Pistoleer Archive
Thread: MASTER PISTOL & MY PROBLEM (PLEASE READ)
who the f are you??
9 post's and talking to me like your mr high and mighty... whats the world coming to...
tracejelsadow
well excuse me mister 279 posts i thought maybe you were confused about the game mechanics, i was merely responding to your childish desire to be empowered. my point: tkm is not the uber proff to be, it does have some real nice advantages but to hold them high and say they are what every proff needs to resemble is just .... retarded. grow up a little, don't whine so much if you don't understand the way it works.
Eked wrote:
I've been master pistol, bh pistol4 for a few weeks now and I gotta say its a pretty damn good template.. before i was master smuggler/master pistol, tka and I got db'd quiet often, but since changing my template Im extremely happy... only thing I miss from smuggler is slicing but now that I have master scout I can make a ton of money harvesting and soloing enranged rancor lairs... basicly what Im saying is even though pistoleer is busted you can still pretty much be uber if you do it right.
Message Edited by Eked on 05-13-2004 02:49 PM
/agree i have the same template and can take on most people on the server (even tho i amoften told i suck by one of my guild leaders Krusty TheClown) but i can handle most people on an average level of uberness which Krusty is not lol
Eosa Eelo: NOOB EXTRAORDINARE!!!
TraceJelSadow wrote:
who the f are you??
9 post's and talking to me like your mr high and mighty... whats the world coming to...
How was he being high and mighty? Save the drama for your mama.
Able-kain wrote:
tracejelsadow
well excuse me mister 279 posts i thought maybe you were confused about the game mechanics, i was merely responding to your childish desire to be empowered. my point: tkm is not the uber proff to be, it does have some real nice advantages but to hold them high and say they are what every proff needs to resemble is just .... retarded. grow up a little, don't whine so much if you don't understand the way it works.
i guess we'll see after the combat balance, eh? i remember the devs saying that the vision for TKA was "low damage, high defense"...
but when a low-level TKA can solo rancors and a master pistoleer has to break his *** to solo even ONE, there are some major issues. i won't even point out the whole 20meter lunge issue, what with our ideal range often being LESS than 20m.
griggy wrote:
Eked wrote:
I've been master pistol, bh pistol4 for a few weeks now and I gotta say its a pretty damn good template.. before i was master smuggler/master pistol, tka and I got db'd quiet often, but since changing my template Im extremely happy... only thing I miss from smuggler is slicing but now that I have master scout I can make a ton of money harvesting and soloing enranged rancor lairs... basicly what Im saying is even though pistoleer is busted you can still pretty much be uber if you do it right.
Message Edited by Eked on 05-13-2004 02:49 PM
this guy right here knows what hes talking about i have bh pistol 1-4 also and i havent even mastered pistoleer yet and im pwning.This is on my other character of course.
I have this template now and I spent the last 2 days pvping. I did this because I love pistols. I had master pistol, smuggler df, master rifle ,and tka 4-0-0-3..
I must say my old template is better. Here is why. I only have 22 ranged defense. I had 109 with rifle plus I had 132 melee defense plus intimidate. You couple last ditch stun with intimidate with those defenses plus force of will and equilib with zabrak plus the ability to kill a rifle cm and heal before you're toasted is just to much to overcome with bh pistols. I have 168 pistol accuracy now plus dodge food but the pistols with only dx2 and scatter powered up to 350 cannot match the rifles power. The geo pistol I still maintain is worthless because Im using a good pvper as a standard not a noob. My geo is 225 without powerup and that may be the prob, but I just don't want to spend 9.5 mill on a 333 with only 850 life.
Don't get me wrong, I love pistols but I was just stronger before. That doesn't mean I am going to change back, I just wanted to tell you my findings.
BTW that is with dance and ent buffs, canape, air cake ,brandy etc, with stun armor and nuetron or muon hot keyed.
On a final note, I will be trying the pic pie for dodge 50% and the melee food that should put me to about 80 melee defense or so. I will let you know how that works..
Message Edited by Morath360 on 06-07-2004 10:39 AM
Well I'm Master Ranger Maseter pistoleer, and I stopped reading when you said you dropped ranger. No just kidding. I wanted to be ranger since before launch, and started doing rifles, but then went pistols. I love being a pistol user, and have fun, in PvE.
You are correct in that pistoleer is pretty much the most out of balance combat profession in the game. And on top of that, all the melee professions like TKA, Fencer, Swordsman, are much more powerful then ANY of the ranged professions. Which being an avid StarWars fan, you know is just not right.
I'm not sure how much you follow the game here on the forums, but have you heard about the Combat Balance? It's a complete overhaul of the entire combat system, and every combat profession in the game. They have been working on it for a while, and it's supposed to hit live I think publish 11. Publish 10 being just few weeks a way, so little over a month for the CB.
Some of the reports I have read from players that heard Devs talking about the CB at Fan Fest sound good. Things like they are getting rid of the current speed formula all together. Everyone will be slower with it being balanced out between profession. Masters will be faster then novice of course. They are making armor less effective as protection, they are lowering damage and raising speeds on all weapons. They are also changing the whole HAM special cost systems for weapons and our HAM. They are going to be making pool specific shots, like bodyshot, headshot, less effective, but still there. And another cool thing, your movement in game will be depentant on what weapon you have equiped. For example someone with a huge T21 rifle won't be able to move as fast as someone with a little DX2 equipped. This is great news for pistoleers.
I have decided to to stick with my 2 master professions until after the Combat Balance. I'm a casual player, and it took me 4-5 months to get both ranger and pistoleer mastered. I like them both, and don't want to drop either, but I also want to be effective in combat and have fun again. So I'm sticking it out until after the CB, and see how things change. It would take me longer to master another combat profession then it will for the CB to come out, now.
So I say stick with what you got for now, wait until CB and see how things change. You may keep what you got, or maybe you'll be enticed to comback to pistoleer. Or maybe if you really got high hopes for the CB, go back to pistoleer now, and see how it is after CB.
Farstrider77 wrote:
trace, you know who i am
shoot me a tell or email and i'll give you some pointers on what you should do to excel in pvp as a pistoleer
Hey I'm interested in this kind of info. I do about 50/50 now of PvE and PvP. I'm getting better in PvP, but still owned. Mostly by melee that I let get to close. I'm on Bria, so if you are on different server maybe you could PM with some pointers. I would really appreciate it.
Thanks.
Squidwalker wrote:
I'm not sure how much you follow the game here on the forums, but have you heard about the Combat Balance? It's a complete overhaul of the entire combat system, and every combat profession in the game. They have been working on it for a while, and it's supposed to hit live I think publish 11. Publish 10 being just few weeks a way, so little over a month for the CB.