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Thread: Smuggler or Pistoleer?
Which do YOU think is the more entertaining class, and why?
Which of the two fares well in PvP?
Even people for are smugglers primarily take on pistoleer to have someplace to put that combat XP into, and pistol whip is a great move. Given XP tables, you get Pistol Whip before you get LowBlow, too, and these moves spell the stop of measly XP gains and enable you to solo 1K+ XP mobs easily.
"and I will have an elite weapon with like .3 speed so the 4x delay on last ditch will be firing at regular pistol speed. "
What weapon, pray tell, are you going to get to .3 speed? I have never heard of that. Currently the "overpowered" FWG with krayt in them sliced for 35% speed are 1.0 Take a 33% speed enhance and thats still .7 if the 1.0 second cap isn't also applied to the weapon.
Second: accuracy. you will miss quite a bit with just smuggler. Panicshot is useful, but dirty fighting by itself really doesn't stand alone.Besides the lack of a Dx2 is going to hurt.If you can only get 1 i would say go for pistoleer. And do what you can to master it that +20 speed at the end nearly doubles your DPS.
False. The cap is applied at the very end. Which means a weapon that is .8 that shoots last ditch with just smuggler is goingto shoot every 2.4 seconds. .8 * 4 minus the 25% from +25 pistol speed.
What is the better of the two professions to go with after Master Commando/TKA. Smuggler 0/0/3/0 or Pistoleer in whatever tree is the best (not sure)?
thanks in advance,
If you ARE going to use your LP a lot (which I still do, personally), then I would recommend speed and accuracy (4th and 3rd lines, respectively, I believe, though I may be wrong on the accuracy, it’s been awhile).
On the flip side, I’m currently a smuggler (1-4-3-4, dropping it slowly) with the Low Blow ability, and I tell ya, being able to drop some of the mobs chasing me is nice. Now, I haven’t had a chance to play since our 2.5x damage modifier went away, but I like to hunt packs of Rogue Bantha for fun and XP. I can usually take them out with one hit using: /Kneel, /aim, /Overchargeshot2. It does about 1500 points of damage on the Bantha, after Heat Resistance is taken into accounting.
Sometimes they agro…
Running away, with my LP equipped, and a speed powerup on it, I can TAB+/lowblow (which is hotkeyed, obviously). I can knock ‘em down, while occasionally healing myself, and get far enough away to finish them off with a few body shots, and maybe a bleed, though they don’t live long enough.
Feign Death also works while holding a flamer. At lest it did two nights ago. Gonna try that when I get home tonight. The only drawback to THAT little tactic, is the flamer delay. You won’t Feign Death until your delay is done ticking down…and that can mean the difference between life or death.
NightShadow777 wrote:
What is the better of the two professions to go with after Master Commando/TKA. Smuggler 0/0/3/0 or Pistoleer in whatever tree is the best (not sure)?
thanks in advance,
Do you pvp?
If you do, then I HIGHLY recommend the dirty fighting line. Having a ranged kd in lowblow is extremely valuable when being kited. But often overlooked, is the EXTREMELY useful panic shot. It's aoe, and it delays the targets next action for 10 secs. Too bad you dont have enough skill pts left to get dirty fighting 4, as nothing beats last ditch with a powered up, pre-nerf krayt launcher pistol.
Even if you just pve, having the ranged kd and the delay shot are very nice, but feign death can get you out of a pickle and has saved my hide many times.