Carbineer Archive

lol you noticed how no one post here? lol ah well i am novice too trying to figure things out as i go along.

Im a bit of a newb as well, but I have found marksmanship so far to be the most beneficial tree.

well first get 0/0/1/0

burstShot ROCK hard.

after then its up to you, do you want speed or accuracy?

I got marksmanship 3 first coz I heard that the damage mult. of cripple is high. and hell yeah it is!

My laser carbine is very weak if you compare it to others:

40 - 265 1.8 (powered up with speed slice, unf) and with only this I do a nice 2.7k damage when my target is not stunned. I still have yet to see my max damage when I stun my target and then get a high damaging crippler.

A good thing to know is though, burst shot uses alot more from health than cripple does. It takes away mainly just your action, not too much of health, so that's a cool thing too. But yeah, burst shot is good too. I think I'm gonna try and get some skills from the speed tree after I get marksmanship 4 though.

I am a novice Carbineer Right now. Don't know which tree should i go first. I need some advice.

I would say get:

0/0/1/0

then 0/2/1/1

then 2/2/1/2

then 2/4/1/2

then 4/4/1/2or3

then 4/4/4/4

then /cheeer

--Emo

I find scattershot2 to be my bread-and-butter damage shot. Unless fighting fairly weak stuff, even crippleshot isn't going to one-shot an enemy. Therefore, due to the random HAM nature of most of our moves (and legshot's damage is fairly poor to use as your basic shot), your damage will be distributed anyways. But scattershot2 gives similar levels of damage to burstshot, with the utility of being fairly certain to do at least some damage to each pool, meaning that you don't get the annoyance of having one more shot to the head, or health, for 4 shots as you keep getting leg hits.

Now, cripple and scattershot can do similar amounts of damage over time -- unless you're dabbling bounty hunter, where cripple's slow speed is negated by the extra speed mods. However, going up the speed tree before the accuracy tree means that you're not only garnering the excellent dps of scattershot2 (which will, at master, come out as pretty much a wash with crippleshot's dps), but you're collecting speed bonuses as well, which increase even your special-less dps considerably. Going accuracy before speed means that you're somewhat less prone to miss in less-than-ideal ranges, but the slow speed of your shots means your dps takes a dive.

Given that, I went straight up the speed tree, and then on to counterinsurgency 2. If I were to do it again, I'd probably recommend counterinsurgency 1, then all the way up speed, as I underestimated the damage increase of burstshot over fullauto2. Sure, I was hurting for accuracy modifiers as I did this, but I found that by being aware of the battlefield and using kneeling and prone frequently, I didn't have a problem hitting stuff. If I soloed more than I do, the difficulty of kiting with low accuracy might have posed a hindrance, but I typically fight with at least one other player, and often two plus some creatures, so kiting isn't that important to me.

i would not do it and go pistoleer! regards,,,ham costs

I went the following route:

1-1-1-1-

3-1-1-1

3-3-1-1

You get some good shots in the first two columns.

Best advice I would give is to look at each skill in the tree, and check what shots you get with each one. Make a decision on what shots you think would be best to get, and follow that branch.

Go for accuracy first (2nd tree), Cripple shot helps out alot. then it's up to you if you want speed (1st tree) or Counterattack (3rd)