Carbineer Archive

I am either going to go master pistoleer or stay carbineer and go master. Ide like to hear which you think is better, master carbineer or master pistoleer. Your experiance in duels and other pvp battles will be helpful (against a pistoleer).

Thx for your help

Well currently, I'd say pistoleer. They can basically do the same damage as us, only a lot faster and more accuratley, and far far less HAM. Stopping Shot/Fan Shot can both do a lot of damage, comparable to Crippling Shot, yet are much faster and take under 50 HAM(I believe), where as most crippling shots take over 100.

You'll be lacking AP as a pistoleer, largley, but most of their guns are so powerfull/fast it makes up for it. Granted in the upcoming patch apparently FWG5's have been reduced in damage(thank god).

So lets see.. Advantedge Carbineer :

Ranged Knockdown

Good AP weapons

Advantedge Pistoleer :

Low HAM costs

Good guns

Fast

PvP killing machine is my goal atm. However i also dont want to go with the horde of pistoleers. Knowing the eye-shot nerf is coming up im leaning to carbineer.

The two skill sets i was trying to decide from are

Master Pistoleer/0-0-4-4 BH or Master Carbineer/0-4-0-4 BH

I would be one point over with these but would prob drop the llc4eventually.

Since I started the game with carbines and have been carbineer through the whole game I will prob go for the carbine set. Seeing how SOE nerfs things eventually everything will even out and i dont want to be one of those players that is a profession since it is currently the best in the game. The nerf of eye-shot will help but thx for all your input

Signed,

One happy carbineer

/bump

Obviously you're eager for a response.

After mastering Carbineer and Doctor - I have refrained from dropping any skills until I see the upcoming 'secret' changes that poor SOJ isn't allowed to discuss with us mere subscribers of the game (not your fault SOJ - am knocking SOE here and their closed door policies on decision making).

If there are no changes made to carbineer, I will most likely drop it myself for pistoleer or just shelve the character and start something else until carbineers are addressed.Pistoleers are better atm and just seem to keep getting better, especially if you can throw a little smuggler in (for 17 pts you can get 3 boxes of dirty fighting - very attractive even if you do nothing else with the smuggler tree). Throw in a touch BH and you're a pvp killing machine, until they move eyeshot to master BH.

I guess carbineer is that way too if you can afford the dash of BH - I hear great things from the carbineers who add some BH boxes - but am unwilling to drop Master Doc to pick up some BH atm.

Since nothing is definite changewise - I'd say go level pistoleer until you see some concrete changes happening in the game. If changes are made in carbineer's favour, it will eb all the more easy to switch over and level it up then. Hope this helps - to summarize I enjoy carbine myself, but am master doc so I can buff myself silly. I still lose in pvp to most BH/pistoleers and have never had the pleasure of fighting a smuggler/pistoleer but I hear their panic shot and knockdown are to die for as well.