Pistoleer Archive

Well.. after this last patch, Suppression fire AND Knockdown are on a 30 second timer. Not just a 30 second timer, but the SAME 30 second timer. This has got to be the worst idea yet. After playing for about 2 hours after this patch I came to realize that we have been nothing less than crippled.

We now have no way at all to keep targets off of us long enough to kill em.

Is SOE's planto haveeveryone in SWG use pets? Because as of now... thats the ONLY way you are gonna solo anything more than a light blue con.

This is not just a Pistoleer issue i know, It will greatly effect all ranged weapon classes in the game. But as a Pistoleer ... this REALLY leaves us with no functional special abilities worth having.

I realize that KD and Suppression Fire where issues in PvP. So why not reduce the chance of Knocking someone down or posture change by 75% (just like the damage). This could have solved that issue without completely crippling us in PvE.

At this point i would really like to hear something good coming our way for a change.. cause at this point, (and ive talked to many who feel the same way) much of this game is already losing its appeal, and thats just sad because it does have tons of potential.

I agree. I came from ultima online, so I have seen the nerfing over and over. From what I can tell they want people to group up in large groups, and have no ability to kill most high end creatures. I like many have taken up pistoleer and smuggler rouge skills. After today’s patch 4 of my skills are all on a timer, so I wonder what the point of using all of the skill points are. Low blow, panic shot, pistol whip, suppression fire all fall under the 30 second rule. Now if you start off using panic shot the first usage don’t work stopping people from opening a battle with it. If you pistol whip something is does a kip right back up and prepares to pummel you, and add a similar situation with low blow. I was soo tempted today to start surrendering smuggler all together, but after thinking of time invested I hesitated. I started to think what my options are. Well I don’t have time to always group up in game, so that leaves me with the fact I can never kill anything really tougher than me (boring), or get a pet. It was funny a couple days ago I was asked to hunt on Endor and someone said where is your pet. I responded I don’t need a pet. I guess I do now. Saddens me to think the only viable option for playing/exploring the worlds is to group up or use a pet. What I wonder is why must each new game relearn the mistakes of games from the past. I know some of the Sony team came from Ultima. Well atleast in Ultima when they nerfed a class we had 5 character slots on a server, so we could all move to a new class and still keep our friends we made on a particular server.