State of Game, from a 'Combat Medics' perspective
When 1.4 rolled out. I was miserable because it looked like I was going to be forced back into the DPS role. I was to an extent jealous of the new Shield Tanks, but that has never been my thing. The best I was willing to do is be an off tank healer.
and then I saw MarcoStyle's Combat Medic.
His build was using a **** load of 1.3 stuff not available in 1.4, but I was able to use it as a basis.
So what is 1.5 like now?
Getting a min maxed 'specialized' build in a team isn't easy, and I'm not there yet, but I'm at 200K DPS, 292K toughness (52% Mitigation), 215K SP. I have first dibs at all the Tactician stuff and my team is ultra generous because it's easier if they don't have to heal themselves and our Tank loves me. Depending on what we are running, I can switch to an 'offensive' skill, like flame turret to stop 'Shotgun' rushers or a Seeker to strip armor or cause the floor to flame up, but generally just popping OverHeal or Booster, and Immunizer, Heal, or Scanner works wonders.
I really wish that over heal worked if you don't have Vigourus, but fairly sure this has been stated to be WAD (Working As Designed).
So what is working really well.
1) Drops are over all good enough that you can get what you need relatively quickly, especially when your team helps, but min/max will take a while (and it should).
2) Roles are definitely doable and they do make a huge positive difference.
3) Each Role has associated differences, with unique strengths and weaknesses. I can list some of these out, but I'm presuming that this is too much text as is.
4) Deployed skills can change the way you play.
What's currently missing?
1) Incursions on Heroic are not only Doable, with a little practice, they become easy. So I guess we need Raids next?
2) Lag is a son of a *****. Bad enough that people can't always count on their own heals, but when the servers aren't happy, things go to **** really fast.
3) Doing UG, we ran into issues where we couldn't raise each other from downed or death. Not sure if this was lag related or not, but let me tell you, being the last man standing on a timed mission, and I almost always was, is painful and makes me want to cry. If my Link skill was up, I could bring everyone back, but if not...
Thanks Massive, awesome ****ing job. It's time to switch your focus for new content
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