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I can't say enough for the effectiveness of the Tatooine Sunburn. This increases one of your action secondaries, if I recall correctly, and basically eliminates action costs for specials. I never leave home without them, and I never enter combat without being under the influence of one. I can spam specials to my heart's content and never takea dent in my action bar. If you're a pistoleer and you haven't tried using these, you really are doing yourself a disservice. Visit your local chef today, you won't be sorry

And no, I'm not a chef.

As for the question of why a pistoleer would need moun gold; if you have medic skills and wear armor it nearly impossible to regen your mind pool with composite armor on unless you pop a mind buff. Moun is the only way to go unless you can find a master dancer to mind buff. When I can't find a doctor buff I normally use Tatioone sunburn to buff action and keep a moun handy to pop if my mind bar wears down during prolonged combat and multiple heals or mind hits. Moun provides an instant 500 point mind boost, so its good to have one on your tool bar for emergency situations. It can make the difference between life and death.

BardoZuul,

Master Doctor buffs are the best and good ones can last over 2 hours! Doctors can buff all your stats except you mind stats. For the mind you would need a master dancer buff or moun gold (for short term emergency buffing).

thanks for the reply wildbill. how about the strength on the dr. buffs. if i get a master doctor to buff my action stats will i be able to spam specials like i can with the tatooine sunburn?

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BuB64882 wrote:

If you grab Warning Shot in the Marksman line, you can solo any creature on any of the starting planets (except maybe Tat, natch).

Bleed1, Bleed 2, Warning Shot, BS2, Warning Shot, BS2, Warning Shot, BS2, Warning Shot...etc.

If you can Mask Scent as well, your very nearly untouchable.

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I need to try Warning Shot more, but doesn't this battle plan cause the creature's friends to attack you?

The "trick" I've been using (learned about it here) with good success is more or less:
MaskScent, Kneel, Bleed1, Bleed2, Peace, wait for the critter to start bleeding ant attack you, BS2 until the thing is dead. The advantage is that the critter's buddies rarely seem to notice, so you basically have a one-on-one fight.

Or does the above Warning Shot technique essentially achieve the same effect?

As I stated before the Doctor buffs enhance all your stats except mind. The amount of enhancementand duration youreceive depends on the quality of the buff, which is why I suggest Master Doctor buffs. Even then the quality of materials used to create the buffs comes in to play. In general though you can expect that your Action will be in the range of 2000+, Quickness to be 500 to 2000, and Stamina to be 500 to 2000. With these stats you can wear the heaviest of comp armor and spam specials all day without your action bar ever moving. The mind at this point becomes the weak link, which is why mind buffs become necessary.

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DrevenStrobe wrote:

Not sure what Sunburns do, but Muon is a mind enhancing Spice favored by rifleman, image designers, and medics. I don't think it would benefit a Pistoleer much unless you were PvPing and needed a mind boost to ward off Eye Shots or Mind Shots.

Pistoleer would benefit more from an Action spice. Snaproll has put together a nice guide to spices which is stickied to the top of the Smuggler forum and contains details on all spices, such as what they enhance and how long they last.

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Kinda silly post...

With Doctor buffs and Muon gold I have 3000+, 3000+, 1600+ in my HAM pools, and very high regen rates on everything. With these buffs, I can easily solo Rancor lairs for 5-7k weapon xp per kill at 2242 pistoleer, and probably could even earlier. (just get PMD1 and Stopping shot)

Sue, you're right, you need to watch out for the friends. Since Mask Scent is no longer broken by combat, anyone with Explore 3 or 4 is usually okay. The friends don't usually notice that you are attacking their pal. Warning Shot is NOT AOE, so you would need to target any friends that Agro, and send them running with about three Warning Shots in a row. Your tactic is about the same, except you are not using Warning Shot. If you are escaping the group agro now, it should work with warning shot as well.

When Warning Shot is most useful is when you are hunting big game (like Torturs or Tortons) without a pet. It will keep that beast away from you without you running like a madwoman all over the place.

muon gold = NO !!

Angerian Fishak Surprise = YES !!

get off the spice people, use Chef food!