Medic Archive

Alright.

First off a disclaimer. I am no master of the medic profession. I don't spend all of my time in hospitals and I don't consider myself to be an authority on how the medic should be played. I'm simply a pistoleer who picked up medic as a side profession to help me become more self sufficient. I had it trained up to master, but needed skill points, so now I just have enough OC to make stim-B's and 2 boxes in first aid to stop bleeds. Basicly dont take this guide as gospel, it isnt "the right way" to do things, just a way that has worked well for me.

The primary focus of this guide is to incorporate application of macro technology into a medics arsenal, to in some ways make the medic perform better in the field and to remove alot of tedium from the class. It is understood that the reader of this guide understands how to make macros and basic command syntax for the SWG console.

Before we get started I'd like to explain that in SWG under options, controls, keymap, all tab: you can set keys for copy and paste ( i believe theyre actually called chat copy and chat paste ), this really helps in making repetitive macros. SWG has its own clipboard daemon so you cant transfer clipped text from the windows clipboard andSWG and vice versa.

To start we will go over how you can improve healing in the field.

When one trains the medic profession you recieve the ability to heal damage and to tend damage. One works with stims and the other without.

You also get hotkeys to use each of these abilities.

These abilities are integral to the medic profession.

These hotkeys are absolutely worthless.

Many many many times I found myself trying to heal damage, and surprise myself by being out of stims, wasting precious time before I could tend damage, sometimes resulting in the death of my target ( and many times my target was myself ).

By combining these hotkeys into one we can save this time.

Macro "Heal" : /healdamage;/tenddamage;

When we activate our heal macro with a stim in our inventory, the heal damage command will succeed, and the tenddamage command will fail because you have to wait a few seconds between heals.

When we activate it with no stims, the healdamage command will fail because we dont have stims, and the tenddamage command will succeed.

So there we have a heal and tend hotkey in one, it does whichever is most desirable. Unless for some reason you would want to tenddamage when you have stims available, this key works better than having 2 separate ones.

Now on to wound treatment, this is where macros can really help us.

Many medics spend alot of time in hospitals helping people and healing wounds. This is great.

Many people run into hospitals and either go afk or do not understand how to explain what substat wounds they have. This is not great, for medics.

Luckily we have a way to "diagnose" a patients wounds for treatment. Many medics have asked for a /diagnose command, but we have something just as good at our fingertips, however we never use it.

With the power of macroing we can diagnose a patients wounds fairly easily.

Macro "omniwound" : /healwound health;/healwound action;/healwound strength;/healwound quickness;/healwound constitution;/healwound stamina

This sort of works off the same principle as the heal macro. It will first attempt to heal health wounds, if it succeeds all other commands will fail because of the timer between heals. If it finds no health wounds it will then try action. If it finds no action wounds it will then try strength, etc.

This can get spammy with "you arent ready to heal more wounds yet" messages, or "the target has no wounds of that type to cure" messages. But I generally use this as a diagnose command, simply to find the wounds they have and then I use my specified autoheal macros to heal it. Its much less spammy that way. Which brings us to ....

AutoHeal macros for wounds:

Now this is for you non doctors, the people who get frustrated because they can only heal 10-20 wounds in one shot and have to sit there and mash the button over and over again. I do a macro for 10 heals and 5 heals, but I am going to just list the 5 heal one here as its shorter, and the 10 heal one is basiclly just the 5 heal one twice.

Macro "woundh5" : "/say AutoHealing 5 health wounds;/sit;/healwound health;/pause 60;/healwound health;/pause 60;/healwound health;/pause 60;/healwound health;/pause 60;/healwound health;/pause 60;/say AutoHeal done;"

This will announce that you are going to heal 5 wounds, and then report when done. The done report is because many times I had trouble not knowing when my macro was done running. Tweak the pause time to fit your diagnostics skill, i dropped most of my medic skills for skill points including all of my diagnostics. Use the same technology to make your own macros for other types of wounds and for different amounts, theres no need to list 18 different macros here ( 6 wound types and 2 lengths ) which are basiclly the same thing.

I use aliases because i find dealing with tons of hotkeys very obtuse. Of course I have a heal/tend hotkey because I need to press it fast, but forwounds I use aliases.

To make an alias file open your favorite text editor ( vi of course being the best --- geek joke, disregard if you dont understand ). Name it medic.txt and put it in your starwarsgalaxies folder.

Be sure if youre using something bloated like notepad to turn word wrap off.

you want to make your aliases in this format:

commandthatyouwanttotype: /commands;/to;/be;/executed;

for example my woundh5 macro wold go:

woundh5: /say AutoHealing 5 health wounds;/sit;/healwound health;/pause 60;/healwound health;/pause 60;/healwound health;/pause 60;/healwound health;/pause 60;/healwound health;/pause 60;/say AutoHeal done;

Then when i typed /woundh5 in game, it would execute : " /say AutoHealing 5 health wounds;/sit;/healwound health;/pause 60;/healwound health;/pause 60;/healwound health;/pause 60;/healwound health;/pause 60;/healwound health;/pause 60;/say AutoHeal done; "

Remember that you have to actually load your aliases by typing /load medic.txt ( or whatever you named it ) in game. You can store all your aliases in one file so you dont have to load a ton of stuff, and you can make a hotkey to load it if you want.

Also a note to people who have creature handling skills and want to get master medic, you can get from novice to master medic in a day if you have novice creature handler or have a friend who does.

First obtain thousands of inorganic / organic resources and work organic chemistry up to 4, by your bank. Make only stimpack A all the way up to OC4 skill, and put them in your bank when you run out of room. Don't destroy, we need them later.

Once you get OC4 get out your fattest pet, or have your CH friend do so. The pet should have at least 8000 HAM. Next get the pet incapped or very near to it. Stormtroopers in tat cities are great because they walk around in groups of 5 and that was enough to get my pet very close to incap before he killed the last trooper. Also youre already in the city for when you need to train.

Use a macro such as this "/sit;/heal;/pause 25;/heal;/pause 25;/heal ... ( until you run out of mind, need to measure it for yourself because my mind stats are very low ) ... /pause 120 ( measure how long it takes to regen to full mind ) ... /heal;pause 25;/heal;/pause 25;/heal ... etc. You will probably want to alias this because it will likely be bigger than the character limit for the macro box.

It takes a long time to heal 9000 hps and gives a truckload of exp. You can do it over and over again and always have a target to heal. You should get all the medic skills you need fairly quickly by doing this. When the CH nerf patch goes in ( thank god -- it couldnt come too soon ), this wont be feasable, as pets will be able to be DBed.

Enjoy and have fun, if you feel you want to post this guide on a site or somewhere feel free, just don't say you wrote it =P, and ask me before you edit it if you plan on it.

-Ickhor

-Pistoleer/Smuggler with a GED in medic

-Novice CH to keep up with the Joneses until CH nerf arrives ( please be soon ).

-Corbantis server

Whenever I used /tenddamage, it would ask me to specify type. So are you going to change that first macro to

"/healdamage;/tenddamage action;/tenddamage health;"
or
"/healdamage;/tenddamage heatlth;/tenddamage action;"

and why would you choose one over the other? I think you're in trouble... if you choose one over the other, your group members are very likely to die from the second kind of damage.

Second, why do we even need an omniwound macro? If I have medpacks for health, action, strength, constitution, quickness, and stamina sitting in my inventory, and I /healwound someone with health, action, strength, constitution, quickness, and stamina wounds, it heals each of those wounds fully in that order.

Now, your AutoHeal macro for wounds is a great idea, I'm making one for myself today. I reccomend other medics make one.

I've been doing this for over a week myself. I do a three-minute healing session on someone, then craft meds while the macro tends to the heals. Good stuff, that. Also good for sampling.

If you want to sample while sleeping, remember to put a /logoff or /logout (don't remember which) at the end of your macro.

Vema Gara

Good suggestions Ickhor

Anyone else miss the EQ complete heal rotations?

/cast 1
/rsay CH on { %T }
/pause 25
/rsay NEXT CLERIC GO GO GO!!!!!

*sniff* memories

-BD

Do you know a macro command to target yourself or your groupmate? For instance, I'm a medic second, so if I'm getting beat up on by a mob, sometimes I need to stim myself--but that requires a ctrl-1 (to target myself) and then Fn4 (where my stim-B are hotkeyed). I would love a macro that automatically targets and stims myself without the extra keypress.

I havnt played around with it much, so i dont know if there are otherways, but here is ONE way. make a macro that is /healdamage self; This will target you. I have it as hotkey F12 so when i need it, i hit it.

Ickhor:

your pauses are way too long heh.. for wound healing.. set /pause 31.. 30 for the delay.. and 1 for lag compensation

for the damage healing.. set the pause to about 5 or 6.. and for god's sake go get stim Bs if you can cause A's are worthless heh.. in fact i'd go so far as to suggest getting pharm 3 first.. because it took me about a week to get pharm 3 from non-powerhealing.. and then about 3-4 days for all the rest with stim Cs..

2 weeks about 150k xp and about 80 k in just the past 3 days

The_White_Lancer:

the error message you refer to is not tenddamage but tendwound..

tenddamage will heal BOTH health and action whereas for tendwound you must target a specific stat

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forgot to add in something else..

SWG does NOT have it's own clipboard.. it runs off the windows clipboard so feel free to Ctrl-C your text editor and chat edit paste in SWG

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Biliskner wrote:

Ickhor:

your pauses are way too long heh.. for wound healing.. set /pause 31.. 30 for the delay.. and 1 for lag compensation

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Pauses vary from character to character - your skills define how long your pauses should be. Get a stopwatch and time your own downtime between heals, and re-evaluate as you skill up in Diagnosis.

LOL Is this the Blood from Tovo?

If so Ogoban say's howdy

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Kubernetes wrote:
Do you know a macro command to target yourself or your groupmate? For instance, I'm a medic second, so if I'm getting beat up on by a mob, sometimes I need to stim myself--but that requires a ctrl-1 (to target myself) and then Fn4 (where my stim-B are hotkeyed). I would love a macro that automatically targets and stims myself without the extra keypress.

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I've found that if I just hit F4 (where my stims are also) in combat, it targets me automatically for the heal. Out of combat, I have to do it manually, but I think it defaults back to you if you try to heal an enemy.

"vi of course being the best"
Heh heh, I prefer vim. Wonder if there are any emacs people on these boards... or are they people at all? ^_^