Medic Archive

Hello everyone,

I don't understand how to use medical forage or at least I don't think I do. So far every now and then I hit the /medicalForage button and my charater searches the ground and if successful comes up with 1 yes 1 mineral. I have Pharm III so am I doing anything wrong? Only getting one thing at a time? Am I better off to just servey with a flora tool?

Thanks

From my experience, what you are discovering is that medical forage blows extremely hard. Unforunately for the time being as a medic, your only options are picking up artisan and/or scout to get your medicine making resources.

Hehe thank you very much.

Medical Forage is completely useless.
You get 1 unit of a random resource and that's it. You should AT LEAST be able to choose what you look for. I mean when I am out to forage for something I know what to look for, I don't pick up anything blindly. The fact that you only pick 1 unit at a time is also a major blow, but at least it's not idiotic like the random feature.

As it is now, Medical Forage could be removed from the game, for what is worth.

Ha! You are so right... I play an architect, normally, but created a medic on another server for some variation and to just try it out. I wanted to be more focused on my skill tree with this character, too, not branch out into other professions as much.

Almost right away I had to pick up artisan or I'd have gone nuts! I *tried* using medicalforage to get enough resources to make a stimpack... I spent several minutes doing nothing but foraging. It failed a lot, and after all was said and done I had 1 unit each of about 10 different resources. Now, if I could make a stimpack by putting 8 different organics into the organics slot, I might have tried to stick with it... instead I justran a few delivery missions and picked up Novice Artisan, then bought a survey tool on the bazaar terminal.

I suppose in theory I could run delivery missions all day and buy my resources, but if I carry one more liver pate across the planet I'm going to puke.