Medic Archive

OK.....how in the world do you heal others while you are in combat mode? I mean.....what is the easiest quickest way you have found to start combat, heal team member, and return to combat?

Do I just hotkey a stimpak? Do ya hit Esc to untarget mob then target team-member? Is there actually a way to do this without having major delay between the time it tatkes you to heal and time it takes to return to combat?

IMHO then one thing that needs work right now in SWG is targetting.

Would appreciate some advice.

Thanks,

Kazarin of Kettemoor

my advice is dont special...if u special u cant heal...if u auto-attack you can heal inbetween shots...just learn the timing...

Exactly what Elenora said!

Don't Use Speicals and learn the timing you need while in fight mode. If your patient in the field needs Healiing NOW you are6 seconds too late. You MUST develope the talent for anticipating your heals. Best to waste a charge on a Stim (not a big deal) and heal LESS damage due to a "fast" heal, then watch your patient die because of a 'slow" heal.

Also, learn to recognize situations when it is prudent to do NOTHING but stand by and heal. It only takes me like 3 seconds at most between stim use if I am not in combat mode. The longer you play and the more effort you take in recognizing when to fight and heal and when to exclusively heal the better a Combat Medic/Field Surgeon or Medic you will become.

Put your /peace hotkey next to your heal hotkeys. If you have a special queue, just /peace and it will drop the queue and allow you to heal immediately. My usual routine: /assist the fighter for target. Select that target and do some specials (specials don't work unless you have the monster targeted). When the fighter needs a heal, 1) Target him 2) Peace and 3) Heal. After he's healed, I reselect the monster and start the routine over. It goes even faster if I close all inventory/skill/etc. windows and use one hand with the mouse to select people in a large group after hitting the alt key to get into select mode, since my groups are usually pretty well trained to stay within 6m of me during a fight and I shouldn't need to be running around a lot.

During really heavy fights, I don't shoot at all - partly to save/regen mind, and also to keep myself from getting aggro'd and killed since I need to be alive for the group to live. If I ever get around to grinding the crafting I need to make rez packs, I will probably do this even more since mid-fight DB due to mind incap is a problem now. 90% of the time I am up and shooting, though.

I don't use hotkeys, I use radial on the meds from my inventory.

As said above, normal shooting, it is a matter of timing.

Unless you are fighting something too big for your group to fight in a normal manner, you can use specials, as long as you don't spam them.

I often do crowd control with my medic (using Combat support specials).

I also often do damage (with specials) and nobody dies.

Then again, groups I'm in never fight over a yellow con.