Pistoleer Archive

Hi, I'm a recently converted BH to Pistoleer. Pistol has always been my weapon of choice and I'm loving Pistoleer, I'm currently 1-0-4-3. My question is, does Pistol Whip 2 not work? Because I'm having much more success with 1 then 2. Also, is there a trick to using Fanshot? Stopping and Double Tap seem to be better. Thanks for you help.

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CeptoKast wrote:
Hi, I'm a recently converted BH to Pistoleer. Pistol has always been my weapon of choice and I'm loving Pistoleer, I'm currently 1-0-4-3. My question is, does Pistol Whip 2 not work? Because I'm having much more success with 1 then 2. Also, is there a trick to using Fanshot? Stopping and Double Tap seem to be better. Thanks for you help.

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Pistol Whip 2 is broken and has been since release -- no knockdown, no dizzy, nothing useful. Plus the HAM cost is the same as Pistol Whip 1, which IS a knockdown.

FanShot is an area of effect attack, so it's good for attacking multiple enemies at once. As a 1-0-4-3 you're best off using BodyShot2 to kill things since it targets a single HAM pool instead of spreading the damage over all three. FanShot is probably your best bet for highest raw damage per second. StoppingShot is too slow at your level to be worthwhile.

well...first of all...

pistol whip 2 is NOT broken

it was never meant to kd, dizzy etc.

make a pistol whip 1/2 macro, knocks em down then does about 2k damage (for me at least)

and at your level...(sorry philosopher) i would get a fast gun and use stopping shot on singel targets, fan shot on multiple...ive used stopping shot since i was 0040 in pistoleer, never had to worry bout speed to much

havent used bodyshot2 since i got pistoleer 0010 by the way

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Curos wrote:

well...first of all...

pistol whip 2 is NOT broken

it was never meant to kd, dizzy etc.

make a pistol whip 1/2 macro, knocks em down then does about 2k damage (for me at least)

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Um, I hate to break this to you, but Pistol Whip 2 is supposed to KD. It isn't supposed to Dizzy or Stun, those are just ideas people have been toying with to make Pistol Whip 2 something that's actually useful. But, you're wrong, it is supposed to KD, purely out of the fact that Pistol Whip 1 does a KD and the description for Pistol Whip 2 just says that it does more damage than Pistol Whip 1. This means that it is STILL supposed to KD, but as an added bonus it does more damage, although it is supposed to have a higher HAM cost and it doesn't for some reason.

Pistol Whip 2 is pretty useless until the KD works like it is supposed to, until then Point Blank 2 works better.

what about fan shot. I just picked it up and the only place it shows the damage is combat spam. It doesn't do any damage to multiple targets, only the one I targeted. I was hoping to take out entire kreetle spawns in one shot!.

it works for me, but u have to make sure ur close enough to them that it will damage them..

i had that happen a couple times where it would show 'Left Leg Hit' or 'Body hit' but no damage would be taken away, and thats because they were too far away for the AOE attack (when i hit peace the mobs that didnt take damage didnt attack)

They were all in range for me, i would target the farthest creature in the pack, and it would always kill that one and argo the rest on me without doing any damage to them. Someone said that the monsters have to be argoed to you already for fan shot to work. Is that true?

At my city near the the Mountain Squill caves on Tatooine we built around this POI of a crashed escape pod which has a static spawn of 5 Bandits. I have to clear them out every so often each day so our crafters aren't massacred, and I always use fanshot. you want to make sure they are in the cone (I stand about 40m away and get them all in the 45 degree cone, and I take them all out in 3-4 hits. you will only see numbers above the targeted person's head, and you will need to check the combat spam to see the damage you are doing, but this does work. Now, if you aren't intending on hitting, say, 5 rancors at once, then this might not be the best special to use when hunting big nasties.

This special I've found works best on MOB's that are preoccupied attacking a CH pet or NPC's who will stand and shoot you instead of charge and bludgeon you.

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Well I Use Fanshot almost all the time. I will sometimes finish off a enemy with health shot 1 or 2 depending on how there HAM is. It works well in groups aswell for me. I will kill multipul targets will fighting the larger enemy so it seems to work ok. As for defence 2 I agree something is messed up with it. Does nothing for me.

Zechs

fan shot is a line of fire type dealy

line them up(1 behind the other, not lined upsideways), and fan shot away

you haven't quite got the idea of how this particular attack works yet. the aoe only attacks those enemies which are agro'd to you. the first time you use it, it will agro all the enemies in it's cone to you, the rest of the times it will shoot them. so, you can't use it just once.

I use Fanshot constantly (2-2-4-3 in Pistoleer, former 2-4-4-4 BH) and see great results with it.

Number 1... Fanshot shoots very fast especially since it's a 4x damage modifier.

Number 2... It's a cone!! Just line 'em up or get them all on a pet and blast 'em. This is VERY effective.. especially when you're grinding XP.

Match - don't you run into the problem where the Fanshot won't damage anything but the guy you have targetted? I run into this problem constantly.