Pistoleer Archive

i'd say master tka first, its very fast once you hit novice tka. you can get master tka in a few days (i did mastered tka twice) by running crazed gurreck mission on endor.

5k HAM, i don't remember the kinetic resist on them but iirc, its 15%. they go down .. very fast. go tka 0100 first, for knockdown, then power tree all the way. then up to you balance or meditate. i'd suggest meditation first, powerboost and healing your wounds at will is nice. the mission are the one at 5900-6000 (ya not really the highest bid here ... but really ... the xp flows, and also don't forget to group with a pet/droid).

then once you master tka, MORE crazed gurreck lol. i'm doing that for pistoleer since2 daysand a few hoursand i'm 0343. but if i had to do it again, i'd have just gone smuggler 0040 first, fanshot is nice tho, but i'd prefered last ditch i think.

I would personally master pistoleer first, for one reason, by the time you have done the last combat xp box(assuming you use your pistol to get it) you should have about 350-400k pistol xp left, that gets you novice smuggler and the first 2 levels of dirty fighting. With the skills you have from pistoleer you should get the next 2 boxes in a day and a half, and then move on the tka, feign death helps alot for any PvE situtation.

And good luck, Pistoleer/rogue is class .

I mastered all 3 kept me from worrying about it. I just make sure to get Doc buffs and I can hunt anything in the game.

With the upcoming changes to defense stacking, is there any purpose to having Pistoleer and TKA any longer?

It seems to me that if you're wielding a pistol, then you're doing ranged combat. You're not going to be in melee, so any of the melee defense bonuses aren't going to matter.

Unless you're switching to unarmed when you get into melee range with a target, in which case it would be useful.

It seems with the new changes that it would be best to just have Smuggler and Pistoleer, then use the remaining skill points for support skills like medic.

personally i would master tka first. Because you will get melee mitigation as well as melee defenses. This will help when leveling pistoleer becauseyou will be able to get closer and take more damage from creatures. Then i would do the dirty fighting from smuggler, because it gives you a KD way faster than pistoleer does, it gives you a delay that no other profession gets, and you get last ditch which outperforms stopping shot. That will get you good for soloing, the ge the tech line in pistoleer for the defenses and fan shot. fromt here you can decide.