Kill the Surgeons…

[ivanhedgehog]

1 hour ago, Snokle said:

I mean, where I work has a lot of surgeons and a lot of people training to be surgeons so it would be awkward if I took great offense to them.

as long as you can throw fire and fly you are golden. slight change of profession but you gotta go with the flow.

[randomperson]

When I first started doing content in Cimerora, I always did the Surgeons first.   But after a while it just got to be too much of a pain to always separately target them. 

 

Also depends how much my build depends on mitigation.        If I go after the surgeon first, but leave the boss unmitigated, he might kill me while I'm distracted. 

[Scarlet Shocker]

I'm kinda surprised nobody went here:

 

 

[roleki]

When I farm the walls in Cimeroa with my Fire/FF controller, my opening move is to drop Smoke on the Surgeon, then yeet them clear off the wall with Repulsion Bolt.  In this way, rather than being murdered outright, the Surgeons are merely inconvenienced by having been flung hundreds of feet away from their swordfightin' buddies, who are now on fire.

[catsi563]

this entire post seems doctored 

 

 

ill go now and nurse my cheeseburger

[srmalloy]

2 hours ago, roleki said:

In this way, rather than being murdered outright, the Surgeons are merely inconvenienced by having been flung hundreds of feet away from their swordfightin' buddies, who are now on fire.

To steal from the video clip posted earlier, "...with my speaw and magic hewm-- AIIEEE!"

[Yomo Kimyata]

Earlier this year, I was on a PUG ITF and one of the members of our group was wearing the Cim Surgeon costume for the entire ITF.  It was brilliant.

[lemming]

1 hour ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

Earlier this year, I was on a PUG ITF and one of the members of our group was wearing the Cim Surgeon costume for the entire ITF.  It was brilliant.

That's why my default targetting macro is keyed to surgeons, though that would get thrown off by a player with surgeon in the name

[Doomguide2005]

Depends a little on who I'm on.  My Nrg/Temp blaster will blow them up pronto, Claw/SR scrapper depends a bit more ... keeping the EBs and Bosses upright I'm liable to take a quick hop over and land a Follow Up Focus on them.  Confuse is fun to, though I can tell if someone is paying attn to them by how fast they die despite being carpeted in pink-purple dots.

[Major_Decoy]

1 hour ago, lemming said:

That's why my default targetting macro is keyed to surgeons, though that would get thrown off by a player with surgeon in the name

Mind Control/Pain Domination character named Immoral Surgeon?

[Psyonico]

3 hours ago, lemming said:

That's why my default targetting macro is keyed to surgeons, though that would get thrown off by a player with surgeon in the name

That's why you make sure your macro includes "enemy" as well as "surgeon"

 

2 hours ago, Major_Decoy said:

Mind Control/Pain Domination character named Immoral Surgeon?

NGL, I have an AR/Pain corr named "Hypocritic Oath"

[Hedgefund]

I use "enemy alive" in my surgeon target bind.  "Alive" is important so you don't target corpses.

[Bob]

In the rare occurrence I am in a group that can't butcher most trash, the worst I see happening is that an elite boss gets healed to full, but then someone almost always breaks off to go kill the healer(s).  

 

This game is not as fluid as other mmorpgs.  You que your abilities, and you get locked in position.  So if people are spamming away at anything that moves in a cluster of 30+ enemies being engaged, I'd rather them all be doing that and clean up the healers later, than some blaster wasting time trying to eyeball the surgeons or even have them targeted but  them being around a corner (common).  Meanwhile that blaster could have downed quite a bit of other trash before a heal even went off.  

 

With that said, if you are playing a support and have nothing to heal, your debuffs were applied, or your targets CC'd... then you should probably be the one to go volunteer to hunt the lowest HP enemy in the task force.  Let the DPS actually down bigger threats, and the lower DPS ATs could go bring the surgeons down just as fast. 

[Triumphant]

I've been guilty of this the last two times that I've played a ranged toon on ITF's.  It's because I haven't made targetting macros for those characters yet, and I've been lazy about doing it.  I'll try to get that fixed before I sign up for another one. 😝

 

On the other hand, I DO see that as primarily the task of ranged AT's.  So, if I'm playing a melee dude in an ITF, don't expect me to take care of that unless the surgeon is standing right next to me.