Pistoleer Archive

I feel the exact same way, there isnt any reason in the world to use a pistol in this game, it only makes sense to use a rifle.

Thanks for all your hard work, Maxx. Enjoy your blue glowie status, and hope to see you continue to post a lot around here.

/salute

thanks for all your input, and thanks for trying. good luck

Sad to see you go...

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LordMaxx wrote:
Hello fellow pistoleers. I am sorry to say that I am resigning as Pistoleer Correspondent. I feel that this is a good time to do this, so that someone else can lead you through the ups and downs of Post RotW and CU pathces and changes.

Our profession has taken a huge turn in its function and design. Some may say its good some may not like it. I always belived that pistoleers have been a stepping stone for other professions. Meaning people took pistoleer, but only to enhance their main profession...mainly it was Bounty Hunter before the Combat Upgrade. Pistoleer could not survive with having BH...I was hoping this would change after the CU.

When I was first shown the pistoleer tree I could not tell how it would affect us until I actually saw the code in action. And when pistoleer was finally shown to me in test I have to say I was still not happy with our ability to put "steel on target" as it goes. In accordance with the Main plan which you all saw we were becoming a "mezzer" in a way. We were able to mess with our target to debuff them and make them less able to harm us and our team mates. I guess all MMORPGS need this type of support character, but that is the opposite direction of where I thought we should go. Our damage output was still subpar from what I thought it should be. And one of our strengths listed was close range defense. The level system unfortunately threw that out the window. Melee and Ranged defense mods not only dont mean as much...but we had about the same levels as our rifle and carbine counterparts. So our defenses were not what would make us stand apart. So it had to be our abilities.

One of the unfortunate aspects in my opinion of the Combat Upgrade is the fact that ANY profession could use our abilities. So once again we become the stepping stone for the true masters...why would a group need a master pistoleer if their Rifleman/BH has stopping shot and warning shot...as a backup mezzer? And master pistoleer holds no benefit in my eyes, since the weapons of a master pistoleer are the same if not worst than master weapons or CL 54 weapons that anyone can pick up.

There are still changes to be made. but Im sorry that I will not be here to see them done. Please understand I gave SWG everything I could, but I just see it as my time to move on.

Thank you pistoleers, and for whomever follows me, please keep up the fight. Make our profession strong in its own right instead of just a small addon for other professions.

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That is true...you HAVE to master another profession...This leveling system is a way of incorporating levels into a system which was not designed to handle levels. So yes While Master Pistoleer by it self is not enough, and nor is any combat prof by itself...the defining roll of pistoleers is Crowd Control of Crowd = 1. Our mezzing and Debuffing serve only a small purpose in battle. Small enough that at most times you really dont need it...yes Root is king right now in many ways...but it will get changed. I cant see it remaining king.

Pistoleer is better off because we have one of the best moves in the game. But in the end I just never really got our "vision" You see that many devs take personal interest in some professions and express what they want their vision to be...Are we smugglers with better accuracy/defense mods? Are we BHs with a few stronger personal moves? I really dont know it was never communicated to me what we were. Our "defense" which was suppose to be one of our strengths was overshadowed by this Level system which now rules us.

I Just didnt want to see us go in this direction. I feel pistoleers are basically being told put on a pointy hat and be the mezzing wizard you are. instead of a viable combat profession...in the end our abilities are support in nature and that is not really what I thought we would be.

Its apparent they had a plan for what they wanted pistoleer to be...I just wish they could have communicated that to me better.

It seem to me that you are frustrated with the lack of input you had on the outcome of Pistoleer in the CU, and I feel for you on that one.

Maybe it was naive to assume that you could have any impact, as the removal of alpha testing for the CU pretty much meant that SoE had made their mind up about what profession was doing what and just needed the correspondants to act as a conduit between them and the players for beta and conversion testing.

That's the impression I got anyway.

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BadgerSmaker wrote:

It seem to me that you are frustrated with the lack of input you had on the outcome of Pistoleer in the CU, and I feel for you on that one.

Maybe it was naive to assume that you could have any impact, as the removal of alpha testing for the CU pretty much meant that SoE had made their mind up about what profession was doing what and just needed the correspondants to act as a conduit between them and the players for beta and conversion testing.

That's the impression I got anyway.

Pistoleer isn't too bad though, but I agree with your concerns as to our role and usefulness, as on my server at least, everyone is using a rifle.

There is a benefit to using a pistol though, the ability to deal damage fast and hard... but at the moment its not fast enough, not hard enough and not action cost efficient enough to warrant using a pistol over a rifle.

One other thing, you dont *need* to master a second profession, you can dabble with other skills to complement pistoleer.

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Yeah...I didnt really mean you have to Master another prof...I basically meant you need to get to level 80...My Pistoleer/Combat Medic/BH (shudder why god why did I have to take some BH!!!) was level 80, and therefore competent