Carbineer Archive
Thread: My battle with a Womp Rat ... guess who won
There I was just running back to Bestine, and decided to fire on a Womp Rat, just for giggles. Its been a while since I killed one since im a Novice Carbineer. I fired on it (Miss!), Scatter Shot1, (Miss!) Action Shot 2 (CounterAttack!) ScatterShot1... ActionShot 2 ... ActionShot2.(Miss! Miss! Hit!) My HAM Action bar is nothing by this point, The Rat nails me, im Incapped
Im a little disappointed when I see pistoleers taking down the Dewbacks in 15 seconds.
my current way to kill stuff (and its hard stuff too! like giant womp rats! hehe)
i've got explor4, since i mastered scout way back and dropped parts of it. never could make myself get rid of terrain negotiation though =)
anyway....pick your target, go to 66m (thats right, 66), go to kneeling...wait 5 seconds....maskscent and go prone...popa tat sunburn...if you see a number next to the target, start attacking normally. just normal fire. if you don't (sometimes you do, sometimes not) slowly crawl forward until you do. wait. if you begin firing in the next 5-6 seconds, then you're good. if not, move forward a little bit more. once you do start firing, it'll probably take the mob a while to find you (these are 'freebie rounds' given by being prone and having maskscent working...just stand up and see how fast they start charging!). do NOT use any specials until they start moving towards you faster than 1m/second (ie, they know exactly where you are and are heading in for the kill. they'll often-times wander around a little bit first, and start heading towards you, but you're still on freebie-time). when they DO start charging you, use AcitonShot 1 or 2, as appropriate (or as1, as2). click to kneeling, with your high-damage special of choice. stand up, and start kiting. wait as long as you can, then you charge shot (if you have it) and your high-damage special of choice. kite. pray. hope you don't die. continue for as long as possible, and try to fight mobs that don't db (you'll oftentimes get a kill if you're just incapped, due to bleeding).
My way for tackling dark-blue/white/yellow-con mobs. slow-moving ones are a lot easier (duh!) so try to find those too.
and yeah, when you fail you fail bad. i died to a f**!#*%( scyk on tatooine earlier. full ham. tat sunburn active. miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, (dodge, or counterattack or something here), miss...incap. and i've got master marksman, and all but the last2 boxes of the counterattack branch in carbineer.