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hello all! the name's aeolus and im working on carbine specialist and will eventually become a carbineer...i am using a laser carbine now and i'd just like to know about some other carbines...what are ee3s and are they better than laser carbines? what about e11s compared to laser carbines and ee3s? and lastly what about the dxr6 carbine?

thanks in advance...aeolus...

Well, I can't tell you how well someone will be able to craft them, but.. I can tell you a little bit about the carbines.

The EE3 has an armor rating of 0. That means that it will do 50% less damage against player crafted armor. The EE3 also does HEAT damage, which some armors may not protect well against.

The laser carbine has an armor rating of 2. Which means it will do 25% more damage to player crafted armor. The laser carbine does ENERGY damage. Most armor will do well against energy and shield generators will also do very well against energy damage.

The DXR6 has an armor rating of 1. This means that is has no damage penalty/modifyer against player crafted armor, it does normal damage. The DXR6 also does Acid damage, which some armor may not protect well again.

I don't see many DXR6's being made and I didn't see any in the beta, as well. So.. I'd assume that they arn't that great. I had an EE3 in the Beta, but it wasn't as good as the above poster's. It did pretty good damage, I must say. I don't know how good the laser carbines are now, though. The weapon of choice now seems to be between the EE3 and the Laser Carbine. The laser carbine has better penetration but can also do far less minimum damage.

who makes ee3s? and if anyone can make a dxr6 please tell me....thanks again SOJ for the info.

Ok, my notes on the Elite Carbine is this.

It has an armor rating of 1. This means that it does normal, non-modified damage against player armor or other creatures with an armor class of 1. It'll do 25% (100 x 1.25) more damage against PCs with no armor or creatures with an armor class of 0 and it'll do 50% less damage (100 x .5) to creatures with an Armor Class of 2 (Giant sand beetles, for instance). And it'll do it's base damage x .5 x .5 against a Krayt or AT-ST (AC3, this means that if you hit with a 100 for base damage, you'll do 25).

Base damage is pretty important, because it's from the base damage that your special modifys it's damage from. So if Leg Shot 2 has ax2 Dmg modifyer and you hit for a base of60 you'll do 120 action damage.

What I remember about the Elite Carbine, was that it usually had a close mid - max range such as 70 - 130 or so. I don't remember it being too fast. Perhaps around 4.5 or so speed. I don't know how well you can get one, though. I mean.. I havea 1.5 speed scout pistol. The only carbine with an armor penetration of 2 is the Laser Carbine and I'm sure you can clearly see it's disadvantages.

I got an EE3 yesterday from a great weaponsmith. His factory was missing from the world due to the house-eating bug, but this is what he was able to give me at that time:

EE3 Carbine: 57-129/3.8, 41/33/19 HAM.

Note, the EE3 is very much an assault weapon, with an ideal range of 27m and range mods of like 40/1/-80.

Couldn't hit A THING from 50m with it, but its incredible deadly up close. Was hitting in the high 700s regularly with BurstShot1.

With power-ups and advanced Slicing....

I carry a Laser Carbine, EE3 and super-spiffy sliced/poweredup CDEF at all time.

I use each for different things.

I got it from a weaponsmith

Zarathustra on Naritus.