Carbineer Archive

The carbine is horrible. It is literally the weakest combat class in the game after the nerf. I'm goin pistoleer today. I'm not complaining cause i can just change my class. I'm just wondering what you guys have against the carbine. I know you can see noone likes it and it is the smallest combat class in the game now after the nerf. I know 3 carabineers that went rifle or pistol. What is with all the broken specials. Do you guys evencare about this class. I'd say make rifle hit action, pistol hit health, and get rid of the carbine if you aren't gonna fix it.

No kidding. You know it's bad when the chefs have almost 2 times the posts as we do.

My friend and I decided to really test the carb skills the other day, as we were unsure as to what some of them did. These were the results.

FullAutoSingle2, Cripple Shot and BurstShot2 all do about the same damage. Why use Cripple or Burst when fullauto can stun and blind?

The dizzy on fullauto lasts for 0 seconds.

Stun does nothing. According to the description in game it is supposed to make you lose 1 round and lower stats of the character. It did neither. This takes out wildshot2 as a useful attack.

ChargeShot2 doesn't knock anything down, not even the target.

Legshot3 is the same as legshot2.

So basically almost every single special of the carbineer is broken in some way. Either the skill itself is broken, or the side effect is broken. The only skills that we got to work properly were chargeshot1 and scattershot, although scattershot registers in the log incorrectly(it does do appropriate damage).

Add to that the speed mods that have been brought up in several other posts and you have one gimped class.

Sadly... my Ranger (who is at 1/1/1/1 in Carbineer) has a harder time killingthan my Marksman with his rifle and pistol. My noob Marksman is owning areas that my Carbineer has some trouble with. Why are pistols and rifles that much better than an elite weapon class?

The devs don't live & breathe SWG. They have lives outside of SOE just like the rest of us have outside of our work environment. As such, they just want to appease the majority of the player base and get back to counting the piles of cash that are rolling in.

Just take a quick scan of the number of posts in each profession forum:

CH = 67,000+

BH = 47,000+

Commando = 17,000+

Ranger = 12,000+

And everybody and their mother is a pistoleer according to Holo's server statistics.

Now correlate that with what the patches have been focusing on.

The devs don't hate the carbineas so much as they just don't care.

I'm a carbineer. I still care... But to be honest I'm really beginning not to.

if the nerf made ya change classes then ya didn't belong in the class to begin with imo. i still don't see what the outrage is from. it hasn't affected me whether i have my pet out or not. i 6 cells from master carbineer and liking it. once the fixes to the broken stuff goes in i will be even more happy. hope ya find a weapon ya enjoy. i will stick to carbine.