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Thread: Scatter Shot?

Tycho238
Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:26 am
#1
I've read the documents, and heard personal responses from people around here. They all say that Improved Scatter Shot and Advanced Rapid Fire have the same damage modifier.

However, whenever I use Scatter Shot, it is consistently not doing that much damage. It does around 700, where my Rapid Fire hits in the 1300-1500 range, and Leg Shot being 1500-1700. Has anyone else encountered this?



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Jhess
Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:37 pm
#2

Its bugged. The system message you get, and the numbers that float above your targets head are only about half of the damage, but the full damage is applied to their HP bar. So if you hit them with scatter hit, and the chat log and numbers above their head says 500, they would take 1000 damage. Scatter hit from fencer and combo hit from TKA are bugged the same way.
TAfirehawk
Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:01 pm
#3

Scatter Shot is and always has hit multiple times.....the Combat Log reports just one hit and it used to report just ONE point of damage


Check the actual Health loss from one shot on your target and you will find its damage is just fine, if not higher





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NGC7009
Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:10 pm
#4

*lightbulb goes on*


Yup, I was getting my info from the combat log, silly me! I'll have to check it out again and maybe make room in toolbar for it.


thanks




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TAfirehawk
Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:12 pm
#5




NGC7009 wrote:


*lightbulb goes on*


Yup, I was getting my info from the combat log, silly me! I'll have to check it out again and maybe make room in toolbar for it.


thanks





Heaven forbid SOE would want you to actually look to the Combat Log for damage.....

The only time we saw a fix for Scatter Shot was 2-3 days after the JEDI complained......



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NGC7009
Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:42 am
#6
Is this a pile of crap, or is mine broken? I kind of forgot about it asI removed it from all my toolbars long ago, but I was revamping them and saw it again. Its action cost is huge, but it hits for 1/3 or 1/4 of other special shots. Why even have a special shot that does the same (if not less) damage then placed shot (not even an elite prof. shot), but has 3 times the action cost?


Im not really whining, there are plenty of special shots with out it...it is simply not needed. Im just curious if I am missing something concerning this "special".



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bikebum
Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:04 pm
#7
But is scatter shot good enough tobe placed on the hotbar when you already have Crit shot, leg shot, and torso shot? It's multiplier doesn't indicate that it is and actual damage is hard to tell on most mobs by the health bar ticks.
Sylow
Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:14 pm
#8

If you can alternate carbineer specials with BH specials, then scatter shot probably won't turn up on your toolbar.


It still has one very specified use: killing people with cyberlimbs. As scattershot has the habbit of randimly hitting different bodyparts, the actually increased damage quite likely is much higher with scattershot than with about any other attack when shooting at those guys with two cyberarms. Otherwhise, the ability has good use for somebody who only has carbineer specials (lv. 64 guy, MCar7 /MCommando, etc...) as it can be used to fill in between legshots.


For somebody who also has the BH specials at hand, it generally has little use, you're probably better of by alternating critical shot and leg shot.







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