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Thanks Tiggs. It is also nice to see the devs giving attention to so many professions today also.

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the T21 need Master Rifle?

That list seems to be the one used in the knowledgebase article, which is still out of date as well.

2 year vet rewards? was supposed to get info on this at FF but never did

btw the page is blank

You need Master Rifleman to wield a CL 14 spraystick?

Gee - that's harsh for all the CL 13 Master Riflemen out there.

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Dromag67 wrote:

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Disclaimer: for all of you p!ssants, im sure todays FF is nice.

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I im with Dromag67 what about this.

Regarding auto-assist:

As it is implemented, it's more of an hinderance than anything. Plan and simple "assist" works, more or less in any situation, better. Preferable you would be able to assign someone as the "main assist" and then press a key to, without targeting them or anything else, target whatever they are hitting on.

The same goes with the "magic heals", since it's not uncommon to get this situation:

Mob beats Rifleman, Doc heals with mob targeted, TKA gets aggro (since he's the tank) before the heal goes off and Doc ends up healing 50 damage from TKA at a cost of 10% mind.

Implicit actions WOULD work if we got another target box - specifically a "target of target". This would mean that in "auto assist", we wee the stats of whatever we're hitting on (such as states and HP) and for mobs, we see who the target is and if a heal is needed. It also assists a tank since he can easily see if the mob is targeting him or if he lost aggro.

Please do realize that targeting a group member when doing combat is next to useless. You do NOT see the stats, damage or other stats of the thing you're beating on. Thus you can't properly know when to reapply any states, dots etc and you might use a large expensive special when the mob has 10 hp left.

FIX THIS PLEASE! One of two fixes is possible:

1) Remove implicit assist/heals (or make them optional) and reintroduct /assist (why you'd remove that I don't know, it's imperative to have in real group combat).
2) Introduce a "target of target" display.

Some of those certs are wrong. For instance, the D18 pistol is a CL 5.

Another comment, on the DPS section: This value is highly misleading for a number of reasons:

1) Minimum damage, taken into account in the DPS calculations, only seems to be used for calculating the effect of damage slices and damage powerups (see below). Max damage is always the value used to determine the damage done to mobs, no exceptions. Damage done = MaxDmg * [special modifier] - [mitigated damage]. Powerups increase Max Damage like this: newMax=Max + (min dmg * pup efficiency). So a 100-300 dmg weapon with a 30% damage powerup will become 130-330 dmg weapon, where the 330 is the only value that matters.

2) Speed and SAC are important. Especially SAC. If you can't do specials due to no action, your actual DPS will be lower. People like to say that speed isn't important but it is of course since it controls the delay between attack moves.


I also saw no mentioning of the fact that typically you want to alternate attacks. As a TKA I have two damage moves worth using - the default Melee hit (auto attack) and Combo. If I use either exclusively my DPS is significantly lower than if I use Melee - Combo - Melee - Combo etc. This is probably the most important change post-CU - spamming one attack is NOT a good idea. Alternate, even if oen attack does less damage! The exception is if you are low on Action. In that case, let it auto attack on melee hit or ranged attack (which use more or less no action - the upgraded versions use A LOT in comparision for a minimal boost in damage) until you regain action.

Just my 15 cents.