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Thread: Artisian needs a gun. plz help
after placeing some harvesters i find that i need a wepon to defend myself from various badies. since i am considering becoming a wepon and armour smith i will use some point in the marskmenship area.
However i dont know what would be a better class?
pistol?
Rifle?
or carbine?
I hope you guys can help me cuz it is egtting rather annoying running likie hell from everything with only a CDEF pistol that i dunno how to use.
also are droids any good?
Get a good armor, a Probot droid, and a pistol and a rifle.
Advance in the rifle and pistols skills as you can afford it due your SP. if you dont want to hunt then you just need the skills to defend your self.
Once you pick a 'type' of weapon (rifle, carbine, pistol) the ones you can use are dictated by your marksman skill in that particular tree.
I would concentrate on a single weapon, that way you advance in it quicker. I also prefer pistol due to the extra damage you take when the creatures get within melee range.
While some dont like it, mask scent works wonders. Get Exploration II and you can mask your scent from the agressive creatures. Exploration III makes the mask scent better and Exploration IV is fantastic. Not only are you masking your scent, but Exploration (scout skill) allows you to move up hills faster. So not only can you hide from the agressive creatures, but if they break the mask scent, using hills allows you to pull away from them when running.
I would suggest taking pistol. With carbine your likely to kill yourself before any mob gets the chance due to high HAM cost and rifle is fine if you like to miss all the time and wait an eternity between misses. Pistol is very fast, good close in (and most every thing you fight surveying is going to close in fast) and has the best specials. As far as non CH pets go you should wait. The max CL for non CH is about to drop from 15 to 10. With CL lvls about to be adjusted there is no saying what will be the best non CH pet to use.
HI, Master Marksman here.......
For your purposes, take the whole pistol tier and maybe some pistoleer for advanced planets, get scout and concentrate on get exploration tier to get mask scent.
The pistol is the most accurate weapon in the game at early levels, you don't suffer from melee penalties like rifle and carbines, you shoot faster as most rifles and carbines have either high HAM or attack speeds compared to pistols. Any other weapon will do you no good without ranged defense and/or some brawler experience. If you have the patience to get the ranged support teir from marksman you can make use of the suppression fire, warning shot and threaten shot which causes mobs to either run away or posture change....then you can get away easily.
As someone already stated, mask scent works wonders and exploration will allow you to burst run longer and traverse hills faster so if your pistol don't work (since a lot of creatures have High resist to energy weapons no matter what the range is), you can always outrun mobs.
Also pick up some medic skills, just in case you take damage you can heal yourself while running. Theres nothing that i hate more than a creature i can't get away from fast enough and having no healing to give me that extra time to get away. if water is nearby go through it and once the creatures are in it and you come out, you'll leave them in the dust (without burst run cause water slows everything down except for flyers)
Get some armor, any armor. Now if your surveying, enhanced clothing will help out a bunch since you need your HAM to do your job or just make use of the armor macro switch. Oh yeah, look for kenetic resistance when buying armor or enhanced clothing since most mobs do kenetic damage.
Lastly, if you can afford a driod or pet, get one to protect you while you do your business.
to sum it up:
1) train in pistols from marksman tier
2) train exploration from scout tier
3) get some medic skills
4) get a pet
5) get armor or enhanced clothing (listed last cause these are very expensive)
hope any of this helps.