Pistoleer Archive
Thread: new fanshot = help us jaegen and philosopher
Philosopher said,
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In PvP the AOE attack will obviously be useful. If you have two pets coming after you, you can attack both at once. You can fire into a crowd of players and hit them all. In PvP hitting the "wrong" player is almost never an issue.
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You just have to be careful not to agro the PvE environment while you're hitting your multiple PvP targets. PvP is ugly enough without having creature mobs coming after you. 
jklopek wrote:
I love fanshot now. If you have a tank, you just send it in and target the highest hp critter, fan it, and watch em all drop. Absolutely beautiful sight.
I love the new fanshot too. I was on dath and sent a buffed rock beetle to attack a bolma stallion lair. Once the bolma's started wailing on the bug I let rip with fanshot and could not believe the damage fanshot unleashes. Thanks god we finally have a special special and PLEASE do not cry nerf or complain about this shot!
I also use it in PvP yesterday. I was overt outside of Theed and had to go to Tatooine so I decided to take my chances and run to the starport. AsI was entering Theed from the south I ran into 2 overt imp creature handlers with their pets out. I targeted one of the creature handlers and started fanning and hit them all with huge damage until they were incapped. I think the devs got this one right!
Lol I find it funny all the people whining about "wahhh fan shot shoots out in a cone"....um, its called FAN shot, what the F*** did you think it was SUPPOSED to do. It was broken before, so a fix was just natural.
The spread fire attacks are fun if you use them right, and if they decide to be nice to you. Fan shot + Panic shot...they both spread correctly now. It's great...delay a mob for 10 seconds with panic and then wipe them all out with fan shot...it's wonderful. Not everyone's a smuggler, but I highly reccomend it for anyone looking to have a few extra pistol skills.
My last post was in response to these (kinda far back)
"Wow, you mean they changed it, even though no one wanted or asked for this change, and even after every communication we gave them after we saw the suggestion said "don't change fan shot"?"
"Fan shot WAS the only good shot I had. Now I can't use it becuase it just decides to hit every mob I'm not trying to attack. Now you can only use pistoleer's most powerfull shot(stopping shot has a delay on it)when you WANT to shoot at everything if front of you (attacking you or not) or the mob your attacking is alone with no other mobs around it. Honestly I can only use my best shot now about less than half the time because it will just get me killed. Thanks SOE for making pistoleer even more screwed up that it already was!"
It was broken, powerful, but still broken. Now it does what it's supposed to do. Get over it. It's useful, just adapt.
Phoa wrote:
I like this change.
Seems Fan shot has been changed to a cone AoE attack, so for those reporting that they aint hitting more then one mob while using it needs to reposition themself so that the mobs are closer together or form a vertical line in front of you.
All I can say is, five thugs in one shot. They just stood there for a second, not realizing they were dead. Get them all angry then they follow you in a queue and bang-bang! They're dead.
-- YP
So what is multi target shot for, if fanshot is now multi targeting. Should multi be renamed fan shot 2, or is fan shot already better than the ability we should get at master?
We're asking for MTPS to be AOE health targeted. If not that, then good question. problem is, so much of our choices are "dependent" on other things changing, makes it difficult when we cannot control what's actually changed. Bottom line is, we never asked for fan shot to change, but it seems a lot of people don't mind it.