Pistoleer Archive

Ok guys I read some posts before I am writing this one . Personally I wanted to be master pistoleer/bh but now that I know Smuggler is not so bad i am kind of temped. I currently have 2 slots in bh pistol, 3 on stance and grips and 1 special ability. I heard marksmanship is pretty useless and the dodge one (forgot the name) however i want a kd move. Btw does lowbow works as good as disarming 2(when you use multautotarget with disarming shot 2 does it costs 4x time ham of disarming 2 or just 1x ham?) which one give a longer kd time? How about ham cost and such? hm..forgot what else I was gonna ask...oh yah i know this carbineer is doing 5k damage with crippling shot and he shoots always as fast as i am. I can't seem to find a way to beat his ass in pvp(without kd). I can probably get myself a scatter close to 300 damage. but still I think the delay on stopping shot sucks(like close to 4 sec?) Do you guys think doing 2 double tag will be better off? I am new to this game and looking forward to learn from all of you =) .

If we knew for certain what's going to happen, we'd probably all join you

In all seriousness, I suspect within a few months, things will change for all professions you mention, to such a degree that it will probably affect many of our ideas of what we want to spend skill points on. That's just my gut feeling, well, actually I haven't seen a MMORPG where that hasn't been the case. I was fortunate to have finished XPing so I dont worry about it now, if I do change professions, hopefully the majority of my pistoleer skills remain intact, and I won't mind dropping a few other skills boxes and gaining XP again, personally. I want to use pistols regardless, so hopefully all my pistol XP is in the right place. What I DONT want to do, is to chase the flavor of the month, that would take too much time for me, I'd rather wait it out and see what I think once all the construction dust settles.

I have to agree with Jaegen88. Online games change very drastically in the first few months, and continue to change throughout their livecycles. I'm still xping through Pistoleer, just got my second skill box last night as a matter of fact (Stances and Grips 2). I plan on sticking through the class for awhile. Heck, my character in EQ is a paladin, and I've played him for 4 years, most of which it was considered a "gimp" class. It's a very good class to play now. So, if I've got the fortitude to stick with an EQ paladin for so long, I can stick with SWG Pistoleers for a while yet.

As a smuggler, let me just say that Low Blow seems to knock down a target significantly less often than pistol whip. Frankly. I use suppression fire much more often. I can't speak for other Smugglers, but I'll definitely be going for Master Pistoleer regardless of what they do to the class; Smuggler is dependant upon pistol so I'm just trying to make the best of it. Many times I considered going with Carbineer, but that's just too many **edit** skill points to spread around. We Smugglers are kinda forced into Pistoleer.

how about the panic shot and the ham cost on disarming 2/low blow? which one use more ham? how about the duration on both? If I use multautotarget with disarming2 does it cost x4 hams on 4 targets or just x1 ? I really don't see any other useful skills beside disarming 2 and I think pistolwhip suck up way too much actions.

Pistolwhip costs me 86 while lowblow costs me 80. Used diarm2 once a couple weeks ago and cant remember the hams. Panic shot shots 80 as well.

I only read your title but I would go smuggler DF4 line if I was pistoleer. You want your ranged KD there ya go, you still have plenty of skill pts to do whatever on. It also gives the very deadly panic shot, not sure how it is after the 75% reduction but it always kicked my as pre nerf pvp.

Just keep in mind that the nerfs are posted. So if they come into effect just as you get the skills, don't say the devs did not give us a warning.