Doctor Archive
Thread: Combat Medics...
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GenTesla
Mon Feb 09, 2004 6:46 am
#1
Being a TKM and having sat through all the nauseating NERF posts it seems its the CMedics who are getting the rough treatment now. I posted my little piece on there but froma docspoint of view.
I am firmly of the belief that us Docs should be able to counter area dis/posions with area Meds, or if not that way be able to Immunise players to say 80% for a limited amount of time like a buff or a special like food/spice. Is it me or is it stupid a class can attack all the other 30 professions save 1 i.e us and there is no cure or way to rid the disease or poision, other than either have wound treat 4 and the knowledge use to use cures yourself, or have a doc for like every 2 non-doc players?
DarthBeans
Mon Feb 09, 2004 7:18 am
#3
I totally disagree, up until yesterday I was a Master Doctor Master Combat medic and when deciding which one needed to go I went with combat medic as they're far less useful than a doctor is already, making it so that a doctor can totally nullify what the combat medic does would be a total nerf on the combat medic profession. The role of the combat medic is to mass heal and mass attack, they can't cure anything and they can't buff, all they have is their poisons, diseases and area stims, and area stims are pretty useless if everyone is buffed anyways. On hunts I'd use my doctor skills way more than I would my combat medic skills yet doctors don't really belong on the battlefields else we'd be called Combat Doctors. It's bad enough people are calling for them to be nerfed as I know full well they're pretty useless for PvE unless accompanied by another profession, which has to be a gun based one as there's not enough skillpoints to master combat medic AND an elite melee class. I reckon there's going to be a lot less combat medics about pretty soon if the food takes off big time, tis a shame, the game is going to end up with everyone being the same professions pretty soon, and the people who aren't them will complain and ask for them to be nerfed (YupI was a TKM for a few months too).
Travin64068
Mon Feb 09, 2004 7:26 am
#4
I agree that every attack in the game needs a way to counteract it. Chef food will finally be more useful in the game. I think the main reason for Doctors not having an innoculation for poisons or disease is to make groups take a Doctor on hunts with them to force interdependency. It sometimes seems that SOE wants every group to contain at least one person from every profession.
- Travin
GenTesla
Mon Feb 09, 2004 7:27 am
#5
Yeah good point about the food, didnt realise there were foods comingout to protect ags the disease/posions, must ve skipped that one LOL! I should have clarified too this was in a PVP environment NOT PVE after our group of 15 players with myself and 1 other Mst Doc and 1 CM got wiped out by 4 CMS with area poisions/diseased we got nailed and by the time we had cured ourselves our whole team got taken out!! ah well **** happens I guess bring on the Foods!
Zarlor
Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:59 am
#6
Well, I've long been of the opinion that AoE DoTs from CMs have needed a proper counter.
Then again, by the same respect I think CMs should have a counter to Doc Buffs with some kind of De-Buff ability.
WarFerret
Mon Feb 09, 2004 11:39 am
#7
Given that we can't buff mind and they can poison/disease mind, I don't think they need a de-buffing ability myself 
I find the best way to counter a combat medic is to kill them and then run around clearing states on your team mates
I find the best way to counter a combat medic is to kill them and then run around clearing states on your team mates
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