Carbineer Archive

Hi! I have a quick question concerning Leg Shot 1....everytime I use itI take 350 points of health damage. Has anyone seen this before? It kind of makes it difficult to use the skill when I get hit more from using my weapon then the mobs are hitting me for. I am using a DH17, don't know if that is the cause or not. Thanks for your help!

Seadae

dunno bout that cost, seem a little high even for carbines. Welcome to carbine land, where we like hurting ourselves even more than what we hunt.

Well, currently DH17s require a stock (they're the only carbines that do -- stock requirement is supposed to be rifles, carbines typically have an optional stock) until the next patch that should be going live early this week. This, coupled with buggy HAM experimentation on optional components means that the DH17 typically runs 25/25/25 or so higher than it "should" be. This will change when they patch the schematic to make the stock optional.

But even so, you shouldn't be getting 350 health damage alone from one legshot1. What are your secondary stats like? Specifically strength? And also, is this the number over your head, or are you looking at your stats and subracting the before and after manually?

Yeah sounds like a low strength you have there, are you wearing armor? The encumberance on armor usually causes thing like that, plus the DH17 currently really isnt a very good weapon cause of the ham costs :/ You'd probably do better with a CDEF, some like the E11s and above, although personally I still think there's no beating the cdef and actionshot2 for exping ..

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the number you see the combined HAM drain? It just shows in whichever color takes the most? That would make it a little more possible to see 350, though that does sound extremely high.

i have to agree, i was using a E11 this weekend, and noticing the occasional time that i was taking some significant damager using legshot 1.

i thought it was normal, and now that i see this, i am going to play some more. but i also moved to the laser carabine, so hopefully its a bit better.

No, you're right, Garaaz. The number over your head is the combined damage if damage is done to multiple pools -- it will adjust color to show the proportions it's distributed in. So yellowish is pretty even between health and action, cyan is action/mind, purple is health and mind...

Anyways, that's why I asked which way the original poster was arriving at 350 -- I'd believe 350 much more easily if it was floating over their head, too. However, that's still some really low secondary stats -- I pull legshot2s for around 130 total.

A DH17 requires a stock. Stocks have massive HAM hits. The new patch will resolve this.

I guess it is the combined that I'm seeing my color was a little whacked out, though my health is taking the brunt of it. I have 900 health I believe (not logged in right now) and all I'm wearing is bone armor. If armor causes that much of a drain on my stats then it's definitely not worth it. I'll log on later and see if fighting with no armor makes a difference in it. I would use something besides a DH17 if I could find an E11(well that and if someone was selling them for something less than a fortune) Am I the only poor person in this game??? hehe

Seadae

Go check your stats with the armor on -- you'll probably find that your strength and quickness are waay way low.. my guess is 200-250ish from the sounds of things. And yeah, that'll hurt.

Some people get good effect out of armor. Our HAM costs make us not among them, IMO. I wear a helmet with energy and heat for PvP, and that's it.

ther's a large diff in ham costs from leg-shot1 to leg-shot2. legshot2 has some coming from all 3 ham pools, and a total cost less. leg-shot1 has a high cost, with most of it going to 1 pool and some to a second (i don't remember for sure, but i thought most went to action with some to health...i haven't used it in some time, and the servers are down right now so i can't test it out for sure.) IMO, i would skip using leg-shot1 until you get leg-shot2 anyway, b/c the ham costs are MUCH nicer to you and the damage increase is significant.