Carbineer Archive

I cannot seem to do any level 30 missions solo. I'm really starting to hate the fact that I can watch everyone else do everything without problem. I just tried to do a Razor Cat misson outside of Coronet and had my arse handed to me when during the second wave. I't drives me insane!!!

I'm a 2-3-3-2 Carbineer so i figure that i can have some success. What am I doing wrong?

Do you get buffs? use armour? buy food? or have medic skills? do you use Threaten shot? warning shot? Suppression fire? Action bleed 1 and action bleed 2? followed by legshot 2? Do you pull selective targets or do you just rush forward and have everything aggro you? Do you pin one target down and open up on another? or do you pin one down and kite to get distance between you and him, while simultaneously drawing another target away from the main pack?

I don't know your fighting style, just trying to get a feel

Toten

This is a common affliction in SWG: you suck. The scientific term is professiona suxx0rness but you are in good company as this forum is essentially a big support group for people with the same disease.

There are ways to alleviate the symptoms but im afraid the disease will never be cured until you cancel your account.

one way is to take a second profession that compensates for your shortcomings. CH is a good one, some medic skills are a must, doctor is an excellent one because you can self buff. I also hear CM is a good one and of course there is always the deadly BH/carbineer however without buffs they suffer the same problems.

Finally, until you master carbineer and one of the above professions you need to get it out of your head that you must do lv30 missions because it aint gonna happen.

Hope this helps.

lol makalas

umm dude ill tell you what you do, GET BUFFED and MOUN GOLDED!, waam u can spam specials and the creatures dont do jack to you, but once u get buffed the first time, you get addicted, when i try to fight unbuffed at master carbine/0300 BH/novice medic, i struggle because im so used to fighting buffed.

Aivut, when you fight unbuffed, hit BoH and use a DH17Snub. You can spam KD's and cripples all you want. I'm carb 1/3/3/3 BH 0/4/0/0 novice med, and this is what I do: Take a BoH so you don't drain yourself to death, and then take a vercupti. +400 to mind regen. That way you're mind keeps going up and you can heal all you want, while your drains hardly do crap. In some GCW PvP just now, I kept multiple targets knocked down, while the group CM deseased them. My cripple shot wasn't doing anything (they were all buffed, and we all weren't, and since I wasn't buffed, I couldn't use my stocked Elite for good damage, and since they were buffed, my DH17 did no damage, lol) so I just kept everyone KD. You can kite and spam as much as you want with this combo, and then heal when you feel the need.

yah my stats unbuffed are 1000, 400,400 1000, 400,400 100,400,400, i get buffed before i raid but incase i die, i lose my buffs, i pop a BoH, 2 rhyscates, and a moun gold, and i can spam as much i want with a stocked elite and it wont drain me at all

Or just watch and choose your specials.

Do you realize that a laser carb with 340 max damage will hit for as much as 500 points for a default attack?? My good laser carb with a 32% max damage powerup hits for 505 max and default will run all the way up to 750 points. Thats a special for some weapons. So use default attacks a little more to conserve ham. That is what I must do to survive in full comp. That mind bar can go quick.

And some shots use ham a little different. Scattershot doesn't drain the mind as much as crippleshot and IMHO is one of the better shots for carbineer. Or even weapon choice will play a part. EE3's may have high health and action drain but mind drain is nonexistent. DH-17's and their snub counterparts also have low ham drain and have a pretty high damage ratio. Need something with an ar then go with the e-11 for extended periods of time. Also a laser carbs friend is range. The further out the better. But a DH-17 or nym slug carbine will hit more at point blank and have a higher rate of fire.

And have you tried to play smart?? Come on I solo picket missions no problem. And I do level 35 faction missions on a regular basis. Pickets and rebel npcs are much tougher than razor cats.

I guess I don't play smart at all. I'm learning as I go and struggling with each step I take. Thanks for the input, IIt will come in handy.

As a less than master carbine, along with a less than master CH, you can do pretty well using a pet to keep the target at range and use a hvy laser, pretty much evenwith default shots.

I don't think you should have to do buffs at 15-30K just to do missions. (And you justknow that nerf is coming real soon to a computer near you :-) Tatt sun and fishak are helpful and don't have terrible downsides.

fantoq

Oh. BTW I do those missions without buffs or muon. But those things sure make it alot easier. Also if you don't like spice then try a tatooine sunburn and fishak combo. That will do wonders for your survivability. And powerboost is a wonderfull thing to have. Its only meditation 2 on tka so its easy to get. And it will give you a temporary buff to all main stats.

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La-grange wrote:
Or just watch and choose your specials.

Do you realize that a laser carb with 340 max damage will hit for as much as 500 points for a default attack?? My good laser carb with a 32% max damage powerup hits for 505 max and default will run all the way up to 750 points. Thats a special for some weapons. So use default attacks a little more to conserve ham. That is what I must do to survive in full comp. That mind bar can go quick.

And some shots use ham a little different. Scattershot doesn't drain the mind as much as crippleshot and IMHO is one of the better shots for carbineer. Or even weapon choice will play a part. EE3's may have high health and action drain but mind drain is nonexistent. DH-17's and their snub counterparts also have low ham drain and have a pretty high damage ratio. Need something with an ar then go with the e-11 for extended periods of time. Also a laser carbs friend is range. The further out the better. But a DH-17 or nym slug carbine will hit more at point blank and have a higher rate of fire.

And have you tried to play smart?? Come on I solo picket missions no problem. And I do level 35 faction missions on a regular basis. Pickets and rebel npcs are much tougher than razor cats.

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lol pikets are easy, i solo jungle voritors no problem

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donnysabertooth wrote:

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La-grange wrote:
Or just watch and choose your specials.

Do you realize that a laser carb with 340 max damage will hit for as much as 500 points for a default attack?? My good laser carb with a 32% max damage powerup hits for 505 max and default will run all the way up to 750 points. Thats a special for some weapons. So use default attacks a little more to conserve ham. That is what I must do to survive in full comp. That mind bar can go quick.

And some shots use ham a little different. Scattershot doesn't drain the mind as much as crippleshot and IMHO is one of the better shots for carbineer. Or even weapon choice will play a part. EE3's may have high health and action drain but mind drain is nonexistent. DH-17's and their snub counterparts also have low ham drain and have a pretty high damage ratio. Need something with an ar then go with the e-11 for extended periods of time. Also a laser carbs friend is range. The further out the better. But a DH-17 or nym slug carbine will hit more at point blank and have a higher rate of fire.

And have you tried to play smart?? Come on I solo picket missions no problem. And I do level 35 faction missions on a regular basis. Pickets and rebel npcs are much tougher than razor cats.

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lol pikets are easy, i solo jungle voritors no problem

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Dude. Razor cats are cake. I can solo pickets with a cdef if i choose to waste my time doing so. Jungle voritors aren't much harder. Force sensitive weenies are about where I draw the line without a tank.