Combat Medic Archive
Thread: How to play CM/Riifleman
Swerve99 wrote:
Dont forget to stack A's,B's and C's whislt kiting ur opponenets / mobs round buildings, in side them, around harvesters, etc. Keep a /lol macro running in the background too with ur opponent targeted for extra satisfaction
With the new range modifiers and the set timer you got one maybe two chances to toss a poison if you plan to kite. Stacking period and living long enough to stack is alot harder than any non-CM will ever know. Dont forget, you're rooted to the ground for 4 seconds each time you toss a poison.
CM/rifleman in PvP and PvE summed up: Choose either a single or area poison. Get in range and throw. Run away and shoot or stop and tank while praying the foods, psg, and armor keep you alive. You should be asking for more rifleman tips on the rifleman boards since thats where you'll really do most of you damage.
jkray8472 wrote:To get good poisons/diseases, you need to find a good vendor on your server. To make them yourself, you need to spend millions of credits, or several months of waiting in order to find high OQ/PE/DR/CD/UT resources that are very specific, and then combine them in your schematics.To play as a CM/Rifleman, you toss poisons/diseases and then shoot. However, be warned that things will agro on you as soon as you toss a poison or disease. So you may want to use your rifle until they finally agro, and then stand up, toss a poison, and run for half an hour while shooting them.
not only the best cm advice i've ever heard, but true and funny too
marthpodi wrote:
Hi, imi working on CM and rifleman and was wondering what the best waay to plaay thiis on PvP and PvE is. What to hunt, how to kiill higgh level mobs etc. Also, whats a good way to get/make poisons/diseases etc.
thanks
marthpodi
For PVE: You mainly want to use AE Health/AE action poisons combined with strafeshot/flurryshot/flushingshot (assuming multiple mobs). Use Mind poisons (Single and AE) with Headshots. You really don't need to kite that much. Depending on your level of rifleman you will only use some specials. Work up to Concealshot (x1xx), Headshot3 (2xxx), then Flushing2 or Flurry2 (xx3x)(xxx3). Once you getFlushing2 or Flurry2you can just shoot a lair and mobs will run right in the path of your shots while they try to heal the lair.
For PVP: Assuming you are a Master Rifleman, make yourself a macro called DizzyLoop.
DIZZYLOOP
/ui action clearCombatQueue
/flushingshot2 (AE stuns)
/flurryshot2 (AE dizzies)
/suppressionfire1 (single posture change *down*)
One tap of that will usually send a player or humanoid into a dizzy loop. Toss poisons on them and leave them flopping while you handle the rest of his friends. If you see their action and health are low or unbuffed, then finish off those players using /flushing2 or /strafeshot2.
Too many times players will assume a Rifleman can only target the mind and will eat enough food to increase their willpower and focus enough to offset /headshot3. Adding in a strafeshot or flushingshot can quickly help you gauge where your opponent is weaker, in his mind or in his body.