Pistoleer Archive
Thread: Dodge vs. Counterattack
FutureJediMaster wrote:
Which is more effective, dodge from pistoleer or counterattack from carbineer?
I happen to have mastered both of these profession and I can tell you that the special defences they have is secondary to their attack power. Both require BH stacking to be truly effective in my opinion and carbineer even stacked with BH is not PvP effective, carbineer lacks any decent PvP moves and the damage range on his weapons lends to mitigation far too much. Pistoleer stacked with BH gives eyeshot and the geo blaster which gives you the rifleman's little brother which has been seen to be effective in PvP on all servers second only to rifleman and combat medic templates.
As for the dodge and counter attack. I know that a successful dodge in effect avoids all damage while a counterattack can return damage. I'm not certain as to whether or not the carbineer actually takes damage when he counter attacks as a carbineer is required to be buffed at all times if he wants to fire more than 3 specials, lol.
Not extremely helpful to you really, but I'd say to pick up which ever guns suits your needs, PvP pistol plus BH for eyeshot and dodge, PvE carbineer and BH for speed capped crippling shot and decent armour piercing. Also, I don't think that Featherweight FWG gives pistoleers the counterattack ability if you ever try to take that road....
Block (from rifle/pikeman) causes you to take half damage. When you dodge or counterattack, you take no damage.
Arias (from the Intrepid server) had a pretty good explanation for why counterattack was better than dodge. I can't remember it right now, but I think it had to do with the fact that after a counterattack, your next hit (if it's not a special move) will never miss the target. I know that's not a great explanation, but that's all I can think of for now.