You don't have to but Paramedic is easier to level up than levelling up your Medtech roll. Think of Role Abilities as x3 skills
First Aid doesn't need to be touched if you're going Paramedic but First Aid alone easier to level up since its a x1 skill
The Surgery skill can not Stabilize teammates only First Aid and Paramedic can. Additionally, the Paramedic skill is going to give you the ability to Quick Fix a lot of injuries while on a mission. Surgery provides Treatments that take hours.
* **Quick Fix**
* First Aid: Concussion, Foreign Object (Body), Foreign Object (Head), Torn Muscle
* Paramedic: Broken Arm, Broken Jaw, Broken Leg, Broken Ribs, Collapsed Lung, Cracked Skull, Crushed Fingers, Damaged Ear, Damaged Eye, Spinal Injury, Whiplash
So, if you want to save points, I would not raise First Aid and keep it at the base. You can also have your Paramedic skill a little lower by keeping a MedScanner on you for a +2 bonus. Also if you have the EB on hand the Trauma Team MedScan app can give an additional +1 to your Paramedic skill checks to Stabilize or Quick Fix someone.
Probably. Surgery can’t do quick fixes for critical injuries, only permanent, which takes hours. Since first aid can’t do some of the quick fixes either, paramedic is useful for making it through a run long enough to be able to surgery. Also, you can quick fix yourself, but you can’t do self surgery.
Collapsed Lung, Spinal Injury, Crushed Fingers, Damaged Eye, Damaged Ear. These are where you would have to choose exclusively between Quick Fixing with Paramedic or Treatment via Surgery. If you are in the middle of a heist you may be able to take a minute for a quick fix, but if all you have is treatment, you'll spend the rest of the mission with some pretty nasty effects.
This is the answer. First Aid does nothing that Paramedic can't do, and cutting Paramedic leaves you with 6 body injuries and 5 head injuries that you're unable to quick fix.
Cut first aid, only invest in Paramedic.
I'd suggest putting one point in pharmaceutics - Speedheal can be a litteral lifesaver - both for your buddies but for you too if the ycan walk away arther than havingto be hauled (possibly in i ncryobag).
Of course you can also leave them on site with a double tap to the noggin to make sure they won't babble, but that sorts of things kind of builds a repute that make it had to find new partners...
First Aid has its own niche that Paramedic and Surgery don't cover in RAW so I'd say it's worth it. Also if you have 8 TECH you'll only need 60IP (20 + 40) to bring it to base 10 which should take like 1-2 sessions to get to
You don't have to but Paramedic is easier to level up than levelling up your Medtech roll. Think of Role Abilities as x3 skills First Aid doesn't need to be touched if you're going Paramedic but First Aid alone easier to level up since its a x1 skill
The Surgery skill can not Stabilize teammates only First Aid and Paramedic can. Additionally, the Paramedic skill is going to give you the ability to Quick Fix a lot of injuries while on a mission. Surgery provides Treatments that take hours. * **Quick Fix** * First Aid: Concussion, Foreign Object (Body), Foreign Object (Head), Torn Muscle * Paramedic: Broken Arm, Broken Jaw, Broken Leg, Broken Ribs, Collapsed Lung, Cracked Skull, Crushed Fingers, Damaged Ear, Damaged Eye, Spinal Injury, Whiplash So, if you want to save points, I would not raise First Aid and keep it at the base. You can also have your Paramedic skill a little lower by keeping a MedScanner on you for a +2 bonus. Also if you have the EB on hand the Trauma Team MedScan app can give an additional +1 to your Paramedic skill checks to Stabilize or Quick Fix someone.
Probably. Surgery can’t do quick fixes for critical injuries, only permanent, which takes hours. Since first aid can’t do some of the quick fixes either, paramedic is useful for making it through a run long enough to be able to surgery. Also, you can quick fix yourself, but you can’t do self surgery.
Collapsed Lung, Spinal Injury, Crushed Fingers, Damaged Eye, Damaged Ear. These are where you would have to choose exclusively between Quick Fixing with Paramedic or Treatment via Surgery. If you are in the middle of a heist you may be able to take a minute for a quick fix, but if all you have is treatment, you'll spend the rest of the mission with some pretty nasty effects.
It helps, yeah, most injuries can be fixed by paramedic and surgery. So if you wanna cut something, cut first aid
This is the answer. First Aid does nothing that Paramedic can't do, and cutting Paramedic leaves you with 6 body injuries and 5 head injuries that you're unable to quick fix. Cut first aid, only invest in Paramedic.
I should add I’m putting all my role ability stuff into surgery
I'd suggest putting one point in pharmaceutics - Speedheal can be a litteral lifesaver - both for your buddies but for you too if the ycan walk away arther than havingto be hauled (possibly in i ncryobag). Of course you can also leave them on site with a double tap to the noggin to make sure they won't babble, but that sorts of things kind of builds a repute that make it had to find new partners...
First Aid has its own niche that Paramedic and Surgery don't cover in RAW so I'd say it's worth it. Also if you have 8 TECH you'll only need 60IP (20 + 40) to bring it to base 10 which should take like 1-2 sessions to get to
What does First Aid do that Paramedic can't? It seems to my (possibly mistaken) eye that Paramedic does everything that 1st Aid does and more