Carbineer Archive

Question for all experienced carabineers out there:

I am a master medic, and I am not sure if I am going doctor or combat medic, and I am looking to advance up either the carabineer or the pistoleer skill tree, but I am not sure which I am going to persue.

If any one out there can post their opinion here on what makes carabineer better than pistoleer (or visa-versa) I would appreciate it.

I posted this in the marksman forum and have not gotten a response yet, and I will be posting this on the pistoleer forum.

Thanks everyone.

A Carbineer isn't currently better than a Pistoleer.

pistoleers arent better than carbineers as long as you discount the fact that they do equal damage, fire faster and have lower HAM costs. pistoleers also have a ranged knockdown further up in their tree. is you grab smuggler pistol skills they have a 1 shot win shot that prevents you from firing just like a BH knockdown.

right now they are better, will they be so in 3 months? doubtful, the devs have stated they are going to work on profession balance and i doubt things will stay this way.

Which is the pistoleer knockdown skill? Woudl like to compare to charged shot stats.

Master Pistoleer has the knockdown skill, its much better then charge shot, but Fire Knockdown puts it to great shame.

Carbineer's can't: that skill does NOTHING at the moment.

Maybe someday it will be fixed, but its not in the first big patch, which is 2 weeks away, which means we're a good month from it working at best.

I have Fire Knockdown and I find myself using Underhand Shot more often in PVE and PVP. I would take Disarming Shot 2 (Master Pistoleer Area Knockdown) over Fire Knockdown any day. The ability to knock down multiple opponents and still pump out 500 - 800+ damage per shot is insane and overpowered. In some ways, Charge Shot 2 should be doing that effect but, sadly, it does not. Either war, area knockdowns definately need to be toned down.

Stopping Shot is the knockdown but only works at a shorter range

Can pistoleers knock down multiple targets simoultaneously like carbineers can?