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EisMan_Buckeye

Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:22 pm

There isn't one.

The simple fact ofthe matter is that we carbineers do not have one "best" special. We do not have one "best" weapon. Ours is a profession of tactical fighting. (Who's seen "Bad Boys II" ? Good, funny reference about what tactical means in that movie lol.) Anyways... to truely be a master at this profession, here is my advise to you:

Don't try to ask on the forums what our best special is. Get in the game, open up Ctrl+S, and read the brief explanation of the specials you have. Then go out and -- this is where it gets tricky -- use them! See for yourself what they do. See for yourself what they do not do. Experiment. A carbineer must depend on all (well, sans the redundant ones) of their specials. They must know them well. They must know when to use them. They must know when not to use them. It's not allways about raw damage.

The same can be said of our arsenal. We have a great variety of weapons. They vary in damage types, speeds, armor piercing, damage spectrum (range from min to max), range modifiers, etc. One guy may have a kick ass laser, but that doesn't mean that it is the best thing for you to buy. It just means his particular carbine is a good one. You may not be able to replicate his. As is the same with choosing what attacks to use, awell trained carbineer does not depend on one weapon. They use their bag of tricks to best approach a given situation.

So, before asking question about if this special is better than this one, and if this weapon is better than that one... please go out and try them for yourselves. Then come back and read the sticky threads. Nova and the other guys have put in loads of work making those threads, the least you can do is check them out.

I truly believe that the best way to learn this stuff is to just go out and play the game. Who knows, you just might have some fun too.

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EisMan Buckeye [COG]
Mercenaries do it for money
[Master of Carbines] [Retired Mercenary]
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Tyrst

Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:58 pm

#2

We do have a best weapon....our mind.

Teer Sanbar
Widow Makers
The Emperors Servant

TAfirehawk

Tue Mar 30, 2004 7:21 pm

#3

Tyrst wrote:

We do have a best weapon....our mind.

AMEN, only the players with a brain can effectively play Carbineer. Hell, with Publish 7 you can almost play it with half a brain

Iebas Feania
Former Correspondent of the Former Profession, CARBINEER

Cielago

Wed Mar 31, 2004 12:33 am

#4

I truly believe that the best way to learn this stuff is to just go out and play the game. Who knows, you just might have some fun too.

And I will add that, by my side, I learned ( and still learn ) how and when to usethe different shotswithout using doctor buffs but only food, drink and powerboost, that "force" me to think and think wisely.

Captain Cielago
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"Hope clouds judgement"
"Each experience carries its own lesson"
Frank Herbert's Dune.

jubeii

Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:28 pm

#5

Without a Stun weapon or a special that will allow us to directly attack the mind pool, Carbineers still suck. Our AP2 weapon "Laser Carbineer"which is horrible for PvP thanks to damage mitigation and our best weapon for damage mitigation is AP1 "Elite" with energy damage.....while composite tends to have at least 70% energy protection, tack on a PSG and you do the math. With KD foods available knockdown is about as useless as ever granted you duel or confront an experienced player. So what is carbineer good for? We rock in PVE....umm yea great. I say fix the Laser Carbineand raise the minimum dmg or give us a stun weapon.

Jubeii

Confusion12345

Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:51 pm

#6

Actually, there are laser carbines with good minimum damages

I have a laser carbine that does 80 - 309 damage, and fires at about 3.1 speed (I think)

And just tonight I saw a laser carbine sitting on someone's wall that does 100 - 400-something damage, at I think 3.9 speed....

And our lack of a stun weapon just makes it that much sweeter when we win against someone in fancy composite armor

-Confusion12345

"The shroud of Confusion has fallen. Begun, the Dumb War has."

-Jedi Master Stupid

Matsubaa

Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:16 pm

#7

Tyrst wrote:

We do have a best weapon....our mind.

I dunno, I ran the numbers and my laser carbine outshines everything else I have and anything I've seen on a vendor.

I need at least 45% increased energy resist relative to acid resistance for my DXR6 to even be equivalent and that's my closest matching weapon. Since I have to choose between a far, *far* superior Energy damage or acid damage that's merely okay I would say my laser carbine is, without question, my best weapon.

My mind is a good tool, but for a weapon it sucks.

Give me a shadowed forest into which I might disappear.
Give me a terrible foe and stack the odds against me.
Give me friends and creatures with whom I can share my adventures, my losses and my gains.
Let the gales blow and the world be torn asunder but don't make me stand alone against the tempest.

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