Spirou.1964 Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 I have an idea for a new Crafting discipline. I call it "Doctor". Instead of, for example, weaponsmith, you are a doctor. Depending on which symptoms a patient has, they are treated with different methods. Surgeries, prescription of medicines and more. The idea was first that it could be content in a StarTrek game. Where they had collected all the scenarios that the various doctors in all the StarTrek series and movies have dealt with. But then I found out that it had worked in GuildWars too. As a new "crafting" discipline. 1 1 18 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanAlcedo.3281 Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 Uhhh.... I guess as a roleplay thing or something? Sure I guess. Still a wierd choice to add tho. A gold sink that adds nothing in return. Just flavor. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wielder Of Magic.3950 Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 But what will it add to the game? I mean we currently don't have any disease system. We have conditions, but we have cleanses for that as it is. And people will never accept being afflicted by a disease debuff that is uncleansable unless you have access to someone with a certain crafting discipline. Are you proposing it can for example craft consumable "pill" items to instantly cleanse conditions from the inventory? And craftable consumable "syringes" to forcibly inject yourself with heals/boons and the enemy in range with conditions/damage? So far it sounds like you haven't made it further than 'sounds cool', but have not yet thought about what role it would fill ingame in a gameplay sense. 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 There is the temple of kormir heart in path of fire were you sew wounds, soothe burns and fix broken bones. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farohna.6247 Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 But why? Who would we be healing? NPCs? The crafting benefits the player...armor, food, etc. I don't think it's really needed to be popping potions or syringes or passing a box of tissues in the middle of combat...we already heal. Not seeing how this would be implemented. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryuk.6840 Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 (edited) I can see the working as a new spec and rather farming HP chores and XP grind, you have to collect some items to progress the bar. The items can be randomized , scavenger like Edited December 9, 2023 by Ryuk.6840 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teknomancer.4895 Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 Crafting disciplines create products that have at least some nominal value to partially justify the time and tedium of the crafting process itself. What products would this create that don't duplicate what already exists, and for what purpose would they be used in a game with self-healing? The answer to both seems to be "none." 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarglewomp.6870 Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 Put it back in the oven, its not done cooking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen.2907 Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 A pharmacist profession to craft healing consumables would make sense thematically, but the abundance of low cooldown self heals would render it largely useless IMO. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batalix.2873 Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Ashen.2907 said: A pharmacist profession to craft healing consumables would make sense thematically, but the abundance of low cooldown self heals would render it largely useless IMO. Basically this. If pots were a thing in this game, I could see an alchemist or apothecary crafter. I laughed out loud at the OP. I was looking for the "utility" of the class, and apparently the roleplay fantasy and mini-game would be the only purpose for such a job existing. Which, as @Linken.6345 observed, you can do as much as you like in the Temple of Kormir in the Crystal Oasis map. I would rather have a judge profession, where we can deliberately tweak the numbers of classes to adjust the "balance". 😛 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiroho.4738 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Aaannnd... what exactly does a "doctor" craft? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knighthonor.4061 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 12 hours ago, DanAlcedo.3281 said: Uhhh.... I guess as a roleplay thing or something? Sure I guess. Still a wierd choice to add tho. A gold sink that adds nothing in return. Just flavor. I think the doctor makes medicine, which would be just like Food, but with a different name and different buffs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom.8029 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Ooooooo. And then you can bill other players for your services and if they don’t pay, it gets sent to collections. If they don’t pay the legal fees, they get sent to the Consortium to work it off until who knows when. Perfect. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiof.5710 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 I see the Asurans getting into the Tyrian Medical Insurance Industry. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuavePuppy.2809 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 What 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen.2907 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 2 hours ago, Tom.8029 said: Ooooooo. And then you can bill other players for your services and if they don’t pay, it gets sent to collections. If they don’t pay the legal fees, they get sent to the Consortium to work it off until who knows when. Perfect. Hmm, and insurance with deductible that must be met a d an annual out of pocket maximum!!! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balsa.3951 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 psychiatric with a sofa where the commander can talk about his ptsd. Even childhood traumas. a good way to make gold. lets say 100 g the hour 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanAlcedo.3281 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 8 hours ago, Knighthonor.4061 said: I think the doctor makes medicine, which would be just like Food, but with a different name and different buffs. That was my first thought as well. Basically first aid from wow or something? But OP never said anything about this direction. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucy.3728 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 1 hour ago, Balsa.3951 said: psychiatric with a sofa where the commander can talk about his ptsd. There is a lot for psychiatrists to do. The Charr race is basically a collection of traumas in fur and on 4 paws. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky.4861 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 8 hours ago, Kiof.5710 said: I see the Asurans getting into the Tyrian Medical Insurance Industry. No. The Asurans are all about the eternal alchemy and how you can't profit from it. If it were to be any race, it would be Charr (fat cats, monopolising medicines etc) or Humans (greedy corporate types and snake-oil salesmen). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teknomancer.4895 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 12 minutes ago, Funky.4861 said: No. The Asurans are all about the eternal alchemy and how you can't profit from it. If it were to be any race, it would be Charr (fat cats, monopolising medicines etc) or Humans (greedy corporate types and snake-oil salesmen). I smell a new business opportunity for Snargle Goldclaw to start an advertising agency... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kharmin.7683 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 56 minutes ago, Teknomancer.4895 said: I smell a new business opportunity for Snargle Goldclaw to start an advertising agency... Yeah. For malpractice attorneys. "Have you or a loved one been injured by medical malpractice...?" 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farohna.6247 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 10 hours ago, Kiof.5710 said: I see the Asurans getting into the Tyrian Medical Insurance Industry. I see them using unwilling test subjects for peculiar medical "research" and unleashing a plague... probably more bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batalix.2873 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 11 hours ago, Teknomancer.4895 said: I smell a new business opportunity for Snargle Goldclaw to start an advertising agency... Don't blaspheme the greatest writer of our generation. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knighthonor.4061 Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 13 hours ago, kharmin.7683 said: Yeah. For malpractice attorneys. "Have you or a loved one been injured by medical malpractice...?" well I did have a bad healer that one time I ran a dungeon. Can I sue? 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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