Pistoleer Archive

Fanshot is the way to go if your talking about leveling and grinding xp fast. No doubt about it......

Stopping shot will not show it's true effectiveness until you reach master pistoleer and get the extra +20 pistol speed. Currently stopping shot is the slowest pistoleer special....it has a 2.5 second time modifier and so you will need a high pistol speed. You get 74 as master and if you throw in master marksman you get an extra 5 for 79....throw in bh pistols and you get a big fat 129 speed....but bh cost too much skill points for me....so I just throw some + pistol speed armor and clothing attachments on and now I shoot both stopping shot and fanshot at the cap of once per second.

I know one thing though, stopping shot hits harder than any special we have, fan shot seems like it's better than stopping shot simply because it hits multiple targets without losing any power like pointblank area attack does....anytime you can hit 5 enemies for 1800 damageeachwith one shot.....you've got love it. Also if or when you buff your stamina,quickness and focus.....it practically cost nothing to spamit.

so without the speed, fan shot is hands down better since the faster you can take your target out is what we all look for besides total damage output.....nobody likes a long drawn out battle.

Like someone said they both have their strengths and weakness's. For example if you use stopping shot in combination with threaten shot while under mask scent in the prone position......the long delay don't mean a thing and you can take out any target without them even charging you......yes even some high level mobs.......only problem is that threaten shot will miss sometimes so you have to make sure you do 2 of them in a row before using stopping shot to better your chances of confusing your target......just think of this like how riflemen us conceal shot with their slow t21's taking out mobs without a scratch.

I really think stopping shot was meant for PVP though.

Barbosa, I have what I regard as "normal" pistols. In your own words, "not cheap-ass krayt" guns (I want some in my collection asap tho ).

My main gun collection includes FWG5s, DX2s, Republics and Scouts all with dmg slices - the FWG5 and Republic being the best at like 80-260 without powerups. These were purchased from well stocked and fairly priced vendors.

With fanshot I tend to do between 500-1800 damage per mob with fanshot and between sorta 600 and 2500 with stopping shot. That's at master level - so it's normally the high end of those ranges. I managed over 2500 with fanshot once but target was probably on the floor at the time. Don't take these figures as gospel 'cos i'm at work and my memory isn't photographic, but with "normal" guns you can deal a lot of damage. With stupidly expensive pre-nerfs you can deal insane damage, but most pistoleers won't get to own such a beast - and tbh, if i got one i'd reserve it for special hunts and pvp use - not grinding.

I use bodyshot for finishing, never thought of it as a high DPS shot.

It has to be used carefully. It does a decent amount of damage fast, but it agros everything you hit. I dont use it much in solo but a lot in a group. I rack up a lot of xp in groups. At the fort it is not unusual for me to pull down over 15k in a few minutes. However if there are not many people it winds you up at the clone facility in about 1.5 seconds.

I like just entering god-mode and using my laser beam eyeball glare to hunt. Then I can level and keep spamming the same special over and over again because I have absolutely no desire to apply myself to the pistoleer profession. I can't wait until I figure out how to make a macro for this god-mode move, because then I can just grind my way without having to burden myself with the enjoyment of playing this profession. Oh yeah, I was that kid when you played cowboys and indians who always said, "You didn't shot me, you missed! Bang! You're dead!"