Pistoleer Archive

Pistoleer is even with rifleman? No way. Maybe at lower levels, but at master levels no way. I am master rifleman and i kill people in PVP in 3 shots or less, firing at just barely over 1 second. My best hit in PVP was 1650ish. I average between 450-800 per shot. I have never been hit by a pistol hitting in this range consistently.

But pistoleers do get really good defense mods(which is why I am in your forums). Thinking about taking up pistoleer to go with my Master Rifleman.

Would riflemen be happier and consider it balanced, if they took and limited the damage of a T21 to the realm of a post-patch G5...with the inclusion of removing the AP3 down to AP1? ..didn't think so... that is why pistoleers should be faster than riflemen.

All of those Uber KT G5's are a dying breed... In Duels and PvP just wear 80% heat resist comp.A pistoleer with ANY G5 is put to a stop with it. (knocks his damage down to 5-10%) - oh yea.. it helps against FT's also.

Carbineers eat alot of HAM... use food and drugs... they will make the drops in yer HAM about 5% of what it was.

Hi... I want to add my two cents in

After MANY months of being a cantina troll Master Dancer, I decided to rethink my goals in this game, and decided that my newest goal is to be able to take on my real life boyfriend (who alsoplays)in a duel and whoop his butt. I was casually working my way up the pistol techniques line during my dancing days so I could go on group hunts with my friends; therefore,I already was a novice pistoleer (0-1-1-0) when I knew it was time for my change. So as I was perusing the forums looking for what I can add on to my pistol skills, I noticed how everyone was saying "go smuggler!" So, I did that.

After dropping Dancer all together, I went to one of those character builders and decided to see what I could do along with Master Pistoleer and Master Smuggler... I could EASILY go Carbineer or Rifleman... but then I noticed something... I could also EASILY go TKA. I could be a triple master in three different kinds of fields! (woo hoo!)

I know TKA is not popular amongst many, but I know some people who are working on it, and they can do INSANE damage in both PvE and PvP. So if you are already the pistoleer/smuggler combo, you might want to consider TKA as an option. It provides good defenses, and if you ever get the urge to punch something, you could kill it without thinking! All you need is some patience, some good armor with kinetic resist, and vibroknucklers.

Ok, I'm done now.

um... kd just once followed by cripple... (use *good*laser carbine)

your a poon if you cant beat a pure master pistoleer even with a fraction of carbineer...

Why is it every time we want to vent we can't do so without including all the other ranged proffs? We can't say we are not impressed with pistoleer w/o also mentioning the ham cost of carbine or whatever rifle is whineing about this week.

Go away, You have your own forums to whine in, this is the pistoleer forum.

Or yer gonna start seein posts like " MTPS is a waste of xp, and for the love of pete, allow crustacean meat to drop in resonable amounts, the chefs are starving"

...see what I mean.

All I know is that I can't beat any other class at Master Pistoleer. Not even the Medics.

One thing we can definitly complain on is the speed cap .... same speedcap for all ranged classes is nuts !

The speed is one of the main differences on base weapon products but the speed cap in combination with the speed modifiers makes these classes acc to speed evenly matched at one second .

Speed should be our advantage but it isn't . and we shouldn't start talking about dabbling its the pistoleer were talking about ... not a pistoleer / BH / smuggler combination .

Same speed cap for all ranged classes should be overworked based on the speed of every master of a ranged class .

well heres my 2 cents.

i think pistoleer is a great profession. yes i am just master pistoleer.
the thing that bugs me about is what the last guy wrote, the speed cap.
we should be fireing the fastest - period!!!!! personally i dont think we should be capped, then say carbineers with a 2 sec and rifle with 4 or something. would "balance" it much better.

we shouldnt have anyone nerfed for power, riflemen should shoot with more dmg, but should be slower.....no matter what dam rifle, pistol or carb u own.

to the guy who posted this:
As a Carbineer even at mastery, you can easily cap your speed mod and accuracy by doing so, and have these amazing attacks for your use added to your repertoire. I would warn you, though, that the Fire Knockdown that you are referring to is hardly effective in PvP, but perhaps it's better if you learned that yourself.

i beg to differ man............i regularly pvp with my master bounty hunter mate, i can win on one condition..... he doesnt use his BH bleed or fire KD, then its a even and fun fight. if he uses them, i last a rough 5 or so seconds lol, i actually got db'ed by him cos the fire KD was so strong, it incapped me 3 times in 10 mins, in actual fact was more like 4 mins heh
Fire KD IS VERY effective in pvp.

anyway, that aside, my only gripe is the speed rubbish, needs sorting pronto.