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Thread: Heavy Weaponry Tactic DPS does count for us
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Reydon
Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:48 am
#1
When you fight with Heavy Weapons, it is very different then fighting with pistols, carbines, or rifles. Since Heavy Weapons are built with high SAC, and the Plasma Flamethrower can not be power upped, your SAC will remain high. This is the tactic to increase your damage output, and in this plan, DPS does matter:
Click CTRL A
Go to Macros
Click New Macro
Type in the following Macro
/attack;
/pause 1; (or 2)
/ui action toolbarSlot07;
this is for the upper F8 slot. you can change the last number, just remember F1 upper is 00, and you are counting left to right. so 11 is F12.
Place this macro is the specified area (for mine, it is F8)
Now when you decide to fight something, you are going to lose your action fast. So after your action passes under 50%, click this macro. This will do a lot of damage as you recover. To do specials through the macro, you may need to hit the attack several times (i.e. if Advanced Critical Shot is in F1, you may need to hit the F1 key 5-6 times). This can be fixed by putting the pause at 2, but slowing your attacks. This is a fast way to deal damage, and recover SAC. VERY few people have been able to kill me with this. Speed makes those attacks faster, so you do massive damage, as well as your specials.
I hope this helps you all. I have done this many times, and it never stops working, unless you mess up.
Smoki
Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:44 am
#2
put ranged shot in your toolbar
hold down control and click on the icon on your toolbar
does pretty much the exact same thing you descibe here...
Reydon
Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:12 am
#4
The Flaw of your plan with the CTRL Click repeat on Ranged Shot, is when you do other attacks, you cancel that chain of attacks, right? Meaning, each time, you have to click ranged shot again. The macro goes on forever.
GlanocRunningstrider
Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:33 am
#5
If ranged shot is set as default attack it will always attack with that special if no other commands are entered. No need to click on it again. Hence "default attack".
Warmaker01
Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:42 am
#6
GlanocRunningstrider wrote:
If ranged shot is set as default attack it will always attack with that special if no other commands are entered. No need to click on it again. Hence "default attack".
Yes.
At the proper moment, just hit the special you want and it will it will cut into the interval of the default attack. If your default attack has a long cooldown cycle, then expect a delay in your new special before that goes off.
Which is why I prefer having very low level specials as the default attack. There will be very little delay when I want the specific special to hit the target at a precise time.
"If they can be fooled, they can be killed."
Reydon
Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:42 am
#7
So if you CTRL Click it, and it auto attacks, it works around your other specials? (I use macros, so I never exprimented with the CTRL click system)
Warmaker01
Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:10 am
#8
Reydon wrote:So if you CTRL Click it, and it auto attacks, it works around your other specials? (I use macros, so I never exprimented with the CTRL click system)
Yes, I don't even use ranged attack macros anymore (I rarely did before the CU).
My typical example currently in SWG:
My Default Attack is Ranged Shot. Very quick, very short cooldown cycle, minimal damage. I let the Ranged Shots go on by itself for roughly 2 attacks, before I decided to fire off Impr.Charge Shot. It cuts in and interrupts the Default Attack cycle to fire off Impr.Charge Shot. I only wanted to get off a single Charge Shot off since it landed on the target. Once the cooldown cycle is complete, Range Shot takes over again until I decide to throw in some other special at a later time.
Message Edited by Warmaker01 on 07-03-2005 09:11 AM
Cpl_Fisher
Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:24 pm
#9
Mandalorian143 wrote:
This is Reydon btw:
Pre-CU, /attack macros were useless, just spam specials. but now they have a use for high SAC weapons
heh I don't want to ask.
Mandalorian143
Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:30 pm
#10
lol, about a second account? I insulted someone who deserved it. 3900ish minutes to go.
Mandalorian143
Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:05 am
#11
This is Reydon btw:
Pre-CU, /attack macros were useless, just spam specials. but now they have a use for high SAC weapons
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