Pistoleer Archive

Im extreamly disappointed with Master Pistoleer. Im looking at what to try next. Not sure yet. We are very broken at this point. Holo asked why Novice Pistoleer were on the rise. Watch now as they become nearly extinct with all these 700+ damage weapons and classes that actually DO state changes and have working skills.

Bleh Pistoleer has left a bad taste in my mouth.

Well ever since the TC patch notes were posted, we knew this day was coming.

Like many of you, I am very tempted to surrender skills but feel bad losing the millions of XP it took to get here.

I think I'm giving them a month, maybe two. And in the meantime I'm going to scream my head off trying to get their attention. If our profession still sucks at that point, hasta la vista Pistoleer. I have no interest in being part of the class that is gimped for the next four years (like Paladin in EQ). Sorry, I want to have FUN, not get pwned even though I've maxed out my skills.

Luckily I spent my last few skill points on BH Carbine in anticipation of this patch ... kind of sad that as a Master Pistoleer + BH Pistol 4 guy I'm better off using a fricking carbine for PvP.

Our two master skills are broken. Our other skills are redundant or still don't work right, like pistol melee defense 2. Definately enough to make anyone frustrated. However, I'll keep master with faith the bugs will be worked out. Until then, I can do something useful and work on my doctor skills.

just wanna comment on randompool vs targeted pool. this is my opinion. you always wanna target a pool.in pve or pvp.

if you work down the H or A pool you will force healing more often . like the example someone used above. hit A pool for 200 then H pool for 200, or hit A or H pool for 400 targeted? whats going to cause someone to heal more often?whats going to kill a mob faster?the randomattack causes a half damage dealt situation in this example. random attacks are just too much wasted damage.

lets face it when youuse random attacks you are actually just praying they hit the same pool orthere is a crapload of wasted damage. if someone is low on H or A and you wanna hit it well use the default random pool attack called not using a special( or if you are a pistoleer use one of the 10000 random pool attacks given to you) and pray it hits the right pool. nothing like relying on luck. besides this situation rarely arises if you are targeting a specific pool to begin with it will be the lowest on your victims HAM. unless you pvping with a few friends that target different pools than you. then maybe random attacks the way to go.

if you can target the mind pool (rifleman or bh) then you are really golden since its not healable. if you can target action(carbs) then you are doing good since most are draining that pool for specs. targeting the health pool(pistols) is the least useful but still better than random attacks in almost any situation imo

as for me. now that i cant disarm2 kd anymore i spam eyeshot

Stargoo,

Im glad that you have an alternative to Pistoleer skills (Eye shot) The rest of us dont. We should have some form of targets uber shot like that. Hell make BS3 work or have stopping shot do Mind. id be happy. Problem with Eye shot is its timer is WAAAAAY too fast. BHs can spam UNHEALABLE damage shots 1 per second. For an unhealabe pool thats WAY too powereful.

yeah i can 1k + eye shot with my scatter 1per sec . so takes 3-4 seconds to win pvp with it on most. AND it blinds.

rifleman is still better off though at least pvp

Yep dumping master gunfighter

useless waste of points i'm also dumping the complete dodge line and the marksmanship line and the last of the speed.

BH gives me all that anyways. D vs. state changes i'm keeping

beyond that.. who knows..

but way to go sony

btw llc for bh with no specials easily doing over 1k dmg a shot..

i can't wait to see the cone shots etc for this one.

I'm dropping Master Pistoleer too, with BH Pistol there is little reason to keep it, the skills are useless and so are the modifiers. At the same time it might be worth it to hang one for a little while and see what happens. Heavy weapons will get nerfed and stuff will be changed very soon, then we can see what's up.

the smart thing to do is prob drop it. its just so sad .

No word to express the anger...

Can i only realy on faction pets and regular pets?

Sould i start artisan? Maybe with time i'll get to architect and make houses, a dream come true, the only reason i imported the game from the us and payed the shipment and customs to europe!

I plan to keep Master Gunfighter. Mainly because I worked my ass off to get up to it and now I just have NO desire at all to mass murder like that to level up to something else. Not to mention the fact that whatever I get mastered would only get nerfed 4 days later. Oh well, at least I can say "I remember back in the day when I could knock down something at 40 meters and walk off smiling"

I encourage everyone to just wait it out for a while. Don't dump it in haste. You worked hard to get this weak master profesion.

Oh dear God... I just realized I'm almost a master doctor. I wonder how they are going to screw that one up for me and others.

Ya, I agree with everyone here...seems we all feel the same. Nice post on the randomness pool shot too.

I dumped Master Medic to get Expert BH/Master Gunfighter...I was originally going for Combat Medic...I've been thinking of picking that back up and maybe doing it. I just can't bring myself to hit surrender..I've been trying to do it all day.

In better news, I did finally get the Mark of Intellect after 5 days of searching