Medic (LWR)

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The Medic is a versatile support class. Their signature ability is Field Medic, which grants two frees use of a medikit per mission and allows additional Medikit items to be used two times per battle instead of one, and the first medikit used each turn costs 0 AP.

Primary Weapon: Carbines, Assault Rifles, Battle Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns.

Secondary Weapon: Pistols, Machine Pistols, Sawed-off shotgun.

Class-Limited items: None.

Abilities

Rank	Ability
Specialist	Field Medic Field Medic Grants 2 free medikits. Medikits heal +1 HP (+2 if an idle Engineer is within 4 tiles). Stabilization costs 0 AP and no longer consumes a medikit.
Lance Corporal	Sentinel Sentinel Fire an additional reaction shot and gain +20 defense during overwatch. Grants Opportunist. Opportunist Opportunist Reaction shots gain +10 aim and can critically hit.		Will To Survive Will To Survive Increases DR of all cover to 60% but grants 10 less defense. For XCOM, grants Steadfast. Steadfast Steadfast Provides +2 armor HP, immunity to panic, and reduces injury times by 30%.		Smoke and Mirrors Smoke and Mirrors Using a support grenade costs only 1 AP and does not trigger reaction shots. Equipped support grenades receive an additional use.
Corporal	Extra Conditioning Extra Conditioning Grants +2 armor HP and +0.6 mobility, and a 10% chance for all end-in-idle actions to cost 0 AP.		Ranger Ranger Grants +1 damage to all weapons and equipment, +0.6 mobility, and +10% throw/rocket range. Sidearms additionally gain +2 damage, +20 aim, and 1 AP reloads.		Impact Impact Shots gain +10 penetration. Non-reaction shots disable their target's Overwatch and Reactive Targeting Sensors.
Sergeant	Hit and Run Hit and Run The first shot taken at a preoccupied target or target damaged each turn will leave this unit with 1 AP, but limits this unit to using only mobility, officer, psionic, and non-arm-based MEC actions until they reach 0 AP. After repositioning, shots gain +25% crit damage until next turn.		Ready For Anything Ready For Anything At the end of each turn, if this unit did not move and is not at risk of triggering reaction fire, overwatch activates. If this unit has not moved, reaction shots gain +10 aim.		Combat Drugs Combat Drugs Smoke grenades grant +25 aim and +15 crit. On detonation, if this unit is in the Area of Effect, they Enrage. Smoke grenades also passively heal 2 HP at the end of the turn. Only affects units that are breathing the smoke. Does not work in dense smoke.
Tech Sergeant	Savior Savior Medikits heal an additional 35% of the target's missing HP. Grants +1 small equipment slots. Grants Revive [Bring a stabilized soldier back into action at 33% of their max HP for the cost of 1 medikit and 0 AP].
Gunnery Sergeant	Close Combat Specialist Close Combat Specialist Grants a reaction shot at any enemy within 4 tiles that acts. Reaction shot only activates on enemy's turn, once per enemy. [Basic reaction shots bypass half of cover DR/def, cannot crit, and require hit chance >30]		Bring 'Em On Bring 'Em On This unit gains +0.5 damage on standard shots and incoming non-psionic attacks have a +5% graze chance for each enemy in sight.		Shadowstep Shadowstep This unit gains +0.6 mobility and does not trigger reaction shots or pursuit when walking (not dashing). After repositioning, shots gain +25% crit damage until next turn.
Master Sergeant	Sharpshooter Sharpshooter All shots gain +15 aim against biological targets.			Packmaster Packmaster Equipped medikits, grenades, and mists receive an additional use. Grants +2 HP to healing from Restorative Mists.

Stat Progression

Rank	Attribute Gains
Specialist	+0-1 (50%)	+4-12	+0.6	+4-12
Lance Corporal	+0-1 (10%)	+1-3	-	+1-3
Corporal	+0-1 (10%)	+1-3	-	+1-3
Sergeant	+0-1 (10%)	+1-3	-	+1-3
Tech Sergeant	+0-1 (10%)	+0-2	-	+0-2
Gunnery Sergeant	+0-1 (10%)	-	-	-
Master Sergeant	-	-	-	-
Total	+0-6	+7-23	+0.6	+7-23

Predictable Potential:

Rank	Attribute Gains
Specialist	+1	+8	+0.6	+8
Lance Corporal	-	+2	-	+2
Corporal	-	+2	-	+2
Sergeant	-	+2	-	+2
Tech Sergeant	-	+1	-	+1
Gunnery Sergeant	-	-	-	-
Master Sergeant	-	-	-	-
Total	+1	+15	+0.6	+15

Tactical Advice

Medics are a diverse class focused on healing and supporting their squad. Each medic lends a hand in a different way but all of them are good healers and have ways to deny the enemy good shots on your team. How you build your Medic is up to you but they generally focus on three main support types: Field Medic healing squad, Tactical Support providing cover and defense or the Battle Medic providing fire support. If you choose to be a purist in a role or a jack of all trades it's up to you.

Sample Builds

Overwatch Medic

This straightforward build uses the combination of Sentinel and Ready for Anything to bring reliable reaction fire to the field. Ready for Anything grants valuable aim as well as free overwatching as long as the Medic does not move. For this reason, this build is most at home in heavy and protratcted firefights where it can fire uninterrupted - dealing strong damage thanks to a very early access to Bring Em' On. The inherent utility of Field Medic is a boon to the squad during downtimes or even in combat if teamates can stay close so the Medic doesn t have to move to heal them.

Sample Overwatch Build: Sentinel -> Bring 'Em On -> Ready for Anything-> Savior-> Impact -> Sharpshooter

Sentinel Sentinel

Bring 'Em On Bring 'Em On

Ready For Anything Ready For Anything

Savior Savior

Impact Impact

Sharpshooter Sharpshooter

Recommended Weapons: Battle rifle, Assault Rifle
Recommended Equipment: Scope, Drum Mags, Shredder/AP ammo, Damage boosting ammunition.

Notes:

• This build will put Gene Mods to good use, especially Predictive Tracking for added aim on reaction shots and Adrenal Neurosympathy which is more likely to trigger thanks to the high number of actions per turn.

Support Medic

The Support Medic is a pure and simple build that focuses on producing the best healer and support possible. The Support Medic provides very strong healing capabilities, alongside being able to protect the squad with reaction immune Concussion and Smoke grenades thanks to Smoke and Mirrors. Combat Drugs offers a welcome upgrade to regular Smoke grenades, healing units taking damage while inside the drug-laced smoke. Proper care is to be observed to not let melee ennemies enter the smoke, or an unwary Commander might be forced to abandon a previously safe position to the now self-healing aliens. Finally, this build has next to no offensive power by itself and must rely entirely on the one brought by the rest of the squad.

Sample Support Medic Build: Smoke and Mirrors -> Extra Conditioning or Ranger -> Combat Drugs -> Savior -> Shadowstep -> Packmaster.

Smoke and Mirrors Smoke and Mirrors

Extra Conditioning Extra Conditioning Ranger Ranger

Combat Drugs Combat Drugs

Savior Savior

Shadowstep Shadowstep

Packmaster Packmaster

Recommended Weapons: Assault Rifle, SMG, Carbine
Recommended Equipment: Medikits, Concussion Grenades, Smoke Grenades.

Notes:

• Ranger can be picked over Extra Conditioning for a tiny bit more offensive presence and a nice throw range increase.
• Smoke And Mirrors and Shadowstep allow complete immunity to reaction fire as far as this build is concerned.(you will still get shot if using Medikits!)
• A good candidate for psi training for even more support options.
• Can be a decent officer, but won t make very much use of the combat stat boosts.

Tank Medic

An unorthodox but effective tank build that sacrifices supporting power for powerful tanking capabilities, it is able to push forward and absorb fire intended for other units and simply heal it back up. Close Encounters and Close Combat Specialist provides some strong close range combat potential whick makes the build bear an uncanny resemblance to the Assault Class, with less overall power and tankyness but noticably more sustain. Being able to self-remove Corrosion and regain full tanking power is also very valuable.

Sample Tank Medic Build: Will To Survive -> Extra Conditioning or Ranger or Bring 'Em On -> Close Encounters -> Savior -> Close Combat Specialist or Shadowstep -> Sharpshooter

Will To Survive Will To Survive

Extra Conditioning Extra Conditioning Ranger Ranger Bring 'Em On Bring 'Em On

Close Encounters Close Encounters

Savior Savior

Close Combat Specialist Close Combat Specialist Shadowstep Shadowstep

Sharpshooter Sharpshooter

Recommended Weapons: Shotgun
Recommended Equipment: High Cap Mags, Reinforced Plating/Regenerative Plating/Chitin Plating, Medikits.

Notes:

• Extra Conditioning and Ranger are the defensive and offensive sides of the same coin. Bring 'Em On will noticably increase damage in crowded fights. A choice for agressive Commanders.
• Close Combat Specialist can be replaced with Shadowstep, this will greatly help manoeuvrability but it does mean movement cannot be used to draw enemy reaction fire.
• Will make good use of defensive Gene Mods or Officer stats boost.

See also

Long War Rebalance: Soldiers
Soldiers	Soldiers Assault Infantry Rocketeer Gunner Sniper Scout Medic Engineer
MEC	MEC Troopers Marauder Goliath Jaeger Shogun
Sub-classes and abilities	Officers Psionics Gene Mods S.H.I.V.s