Carbineer Archive

I'm graduating to the Carbines/BH Carbines tree after doing my requisite Pistols apprenticeship (currently at nov carbineer and just made bh carb 1 last night) here are a couple things I've found helpful - nothing ground breaking but figuring this out helped me so i thought I'd share.

Keep 'em back - don't forget Threaten and Warning shot! Carbines unlike the other two ranged professions, are particularly good at keeping the unwashed masses at a comfortable distance so I've been practicing this skill. Combine Action Shot 2 (posture down) with both warning and threaten shot and you can kite a whole swarm of instant-death nasties! If fighting humanoid mobs I use surpression fire and action 2 alternately (no justification for this, i just prefer to mix things up, not sure it's better). Even as a novice carbineer I can succesfully kite tribes of juana and kunga wariors on dath that would absolutely demolish me if they caught me.

Of course this means you run a lot, and it's damn hard to target while running (and using arrow keys, function keys and the mouse at the same time is difficult uless you have a prehensile tail) so I remapped my right mouse button to "run backwards" (and the side button to run forward) - this has changed my fights from blindly firing over my shoulder to picking my targets and watching the battle.

Speed - sure, you know you need speed (my DXR6 w/ a imp form fitted stock and speed slice is 220 dam 2.5 speed!) but there's another kind of speed, reaction time. I found my combat queue kept getting full as my enthusiasm for Full Auto Single 2 outpaced my trigger finger. Adding Clear Que to a mouse button (or function key, whichever) has allowed me to react faster to changing battle situations (which i can now see since i run backwards w/ my mouse as well!)

States - you should know this by now but just in case you don't, states rock. Keep 'em on, always.

llilh de bria

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h310ise wrote:


Of course this means you run a lot, and it's damn hard to target while running (and using arrow keys, function keys and the mouse at the same time is difficult uless you have a prehensile tail) so I remapped my right mouse button to "run backwards" (and the side button to run forward) - this has changed my fights from blindly firing over my shoulder to picking my targets and watching the battle.

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lol no worries thou... at MCarbineer there's a skill that actually gives you another hand that protrudes from your dominant wrist...

rotfl

(the few times folks have watched me at my keyboard... actually pvp ... they were absolutely amazed at the contortion I could use to position my hands... fingers... toes... etc... while still keeping my eyes focused on the monitor)

Whats the command for clear queue anyway? I have always just chased down that clear button in the queue which is painful to do in combat sometimes.

not sure what the /command is, but you can get it from the commands window. Definately Fkey/mousekey it somewhere though, i used to do the 'reach up and hit the clear queue screen button' and it's soooo much nicer having it closeby.

llilh

i still use the default of CTRL + Backspace.
I seem to have plenty of fingers as it is!