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Hi there I am a master smuggler and decided to take pistoleer up to master as well.

My problem has started now I am at 2,1,0,2 pistoleer

I got level 16 difficulty missions and wear chittin armor mainly doing faction missions.

My damage output and accuracy seems to of gotten worse, and I now find it difficult to take on the solo missions from the terminals.

My race is a Zabrak and find it hard to wear any amount of armor more than chittin I try to keep my health,str and action, quickness, stam high and a low mind, focus and willpower. These seem to work best for me.

I dont like to use spice but I am using it more and more to be able to take down a mob that I should have no trouble with. My weapon of choice is a DX2 sliced to 2.2 speed , min damage 108, max damage 158.

And a republic blaster or a FWG5 both sliced for speed.

And to do the missions given to me via the terminals without a group I need to use my pet ( got some skills in creatre handling )

The smuggler specials are great and work fine. but the cost in HAM from these leaves me drained after one mob and so I am at a disadvantage when going against the other mobs that seem to be hitting me for up to 300 damage. I have checked my armor and its all ok. And its all sliced as well to help. Yet when I look through the combat logs i see the mobs doing 450 damage my armor stops 130 of it leaving me taking 320 damage. With three white mobs shooting at you with this kind of damage I either die or have to pull a FD and a slow heal up.

After reading through some of the posts on this forum I am starting to wish I had gone CH instead but I am to far down the trees now to go back just yet. I have experimented alot and now I turn to the people that know more about this proffesion than me. Please I would like some advice and tips.

majority of pve you will be taking kinetic damage from creatures so get yourself some decent ubese armor (strong resist to kinetic). 60%+ kinetic resist or above, theres some on ketemoor at low to mid 70's.

for HAM costs look into some foods like breath of heaven and rhyscate. both of these will increase strength/quickness/willpower. if you need to you can even use them both at once, as one is food and one is a drink. this will practically make your ham cost nothing. the best BOH i have seen is +570 to strength/quickness/focus, and the best rhyscate ive seen is like +400 to same stats, there may be and probably is higher.

zabrak if i remember correctly, has a low quickness max. this can make being a zabrak pistoleer a bit harder. although they have strong mind regen so i guess you could just get novice medic if you dont already have it and have plenty of good stimpack b's in invent.

if all this sounds a bit much you could always get super doc buffs every time you go out.

hope this helps

ok thanks for the advice. I will give it a try.