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Ok, I just made Novice Pistoleer, and I like the DX2's Acid. The Scout Blaster is very fast, and does respectable damage...... but is this it??

Are these the best we have to choose from? An FWG5 has Heat damage, one of the most common resists, so that kinda counts it out. As I said, the DX2 is nice for what I do, but is that the last and most powerfull Pistol?

I hope I'm wrong.... or I wasted time getting 125,000 Pistol XP Points.....

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I find that the Dx2 acid can be very nice but the fact that the Armor Pircing is broken makes the gun not usable (IMO). As for the scout blaster i dont fell the dmg is great enough to warant using it. There for i am leftwith one choice the FWG5 pistol, but the min dmg is very low.

So i guess the pistleer is bacicly F$%^.

what the **edit** are you smoking lol... heat as one of the most resisted things on most creatures... what are you hunting? gorgs all day... lmao

the **edit** i hunt is usually VULNERABLE to heat lmao... go commando and then use launcher pistol with pistoleer skills... you do 5-6k dmg in 1 second with some specials it's nice...

After I posted this, I scooted over to the Commando Forum.... mainly becuase I was thinking about changing. Alas, I like the speed...... I don't like waiting 15 seconds for a FT to cool down.

Anyway, I have been reading about the Launcher Pistol, since it uses our Pistoleer Skills the speed would be nice, but I don't know about the damage.

I believe I'll try it, as a last ditch effort before throwing away all my guns and getting a Slitherhorn.

ShadowWalker ------

(Just kidding on that last sentence )

EDIT BUTTON!!!!

What about the Scatter Pistol? Would it be a good choice with Pistoleer Skills?

The Scatter pistols i the best pistol in the game but you need to go bh.

Just my opinion but...

DX2 - Acid is good, AP will make it rock when it works. A good all around gun, expensive on my server, save it for big hunts.

FWG5 - Heat, good damage and speed. Probably the pistoleers main weapon.

DH17 - Best all purpose. Well crafted ones are very fast. Better damage than a scout. My main mid level weapon.

Scout - Never really use it, I actually prefer the DH17. Very fast, I hear some have fairly high damage. I don't see many good ones on Radiant though.

So that is my top 4. I would like to try a srcombat but they aren't made very often, they have AP but are kinetic damage. DX2 is probably always going to be a better bet.

We really do need an edit button... I wanted to add that I also really really like the DL44 and Metal DL44. They are horrible but look really cool. Of all the weapons in the movies that is by far the most identifiable. I think it is a Shame that SOE made them so week. Makes me really wonder how much input Lucasarts actually put into this game.

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HavocReaper wrote:

what the **edit** are you smoking lol... heat as one of the most resisted things on most creatures... what are you hunting? gorgs all day... lmao

the **edit** i hunt is usually VULNERABLE to heat lmao... go commando and then use launcher pistol with pistoleer skills... you do 5-6k dmg in 1 second with some specialsit's nice...

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Depends on the planets you hunt on. Tatooine has a ton of stuff that's hate resistant (go figure), Dantooine seems to have acid resistant stuff.

To the original poster: Gotta carry em all basically I carry a DX2, and FWG5, and a Scout at all times. With no resists the FWG5 is the most damaging for me right now.

Don't forget that the Tangle Pistol is the least resisted damage type and is very useful on some of the harder planets.

I bought 2 tangles and had them sliced. Max damage is only about 140, and the speed is 3.3 for both. Even if it isn't resisted, it sure can't kill a gorg. Maybe if I found a critter that was vulnerable rather than just not resistant to stun.

Anyone have tangles with good stats?

I'm not going to run the numbers out again, but go to endor and look at an arachne. Medium armor, 20% resists to all but stun. So you take 50% of the damge off, 50% of the damage off, then 20% of the damage off...by now your scout and FWG5 are doing tiny amounts of damage. Your DX2 ignores one level of armor so it works as 50% of damage, then 20% less damage. Okay, arachnes are vulnerable to stun so now you use your tangle. It ignores the armor and isn't resisted (if a creature is vulnerable to a damage type its armor does not apply) so it does its full damage. I like to use a speed and min dmg powerup on my tangle to get it up there a little bit.

Tangles and SR Combat (AP1) aren't an every creature type of weapon, but if you pay attention to a creatures resists you will begin to love these guns. (SR Combat is great on Dantooine and Dath, Tangle is great on Lok and Endor.)

I know they only have a 48m range, but the DX2 sucks so bad over 30m the lower range doesn't really matter all that much.

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Lazuras1624 wrote:
The Scatter pistols i the best pistol in the game but you need to go bh.

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Common misconception. Its quite on par with DX2 generally. The problem is that schematic for DX2 on some servers makes it harder to make (requiring 2 components, whereas scatter uses 1), hence fewer weaponsmiths experiment with it, devoting their attention to scatter pistols instead. If you bug your resident weaponsmith enough he'll be able to make you DX2 thats as good or better than scatter.