Pistoleer Archive

I've set my human character up as totally buff reliant, as I have a doc/musician and a dancer on other accounts.

It takes me 20 minutes or so to log them on, and then I go from.

To :

I rely heavily on defensive foods and full buffs for PvP. In fact I'd rather have Pikata Pie than Brandy or vercupti. My husband's character is a chef so I am well stocked in some of the harder to find foods but I absolutely recomend the following for PvP (in pve I don't bother with food)

Synthsteak

Pikata Pie

Pica ThunderCloud

Vegesparisine

Thakitilo

Chor Nor Hula

Trimpani

Ithorian Mist

I aslo keep Citrus Snow Cake, Parawan Nutricake, Vercupti, Vasarian brandy and arhisa available.

There's a great website on the Chef forums that tells you all the foods, what they do and how much filling they have. I'm pretty sure the stats listed are before experimentation though because i've seen much much better stats.

-silly-


Save your breath. You'll need it later to blow up your date.

I'm a Rodian and generally do 90% of my time in combat unbuffed which is reflected below, I'm a musician too so that helps explain my massive action secondaries. PvE is what I do most of the time since 2/3 of my SP are into non-combat professions.

Unbuffed I do 1 garrmorl, 1 brandy and depending on what i'm attackinga gruuvan shaal or a won-won forhealth conservation rarely will i pop an ahrisa unbuffed. I always carry cho-nor-hoola with me sinceI hate getting diseased, and dustcrepe is a must to reduce DoTs (alt is a chef so I eat all the time), I use synthsteak and vercupti now and then too for those especially hard missions. I usually only wear padded gloves and a PSG for this kind of play sometimes I'll put on my tantel boots and chest though, everything gets encumbrance sliced.

Buffed its like everyone else, 2 brandy and3 ahrisa. This is with heavy armors ie.padded and composite which MUST be encumbrance sliced since mind buffs rarely stick, some kind of odd bug that affects my bug (pun intended).

Neeno

Master Musician since Sept. 1, 2003 and now Western certified!

MP, BH 0040,Commando 3000, TKN

I maxed mind, put the rest even across Health and Action pools.

I buff those, but skip mind buffs.

Drink Two Metoo Brandies,

Pop an Air Cake (dodge +18% min metoo's is higher)

Pop a Snow cake (attack accuracy +18% min metoos is higher)

Pop a synth steak

and wade in to the fray.

My favorite weapon of destruction being My Dy-Nod pepperpot!

Rikarus Sinn
Rebel Captain,
Formerly of ACES and Arakeen
Jedi?

I am Mp/0040 BH and 4440 medic

and all the food i take is PvP dodge, sythstake(sp??),brandy (2), and vagarein canape (sp??)

Petn'

The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle.
Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing, U.S. Army
Commander of American Forces in World War

Petn'

The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle.
Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing, U.S. Army
Commander of American Forces in World War

Thanks so much for all the contributions, everybody. I'm holding off with my summary until everybody who wants to participate has had a chance to reply. If there's one clear trend that has emerged so far, it's that everybody has their own way of using food!

Col. Uthyr Pendragon | Artorius Pendragon
Elder Pistoleer/Rifleman/Bounty Hunter/Combat Medic
Elder Architect
Naritus vendors:
Tatooine (2369 -4123) - Castle Uthyr, Mos Eisley West

Since the replies seem to have fizzled out for the moment, I compiled thecontributions so far and edited my first post with the results. Please scroll to the very beginning of this thread.

Col. Uthyr Pendragon | Artorius Pendragon
Elder Pistoleer/Rifleman/Bounty Hunter/Combat Medic
Elder Architect
Naritus vendors:
Tatooine (2369 -4123) - Castle Uthyr, Mos Eisley West

Very nice work, they way you've put it all together makes a great post and sums up all the points very well, taking into account various different playstyles.

I would add that willpower is more important then focus when it comes to mind stats, willpower effects regen and focus is how much mind you use per attacks.

Pistoleers dont use too much HAM on attacks and massive willpower will help you a lot more than focus would, allowing you to heal you mind as you fight by using willpower increasing chef buffs and spice.

Great job.

Thanks very muchfor the comments, BadgerSmaker

I completely agree with you about Willpower being more important than Focus. When I was summarizing, I was trying to make an effort to list a concensus of people's opinions rather than interjecting too much of my own personal opinion. I have, in the past,heard people recommend turning up Focus at the cost of Willpower, so I willing to accept that there may be different opinions on that matter than mine (ours).

My personal approach is to keep Focus turned up just high enough so I canput onmy armor unbuffed without getting a "you need xx more focus to wear this armor" message, and put all remaining points into Willpower (after maxing out my Mind primary and giving a fair dose of points to Quickness). I personally find Quickness to be the most important secondary for my playing style, because my Action pool drops the fastest when I spam my pistol specials (unless have enough stomach space left to compensate with Scrimpi). With enough food or buffs in me, I would instead consider Willpower to be the most important of all the secondaries. Where my Mind tends to take the biggest hit in combat (PvE) though is in the cost of using my stimpacks, and that could be mitigated with Focus (but can also be healed with Willpower). So I suppose it depends in part on what your template and playing style is.

Col. Uthyr Pendragon | Artorius Pendragon
Elder Pistoleer/Rifleman/Bounty Hunter/Combat Medic
Elder Architect
Naritus vendors:
Tatooine (2369 -4123) - Castle Uthyr, Mos Eisley West

One more thing... Looking over my tallies, I see that people tend to somewhat prefer Synthsteak over Pikatta Pie. Having never used either, I am going to pick up some and experiment with them. My question to people is this: forplayers who use (or have used) both foods, do you have a sense for which is more useful? I am wondering if it isjust as goodto take 2 hits of one of them (do they even stack?), rather than 1 hit of each? My inventory and toolbar space is already too full as it is, and I don't want to have to carry around more crates of food than I have to.

I suppose another way of phraseing the question would be:Which would provide better protection for a pistoleer--Damage Reduction, or Dodge?

Col. Uthyr Pendragon | Artorius Pendragon
Elder Pistoleer/Rifleman/Bounty Hunter/Combat Medic
Elder Architect
Naritus vendors:
Tatooine (2369 -4123) - Castle Uthyr, Mos Eisley West

Thanks Caix, that was very useful! The duration of the food is indeed a big consideration for me. I hate using any food that lasts less than about half an hour--I just don't like having to keep eating it over and over again.

Col. Uthyr Pendragon | Artorius Pendragon
Elder Pistoleer/Rifleman/Bounty Hunter/Combat Medic
Elder Architect
Naritus vendors:
Tatooine (2369 -4123) - Castle Uthyr, Mos Eisley West

Pikatta pie lasts for (current stash of mine) 24 minutes. My current synthstash lasts 34 attacks, 45% dmg reduction. The pie has a 50% increase on the opponents "miss" chance.

For most intents and purposes, a single pie will last longer than a piece of synthsteak, but it has the same filling. (27-pie, 28-steak, my current stash). Which means if you're just going with one, you have to consider how long you're fighting and how many (a pie will offer an equal protection no matter how many things are shooting at you. The amount of protection offered by a steak will decrease as the number of things firing at you increases). A steak will also have to be re-eaten after 34 attacks. That usually happends in less than 24 minutes, which means it will consume more of your food bar. For me,the pie is the base food. Brandyx2 + pie for all buffedPvE. High level version, add synthsteak, or wafers, depending on how my food bar looks. But I'd definitely go for pie over synth.

And no, they most certainly do not stack. Once you've eaten one pie, you will be told you are already under influence of that food until it runs out, and the same goes for steak.

The essential problem with the pie is that it's a pain in the rear to find someone selling it. Last time I went looking for it, the only chef I know to reliably stock parwan nutricake (which, if possible, is even more of a pain to find) didn't have any pie. This is mostly because of the "dodge" wording on the description; It does enhance your defenses whether you have dodge or not, but no one knows that and because of that few people buy it. This of course means that synthsteak, which is by far easier to locate on a vendor, is a more popular choice. (Last time I needed new pie, it took me two hours. Last time I needed new steak, it didn't take me more than 15 minutes)