Carbineer Archive

Yes, I finally had an area of effect shot work last night! I came across a Howling Rasp lair on Corellia with 5 brids flying around. They are not hard to kill, but shoot one and they all come after you. So I use FullAutoSingle1 and kill one bird. The rest come charging straight at me. I move out a little bit and fire FullAutoArea1. One shot and all four birds dropped! Now that's more like it!

One small strange thing though. I've notice that when I use AOE attacks and kill multiple targets that they don't all die at the same time. The one I have targeted will drop immediately, but the others usually take a few seconds to register as dead. In the heat of combat when other targets are still chasing me down, this can be rather annoying when trying to decide if I need to switch targets or continue firing.

I was on endor last night and finally got full auto area 2....mmmm...full auto area...

I came across a lair of handak...so wanting to try my new shot out I decided to tell my graul mauler to attack the lair. After enough had spawned i orderd him to attack each one (tab though and tell him to kill that way they all aggro on him not me) then i let the the action shot 2's, the wild shot 2's and the full auto area 2's fly...in about 5 min i had dropped 8 handak (2 ancients 5 mature rock smashers, and 1 juvinile) then my ham ran out...and a puba thing spawned behind me and killed me and my pet...oh well but it was cool to see that many rocksmashers drop.

It has also worked well against archane and other such pack creatures

My best was during an Imperial destroy mission the second day after I got FullautoArea2 (Area Blast I think it is).

It was an Imperial Engineer Camp. 5 NPC's with about 1300-1800 HAM each. They were all standing very close together, so I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to use Area Blast on them.

I proned out and crawled to about 60m from the farthest target....targets were so close together, the closest one was at 55m and the most distant at 60m. I let loose with Area Blast and killed all five of them in 2 shots. Using a Laser Carbine at the time...sliced with powerup it's70-470 damage, 3.6 speed. I can hit for about 4,000 on Unarmored targets using Crippling Shot using this weapon.

Luckily one of my guildies was present and witnessed this....I was very impressed and it was the first time I'd ever been proud to bea Carbineer with no Bounty Hunter skills.

Area Blast is great if you also have pets or are in a large group. If you have melee fighters taking on a few baz nitch, for example, just sit back and area blast them all. Effective and good XP.

well. I get missions on tatooine all the time to destory jawa camps. they pay me 2700 - 3K credits each, and are never to far outside of the city. usally less then 700 meters. anyway, to the point. everytime i get there they are always in a nice tight bunch. well, i just get out at 50 meters and full auto area 1 with my lasor carbine, and that usally kills them all, i might have missed one every now and then, but one shot and he is dead. lol, fast easy money.