Carbineer Archive

Heres' the deal, I have a roomate who got really close to master carbineer, maybe like 3 skills left on the whole tree. He says it is the worst class in the game, and that everything about it is completely worthless....

However, i think it's kind of cool, i lke doing AOE damage, and cabines look cool...I've thought about going down the carbine path sometime, in the not so distant future....

So, How do you guys compare to Rifleman, and pistoleers at master level? What are the ups and downs or carbine? What makes you guys tick?

I believe the only thing that is our weapon is full auto 2, crippling is second.. well thats it but i just use full auto 2 on npc's, people, and bases. Our quickets firing damage.

though I woud plainingly say full auto 2 is the only good one

well i dont think any of us stay in carbineer for our power... he arent the worst class in the game, but we are pretty crippled with few working specials, and horrible HAM cost. Riflemen have it as bad or worse than us with HAM cost, pistoleers do pretty good damage and stuff and they have rally overpowered FWG5's (which are getting nerfed soon)

so if you are looking for raw power, go commando/CH, but if you want to join the ranks of the few and the proud, be prepared to be underpowered in pvp/pve and pretty much everything. however we will get a fix *some* day so most of us are just trying to hold on until then

Absolutely doesnt suck.

Ranged knockdowns, multiple target hits and mob control make us an extremely versatile class. I will probably stick with carbine with my current toon for as long as he's interesting to play...

We need some fixes though to be better:
Where's our bleed?
Charge Shot2...could it include the actual target in its area of effect?
Leg Shot3...useless?
Is there a reason cripple shot doesnt cripple? Even a nice stun?
And last but not least, why is the Elite carbine ruled by very other weapon in the game? Not very Elite if you ask me...

carbines are severely underated i think. im an ex master pistoleer ex rogue and ex expert BH my latest build being rogue/quickdraw/expert BH but i switched to carbineer/BH carbine and it owns in pvp

"...but i switched to carbineer/BH carbine and it owns in pvp"

Yes I hear that alot in the carbineer forum. However, carbineer without the BH mods/attacks is lot less effective.

I sometimes our class is like the girl that didn't get taken to prom.

Probably very pretty, probably very nice -- but in the end, there's a reason someone didn't ask her.

Yeah, don't get us wrong, we still enjoy carbineer or we wouldn't be sticking with it this long, let alone mastering it.

I just worry about my ability to solo missions as a Master Doc/Master Carbineer. Tried a few today - pulled on the sliced advanced composite that cost me over 300,000 credits... buffed myself from 1-2k in each physical stat... and put the mountain krevol to bed while I ran a few faction missions.

All I am lacking is a krayt carbine and some mind buffs/spices (never ouch spices as I hate the after-effects).

Still, I almost lost in the second mission when they got lucky and hit my head a few times too many. It's hard to tank 3-4 ranged at once even in these optimal conditions, and had they been melee, I would really have been toast. That or a few more hits in the head... And this is with me styling like a madman thanks to the doctor buffs for almost no ham cost.

I really hope they make us do more damage orfire faster ortank better (with the upcming counterattack boost), or just cut us some slack on the knockdown/posture change timers. Without these changes, life will continue to be rough I fear for the carbineer.

I still really enjoy the sound and graphics of the guns, the area attacks especially amuse me - but it just seems to lack a little 'oomph' at the top end of the profession. Then again all professions seem to lose some steam at master or near master. The mobs get much tougher and we only get a little bit tougher by that time.

Grouped it's hilarious though. I had the good fortune to group with two other carbineers in training (they were both combat medics) and it was hilarious to watch the blaster bolts fly. It was like a monsoon of them.

To be a true master carbineer - you have to use your skills point in BH carbine -

Yes - you are a great support class because of AoE shots even AoE bleed shots but you do need a tank.

For PvP - yes BH carbine is needed.

Some specials aren't working properly

and I guess the Only compliant we have are HAM costs and some specials not working.

That's pretty much it - we get no acknowledgement from DEV's and we just get nerfed - But Carbineer/Bh carbine owns in PvP.

nah I have another complaint - we shoot the slowest of all classes unless you go into BH - even rifles have better speed mods - hell my specials go out once every 4 seconds while a rifleman with the same rifle speed like my carabine shoots specials 2 times in 3 seconds - anyway I hope they fix that

well i dropped carabine to go CM but CM is IMMENSLY boring, ( was a master cm master doc) boring as **edit**, im droppinf CM to pick up carbine again, i guess that says something