Medics (or healers if you prefer) can be a difficult class to use correctly, and as anyone who plays them will tell you, its a thankless job.  Even if you do a good job its unlikely you will get a thanks, but that’s fine as you don’t really expect to thank other classes for shooting things as that’s their job right? As long as you know you are doing a good job that should be all the satisfaction you should need.

The medic class in Global Agenda can be a tricky one to use, so I figured I would note down a few tips for anyone playing them or wanting to play one.  This is all from personal experience so if you don’t agree that’s fine as I tend to be wrong alot anyway :-)   Anyway, here goes…

  1. Always be aware of your surroundings, in both PvP and PvE things can sneak up on you and your party so make sure you see them coming so you can be prepared.
  2. Be aware of your targeting reticle, the first thing you will notice when trying to heal someone in Global Agenda is that your heal beam will sometimes lock on to random other people nearby.  The game seems to have some kind of last person/priority to heal system going on which can mean you wont be healing the person you were trying to.  I get around this by doing quick bursts of healing to confirm I have the right person ‘locked on’.
  3. People appreciate medics that actually heal, now poison medics are very nice and can do alot of damage but if you don’t actually heal people you are going to make more enemies than friends.
  4. Remember, even other medics need healing sometimes!
  5. If you have to choose a class to save, try and make sure its the assault. These are guys who can do the most damage (and take it) so they should be the priority when trying to judge who to heal in a group if your power is limited. Remember you can also hide behind them quite well as well ;-)
  6. Go with the flow. Annoying as it sometimes is, try and stick with where the majority is and hope that they are actually doing the objectives. If you try and do these yourself it will just end up with major stress on your part!
  7. Ignore the people who moan. Probably the most important one, people will always moan at medics so just ignore them unless they have a good point.

I have probably missed a few things, will probably update this over time as my experience grows in Global Agenda.