Medic Archive
Thread: everyone is a novice medic
MasterNerfSlayer wrote:
Read the HAM revamp doc. We also know that buffs are going to be hit with the nerf stick.
Tsaxx wrote:
The problem with medic or even cm or doc is that no one needs them after the buffs.
Insanely overpowered (>2500) Doctor buffs are only half of the problem. The other half of the problem is insanely overpowered Composite armor that has >80% resistance to everything but Stun and Lightsaber damage. The *only* time that *anyone* should *ever* be allowed to use things this powerful, is if they're trying to do something like tank an Ancient Krayt Dragon or a pack of Super Battle Droids. When you let people use godly buffs and equipment to run from-the-terminal missions against mid-level mobs and be rewarded with tons of cash, you get the problems that we have today, primarily a ridiculously over-inflated economy.
When someone can wear triple-layered Compositearmor (with unlsiced encumberance totalling >800) and *still* be able to spam their Master-level uber combat special with next to zero cost while simultaneously tanking 3-7 CL50+ mobs and regenerate their HAMs faster than they take damage, the game is broken and needs to be fixed. I cannot believe they let the gameplay suffer like this for almost a year.
Solving the problem with the overpowered buffs and armor will also do much to solve the problem of Master combat professions running 20-man "solo groups" to farm Jantasfor 25,000cr every 10 minutes. If you think that fixing these game-breaking "uber" buffs will decimate the Doctor's buffing business, you may be wrong; people are so used to having uber buffs and armor, that after these things are revamped they will likely be even more desperate for good-but-not-game-breaking buffs. Personally, my Rifleman has been more than happy with my Bio Engineer's 900ish C-Class buffs (experimented down to 70 Medicine Use, so Power and Duration are lower). After these changes, I would fully expect the guilded Master Doctors to stash away their very best buffs, only to be used on high-end content, and use run-of-the-mill buffs for taking care of the public.