Pistoleer Archive
Thread: How do I know what pistol is best against ham
Hi
I ve been told that certain pistols do different kinds of damage. I currently own a striker, scout blster & a metal.
When I click on an enemy showing me its hams....if for e.g the armour is low what pisol would be most effective against this...also Id like to know the same for health & mind. Or is it the case that no pistol does damage to 1 particular area.
Ill soon be on LVL 4 & am hoping the SWG5 will be good as I am currently only hitting about 200 damage. Do I need to buy power-ups.
Look forward to your help
HAM are the pools of anything that lives in the game (but NPC), if only one reach 0 or less, the target is dead / incapacited. This, you seem to understand. Then, there are attack types, in particular the ones that aim specific pools, for Pistoleer, you can if you want to waste your time hardly aim the HEALTH pool, the one so easy to heal.
What you can see when examining a mob's resists (and HAM) is just this : their resist (you need to use scout skills for many mobs unfortunately but be happy, if you listen BH comments all the skills you use in scout don't even worth to be mentionned, just counted to say you should be better at pistol). There, you can see its Armor Rating - we commonly call AR1 the Light Armor, AR2 the medium one and AR3 stands for Heavy Armor - and its resists / vulnerabilities. Each Pistol has its own strenghts and weaknesses, like being able to pierce armor or not - AP1 for Light Armor Piercing, etc... - and what type of dmg it makes. But stun dmg won't aim any particular HAM Pool, it will just deal STUN dmg to any of those pools (unless I am personnally bugged but not likely).
Pistols never get above AP1 and none of those I saw can do cold nor electricity dmg (some others either but they shouldn't do kinetic dmg, figure a gun able to fire a bullet, aren't you crazy ? This can't exist !) but none of those you have are AP1. The ONLY AP1 you can use are DX2 (need novice pistoleer), Scatter (need novice BH, ah ah) and SR Combat...the Republic Blaster is bugged like hell since its cert doesn't work.
Weaponsmith don't bother craft SR Combat because they are slow and most of ppl are only using a single pistol so why bother with a AP1 / Energy pistol when you can have an AP0 / Heat pistol ? Well, try some Pubams or many Dathomir / Dantooine mobs and you'll see the tiny speed malus won't bother you for a long time
Plasma, I believe Dyriel answered your questions, so I will just offer you some other info. FWG is a great pistol. Icurrently own 2 that do 51-250 unsliced. I got a great slice on both of them from a Master Smuggler and use quality power-ups. Expensive but well worth it. So, yes, you should get slice done and you should use power-ups. Since pistol speed is so quick anyway, I tend to go for min damage increase power-ups. Stack you bleeds, then some bodyshot2 and warning or suppression and you will be a force. Good luck.
Maevir Songo
Pistoleer
EZ Company
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