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Thread: SOE Devs: Please let us know if we should expect changes to the Doctor profession
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gamergirlx
Mon May 09, 2005 9:56 am
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This post isn't meant to flame anyone or complain about the CU, but it is obviousthat changes need to be made to the Doctor profession. We need to hear something before our respec time has expired so we will know whether or not it will be worth it to keep our profession. I've already been turned down for groups because my skills were considered unnecessary and a waste of a spot in the new 8 person group limit. Please let us know if you intend to make changes to increase our effectiveness in combat healing, because I am sure many other Docs like myself have found themselves in the tough position of choosing between keeping their Doc skills or trading them for something more useful in the current combat system.
I am concerned that if I keep my skills and effectively waste my chance for change in the respec then I will be left with a broken profession with little incentive to continue playing. Droid Engineer is one profession that was promised a fix but after months of waiting theynever got any meaningful change. I am concerned that my beloved Doctor profession will end up the same way. It is hard to know what to do with the respec opportunity we have been givenwhen we have heard so little feedback from those at SOE about what the future will hold for our profession.
Please post your intentions regarding future hotfixes or updates that will affect Doctors before the respec is taken out of the game.
Marrow1
Mon May 09, 2005 10:09 am
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gamergirlx wrote:
This post isn't meant to flame anyone or complain about the CU, but it is obviousthat changes need to be made to the Doctor profession. We need to hear something before our respec time has expired so we will know whether or not it will be worth it to keep our profession. I've already been turned down for groups because my skills were considered unnecessary and a waste of a spot in the new 8 person group limit. Please let us know if you intend to make changes to increase our effectiveness in combat healing, because I am sure many other Docs like myself have found themselves in the tough position of choosing between keeping their Doc skills or trading them for something more useful in the current combat system.
I am concerned that if I keep my skills and effectively waste my chance for change in the respec then I will be left with a broken profession with little incentive to continue playing. Droid Engineer is one profession that was promised a fix but after months of waiting theynever got any meaningful change. I am concerned that my beloved Doctor profession will end up the same way. It is hard to know what to do with the respec opportunity we have been givenwhen we have heard so little feedback from those at SOE about what the future will hold for our profession.
Please post your intentions regarding future hotfixes or updates that will affect Doctors before the respec is taken out of the game.
Wow, you were turned down for a group???? I have been begged and bribed to join groups. Groups love healers (CM or Doc) as far as I can tell. As soon as I put up a M. Doc or M. CM tag I get all kinds of tells asking to join group while I am in the MO.
Personally I have found that having Doc or CM as part of your template is one of the most powerful additions to any fighter template. If you already have one fight prof then the only thing you gain from picking up a different one is a few new attack specials. By picking up Doc or CM you pick up lots of healing, buffing, etc which add a great deal to you and your groups chances of survival. So if the trade off is a few attack specials or healing I go with healing.
Dont get me wrong, we could still use some improvements.
1. We need our high end damage heal to be larger.
2. We need buffs to be a bit higher power (ideally via the use of Enhancers)
3. The Hate system needs a bit of tweaking so we dont always get agro
4. The rez bug needs fixing.
5. Wound healing needs a boost.
What exactly are you hoping to see change?
gamergirlx
Tue May 10, 2005 12:22 am
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Perhaps the groups you were with didn't have any available jedi to replace you. Don't get me wrong, I have really enjoyed the CU with my combat oriented character--I'm not blindly opposed to the CU in any way, shape, or form. What I am opposed to is being a master of an elite profession and being so ineffective or at the least easily replaced by another character who is effective in both combat and healing. Where is the balance we were promised? Jedi can now place instant heals for 1500 points at a time. They also have a heal over time ability that provides more health does the Doc bacta infusion. If you have been having success keeping groups healed with your Doc skills it makes me wonder how tough of opponents your group was taking on. I haven't been able to replicate the success you have alluded to. Given the rate and effectiveness of my heals, I haven't been able to keep up with the damage rates for relatively low level mobs. Even as a combatant I've found that the only successful groups I've been in were ones sustained by jedi heals. At least a combat medic has other abilities to fall on when they group with a jedi. A Doc is completely sidelined. Even rezzing is marginalized in the new Wookiee expansion because if someone dies while in a cave then they only get sent to the cave entrance when they die, and are able to return to the group in a matter of minutes. If they accumulate any wounds through the fight then the jedi can fix that too. So what purpose does a Doctor serve?If a group leader is making a choice of skills he wants in the group he is taking on a particularly tough quest or mission, expect to be left out if theres a jedi around. So much for each profession having its own respective role in a group. Jedi seem to have the best of all of us.
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