Pistoleer Archive

Besides Body Shot (which sucks). I mean, what good is a random HAM attack when I'm soloing creatures with 10k for each HAM bar? I'll be making progress on the Health and then Stopping Shot goes and hits the Action and Mind. It's rediculous.

I'd say, never. :-(

It wont matter as much once you get past stopping shot.

While a lot of classes get HAM specific shots.. We kind of got Left Behind..

for soloing higher Level Mob's.. HealthShot 1&2, BodyShot2 or 3 (Slow them down a bit.) FanShot Spam O'rama making sure that what I wanted to hit was in the Cone)

I was pretty effective asa Master Gunfighter, Liked the Variety of Damage types.. and Speed..

But, the Lack of AP punching power ( DX2, Republic, SR Combat only ones with AP1) And playing Master Gunfighter for about 2 months... I had to Retire. I don't think anything has Changed in the last patch. Though, I do plan on picking some or all of it back.

"Nothing beats a Good blaster at your side.."

Yeah, I have no major issue with the bodyshots for PvE. They target health just fine. For PvP, this is not so good as it can be healed and you are using the shot only to deplete your opponent's mind pool when he heals his health pool. So, it is better to do the rapid random pool barrage that stopping or fanshot allow.

The two biggest pistoleer issues are that (as said above) there are no respectable armor piercing weapons. This is really a big slap in the profession's face... I hope it gets addressed. The other issue that hurt us bad is that PMD1 was completely nerfed. It is a faint shadow of its intended self. It only works when you don't really need it to. As a close-up ranged class that ends up taking a lot of melee from other players and MOBS, we really, really need this to work. It used to. It was deliberately broken. Other professions have fully functional knockdowns and/or delays.

Pistoleers popularity led to its specials and weapons being nerfed. In order to cull or contain the dabblers, the masters got penalized a lot.

Although other profs get more HAM specific specials, I don't think we can bitch at all about what we got. How many other professions have the ability to lay on 2 low level bleeds and follow up with HAM specific shots to the same region. Its like getting 3 shots to the same ham in one every couple seconds. Pretty powerful IMHO.

Pistoleer is just an add on skill for bounty hunter or smuggler :/

Don't forget to use the often overlooked 'warning shot' when soloing creatures. Helps quite a bit.

yeah we already have a ham specific attack its called body shot you may not like the shot but it is a ham specific shot, i mean what do you want a mind attack go get bh see hom much you like it there, you can trust me im a master pisoleer and while many many of our shots are complety screwed at least we have some shot that are very good.

Just stack health shot one and two and spam bodys shots its a ham specific shot and its a danm good one to, i hit over 1k on healh every shot and once you get to Master Level the speed mods make it with out a delay or at least close to no delay.

I see so many people complaining about pistoleer and i wonder have you guys ever been any other profestion? they just about all suck more that pistoleer with the exception to riffleman. You could say tka and fencer but if your dumb enoguh to get close you deserve to die.

HS1 and 2 is pretty heavy on the mind if you spam it on several mobs.

There is a lot that could be better about our profession, but wecan do a lot tothe health bar in PVE, with Bleeds and BS2. I don't think there is anythning wrong with our HAM specific attacks. It's the 15 other specials that are all basically the same that bother me (randomHAM1, randomHAM2, randomHAM14)

I agree with the original poster ... I'm sick of all these plain random HAM attacks that don't do anything special even though they're called "special attacks." At the very least, we need BodyShot3 working so it's a better choice than BodyShot2.

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TegraDuststrider wrote:
Although other profs get more HAM specific specials, I don't think we can bitch at all about what we got. How many other professions have the ability to lay on 2 low level bleeds and follow up with HAM specific shots to the same region. Its like getting 3 shots to the same ham in one every couple seconds. Pretty powerful IMHO.

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EVERY other class can do this. Pistoleer is left behind when bleeds come into play too.../sigh, oh well.