Squad Leader Archive

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There is a growing movement among players of medic-based classes that believes that mind damage should become the province of doctors and/or medics.

I believe this is not the solution - allowing doctors to heal the pool that they use to heal simply creates an upward spiral with no drains from the system. In the thread I link below, I outline an alternative, rough draft solution which better fuses entertainers with the combat professions.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=entertainer&message.id=3748

Please, Holo, for the love of the game, do not allow doctors to heal mind damage OR mind wounds.

We don't plan to allow medic types to heal mind, because it opens the door to lots of exploits for them, as you point out.

Your idea is interesting, but t does make entertainers more bard-like, which I am not crazy about (but perhaps some entertainers are?). The Squad Leader alternative is also interesting.

Frankly, this situation is a bit of a loophole in the design. We did not catch the medic exploit until too late, so we removed the mind pool heal from them, without creating an alternative. Mind is not supposed to be the determining factor in a combat.

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from this thread:
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=476570#M476570

further on in the thread:

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Darniaq wrote:

Holo, on your comments regarding changes to the Entertainer system (from the first PM addressed in part three):

Your idea is interesting, but t does make entertainers more bard-like, which I am not crazy about (but perhaps some entertainers are?). The Squad Leader alternative is also interesting.

I think there are some people who'd like to become the Bard archetype. We're fleshing out the idea in that linked thread:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=entertainer&message.id=3748

But I'd really like to see it as a separate tree off of the Novice Entertainer.

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I'll be honest and say that bard types were left out specifically because they were not very Star Warsy. Having musicians other than John Williams playing during a lightsaber battle just felt wrong for the setting. We tried instead to give the typical bardic role to Squad Leaders.

-Raph Koster,

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ESD wrote:
Is the typical bardic role in your mind (or the DEVs) to be useless? Have an entire profession filled with huge mind cost skills and passive abilities that do not show any kind of noticable benefit to the group. Just wondering, what is a bardic role? What should a Squad Leader add to a group?

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Well, no. It's supposed to be group buffs and group coordination.

-Raph Koster,


Creative Director

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