Carbineer Archive
Thread: will carbineers be good in pvp?
To answer your real question: they arent going to go toe-to-toe with a tkm/rifleman or fencer/pistol combo and take them down reliably time after time. Maybe in a patch or two more they might.
For a start, we cant target the mind. Our attacks do good damage but it's states where our true strength comes into play.
I am MCarb / MDoc. Carbines is to support my group when the doc skills arent immediately necessary. In PvP this means I tend to go for /wildshot2, or /chargeshot or aid another player 2:1 by adding states they cant. I do spend most of my time dragging and curing.
Yeh i agree, carbineer will NEVER be fotm. Its the experienced players prof, and id recommend people trying other profs before this one. I did some PvP last nite, as some imps attacked Anchorhead, and although still only 2 specials worked in PvP (Crippleshot and ScatterShot) i managed to get a couple of kills, but i could have really done with some state changes.
Stun didnt work, no bleeds, no KD's, no posture changes and of course no dizzies, so i was reliant on merely knocking down the enemies health in the traditional way, and using my doc skills to best effect. Lets hope this patch does as advertised.
Hmm, Im MDoc / MCM atm (as you can see hehe), but the lack of a combat profession is driving me nuts. I was instantly gonna go with MCM Carbineer... but I can see a surprising number of MD / Carbineers... I'm unsure. I have my own reasons for choosing not to drop combat medic and doctor anyway - our guild is short on doc, but im getting very good at the CM crafting now.
I've been wanting to try out carbineer for a while now, it seems like I would have a lot of fun with this profession in Solo PvP, especialy with the new fixes.
Believe me I know, the only other pvper's a carbineer could kill EFFECTIVELY would be noob ones. Our weapons and broken skills gimp us.
Stun didnt work, no bleeds, no KD's, no posture changes and of course no dizzies, so i was reliant on merely knocking down the enemies health in the traditional way, and using my doc skills to best effect. Lets hope this patch does as advertised.
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Hi Mate
thats strange!??? Even with all specials not fixed I manage to stick in stun, KD, confusion, dizzy and even bleed. I dont know why it works for me and not for you maybe because I use often my BH confusion shot to open up. After that most other Carbineer specials stick. I get a nice bleed nearly each time with Actionshot2 on a single target. The BH underhand shot works often nicely if Chargeshot 1 doesnt bite in. Never the less guys I still suck in PVP but I believe it has to do that I have bad armor, no attachments, are often not buffed and have no defences stacked. And pretty often i am on a Pixie downer...lol well. I love carbines and have hight hopes to rock the imp boat in the near future in PVP
happy imp killing fellow brothers
/Abbe
Master Carbineer ---Master Scout---Master Marksman
The only ones who give me problems are the ones who heal themselves.... heh, since like someone mentioned, we can't target the mind pool.