Pistoleer Archive

I went Masterpistoleer cause the title is cool and I like the gunslinger kinda style I thought it was gonna be like. But hey.....I found out that a Novice 2hSwordsman deals more damage than I do and he can take on bigger and bader creatures than I can....

Am I doing something wrong here or is aPistoleer not able to deal any real damage? I can get up to 1100 damage with Last Ditch smuggler skill but I think thats my maximum.

Can someone tell me a few tricks in how to deal some real damage??

And why cant they make it possible to use two pistols...........

Regards Casca a.k.a "Clint"

Swordsman has better weapons with more AP and better damage types. If you work on getting attachments and nice guns you can run with most the fotm's on the server.

A couple of ideas for you. I'm not a smuggler so I don't have any experience with last ditch, but from what I have heard and read it is a real good attack. I do have pistol melee defense I , fan shot, & stopping shot.

Make sure that you examine your target before you initiate combat, select the damage type that they are least resistant to. I carry four damage types of pistols in my toolbar at all times, and switch to what will be most effective. Now pistol damage is really dependant on the quality of your weapons. A couple of good examples would be an fwg5 should have max damage 200+, a republic blaster would be 250+. Now if you have pistols in these catergories, you should be able to hit a target up on its feet for anywhere from 900-1500 stopping shot & around 900 - 1000 fan shot.

Get to within 10m of your target and use:

/pistolmeleedefence1;

from experiece, i can anticipate when my knockdown will be succesful, once they are down SPAM stopping shot! Try to get in as many stoppingshots as you can while they were down. You should see damage in the 1500-2500 range depending on weapon type / target resistances.

mmm I've last ditched for 1k in PvP....Pve it's up to 6K...I think you need a better pistol my friend

in PvE Healtshot2 is your friend.... eg. I can take a jungle voritor down faster with HS2 and a DX2 than as TKM

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I better get back to my Pistoleering and try out the Last Ditch again then, Seems as if I am wrong. Then I better get some CAs....

//Casca, returning to my good ol' pistols.....

vs light armored and unarmroed mobs pistoleer is fine, but a swordsman has medium ap weapons and those will almost always outdamage you. vs medium and heavy armored ponents you dont stand a chance to outdamage a swordsman or rifleman or carbineer or pikeman, probably not a tka eitehr because youll be taking more damage then them and will need to heal more often..

ids say a stacked pistoleers friend is speed and yes last ditch is awesome.

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wow, 1k damage in PVP with last ditch... I get about 600.

Which I think is pretty good.

You should be able to get really high damage and super fast speed with last ditch if you have a good gun.

vs a kd opponent, with some of my guns i can get closer to 2k pvp damage on last ditch. hitting the person is an entirely different story.

stealth