Pistoleer Archive
Thread: I need guidance
well
all i can give u is bit of advice.
rifleman is fun.
pistoleer is great,
but at the buttom line its what you have most fun with.
i have been master at:
pistoleer, carbineer, rifleman, commando, tka, smuggler and Bounty Hunter.
http://www.geocities.com/joubei2000/Communicate.html
(at lower part of page)
rifleman and carbineer where too slow for me, and for the most part too dull.
i can tell u 100% sure, that pistoleer is the prof for me. but it took me a while and some experimanting to know that.
Joubei_businessman wrote:
well
all i can give u is bit of advice.
rifleman is fun.
pistoleer is great,
but at the buttom line its what you have most fun with.
i have been master at:
pistoleer, carbineer, rifleman, commando, tka, smuggler and Bounty Hunter.
http://www.geocities.com/joubei2000/Communicate.html
(at lower part of page)
rifleman and carbineer where too slow for me, and for the most part too dull.
i can tell u 100% sure, that pistoleer is the prof for me. but it took me a while and some experimanting to know that.
Jobei has stated perhaps the most important thing there is to know about picking a profession, so I will refrain from beating that dead horse. I would like to say this one thing, though: I am keeping pistoleer, and that is my personal choice to make. If you wish to "own" in PvE and PvP right now, you'll probably have more fun with rifleman. I was a rifleman for a while, but I realized I was not having too much fun with it.
That said, I would caution that if you want to remain at the top of the PvP game, be prapared to change professions often. There is nothing wrong with this, as this type of skill learning/dropping is built in to the game as a wasy to keep people who feel this way happy and interested.
Also, there is no time limit, so I hope you do try more than just one template. Good luck to you!
Before I hit "submit" I realized that all I gave was my opinion without any supporting reasons. What follows is just my opinion, please keep that in mind:
Right now, Rifleman is a very high DPS profession. (TKM is right up there, but you only asked about ranged profs). With mind buffs, food, and spice, you can do a lot to keep your mind up (Mind is the HAM pool that rifles drain the fastest), so you can usually be pretty succesful, as long as you don't let any brawlers/meleers get within range.
Also right now: Many things in the pistoleer profession does not live up to what most pistoleers feel were "promised" to them (please note the quotation marks).
However, using the 250 skill points available to you, either of these professions can be combined with others to make a very effective PvP template (Please see the Template threads on this board for more educated explanations than I can provide ATM). Most would agree that if you are "good" enough to know how to use your skills against flesh and blood opponents, you will have not too much of a problem in PvE.
My Two creds, feel free to disagree, I only put this forth as my opinion.
I'll chime in to add... it depends on whether you want to have a very strong offense or a very effective defense. Pistoleer has excellent melee and state defense skills, meaning that by combining pistoleer with a profession like TKM or fencer, you'll be very difficult to land KD, dizzy, blind, etc on. You'll also be relatively difficult to hit. The down side is that pistoleer on its own doesn't do very impressive DPS. This can be counteracted with skill enhancements for pistol speed and by dabbling in smuggler's dirty fighting line for superior and working special moves. In fact that's the template I've been working on building since my return to SWG - Master Pistoleer, Master Fencer, TKA 4-0-0-3, Smuggler 0-0-4-0.In contrast, rifleman will give you much stronger offense for a noticeably smaller skillpoint investment compared to BH/Pistoleer or Pistoleer/Smuggler or Pistoleer/Commando, but the skillpoints you save by not needing another profession to flesh out your offensive skills, will pretty much have to go to your defenses instead. Without a good defensive profession to shore up your state defenses, being a rifleman will leave you very vulnerable to being dizzy/lunged by a melee, then getting butchered while you flop around like a fish. So actually, being both a pistoleer - at least dabbling for the state defense and melee defense trees - and a rifleman isn't an entirely bad idea.
Pretty much the only professions I'd say to truly avoid if you're new to PvP are Commando and Carbineer. But really, everything is a tradeoff - there is no perfect profession and thereisn't a perfect profession combination either.