Pistoleer Archive

you know there's no rifle tree in BH right?

Message Edited by JediKnightMark on 03-29-2004 02:44 PM

LLC is a "special heavy weapon"

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rahzael wrote:
LLC is a "special heavy weapon"

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ok great, so do you know as much about BH weapons as you do about your own? lol jp

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JediKnightMark wrote:

Yeah so I'm a disgruntled DE and I just started dropping DE and Artisan in exchange forthe BH prequisite professions. Here's the situation:

I want to master an elite combat (either rifle or pistol) and then supplement it with the matching branch (to IV)of the BH profession. Atm, I have pistol techs 1 and I'm 3-4-2-4 marksman and I wanted to essentially know whether it would be smarter for me to go with mastering pistoleer or rifleman. I enjoy the range mods, specialsanddamage type of the DX2 acidpistolbut it is only light armor piercing.

At the same time, during my travels up the rifles branch it was almost love at first use with me and the laser rifle. Hitting lairs for 1500+ damage almost made me cry, which I expect is due to both the 400+ max damage as well as the medium armor piercing abilities of the weapon. Downside of course is that the range mods are such that it's really ineffective at medium to close range and also the Mind pool costs on at least the laser rifle are much larger than the Action cost of the DX2 pistol. So, any opinions here would be appreciated

So, Master Gunfighter + BH Pistol IV or Master Rifleman + BH Rifle IV?

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Bingo....there's no BH rifle tree...maybe you were thinking about carbines? Unless you actually want to do BH missions (or even if you do), you're probably better off just doing Rifleman. I'd bet dollars to donuts that, even after the last patch, a Master Rifleman could eat a BH/Carbineer or BH/Pistoleer for lunch, any day of the week. You'll also save yourself plenty of skill points.

If you don't want to be a BH (ie. to do BH missions), your best bet might be something like Master Doctor/Master Rifleman, or some combination of Rifle with Melee.

If you do want to do BH, then just get 4000 BH for investigation, and master rifleman, or 3000 BH (can still get Jedi missions), master rifleman, and novice medic.

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AvaroT wrote:

Bingo....there's no BH rifle tree...maybe you were thinking about carbines? Unless you actually want to do BH missions (or even if you do), you're probably better off just doing Rifleman. I'd bet dollars to donuts that, even after the last patch, a Master Rifleman could eat a BH/Carbineer or BH/Pistoleer for lunch, any day of the week. You'll also save yourself plenty of skill points.

If you don't want to be a BH (ie. to do BH missions), your best bet might be something like Master Doctor/Master Rifleman, or some combination of Rifle with Melee.

If you do want to do BH, then just get 4000 BH for investigation, and master rifleman, or 3000 BH (can still get Jedi missions), master rifleman, and novice medic.

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Well the idea was that I could get 3 things out of the pistol + BH plan:

1. The BH pistol, which I assumed (bad idea) was better than the DX2 because, I mean c'mon, it's a Bounty Hunter weapon


2. Obtaining the Ranged damage mitigations (1,2,3)available to master gunfighters would be extremely valuable.


3. Stacking both the master gunfighter's and the BH Pistol 1-4's attack and accuracy mods would be a solid foundation for whooping serious *selfedit* all over the place.

So, while BH missions would be nice to be able to do(and are not possible due to the skillpoint defecit caused by mastering an elite combat AND having a whole branch of BH) they certainly are not going to be an issue. The main concern is whether the stacking of the skillmods and the overall combat ability of such a character would be significant enough to warrant the effort and the skillpoints being tied up.

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JediKnightMark wrote:

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rahzael wrote:
LLC is a "special heavy weapon"

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ok great, so do you know as much about BH weapons as you do about your own? lol jp

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Hey now was that at me. Yeah i don't really wanna talk about rifle anymore for the attention it has been getting. But if you really wanna get bh then get it but honestly its probably not wortht he sp, no defenses, extra speed you could just as easily get through attachments, and accuracy thats not as big of a deal either. In PvP its always best to pick up one melee master and one ranged master, that way you get mitigation 3 in both catagories and can have both types of attacks to use on people who have weaknesses such as bh. If you encounter a BH just melee them.

yeah i know what your saying, but the speed cap is 100 so you can have 74 from pistol and 100 in attachemnts, the accuracy is the only thing that will help.

Well this is what my friend is and he loves it for PvP he is a

Master Marksmen

Master Scout

Master Pistoleer

BH 0/0/4/0

Rifleman 1/0/0/0

This is great for both PvP and PvE. Youa sk why the rifleman 1 in sniping. This is why in PvP he starts off with a t21 using mindshot2 this sticks a bleed on their mind pool for about 300 points a tick or so. Then he does torso shot 9people still freak out when they ge a fire dot don't know why) then spams eyeshot.

In my opinon you don't need anymedic skills at all. I don't know anyone who doesn't hunt or do PvP without buffs and with buffs you really don't need any medic skills.