Carbineer Archive
Thread: HAM usage in PvP?
Good luck with whatever you find. It seems to me, that no matter what, that in PvP I'm just getting mopped. Buffed, with brandy, food, whatever in full compo armor with a Laser Carbine, I usually get a few shots off before being incapped. The worst part is, it seems I do NO damage to anyone. It might not be so much as your cost to mind, but the point that who ever your fighting is using mind attacks. I know a lot of professions have that, and while I'm not master carbineer yet, I don't recall seeing anything that hits mind.
Two shots of brandy and muon gold seem to help. Best I can tell you though.
With a Laser Carbine in PvP you probably are doing next to nothing. Laser Carbines are hit hard by Damage Mitigation. Try a nice Elite or DXR6 Carbine for PvP situations.
Califerous wrote:
Good luck with whatever you find. It seems to me, that no matter what, that in PvP I'm just getting mopped. Buffed, with brandy, food, whatever in full compo armor with a Laser Carbine, I usually get a few shots off before being incapped. The worst part is, it seems I do NO damage to anyone. It might not be so much as your cost to mind, but the point that who ever your fighting is using mind attacks. I know a lot of professions have that, and while I'm not master carbineer yet, I don't recall seeing anything that hits mind.
Two shots of brandy and muon gold seem to help. Best I can tell you though.
WOW, nobody has mentioned CANAPE..... +700 to Focus and Willpower......this stuff is the best.
The highest grade of composite I saw out there had 37%stun/69%electric protect and a shocking 80-87% base. All armor was sliced for damage. I saw this type of armor on more than one person.
Migitation hit the laser carbine hard but I wouldn't count it out with resists like that. At master you still going to have wild fluctuation in damage, but you will hit the high end alot more than a novice. Well that is my observation and opinion. I don't have hard data to back it up.
The elite is dandy but the DXR6 has a slightly higher min damage. I have a stocked/damage sliced DXR6 that has a min that is about as high as the max damage on a normal elite (no optional attachments). Ham is atrocious though and speed is slow so I mainly use it for hunting. I would have to be a super carbineer to deal with the 4.2 speed of that weapon.
My armor is 85% base and around 12% stun I think.....I had to get it to compete in PvP.....even though I think the cap should be at 70% instead of 90%.
Now that I have a near Master Musician 4344 to go with my Master Doc, I hope to compete quite well in PvP with my armor and uber attachments and Krayt Carbines and uber Food/Drink. Sad it takes all that, many millions, to compete with the most basic TKM and/or Rifleman......
In the coming weeks I hope to report on some very successful solo PvP Then again I may just be reporting how bad my arse gets kicked 
I did some PvP:ing yesterday with Ok result.
I had master musician buffs (+500 focus, willpower), one brandy (+400) and one Canape (+700). I could spam specials without any HAM loss, which felt pretty good.
I loaded by carbines with +30 min damage, +15% speed powerups.. they worked well.
Personally, I use Dancer/Doctor buffs, Verscupti, 1 hit ofVaserian brandy (save room for Blue Milk!), Neutron Pixie (or Muon) and if I last more than a couple minutes, I hit a vagnerian canape (a percentage point shy of working with the Verscupti.
With Pixie:
5200+ Health
4500+ Action
2900+ Mind
HAM, shmam.