Pistoleer Archive

Hey, well i was thinking that warning shot, although not an advanced skill should have another benefit rather then making a creature flee.

My idea is that warning shot is a posture down attack that can be used without any delay on creatures only. This would allow the pistoleer to crowd control and thus continue to be effective in PvM. At the moment, most creatures run faster then a person can run so the pistoleer becomes a tank and all one can hope for is that you get lucky with your hits. This removes the use of tactics and player skill. If warning shot became a creature based posture down attack with no delay the pistoleer would be returned to being able to handle creatures which this patch makes the pistoleer unable to do.

So, warning shot should ONLY be able to be used on creatures to have any effect, it makes the creature posture down and can be used without any delay. This allows the PvP to continue without a knockdown or posture down spam but also allows people to enjoy PvM more and become much more effective.

What are your ideas? and post ideas on how this could be made more realible and useful. Please try to keep this constructive, i believe it could be a good idea.

The problem with any of the posture down or knockdown attacks was that if you could spam it, then you could prevent the mob from every doing any damage, and beat ANYTHING if there was just one of them.

Personally, I kind of liked this

But I can see how it would need to be nerfed a little bit.

I'd be happy if warning shot's running away of mobs had a slightly longer effect (like 2 seconds). Because now, If I hit something with warning shot, my super-fast scout blaster will hit it again, and the dumb monster will just start jittering around. And eventually eat me.

Best macro I ever made:

/warningShot;

/pause 1;

/peace

Honestly, give it a bash- it's made warningshot indispensable. Works 99% of the time against most mobs. Male Snorbals? Pffff. Seething Bol Crushers? Hah!

Ps- Credit for telling me the macro to Raspi from PHL on Eclipse.

ah, the pause 1 I was missing. will try it

err, warningshot, not warmingshot....