Discussion about Medic

As most of you know, I really enjoy playing medic, especially offensive medic. There has been plenty of debate on the many aspects of medic. For example, medic teaming and the regen. I'm going to try and be as unbiased as possible, but just know I probably be a bit lenient to medic when talking about this stuff.

Currently in any match, whether official or not, medic teaming is not allowed. It is defined as "healing another Medic in combat". I do question this definition slightly, because there are certain scenarios where it wouldn't truly be medic teaming, but would be against the current rule. Let's say a medic has the flag, but has a ninja trying to recover, and is attacking said medic. That medic needs a heal, but all another Medic can do is try and kill that ninja. Changing the rule slightly so that scenarios like those would allow that medic to heal, even though it is being attacked. I'm proposing to change the rule from "healing a medic in combat" to something along the lines of "purposfully healing a medic to sustain longer in combat" or "healing between multiple medics whilst in combat". Those rules would allow for a medic to heal a medic in need, but not purposfully try to abuse a mechanic. Now I know some will think "but a medic healing a medic in combat is medic teaming, and so allowing that is contradictory." To that I say how is healing a medic in that situation different than healing a soldier, heavy, ninja, etc. I'm saying that there is no difference, and it's not abusing the mechanic. However, it does start to abuse the mechanic when both medics start healing each other, and more importantly on purpose. All I'm trying to say is make it so that medics can be healed during situations where they need to be healed.

Now I know, including myself, are thinking, "With that, medics will be impossible to kill, especially in stalemates. The only thing really able to kill that medic is a headshot or a lucky assassin." This brings me to the next point on medic: slower healing regen. Currently, the healing regen is regen 5 (correct me if I'm wrong) which is very fast, and is like Mages or engineers regen. In order to help multiple situations, like that of the stalemate issue, is to nerf the healing to regen 3 or something (slower). This would fix long stalemates, since a medic can't heal the flag carrier as quickly, and also general combat. I know personally there have been many situations where I'm capping and a ninja is trying to recover. I should be generally ok, unless that ninja gets healed by a medic. Then I know I'm going to be hurt badly or die. Having a slower regen would allow more people that are fighting, especially in stalemates and recovering, to survive when a medics heal is slower. This would also generally fix medic teaming as a whole, since the healing would not be fast enough to compensate for the damage being done to them. The slower regen would allow healing to still take place, but won't have an effect in any combat, and so fix stalemates, recovery, and medic teaming.

I really would appreciate to see your thoughts on these topics (especially from staff ).

 

@SoCool21 I think you missed the point. Yes, that situation is medic teaming and should not be allowed in matches. However, I am referring to the fact that when one is trying to heal a medic that is capping, even when there is a ninja trying to recov, one should be able to do so. Of course that might seem op for the offense, which is why the second half of the post is there.