Medic Archive

Sometime soon, special attacks will not damage HAM when you use them. A separate set of pools will be created. Mind heal will be ok then, because healing will be done from this new second mind pool (for specials only) with a different regen. So healing will still be limited, while mind that makes you incap could be healed.

The devs have not officially stated that mind heal will be put back in, only that is could probably be.

-T

Another question, if you dont mind. Could Doctors and Combat Medics be given the ability to heal the special move bars?

Likely not. I don;t think it will, anyway.

And T is right, I try to state when discussing mind healing that it is simply my conjecture on what I think would likely happen with the combat revamp.

The greater question you pose, though, is combat duration. I think the design team wants PvP combat to last longer. To be more strategic. As it is folks just spam specials. That is how attacks are performed. The revamp looks to place an emphasis on specials as being something special. You won;t be killing yourself by performing specials any longer, but you won't be able to do as many specials without having to draw back until you can regen your bar enough to engage again. Adding an easily accessible mind heal into the mix (such as putting it right back into stims) plays into that methodology just fine, I think, and was, in fact,the original intention for stims back in Beta.

I suspect there will need to be a few tweaks here and there to get the "feel" of it right, though. So that may be something we will have to deal with (if they decide the tweaks need to be in the healing or, for Docs, buffing side of things.)

The special bars would be unhealable I think. Though a Squad leader skill to have them regen faster would be cool...

BTW, this is not to say I don't want mind healing, just to be clear it wasn't promised.

Wounds are going to play a much larger role in combat.

-T

Hardly.

-T

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Traigus wrote:

Hardly.

-T

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What he said.

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vortexala wrote:

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Traigus wrote:

Hardly.

-T

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What he said.

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What he said about what he said.

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Pahdbacca wrote:

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vortexala wrote:

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Traigus wrote:

Hardly.

-T

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What he said.

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What he said about what he said.

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Yeah, and ditto to that.

Message Edited by Cakins7005 on 03-02-2004 04:06 PM

Actually, we just don;t know yet what will happen with the combat revamp and how they will be doing things in that respect. We'll just have to see. In reality it is possible that Commandos and CMs will have a certain level of notereity simply because of their ability to deliver wounds (although for a CM those wounds only tick off like every 40 seconds...)

And yeah, this board is pretty low on traffic.

Message Edited by Cakins7005 on 03-02-2004 04:06 PM