New Bandaging rantFollow

I was wondering what people thought about now having to channel when bandaging yourself (you can't move while bandaging yourself now), not just when bandaging someone else.

This change kinda made me think why I should continue to use them. I can sell the Runecloth in the Auction house for far more then the cost of food on a vendor, or what I can make which will give me stats, again, much cheaper just to make/buy food.

The main reason I got started on using first aid was so when my pet died and the mob came to me and was kickin my butt, I would wingclip and run away and be able to restore some of my health. Now most of the time when you're running away from something in an area you useually pick up an add or two that WILL Daze you. I don't care what anyone says, if you have your back to a mob and they are your level, chances are in 2-3 hits you will be dazed, and without being able to bandage on the run, you can bet you're going to be in ghost form in the next few seconds. Atleast when I got a bandage off while running, I would be able to survive a daze or two and still be able to get away. Now, fighting the undead in Western Plague, there is absolutly 0 point in running away. You will be dazed, you can count on that, and it's not like most classes can outrun anything at all and things just have a huge "swing" radius.

I just think this was a terrible way to mess with firstaid. What are your thoughts? No Flames please, just your opinions.

Well as far as I know the bandaging on the run thing was a glitch. Does this mean I have to like the fix?

Anyways, I personally think thats about all that needs to be said about this subject by me.

It didn't make sense to bandage like that. If you need to be healed while fighting, drink a potion, i'll sell them to ya ;)

Food = Wait and heal, slower
Bandage = Wait and heal, faster
Potion = Healed :D

Advantages of bandage over food:

Someone else can bandage you - important if their First Aid skill is notably higher than yours.

Bandaging can be done mid-battle, food can't. And again, can be done by someone other than you, so you can keep doing whatever you're doing in a fight.

Makes use of ingredients that drop off of pretty much every Humanoid opponent, instead of having to search for the right critter to get the meat you need for your favorite recipe.

Yes, Bandages are more party-oriented. What's wrong with that?

Focus pet's attention on the add, let it get aggro, bandage as necessary and Mend Pet.

Gives some respite before jumping into the fray.

I can actually understand why this has been implemented,can you imagine trying to run any where while trying to bandage your guts back in ;)
However as has been pointed out First Aid looks to be a more party orientaded skill. For exmaple, a warrior,priest and hunter are fighting some tuff 'uns, the priest dies and the warrior is getting whaled upon.......

1) His hunter buddy knows first aid and is able to keep him alive

or

2) His hunter buddy doesnt know first aid and the privy hits the proverbial

I know what one I'd rather have :D

Edited, Tue Dec 21 20:12:54 2004 by Tobanis

I'm aware that it IS useful to a group, but even though this games is a MMORPG, it is still a game that allows for soloing. I loved first aid before this fix, because it was a big help when a fight wasn't going the way I wanted. It wouldn't always save me, but it would give me a chance to escape safely. Now I just have to suck it up and die, which isn't fun.

And although I hate when people say stuff like this, I'm gonna say it anyway: being rated down for expressing your opinion is really lame. I have just as much right to dislike the First Aid changes as anyone else has to like them.

...thus cheapening the value of Alchemy and ruining the efforts of current Alchemists, and causing more fights over herbs... and also forcing Blizzard to totally rewrite quests that called for Herbs or Alchemy potions as part of the turn-in...

You're looking at it the wrong way. First Aid is a skill that everyone can use because it's limited in function. If it were more powerful, it'd be unbalancing as a Secondary skill - and it was.

How realistic is it for someone to be soloing a monster, then turn and run away long enough for a "quick fix" from a bandage before turning and resuming the fight? Bandages aren't meant to be used that way... and yet, they were.



And they have just as much right to rate you down for whining. And yes, calling it, "totally useless," is whining, because we all know it's not totally useless... just not as useful as you want it to be.

I don't recall whether I rated you down on the original, "totally useless," post or not. However, I usually do rate people down when they whine about being rated down. But I'll make an exception this time, as sort of a peace offering.

Bandages were never intended to be an substitute for having a healer around. As is, far too many people would prefer to solo all the time (I include myself in this category I am sad to say because of my weird work hours), rather than take the xp split and have a healer along.

I think it is because of this that you see so few of the healing classes around (I do not really count Paladins/Shamans as a healing class, they can but not nearly as well as a Priest/Druid). Why have a Healer along when you can just bandage up on the run? Better to keep the lion's share of xp and just fling on a few bandages rather than deal with the extra baggage of a healer eh?

Not to mention that could you image trying to put on a proper field dressing while jogging along, jumping over boulders, roots and dead gnomes, all the while trying to slap a patch over the 10" gash in your chest?

So yeah, gotta admit that them fixing that bug is of no great suprise to me, though I dont have any characters with the First Aid ability...I prefer to not get into situations where I have a high likelyhood of an untimely demise. I prefer a plan over a panic.

YAY BANDAGE BUG FIX!!!

<--- uses first aid and will continue to do so.

As a general rule I NEVER toss anything from my packs... Its a rare occasion I do. Probably the best way to make money is just to take a time out from your questing and go empty your pack of misc things to a vendor when its full. Shops are all over the place...

Well it was never designed to be nerf, as was posted, just a bug fix. If you think about it, linen had the channeling all the time, the rest didn't. Bandages are good still since your not limited to using them outa battle, which is good if your in like some glitch or a party that was fighting multiple mobs and you killed your's but need some healing and the healer is busy or something.

This is helpful to alchemists who make potions. I have loads of potions and noone would buy them because they could in effect get the same treatment from the bandage. I'm glad they fixed it. I need to get rid of some potions :D