Bio Engineer Archive

I went 0/0/3/1 Pistoleer (0/4/0/0 marksman) to compliment my MCH/MBE skills.

Pistol Whip (Pistol Melee Defense 1) is useful for buying time for your pet to protect you while sampling... though Threatening Shot works very well also and has no timer. I went with Pistol Whip because it has use in PvP and dramatically increases damage, as well as stops creature that run. I often PW a creature/npc at low life to eliminate the low life chase.

Double Tap is the best DPS for Pistoleer also... least from my understanding of the workings of it. BodySHot2 is nice, but you actually end up doing more damage with double tap. Stopping shot does even more damage in one shot, but is slower... has its uses though.

Double bleeds make it much easier kill larger pray... particularly those with high armor/resist ratings. You get the second bleed in novice pistoleer if I remember correctly.

This template also lets me serve as an AP xp donor for my friends. I've got gads and gads of combat xp with nothing to spend it on..... so I allow friends to train me over and over and over agian in Ranged Support. I wouldn't have this luxury with a template that didn't have Novice Pistoleer in it (the combat xp would be lost if I didnt' have the combat xp skill line in Pistoleer to bank xp, while keeping the relatively cheap Ranged Support1 to train).

i'm a MCH, and MBE (finally made it). I have pistols in the marksman tree, pistol techniques 1,2,3 and stances 1 ( i think that's what it is.. the one where you get melee pistol defense) in the pistoleer categories. Total skill points left... 0

-calaminty jayne

I'm one box away from MBE, but my final template will be:

Master CH

Master BE

Medic 3/2/3/4

Marksman 0/4/0/0 (Pistol Specialist)

Scout 4/0/4/0

And not a point left to spare. Toying with the idea of dropping all of my weapons skills to pick up a bit of artisan (surveying), but will wait until I've finished MBE as I still need to hunt for meat.