Buffs:
- Martial Arts Mastery-In line with opening up Pistol Mastery to other professions(now castable by Doctor, Crat, Engi in addition to the original Soldier), I propose opening up at least Martial Arts Mastery to Doctors and even possibly Shades. This is because shades are coaxed into MA(atleast alternatively) with an MA perk line and the ability to use Special Edition Nunchackos. Doctors obviously have support in a Research line, symbiant support, less IP spent for MA, nanodeck, etc. So I propose Martial Arts Mastery be changed to be usable by MA/Doctor/Shade or at the very least MA/Doctor.
- Dirty Fighter- Doctors have no support for brawl anywhere, and it is by far considered a staple of any character using Martial Arts. I propose this gets updated to usable by MA/Doc/Enfo/Keeper/Adventurer(pretty much any profession able to effectively use melee weapons)
- Fast attack Buffs- Open these up to Doctors as well as adventurers for the same reason as dirty fighter.(Not as important as the other suggestions in my opinion)
- Ranged Energy-Open up Ranged Energy Mastery to Doctors, aligning with support in their research and perks
Perks:
- Martial Arts:
- Kung-Fu Master should be updated to be a full fledged perkline
OR- A new Martial Arts Perkline for doctors, or give Doctor's access to Spiritual Master perkline as a group perkline.
- Shotgun:
- Shotgun Mastery Perkline opened up to Doctor, since we have Shotgun research and ofab support, but no support in the symbiants or perks.
Brawling:
- Brawler Perkline opened up to Doctor/Keeper/Adventurer to give them a damage boost, while forcing doctors to lose some healing capabilities for this damage(would have to lose some heal perks or Specialist Healer, etc)
Items:
- Ofab:
- Ofab Doctor Gloves currently add Pistol/Shotgun/RE all at equal amounts. I suggest Martial Arts gets tacked on there as well.
- Ofab Doctor Pants currently add Fling Shot. I suggest these get Fast Attack to supplement.
- Ofab Doctor Shoulder Wear currently adds Pistol and Multi Ranged. I suggest these get Martial Arts and Multi Melee.
- Miscellaneous Items:
- Nanodeck- Seriously, why does this have 1hb? We can get rid of that just for cleanliness purposes.
- Special Edition Nunchacko- I suggest this is opened up to doctors. This would give doctors a nice progression in tl5 up to tl7 without being forced to switch to pistols or having some janky RK weapons that don't do anything in Shadowlands.
None of these changes are intended to break anything or make anything OP, and suggestions are more than welcome. I admit I am not very well versed in some things(for example the Spiritual Master perkline, it could be very OP on a Doctor, I don't know). These suggestions are all intended to make alternative weapons more viable for doctors. Let me know what you guys think! Also, if you are interested, here are my suggestions for the Support Symbiants: Support Symbiants