Pistoleer Archive

Right noe I'm at 0/1/0/0 in pistoleer with master marksman and 3/3/2/4 in CH, I'm using a DX2 pistol, but I only seem to deal about 460 max and thats when I use chest shot (thats the overcharge shot I think), but other weapons like eliete Carbine deals 1200 worth of damage. So, what should I be using to make the most damage?

Carbines and rifles so much more damage than pistols. But as far as I know the best pistols to use are

1. Scatter pistol

2. Launcher pistol

3. FWG5

Perhaps I could try it out with the FWG5, but isn't the launcher pistol for commandoes or BHs or something?

Yep. For general use the FWG5 is pretty decent. The Scout Blaster is also good for general use. As you fight higher level creatures, you'll want to pay attention to resists and armor rating so you can use the right pistol for the job.

if you can find a good DX2 then it is awesome vs. creatures with high heat resist's where u cant use ur FWG5.

Tangle pistols are great vs kimogilas.

I mostly use a FWG5 and a SR Combat pistol (AP1). I use the DX2 only when I need the acid. The SR has a very short range, but I am normally close up anyway. I carry pretty much all of the pistols depending on what the target is vulnerable to.

Scout - Fast energy attack. Not the best damage. I use it mostly for finishing of a lair.

FWG5 - Fast Heat attack. Best all around pistol. Check for heat resist or armor.

SR Combat - Short range Energy attack. Armor piercing.

DX2 - Acid damage. Good for those things that are vunerable to acid. (AP1 but broken at the moment)

Tangle - Stun damage. Lower damage than the rest, but some things resist everthing else.

Striker - Kinetic damage. Lower damage than the rest, but some things resist everthing else.

Hope this helps. I bought the best non-kryat weapons I could find and had them sliced by a Master Smuggler. Once you get a few boxes in Stances which gives you speed, you want a damage slice. I often buy two of the same weapon in case the slice goes for speed, so I can try again for damage.

Yea it definately depends on what you are fighting. Now that I fight much more advanced things than I used to it depends on what resists and armor things got. I have four hot keys for my tangle (stun), dl44 (energy), dx2 (acid) and fwg5 (heat).

I am constantly switching between them, but usually I am either on FWG5 or DX2. Whenever I am killing inconsequential stuff or lairs I switch to the other two guns so I dont kill my condition. I am a 4-4-4-3 pistoleer now with a lot of money so I can afford to get great guns with great slices and powerups. With powerups on my guns my FWG does 78-350 speed 2.1 and my DX2 does around 200-280 speed 2.5. However when I use fan shot my damage to someone with no resist is around 2k which is nice.

Bokwacca

I have 4 toolbar buttons devoted to:

FWG5 - 42-244 damage, 2.0 speed

Scout Blaster: 46-125 damage, 1.3 speed

DX2- 36-125 damage, 1.7 speed

Tangle Pistol: 25-124 damage, 3.2 speed (with +33% speed powerup, 2.3 speed).

Aside from getting around resistances, I use the DX2 for armor piercing, FWG5 for high-damage bleeds, Scout Blaster for lairs, and Tangle Pistol for BS2 shots against resistant-to-everything-else creatures.

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Rocacca wrote:

Carbines and rifles so much more damage than pistols. But as far as I know the best pistols to use are

1. Scatter pistol

2. Launcher pistol

3. FWG5

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It's still soooo freakin' sad that the best pistols are not even usable by pistoleers....*sighs*

1 and 2 are bh weapons so your only choice is fwg5

Yep it depends on what you are fighting. right now on Valcyn my best fwg5 is at 1.8 speed and 286 damage sliced ofcourse by me.

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Kaledos wrote:

Scout - Fast energy attack. Not the best damage. I use it mostly for finishing of a lair.

FWG5 - Fast Heat attack. Best all around pistol. Check for heat resist or armor.

SR Combat - Short range Energy attack. Armor piercing.

DX2 - Acid damage. Good for those things that are vunerable to acid. (AP1 but broken at the moment)

Tangle - Stun damage. Lower damage than the rest, but some things resist everthing else.

Striker - Kinetic damage. Lower damage than the rest, but some things resist everthing else.

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These pistol are used by Pistoleer and not by BH or some other profession? I thought we only have Scout, FWG5, and DX2. We could use SR Combat, tangle, and striker? Are those fraction weapon?