Carbineer Archive

Hey carbineers. I am using what few points I have left to level up as far as I can in carbine. I calculate I'll get somewhere just past novice carbineer. Well, here is my question. Im doing this for one specific reason. To solo hunt droidekas. A weaponsmith friend of mine hunts them solo successfully...he has some pistoleer skills. I just hit carbines 3 on the marksman tree. I have an uber laser carbine, and of course leg shot two now. Do I stand a chance yet with any combination of buffs, stims, non ch pets, and armor at my current level...if not what will it take...thanks.

I went on a hunt up at Lok and we encountered a droideka. Our party of around 8 (no pets) got wiped out. Most of us were novices in an elite combat profession. I am not sure if this was typical...

Why not ask your friend how he solos them?

-Kiya

Well, i can kill nightsisters iniates and that type of thing, they're red con, around 14k ham, but i'm master carbineer. I think you might be able to kill one if you had good composite armor, some medic skills, and muon gold. Might be close though.

The one thing that allows Carbineers to solo things is the mob control factor. So in other words the posture changes and KD skills are what allows us to control a creature or mob and allow us to kill them. So I would recommend picking up our charge shot especially since they are lowering the timer on it. Second, its greatly debated over whether burst shot or cripple shot is more useful so the choice of which one of these to go up is your choice, but I would recommend doing the entire speed tree because that will bring you closer to the speed cap allowing you to shot faster and lay down more hits in a shorter time period.

Maller Malice

Master Architect/Novice Carbineer

If you add some good composite, docotor's buffs,a stack of good stimsand a Mk3 generator toyour arsenalyou might be able to either:

1-stack actionshot1, actionshot2 bleeds then warningshot kite the sucker to death.

2-stack the actionshot bleeds and spam chargeshot.

But either is a very risky proposition solo. Droideka are just plain evil.

Plus actionshot2 is aoe - I have died many times thinking "I'll just hasten the bleed on this one mob" only to hit 3 standing around behind it who get very irate =)

I admit to being too scared to drop CH before mastering Carbineer, as I have the feeling I'll have major problems without a GSP tanking while gathering experience.

I tamed some mountain krevols and rock beetles so I'll give them a shot. If they can tank CL 17+ things for me, I guess I'd drop CH 1100 and use the non-CH pets to solo.

Already, with CL17 missions, if the mobs reach me, I cook off pretty fast. Price you pay for being ranged, but pretty degrading to die to an angry cloud of blues hee hee.

my Advise.... get an AT ST and go hunting solo.... other then that, u can't hunt anything really.

I soloed a rancor today!! No pets, just me, a lowly master carbineer

Bleed and WarningShot

Giant BazNitches on Dathomir

Sidioux Rhythe - TVA

Master Carbineer / Master Squad Leader / Medic

yeah, that's always that....... I do that but the things I hunt travel in packs and they aggo.