Pistoleer Archive

Pistoleer is messed up by itself but its all about knowing your limitations. Pistoleer can kick serious @ss if your apponent is not wearing armor or buffs. Alot to pistoleer is about having the right judgement and equipment. For example i use my Dx2 2.1 speed,dmg 140-308 on people and they have no friggen idea what happened. lowblow,fanshot,fanshot,fanshot,lastditch there deadbefore they get back up.Yeah my smuggler skills come in handy with lowblow but its all about knowing what fights you can win.Also my scout blaster's come in handy speed 1.4 dmg 116-288. We are indeed a force to bereckoned with, when usingtools of destruction.

I have to say Im omw back up pistoleer. I had 0-0-4-4 in it befor when I was a commando but dropped it and now wish I hadnt. I really enjoyed it, but when I did have it I tryed the Geo caves and the place I had problems was with those little raptor things.

I agree, as a stand alone profession without antoher combat profession to boost it your toast. If you want ta stand alone combat profession from my experience riufle would be the best. Defenses of melee classes but not able to kite em, not to mention most damage types and AP.

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Joubei_businessman wrote:

hmm guys i have no idea what you are all talking about....

every time i go to the geo caves i use my DX2 gun! non-krayt, regular, with 35% dmg slice!. its a 120-215 dmg gun. with 2.2s, iuse a powerup with 33% dmg on it. and thats all.

I OUT DAMAGE ENTIRE TEAMS WITH ONLY FAN SHOT!!!!!!!!!!

ppl yell at me why i'm damage stalking...and stuff like that.

all i do is lay prone at the 15m - 20m and shoot fan shots at the Geos......

the trick is to pick the right type of gun (damage) to the right type of target.

for example the geos have complete vulenrability to acid!!! that makes them totaly naked to the Dx2!!!

only prof that can out-damage me, as master pistoleer, is a bounty hunter with fanshot. (tech 4) and a scatter.

Message Edited by Joubei_businessman on 04-15-2004 12:18 AM

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I have to agree. I just got back from the cave and with my DX2 and fan shot, i was raking in the XP. 5K a Geonosian. With that much XP, you can tell you're doing most of the damage.

because we're still gimped against the lower level mobs like stormtroopers and mercs.

The trick to pistoleer, and any ranged prof, is you have to know your opponent. You cant rely on one gun (i.e. - only a RB). Get in the habit of examining your opponent, and adjusting your weapon accordingly. I used to carry a RB, DXR2, FWG5, and a Sonic Blaster. Four different kinds of damage (energy, acid, heat, stun respectively). If you wanted to take it one step further, you could go novice commando as well to get the launcher pistol which does blast. But you give up alot of skill pts just to use one weapon, even thou I am starting to see alot more NPCs and creatures with a lower resist to blast

TKA's soloing nests has nothing to do with Pistoleers. And it's a DOCTOR/TKA if he's buffing himself--Powerboost is a Hea/Act/Min raise, not your secondaries--which is the buffs that REALLY matter in PvE. I would be just fine with 750 health and action, as long as I have 2575 Str/Con/Qui/Act. Does brandy rock because it raises your mind? NO! It's the Foc/Will that makes it kick total ass. A TKA wouldn't dream of spamming UnarmedHit3 unless he was completely tanked on brandy--the HAM drain from it is staggering.

But having played and watched a Pistoleer/Doctor from 5 feet away, I can say with confidence that a Pistoleer can drop those same lairs just fine compared to a TKA/Doctor. We have the same armor, the same buffs, the same brandy. As a TKA I smash the lair faster than her. She doesn't get hit hardly at all. I HAVE to be drunk on brandy to spam my specials--she just has to give some breather time to her mind pool, or just take her armor off. Since most things die before getting to her...

And when she hit master it was staggering. She does so much damage so fast now, with so little drain to her HAM.