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I have enough skill points to go up 1 tree in pistoleer... so should I get body shot 3 or stopping shot?

Stopping shot does about 500-1300ish in damage but has a serious delay, I havent seen any info on BS3 posted. Was considering the BS3 line next because of the defensive skill you get with it.

bodyshot 3 was a big dissapointment for me, it only does (sometimes) 100 to 200 more damage than bs2. I hit around 200 to 500 (rarely and at the very most) with a fwg5 51-158 spd 2.

Point blank consistently does more damage and thats a tier 1 skill. Getting in close and spamming pistol melee and point blank easily out damages just sitting back and hitting bs3.

Dodge may have a benefit but I haven't really noticed my toon moving out the way of attacks more often than he was doing at novice marksman.

Hey Scuzel, what damage weapon were you using to deal 1300 damage with Stopping Shot?

An NPC hit me with stopping shot for 3700 damage

I was 2shot by another player who did a roll shot for like 450 followed by a body shot for 650 or so. He then did it to the other guy near me, the body shot did around 670'ish on him.

its the big variation in damage which makes bodyshot 3 crap. It can do the same if not lower damage as a normal shot...with more delay and ham cost. My average is about 400. Its not worth using, normal shots have a better dps over a couple of mins of combat.

Considering you're able to do approx. 400+ damage @ 2.0 attack rate.. that looks might **edit** tasty damage to me.

Stopping shot gives you knockdown defences, I'd take it for that reason alone. Well, that and cuz BS3 lacks :-P Torso shot is far better, not even close.

Are you saying that BS3 is worse than BS2? Or just worse than Torso Shot and Stopping Shot? I'm heading up the tree to BS3 and curious how good it is.

Samra Hael
Pistoleer / Scylla
KOTOR

Stopping Shot does not give you def vs Knockdown. Fanshot is really the skill that you people should be looking at. It uses less HAM than Stopping Shot and fires faster, I dont know why everyone keeps on knocking it, but try it out.

I should think that BS3 is worth it for non BH pistol spec pistoleers simply because it targets one and only one HAM pool. I love the big damage numbers as much as anyone else, but I just can't stand watching a huge monster taking damage to 3 pools at once.

Some people have quoted that you get higher DPS from spamming Point Blank Single and Pistol Melee Defense 1 (PMD1) than say BS3 and PMD1. But I wonder if you get a faster mob kill too. Higher DPS does not necessarily equal faster mob kill in this game, unlike most others...