Pistoleer Archive
Thread: Question about which tree to go up
Ok, so I mastered Smuggler and I'm mastering Commando, with my remaining points I can go 3 blocks up one of the Pistoleer trees. I've narrowed the field to either Marksman or Pistol Abilities. So I pose a questions to all those in the know on these boards:
Which would you recommend? The pistol speed boni from Pistol Abilities looks really nice, but does the added speed outweigh the boni to accuracy?
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obviously! defensive mods, super-duper-damage-attacks (stoppingshot/fanshot[area attack]), what else could you want?
You'll want the speed mods from stances. Of course it's the combat xp line, but as a commando you should have no probs with that.
The Teq line ranks a close second.
I believe he's talking about Combat XP which is actually Abilities (like he says in his post).
Khubacca: I guess it depends what weapon you're going to use, but I'm not sure :/
Khubacca wrote:
Ok, so I mastered Smuggler and I'm mastering Commando, with my remaining points I can go 3 blocks up one of the Pistoleer trees. I've narrowed the field to either Marksman or Pistol Abilities. So I pose a questions to all those in the know on these boards:
Which would you recommend? The pistol speed boni from Pistol Abilities looks really nice, but does the added speed outweigh the boni to accuracy?
You should go up Stances, which is what you're calling Pistol Abilities, since you already have the great specials from Smuggler. Or maybe go up Marksmanship for more accuracy. As a Smuggler your primary concern will be getting off the PanicShot/LowBlow combo... then you can use Commando to deal damage.
Thank you all for the quick responses. At the moment, I figure I'll try for some more accuracy mods. I'm not entirely worried about speed, my guildmate is a weaponsmith so he usually makes me several of the same gun, and then I slice 'em. So in theory, I should be able to get guns down to a decent speed. I also figure if I have a decently fast gun (not quit hitting the cap), it would be better to take accuarcy, to hit more. Plus there's always speed powerups if I get desperate 
But there will always be part of me salavating after more specials... mmm... stopping shot and fan shot.
I have also got enough points for only three boxes in pistoleer and wondering which one I should go up. I'm only a Master CH and Master Medic so should I also go up the Stances column? I read about all the upcoming changes in the combat system and somehow the first column, tactics, seemed like the best choice.
The more I read about upcoming changes the more confused I become!
Mien
Fourth column for speed. If you could go up 4 boxes then the answer would be the third column for Fan Shot, which is good when combined with CH. The first column, for Dodge, is less useful for a CH, and only three boxes in the third column is useless for anyone except maybe an Expert BH(Stopping Shot = pointless unless speed capped; others have higher uncapped DPS).
Mien wrote:
I have also got enough points for only three boxes in pistoleer and wondering which one I should go up. I'm only a Master CH and Master Medic so should I also go up the Stances column? I read about all the upcoming changes in the combat system and somehow the first column, tactics, seemed like the best choice.
The more I read about upcoming changes the more confused I become!
Mien