Carbineer Archive

Just wondering what everyone's tactics are?

Up until the last patch I had been approching my mark, going prone and spamming crippleshot

This doesn't seem to be working very well for me anymore

Suggest you have a pet, like a rock beetle. You can buy from a Creature Handler or a BE. Use him (the pet, not BH...lol) to engage ONE creature... try to draw one away from a pack if they are aggro types, then sick the pet on the target (I dont do this to sacrafice my pet, I do it because he can take a lot of damage and does about 150points per hit. He also ties up the target so I am free to unload. Most of the time the pet survives with most of its hit points still remaining).

Then you get at your sweet range and pound with overcharge or auto fire. I do about 1000 points damage per shot (special shot) every 4 or 5 seconds. I take out Dragonets regularly and earn about 2000 or more carbine exp per.I know thats not as much as you may get against some of the beasties on Dat or against a Krayt Dragon, but put it all in prospective please.

Oh, get a laser carbine as soon as you can. Good damage, good range, and like all laser weapons has a mod against certain armor. I LOVE my laser carbine!

Watch your HAM!!! I watch a friend knock him self out doing mind shots (rifle) on a creature that was not very accomodating. The same can happen to us carbineers too.

Suggest you pick up some med skills so you can use stimps. Use them when yourhealth/action gets low. Buying stimps for your pet is a good thing as well, butI dont usually bother using them until the battle is over....I heal my pet so he will be ready for the next engagement.

I suggest becoming a doctor or being really good friends with one. Buffs negate the HAM costs and allow you to actually kill something before you have to heal yourself. Get good armor. I myself am working on swordsman atm as I have what i think i need from carbineer (i'm a bit of a dabbler). Sometimes i use a pet, but i have more fun when i don't, live or die. If you can't get buffed get a pet. If you can I'd go for a chargeshot1 followed by the two bleeds and legshots. On easier mobs just whack em with an action1 and spam burstshot. Unless of course you're a bounty hunter as well. Then go for crippling as you will do more dps. Bah, it really all matters on your current config, post that and if i've tried it i'll tell you what i know.

Eurien Onsmor

Doc/Swordsman/Carbineer

Ahazi

"Easy" mobs with about 2k hp, I just go prone and do a couple of cripple.

mobs over 3k hp or thereabouts, I go prone and spam legshot 3. Then when they see me, I hit them with a bleed, making them stop. Then spam legshot3 some more.

I kill mobs up to about 6-7k hp. since theylowered dmg or something in the big patch I haven't been able to kill any 8k mobs

ya i pull out a pet and use it to pull (rock beetles are awsome)

i have it attack and then i use follow command to bring it back to me and then attack again and then depending how tough it is ill bleed it and go prone and either burst shot it and me to death or ill just to regular attacks and burstshot if it looks like Mr Nibbles (my rock beetle) is in trouble

My hunting Tactics...

Take out AT ST... Make it go into the middle, have everything aggro it... Shoot the farest one with FullautoArea/Wildshot2/Action2/wildshot2/wildshot2/wildshot2- then heal myself and redo the steps.

With this, I can make 20k carbine exp (maybe even more now) in about 3 minutes. I've been capped with 900k carbine exp for about a week now and been only get 1 combat exp lol.

Shooting lair, I have AT guard me... so when they aggro AT just shoots. I haven't done this for awhile because I don't need to hunt or gain exp anymore.

Don't flame me.... Instead of leveling my profession, I spent a month getting the AT ST - 1 freaking month okay? After the I got the AT, it has just helped me leveling my EXP (a freaking right as a perk).

SkyyZeRo-Corbantis Imperial 2nd Lt. Proud Owner of 2 AT -ST's on way to 3rd (stop nerfing them already!)

Carbineer 4/3/4/4 (waiting for 350 AP) Bh carbine 4 Novice Medic

Right now I'm fighting Greater Desert Womp Rats. Get just over 2100xp each.

I can't use too many specials unless I want to kill myself doing it. I usually do no specials at all.

What I do is pull one away from the group by getting one to stalk me. This works every single time.

Then I toss a Phecnacine trap at him. This makes the rat stop for a few turns. I then toss a Glow-Juice trap on it to lower its ranged defense. Then I open up with my DH17 Snubnosed carbine as I run to around 50m away and switch to my laser carbine for added damage and it actually hits at this range unlike the DH17. After the rat breaks the snare I toss another Phecnacine trap at him. By the time I toss my 3rd trap the ranged defense wears off and I toss another Glow-Juice trap at him again. Rinse and repeat.

Works for me.

I would change this tactic of course if I could get off more than half a dozen specials before incapping myself.

Varise

I feel that a carbineer cannot survive without a pet. I stuggled severly before I picked up creature handling. Carbineers dont have a knockdown and the posture change attacks rarly last more than 3 seconds. If you dont have a pet (at least a rock beetle) between you and a MOB with more than 5K HAM, you are toast.

And God forbid if you run from a NCP shooting at ya.

I've found that action shot, warning shot, let the mob run a little, leg shot, leg shot, warning shot. generally works. I can yo yo just about anything with well timed leg shots.

To negate HAM costs I highly recommend chef made food. I mean -HIGHLY- recommend. I just bought some the other night that gives around +300 to every stat, which lowers the cost of our shots due to the higher 2ndary stats mainly). The crate gave me 25 units with 4 charges for about 10k. I'm going back tobuy out the vendor tonight.

Hotkey your weapons. While a Laser is good at range on a single target the ham costs for specials will kill you if you have to run like a bunny.

LOL I have a sliced CDEF 30-90 I think with powerup.. 1.7 speed. (I think). This thing is a lifesaver when I am running with something chewing on me. At this point I just want the special to take.. I don't care about damage if I can spam warning shot and get some breathing room.

DH 17 is similar.. mine is 300 max so if I get a bleed and can spam legshot while running without killing myself too fast.

also a hotkey will allow you to switch to a worn/less effiecient carbine to bust lairs... I hate wearing out my good stuff/powerups on these huge lair healthbars. If I pull a creature I just hotkey to switch.

I ment well timed Warning shots instead of well timed leg shots...

Why oh why doesn't this board have an edit button for fat-fingered-typing-faster-than-they-can-think types like me?