Carbineer Archive

Iraea, just so you know 0-0-0-2 in carbineer is pretty much never going to happen. That last tree is based on combat xp, not carbine xp so you only accrue it at 1/10th the rate of your main xp for kills. You would have to have filled in aroound 8 or so boxes of normal carbine xp skills before you got that 2 in the far right tree.

Carbineers really DON'T get owned in PvP. They are always at the top of the PvP chain that I have ever seen, along with BHs who are definitely comparable.

It sounds like your duel was just bad luck. Had you gotten knockdown off first, you would have won.

our knockdown shot is a worthless piece of garbage, plain and simple. it costs well over 250 action (with human, maxed action secondary stats), and MAKES YOU RUN FORWARD 5M EVERY TIME!. (sorry about the caps, that just pisses me off, esp. in combination with the high ham costs.) for pvp, i just sic my rodian deathsquad on the dude and hope there's only one. oh yeah, and crippling shot, and bleeds, and if i've got my master doctor friend with me, THEN i'll use a charge shot or 2.

This comming from a teras kasi master.....im a 0/0/0/2 carbineer...lol so it is possible....i got so much combat xp just sitting there i could probably master that branch before anything else.

Carbineer fair very good in PvP, unless you're a novice with no BH Carbine.

I have BH 0/4/0/0 and Carbine 0/4/0/4

I open with Fire knockdown, and follow it up with cripple shots. My Fire KD will do about 200-300, and I average 600-800 with cripple shots in PvP (these are the figures with 75% dmg reduction). Usually kill people in 2-4 shots.

I've fought vs Carbineers without cripple in PvP, was able to get up and run while I still had the KD delay and hide until it wears off, come out and wipe them out. Spamming Charge shot 1 doesn't work in PvP because of the low damage and high HAM cost.

-Spar

I'm not a BH, just a Carbineer/Scout. When I was knocked down I couldn't fire again until I stood. I used ActionShot 2 but he never seemed to get knocked down even though the shot landed.

I'll just chalk it up to bad luck. Thanks for those that gave mature responses.