Pistoleer Archive
Thread: How much do you think an additional +20 pistol speed at master would help the pistoleer profession?
Your numbers are a bit off, a master rifleman is +90 speed (95 with master marksmen) and a master pistoleer is +74 (79 with master marksmen), but I do agree that more speed is something pistoleers could use, but really good luck getting anything pre combat balance.
Soontir-Ben
in my opinion the magic number for us is +90 pistol speed because at this speed we can fire stopping shot at exactly once per second with a standard 2.5 speed dx-2 or republic blaster . i would stick a pistol speed + 8 mod inthe pistol grips 4 and pistol marksmenship 4boxes .
oahep acto
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-Elder Medic-Err.. riflemen spend all that cash on extra speed tapes because they're firing weapons with speeds of up to 8! Pistoleers only need 90 as an absolute maximum, as has already been stated.
To be honest though, even if you were firing Stopping Shot once per second with the slowest, highest damage pistol you could get your hands on, you'd still get owned in PvP. Seriously.. random HAM? No Stun/Intimidate/Dizzy? AP0 Stun damage or AP1 energy/acid? What's the point.. you might as well just get the extra speed from BH, then at least you've got a special (Eyeshot)that's worth using in PvP to shoot once per second.
Extra speed would not be a useful 'quick fix' for Pistoleer at this point.
Pistoleers need speed, accuracy and working specials... To help with PvP you really need all 3 and even then, it won't have much effect, since our DPS will still be less than a rifleman, heavy swordsman or tka...
For PvE, fixing the specials would help more than anything else... Without a fix to specials, I think accuracy would help more than speed, since the special and weapons we use not is general optimized for once a second anyways!
Either way... You can get nice specials from smuggler and have a easy way to get further defense from tak, fencer, etc... You can easily pick up another pistol from smuggler... Or you can go bounty hunter and get that speed, acc, special and another pistol. You won't have any skills left for defense then, however... So ultimately the best interim solution would be to add those bonuses to acc and speed to pistoleer... We would have speed and accuracy that is similar to many of the other elite professions (though carbineers lose out). This would put the ability to get specials and defense in our hands... It might devalue the BH pistol line, as the speed would no longer be that attractive... But the extra acc would make it much easier to over come defense stackers! Of course the scatter is IMO the second best pistol available. Also the BH specials are very nice as well...
We're thinking along the same lines. I've already asked for a preliminary +10 speed before the combat balance. I don't think the devs would accept a +20 very easily, and who knows what things will be like after the CB. I don't think they want to do drastic changes and then risk taking them back later. One of the goals seems to be that everyone will have a reason to think about weapon speed, even the faster professions.
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