Carbineer Archive

As for HAM, as an afterthought, it is irritating that so many Carbineers bring this issue up. HAM is already extremely managable. I can pop 10 or more chargeshots off without a single heal - and if I only relied on Stim B's I could go forever!

Really I wonder if many people dont just pick up the first high damage Laser carbine they see and start spamming specials, and then complain when they incapp themselves.

Think about what you need to do and do it: there are multiple fixes in game for high HAM, starting at the weaponsmith and ending at the local Chef. The developrs need the classes to be inter-dependant one each other, so I highly doubt you will see the HAM issue changed, as it is quite balanced for those of us that actually know how to deal with it.

Are you saying that the Carbineer should be the poster-boy for taking up the Chef profession? This is what your saying at the root of it.

Also, I have no control on the weaponsmith being capable or even willing to dedicate their time and resources to making carbines that have uber low ham usage. Keep in mind that carbines have a small market.

I can tell you that a Carbineer without any healing abilities is severely screwed the ham usage is so ludicrous. Specials are the bread and butter of ALL combat professions, and as a Carbineer, I can't afford to spam default attacks - I need those specials(if they wonly worked). Even if it's true that I can easily heal myself due to high ham usage, that just simply takes me away from combat. I'm too busy repairing myself and not dishing out the damage. I understand that taking on an opponent that is on par with me can be challenging and I may lose no matter how many times I heal, but I'm losing to sub-par opponents 1v1 because of the simple fact that their only taking damage from my carbine, and I'm taking it both from them and my ham usage. Sure I can heal, but this equals loss of time, loss of mind in a very short duration.

BH's spam eyeshot repeatedly, and use minimal ham. It's also faster than carbines. Meanwhile, I'm taking that same Bh on, my crippling shot and every other special has drained me severely, not to mention my mind is getting blasted by eyeshot, and on top of it I'm healing myself. *sigh*

Eri Naosre- Master Carbineer/Novice Doctor

Starsider

This may constitute a thread hijack.....

But, if anything I feel that legshot3 is our biggest bug and also the biggest weakness in our class. We are the only ranged class that does not have a high damage Single Pool attack. A carbineer will never kill a mob as fast as a Rifleman or Pistoleer because of the randomness of our attacks. For example, it is much quicker for me to spam legshot3 doing less than 1000 damage an attack but targeting one pool than it is for me to use crippleshot or burstshot2 and doing upwards of 3k damage. That is why Torsoshot or Headshot or Eyeshot is so powerful, consistent, reasonably high damage to a single pool.

Fico Feafip

Master Doctor/Master Carbineer of Scylla

I most want to see the dizzy on full auto working. As for carbine sucking and not being able to kill anything even a tka novice can kill... I think its the guy running the carbine and not the carbine. I can kill red nightsisters that have like 14k ham pretty easy, can't do that with tka master even. I've made a few additions to my inventory and I can kill the bh pistol dabblers too. Just gotta know how to play your class. We do need improvements i feel, shouldn't take an insane amount of skill to beat people who go bh pistol 4 and master pistoleer just because they spam stopping shot.

A few tips for PvP: Get a nice full suit of good resist comp, 50+% resist and low encumb. Get a nice dh17 snubnose carb because they have low ham cost and you can get their damage really high. For people who have on composite armor i suggets a nice e11 or elite. Against bh use bleed shots timed with knockdowns and legshot to destroy their action. If they have medic skills make sure you time your knockdown with the bleeds so you can finish them with a few legshots before they can heal. Versus commandos stay out of 16m and you should be fine. Versus a riflemen make sure you knock him down before he gets off a shot and try to kill him before he can bleed you. Combat medics pose the most threat and all you can really do is hope you kill them before you incap from poison.

A few tips for PvE: Again use composite armor and a good laser carbine. Use food if you have to in order to control the ham costs. Use chargeshot to its full capability combined with either crippleshot, burst shot, or legshot 2 if you are going to pull a bleed and run tactic. Picking up some medic skills is a good idea so you can survive the 600 damage shots and still be able to special after you're hit by one. Hope the tips help, good luck.

carbines, don't suck in pve at least i don't pvp so i don't know about that

maybe you just don't know how to use your carbines or such, also tka's are supposed to tank you are not, get a pet , faction or otherwise and carbines rule in pve

ok thanks for the responces now to answer a few

first i was not saying carbine is useless all i was saying that we had no class specific fixes(that worked) for carbineer profesion. learn to read before u flame.

as for those saying i dont know how to play the game i have mastered 6 proffesions on 2 different servers so i am well aware of the capabilities and advantages of some proffesions.

as for ppl suggesting food and and buffs to deal with ham costs first we should not have too no other proffesion is forced to it + devs stated that our ham costs are too high they are just too stupid to fix it.

on another note as far as buffs and food goes quite often my secondary stats get bugged which means more downtime so tick the food up yours

in conclussion i am not saying anything against carbineers i am however pissed of with the dev in charge of this proffesion and the inability to fix any of our issues while having the time to completely redoo the ch proffesion which was not broken at all.

ps i am a maste ch and this is a nerf no matter which way u look at it which is gonna hit master ch more than any dablers but that is for another forum

quite a few posts have come up over ast couple of days basicaly saying sam thing i said in this posts

there are a couple responces i dont agree with

1) there are very few carbineers that is why we are not being addressed by the devs

untrue look at commandoes before the fix u could hardly see any at all and they got a huge fix now u see them everywhere

2)being vocal does not help

untrue look at all the nerfs for ch or all the fixes pistoleers got over last few months

if u not part of the solution u are part of the problem... this is to all the people that say u can get around problems that plague this proffesion. i dont want to get around them i want this proffesion as it is intended

as for getting vocal **edit** at least try it how much worse can it get we have been ignored since the launch what else are they gonna do scrap the proffesion lol