Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: best carbine to use?
My... uhh... DH14 is it called? I dunno, it's one of the newbie weapons, is actually pretty good... 78-178 1.9sp (Damage sliced), quite low encumbrance. DPS is better than your Laser (Unless you've got Carb 3+, in which case they're the same speed I believe... but mine doesn't have the chance of doing <100 damage). You could probably get a better one made - I just found a random Master WS and had him make me one... only cost me 3k, too.
I destroyed my CDEF carbines, and went with the laser instead. I figured I might as well get the huge power out of it if nothing else. The danged thing is really powerful, I don't have the stats right now, but in many cases I just spam Fire Knockdown to do damage. (The effect is currently useless, but it's nice damage anyway with the right gun)
I hear that the DH-17 snub is a great one now. Low HAM cost, good firepower, lays down the proper effect.
i just used a laser carbine a bunch of stims and went tortur hunting till i got level4 carbine. i then stuck it in my pack and forgot about it.
i recently picked up riflewoman skills and found conceal shot to be extremely useful and powerful in taking out marks. so useful that i have yet to take any damage or even be fired at by a mark. so useful that i am dropping medic altogether and putting all 33 points into rifle.
Hmmmmm.......sounds interesting.
I think I would rather have rifle skills than LLC anyways.
Ghast-Chilastra
BH 2/4/4/4
Barb-Wire wrote:
the DH17 is nice for the effects but right now carbines are about as useful as jimmy carter at a peace conference.
i just used a laser carbine a bunch of stims and went tortur hunting till i got level4 carbine. i then stuck it in my pack and forgot about it.
i recently picked up riflewoman skills and found conceal shot to be extremely useful and powerful in taking out marks. so useful that i have yet to take any damage or even be fired at by a mark. so useful that i am dropping medic altogether and putting all 33 points into rifle.
Yeah i originally went Rifleman to pick up the T-21 and get a good mind attack on the marks, but it was miserable. That plus there were no T-21s on Ahazi for the longest time, so I surrendered and went Ranger. THAT was a useful move 
Then I surrendered that and went with the medic skills instead. Now....
God knows what I will be doing next week,
Hypo_Luxa wrote:
U are forgetting about the armor rating. Being a former carbineer (useless broken tree) the laser has light AR while the DH17 has none. Sure the DH17 fires faster, but in P v NPC I generally use the laser because of the higher armor piercing stats.
The Laser Carbine has Medium Armor Piercing
I use a Laser, but I can't post the stats on it. Had about 15 Lasers sliced and diced till I got a nice round 35% dmg slice...too bad it's just sittin there in my Hotbar, but todays patch should fix that
The patch sounds promising. I got my LLC and pistol up to lvl 3, so just yesterday decided to work carbine up to lvl 2. Ugh, was painful compared to the other weapons. I have a laser, and a hmmm, dx2 I think it is. Very weak damage with the dx2, think I will get another one, with a damage slice.
Besides the llc, love using the pistol, seems very effective. I use a scatter and a fwg5. I still haven't decided on what skills I want to finally have in the end, have some CH now, and having a lot of fun with that. Debating on doing novice pistoleer, or novice ranger, the tracking ability is handy for hunting babies for CH.