Pistoleer Archive

Hello all, I am in desperate need of help. I have been playing for about 2 hours a day since about 2 or 3 weeks after launch. I have since been building up my character as a squad leader and pistoleer. I have fianlly broken through teh marksmen tree and am now learning pistoleer skills. Same for Squad leader...but I seem to be having alot of trouble killing even the simplest things...

I am currently using health shot 1 and 2 stacked and also am using body shot 2 as well in my combat rotation. My weapon is a FWG5 doing 40 -170 at 3.1 speed. Why can't I kill anything tougher than a squall? Is it normal I am having that much trouble? Maybe I'm not using the right skills? And lets not talk about PvP. shudders Although I have won my fair share of PvP encounters (3-3 so far so I'm even), once another class KDs me, I'm totally screwed and am wondering if there's anything I can do to defend myself from such attacks. I don't have a KD attack yet I don't think so anyway but I'm getting tired of being laughed at cause I lost to someone who just KDed me and just pummeled away while I was lying helpless on the ground.

I tried the manual for help, not much info there and is quite vague in decriptions...

Thanks in advance!