Pistoleer Archive

Dear forum,

Hi. I've been away from SWG for a while and now I'm back. I'm trying to revamp one of my old characters with pistol skills but it's a long grind. I was just wondering what the best pistol special is for laying out the most damage over time. I've read all the sticky posts and I've seen the damage/delay tables, and that would lead me to believe that healthshot1 is the most damaging pistol special. Can that be right? With a damage factor of 2 and a delay factor of 1, which makes healthshot1 have a dmg/dly of 2. Wow! That's more than fanshot, stoppingshot, or etc. Can it really be that easy? Also, it's a targeted attack on the health HAM only. Anybody else know any better grinding special? If so, why?

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Solr_Flare

Server: Chilastra
Character: Solarius Kerash
Profession: Master Ranger/Pistoleer

Health Shot 2 is your best bet, if you're speed capped, unless you are kiting several mobs, in which case go for Fan Shot.

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"I've got black magic, a hair trigger, and a short fuse. Bring it!"
-Black Mage

Pointblankarea1is the quickest grind special for me, just get buffed , target the lair and use a speed sliced DX2 or Blaster on quenkers/hurtons. It hits every single critter in a 360 area, is fast and there's no running around trying to hit targets in a 30 degree cone.

Thinking about pure DPS healthshot1 is your best bet until you have enough speed to switch to health2. When you get fanshot it will come in handy as already described. Go for accuracy/speed trees using health1 for a while, I think that's most effective. If you have good melee defenses and can "tank" a lair the pointblankarea1-attack works well too.

I'm a bit single minded when it comes to grinding so I've used health1/2 and gone for accuracy/speed first the times I've done it.

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I'd go pointblank area, until fanshot. If you are going for quickest grind its always best to kill multiple targets. If you are attacking a mission always target the lair with your AOE shots. It will ensure that you hit every MOB within your target area.

For single targets go for HealthShot 2.

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umm ... if you get bh 0040 (which is easy to get really) you are basically speedcapped at 0001 pistoleer (w/ any reasonable gun)

at that point ANY SPECIAL other than maybe last ditch and stopping shot (till you hit around 94 speed) go at 1 sec intervals ...... that means eyeshot, healthshot1, 2 torso shot ... they ALL are the same speed ... and when you get maxxed on speed +100 you can spam last ditch 1 sec a shot ... WAY more dps than healthshot1 .... just my opinion ... healthshot1 and 2 are overrated once you get 80+ speed

IMP spawn in Coro. Spam point blank area 1, and make sure u clone yourself on the planet, occasionally some imps will come by and kill you with your TEF.

aMeRiKa
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point blank area 1 only takes off 2x damage ... not vry good compared to fanshot imho

aMeRiKa
FOUNDATION STONE

Iceo Poulef

tru .. but what i do is target the mob who is in the back ... makes the cone larger i think .. i get better results .. so if you have 2 mobs in close but 3 or 4 in the back if you target the back ones you hit all of them