Pistoleer Archive

Admit it people...it looks exactly like a hot glue gun(if you've ever seen one...they are shaped identically). But yes this thing is great. Yes its not effective against things with high energy resists but against moderate to no energy resist targets its great.

What this gun does is finally give Pistoleers a good general purpose weapon and since the FWG5 and Scatters dropped in power and the dx2 is still what it is....that lets us at least use those as "specialty purpose guns" and use the republic blaster as our primary gun.

With the republic blaster in play we finally have some serious options to choose from. Those without scatter certs(like myself) can use the dx2 only when needed when acid is the only way to go(same with Tangle and its stun)and use the FWG5 and republic for everything else based on heat/energy resistance.

Those who are asking why FWG5 was nerfed but this one introduced...well they killed the FWG5 and the other two because you could stack two different enhancements (feeder and handler) allowing for potentially rediculous guns.

Yes the RB can get up there if you have good krayt tissue(although not as high as a pre-nerf FWG5)*but*

1) Its an energy gun and those resists are far more common than heat and when there, tend to be very high so that is a balancer.

2) Its got higher HAM costs in the action department than a typical dx2 or FWG5(although not much higher than a dx2) so thats going to impact you some

3) Its got a dx2's firing speed...so yeah you can slice it down but its going to impact you unless you have seriously high speed.

All three of the above also help offset the fact that *anyone* can use it right now...but I do agree the actual cert needs to be placed somewhere...either Pistol IV or Pistoleer....I'd lean more towards Pistol IV though because all three pistol professions took a hit off the fwg5/scatter and all three should at least have access to the gun.

Finally..for those curious....here are the stats on my Hot Glue Gun: Chilastra

Hot Glue Gun(Republic Blaster) - as of yet Unsliced, no krayt tissues used

67-209 damage

2.5 speed

28.7% wound chance

Range: 0, -8?, 0

HAM Costs: 17, 46, 17

Energy damage, Light armor piercing

They should seriously fix that -9 thingy on range, it makes the republic blaster get - attack almost all the time.

I think this gun is pretty tight too.

Before this i used to hate going after with only blast volunerabilities, after all scout blasters just arent good enuf.

But now the glue gun (with solid wood handle) is the answer.

-and i got a 33% damage slice on mine, woohoo! Still slow but very competitive with 33% speed powerup.

Don't forget something else: best sounding pistol in the game hands down!

kyzman99 aka dudelove

i got one made with 60 dmg krayt tissues and got a 29% dmg slice on it. its now 332 dmg.

The range mods are what rule on this thing, standing at 64m I can get a positive range modifier

It is essentially an energy DX2 that hits what you aim it at.

And ya, best souindin gun hands down. Not a hot glue gun, a '50's space opera "raygun"

I think it looks like a toothpaste dispensor. It is cool none the less.

I still think the tangle sounds cooler...

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Tristanius wrote:
I still think the tangle sounds cooler...

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the tangle sucks too much to even use to hear what it sounds like.

so any post patch made RBlasters work now?

i head from a smith they were still broken

not a hot glue gun, that's the DX2.

republic is a CO2 cartridge.

Nyana Zemanova - Bria Doc that can't run uphill.

I love my Republic Blaster.

I did not know about the krayt tissue thing though... time to go krayt huntin, methinks.

i like my rep blaster too! I also like the sound...not as cool of a sound as jawa rifle tho