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Thread: Keeping your Action bar Up -- Need Help
Toonarmy wrote:
Hi all,
Currently I'm using a Krayt Laser Rifle with an SAC of 70
The problem I have is this .... After a few special attacks , my action bar gets drained (below 50%)and can't really dish out the punishment .....
Have tried taking food/drink/Spice/Doc buffs to counter this problem but to not much effect.
Using a SAC Pup on my weap too. And the only way I have managed to Kill a Jedi is most probably a Padawan. Or when i get extremely lucky.
Current temp : MBH/MRfiles/CM4000
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=289864--> a dead Jedi .... Lucky Kill
What do you do when you run low on action? Spam ranged shot (or placed shot), it does about half the damage as critical and your action will regen while still attacking your mark.
Dallow wrote:
What do you do when you run low on action? Spam ranged shot (or placed shot), it does about half the damage as critical and your action will regen while still attacking your mark.
I normally open up with the usual Sniper shot .... Confusion / Underhand... then periodically use Headshots/Critical shot .. when the Action bar reaches low , I use the default attack ... is that what you mean by placed shot?
Thanks for the reply
Dallow wrote:
Toonarmy wrote:
Hi all,
Currently I'm using a Krayt Laser Rifle with an SAC of 70
The problem I have is this .... After a few special attacks , my action bar gets drained (below 50%)and can't really dish out the punishment .....
Have tried taking food/drink/Spice/Doc buffs to counter this problem but to not much effect.
Using a SAC Pup on my weap too. And the only way I have managed to Kill a Jedi is most probably a Padawan. Or when i get extremely lucky.
Current temp : MBH/MRfiles/CM4000
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=289864--> a dead Jedi .... Lucky Kill
What do you do when you run low on action? Spam ranged shot (or placed shot), it does about half the damage as critical and your action will regen while still attacking your mark.
Remember, this is not pre-CU. You can't expect to spam your best specials until the fambaas comehome.
The default Ranged Attack special takes very, very little Action. You are supposed to use it in cases when you're low on Action. Or just don't fire. Use line-of-sight and kiting to keep you in the clear a few seconds until your Action regnerates.
Toonarmy wrote:
Dallow wrote:
What do you do when you run low on action? Spam ranged shot (or placed shot), it does about half the damage as critical and your action will regen while still attacking your mark.
I normally open up with the usual Sniper shot .... Confusion / Underhand... then periodically use Headshots/Critical shot .. when the Action bar reaches low , I use the default attack ... is that what you mean by placed shot?
Thanks for the reply
Pug wrote:
Remember, this is not pre-CU. You can't expect to spam your best specials until the fambaas comehome.
The default Ranged Attack special takes very, very little Action. You are supposed to use it in cases when you're low on Action. Or just don't fire. Use line-of-sight and kiting to keep you in the clear a few seconds until your Action regnerates.
Aye he default does use little action , however .... using it to help regen myself only allows the mark to heal himself .... thus taking away the element of suprise I had ... when i did my aplha strike .... granted that I have been in 10-15 min battles b4.. but it seems sometimes my action holds out and other times ... it just depletes too quickly.
I've spoken to some other Hunters on my server and mostly all spam specials. Fought a BH/Rifle/CM
and he managed to weather my initial attacks and came back pretty hard too ....
Any recommendation on what food/drink/spice stack i shld be using together?
I'm using Blob candy, mandolorian Wine, Booster blue now .... and its strange as hell ... lol
any advise would be much appreciated. Thanks
Dallow wrote:
Yes, the low level marksman special is what I meant. Instead of alternating between headshot/critical, you might want to try range (or placed)/critical. Or it might be better to use ranged/ranged/critical. I believe it's posted on the rifleman forum, but ranged shot has a better dps than headshot.
I have basically the same strategy as you though except I invested in 0300 carbs to get leg shot (same dmg as critical):
sniper/underhand/critical/leg/critical/leg/critical/leg with an occasional crippleshot to snare. Once I run low on action, I spam ranged shot.
I've had a Jedi Healer tell me that I do dish out heavy Dmg ... but wanting to do it quick is not possible when the action bar hits low
this fella --> http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=289864
think now he's a knight was taken out when in like 15-20sec so thats easy .... of course I dun expect many to get taken down that quick
Message Edited by Toonarmy on 08-02-2005 03:01 PM
i have a krayted elite carbine with a sac pup taking the sac to 64
i eat 1 blob candy, 1 canape and a pixie (optional) and i've never run out of action or mind, it seems to regen as fast as i can spam specials and heal 
the blob lasts about 28 mins and the canape about 12 mins so if i think it might go on longer i sometimes macro the canape.
i also have a knockdown recovery macro running every1 second and a duelist stance on a 30.5 second timer with a warning just before it goes off. a lot of the time because of slight lag even if i'm knocked down i don't actually fall down which is useful
Message Edited by mickolakis on 08-02-2005 03:11 PM