for not.
When this goes live, I'll give it a try. Since there have been no developer posts to the doc forums, and I can't find anything concerning doctor post-CU in the dev tracker, I have to assume that the information posted (concerning the lack of crafting, giving it all over to Bio Engineer, the most overworked crafter profession in the game) will be going live at this point. As it stands, from the information I have, I really doubt I'd last a week.
I beg and plead that someday, before the CU hits, we'll get some information about this mammoth change to the Doctor profession. We'll be allowed some input on the changes, but it just doesn't look like it's going to happen.
So, I must first thank those in the forums who've written the wonderful FAQs. You really helped me out, helped me understand the profession I enjoyed most, and gave me a great resource to become the best I could. To all that have helped me in game, again, thank you, you really made this worth while.
To SOE: I truely wish you the best with all this. I sincerely thought I'd be playing SWG for years to come, and I so want to continue... but I just can't see it happening as things stand. I hope you'll appeal to a gamer of a different sort than me, and continue to do well with this game. It was my escape for a long time and I'm very sad to loose it, but I understand that you must 'follow the money' and I hope these changes allow you to appeal to a wider range of players.
*salute*
Eskie
Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:11 am
#2
To be honest, I think SOE is shooting itself in the foot by making EQ2 and SWG compete with each other. It may save development costs in the short term, but in the long run they will only have players playing EQ2 _or_ SWG. Currently, the two are different and people chose SWG over EQ2 (or WoW for that matter) for a reason.
bl00ds0ul
Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:08 am
#3
Doctor is 100% more appealing then it was before. Pre-CU I wouldn't even concider touching the profession because I dont enjoy crafting for a fricken week for a HEALING profession. After cu my template will include master doc. what they did to the profession is great.
Eskie
Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:14 am
#4
You can all the healing pre-CU that you will be able to do post-CU. You only need to make a few ABECs and never touch the crafting line a single time ever again.
On the other hand, crafting docs are losing a lot.
What happened to your sig?
On the other hand, crafting docs are losing a lot.
What happened to your sig?
c-mot
Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:05 am
#5
I can accept that there is no crafting in the Doc profession anymore, even thou i liked this part (only crafted for myself - but was always looking for the best avian spawn to hunt).
I even can live with those silly visual magic effects that now come up with our healing and buffing (what would u expect if even a simple hit with the fist result in a firework). I guess i even get used to the new colored icons (their mikro-versions as states of group members are hardly recognizable thou). But some of the stuff that is stated in the CURB documents about Doc, is according to my experience not true or not (yet?) implemented. Like Doc is the major single person healer (combat medics bacta shot is the most powerful single healing "spell" and our mater level Bacta Jab is just a joke!). There are stimpacks that players can use to heal themself for some "small" amount of damage without any medic skills (the stimpacks heal upto 1200 damage - docs best is 700-800!). Finally Doc is a supporting class and has its roll as healer in the combat. Well, as soon as u heal someone u are the main tanker, as with the new hate system u are the main target on the oponents list.
there is a lot to do to balance the system and to make Doc a valuable profession after the CU. But with just 2 weeks to go (and some profs like CH hardly adapted yet) i dont see how everything will be working til then. guess ist a long beta testing phase called "InLive" coming up.
I even can live with those silly visual magic effects that now come up with our healing and buffing (what would u expect if even a simple hit with the fist result in a firework). I guess i even get used to the new colored icons (their mikro-versions as states of group members are hardly recognizable thou). But some of the stuff that is stated in the CURB documents about Doc, is according to my experience not true or not (yet?) implemented. Like Doc is the major single person healer (combat medics bacta shot is the most powerful single healing "spell" and our mater level Bacta Jab is just a joke!). There are stimpacks that players can use to heal themself for some "small" amount of damage without any medic skills (the stimpacks heal upto 1200 damage - docs best is 700-800!). Finally Doc is a supporting class and has its roll as healer in the combat. Well, as soon as u heal someone u are the main tanker, as with the new hate system u are the main target on the oponents list.
there is a lot to do to balance the system and to make Doc a valuable profession after the CU. But with just 2 weeks to go (and some profs like CH hardly adapted yet) i dont see how everything will be working til then. guess ist a long beta testing phase called "InLive" coming up.
Escoh
Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:20 am
#6
IM in the same boat, I was a crafting doc, but also was in the field alot. I like being able to carft my own meds as well as have a nice merchant shop. I liked the crafting more tho.
RIP Pre-CU docs
Loviza
Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:03 am
#7
Same boat here, dropping doc and only stays because I love my guild. Gonna try be supporter in Squad Leader instead, but I heard some disturbing things about thatprofession aswell.
DarkDeathDude
Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:16 am
#8
i was a pure crafting doc, this change is like being castrated
Eskie
Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:21 am
#9
DarkDeathDude wrote:i was a pure crafting doc, this change is like being castrated
Actually, you can just pick up BE 0004 and save a lot of skill points in the process. The only question remaining is the usefulness of the new medical items.
Ryka_gorath
Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:22 am
#10
"To be honest, I think SOE is shooting itself in the foot by making EQ2 and SWG compete with each other. "
Nope they want all them little EQ people to buy their handy dandy 5 dollar or whatever increase to have access to the SOE Pass.
Nothing competes on SOE.
When EQ2 came out I thought about playing it...I saw the pass info and was like heck ya why not...but SWG was the only game not on that list....then like months later they got put on the pass....to late for me-i dont play EQ at all....but had that pass been there from the start- i might have dabbled a tad with it. Now I have to much things going on in SWG with the CU and getting my chracters up to par. No time for flickin around in another MMO. I have much resources to collect BEFORE I cant do it on my own.
DarkDeathDude
Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:22 am
#11
Eskie wrote:
DarkDeathDude wrote:
i was a pure crafting doc, this change is like being castrated
Actually, you can just pick up BE 0004 and save a lot of skill points in the process. The only question remaining is the usefulness of the new medical items.
its not as simple as that and you know it!!!
Eskie
Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:26 am
#12
DarkDeathDude wrote:
Eskie wrote:
DarkDeathDude wrote:i was a pure crafting doc, this change is like being castrated
Actually, you can just pick up BE 0004 and save a lot of skill points in the process. The only question remaining is the usefulness of the new medical items.
its not as simple as that and you know it!!!
Sorry - just trying to sound a little positive
DarkDeathDude
Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:30 am
#13
Eskie wrote:
DarkDeathDude wrote:
Eskie wrote:
DarkDeathDude wrote:
i was a pure crafting doc, this change is like being castrated
Actually, you can just pick up BE 0004 and save a lot of skill points in the process. The only question remaining is the usefulness of the new medical items.
its not as simple as that and you know it!!!
Sorry - just trying to sound a little positive
hehe ok cool , but its not much to be +ive about as far as i can tell
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