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Im looking for a fast and pretty good damaging special to use with my LP at range.

I appreciate all imput, thx.

The answer is almost certainlyFan Shotis your best attack, on a damage per second basis. Stopping Shot does more damage per attack...but has a much larger delay to it, so you shoot less frequently.

The trade off is usually between "fast" and "powerful"and the LP is a little slow relative to the FWG5 for example . . ..

Stopping Shot has a delay modifier on the order of 4.5. Stopping Shot and Last Ditch (from the Smuggler line)are roughly identical. Fan Shot's delay is only 2.5.

The formula for speed is:

(weapon speed ofgun) x (delay modifier of special) x (1 - (weapon speed bonuses/100)) = attack speed

If the result is under 1 second, then the speed is 1 second.

If you plug in the speed of your gun and your personal bonuses to pistol speed (and the delay's noted above) you should be able to see which is the faster attack. Unless your speed with Stopping Shot is at orpretty close to one secone, Fan Shot will beat it on a damage per second basis.

If you look at the Pistoleer forums (especially the FAQs) this is discussed in great detail.

How good is double tap?

double tap is ok, its basically a tamer version of fan shot

You can find far more complete answers here:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=pistoleer&message.id=7716&page=1

Double Tap is a very respectable dps shot and superior on a dps level to Stopping Shot. It does about 2.8x the damage of the base attack with a 2.1 delay mod. It is the second best ranged shot on a dps basis that Pistoleers have (behind Fan Shot) until you start hitting that 1 second cap...when, again, Stopping Shot can wind up beating it.

Stopping Shot is the most damaging single attack Pistoleers have, ranged or otherwise, but it's a slow attack).

Fan shot for now and if they make it an area affect shot, probably nothing will be that good with LP unless you are a master pistoleer. It will be too slow, but they are moving pistol speeds mods further down the pistoleer tree so we cna be faster with less skill points