Carbineer Archive

Which does more damage/per HAM etc.?

Looking to go up one of the carbine trees as an addition to BH, mostly PvP concerned.

Thanks.

I am debating on it too, since I'm only going up 1 skill treein the class.

They both have 3x damage multipliers, but different HAM costs. I believe Burstshot doesdamage on oneHAM bar (is it still Action damage?), where Scattershot hits multiple HAM bars.

I also have a question on Scattershot. For example, say a scatter shot can hit a total of 500 damage to an opponent. Is that 500 total, or 500 on each HAM bar? I would think it's the former.

Scattershot varies on every shot. It can hit just 1 bar, 2 bars, or all 3 bars at the same time. In my experience is generally does the same dmg to all 3 bars, but it can vary somewhat. I'm only taking that variance opionon because the color of the dmg report changes to reflect what was hit and how much went into each bar, and its generally consistent being the same into multiple bars.

It generally hits health and action most often, but I've had it just hit head before. Incapped a master marksman via oneshot headshot.

Very good ability, and stacks very well with other classes damage.

-Gravaar

im no scattershot expert cause i stick to burst shot, but im using it a little now cause some people like it and i figured id give it a try.

anyways ive yet to see why this is a good attack? are you perhaps taking about scatter2 cause 1 is junk so far. does 1 damage most of the time, but like i said i just started usuing it, like 30 minutes ago so ill keep trying maybe ive been unlucky or its only telling me the damage im doing to 1 pool or somehting i have no idea.

ok it says one damage but it does do more damage than that, said 1 dmage but got close enough to look at it above the targets head and it did quite a bit of damage

still, i would like to know how you can judge this against burst shot since for the most part you have to be a super math man to add all the battlespam above the targets head up fast enough to figure the total damage out.

or im totally missing something???

I think the best resource for deciding which skill to go for first is: http://www.swgcenter.com/info/SpecialMoves.asp

That section lists the dmg modifiers, time modifiers, and HAM costs for every special for every weapon in the game. It all appears to be very accurate and I recommend it.

Scattershot2 rocks even more than scatter1. Its a single target attack, think it costs either exactly the same as 1 or a few pts less per shot, and hits about 2x as hard.

My largest hit with it so far was 2606 (as reported above the mobs head) with many more shots hitting in the 1k + range than scatter 1. Definitely recommended, and well worth the points. I use this almost all the time.

-Gravaar

Eclipse-Carbineer/CH

Well I picked up scatter shot last night and its pretty decent, as already said its on the same damage multipler as FA2 etc. so tops out at around 1k damage with a laser carb, the damage done is to all pools so it either does 1k damage to 1, 2 or all 3 pools which is pretty nice...

Like to hear from anyone that has Scatter Shot2, I'm about 100k away from being able to get that, is it worth the skill points to get? Or broken atm like most skills