Pistoleer Archive

I've given some great thoughts into the bounty hunter/smuggler template. It leaves very little room to play with in general. With Pistoleer you actually have greater amount of freedom. Particularly with the upcoming move of Eye Shot to Master Bounty Hunter, the bounty hunter pistol line will be completely negated in terms of any actual PvP usefulness.

Let's see, nothing in bounty hunter carbine is useful save for fire knockdown and that's iffy. Pistols they have the Eye Shot going for them ... now. Next month, it'll be useless except for torso shot. Torso shot ... wee. Spam it on a healable pool. There ya go. It's like going around spamming body shot 2. You'll lose doing it. That leaves LLC. The weapon that misses like crazy. Someone want to clue me in on why someone would want to get bounty hunter pistols for anything other than speed bonuses and the scatter pistol? With the points involved I don't think it's useful at all.

If you look at the big picture, bounty hunter lines are becoming quickly unattractive with the changes the devs are discussing. If you're continually chasing the killer PvP template you'll be chasing a moving target. I planned my character around pistoleer/smuggler and I'm staying that way despite the fact that currently pistoleer has nothing going for it and it's questionable if there'll be anything going for it in the future. Smugglers have some great moves in general. It is,however, disasterously sad without something else paired up with it.

In general, I think it's going to suck a lot for pistoleer-bounty hunter after the next major class balancing act.