Pistoleer Archive
Thread: Pistol Melee Defense 1 & 2 Questions
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ScottyFL
Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:17 am
#1
Is it worth it, if you have to give up the Pistol Grips column and thus give up Dodge?
Also, is Pistol Melee Defense 2 still broken?
durks
Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:34 am
#2
ScottyFL wrote:
Is it worth it, if you have to give up the Pistol Grips column and thus give up Dodge?
Also, is Pistol Melee Defense 2 still broken?
Pistol melee defense 2 is still broken.
KahnLord
Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:00 pm
#3
Tempestorm wrote:
Neary every pistoleer special is broken or useless...
One of these days maybe Disarming shot will... oh I don't know... disarm perhaps?
Perhaps onewonderous midsummer night we will pull our pistols out and fire a stopping shot and it will... *gasp*... stop something. Somethingbesides a gnort... a little one... with a broken leg... thats been mauled by a razor cat... and ran over by a bantha...
One crisp winters morning we will awaken to discover that Doubletap and all of the other redundant, pointless, random HAM, boring shots we have will actualy... do something.
But even in light of how bad pistoleer specials are I would trade one thing for all of these fixes... A damned holster!
But I digress...
Message Edited by Tempestorm on 10-01-2004 12:29 PM
I've been going up the pistoleer tree for about a week now (casual gamer). I've noticed that my melee defence will knock things down for about enough time to get one additonal shot off the first time i use it. After that it takes at least 30 seconds for it to work again. I even knocked someone down in a duel. So it can work. That's just my experiance.
As for Double Tap I agree it seems pretty useless. Less damage than HealthShot2 and no bleed.
alligatorboogaloo
Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:23 pm
#4
Melee defense 1 will sometimes kd your opponent, melee defense 2=BROKEN it just makes you think you're going to do something and waste the precious time between using Healthshot2/Stoppingshot and Fanshot.
Double Tap is like a weaker version of Stopping Shot but the time delay isn't as long so it can be useful when you need to get something down quickly and you're not at speed cap.
As much as things don't work I came back to Pistoleer after doing Fencer, Carbineerand Pikeman so its a lot of fun, nothing like charging a base of rebel NPCsand kiling them all just as you get into melee range, hehe did that last night so much fun I hadmissed that.
In short, i'd keep the dodge mods since you can get clothes that add to melee defense and get some skill tapes for pistol speed which are "common."
Neeno 
Master Musician since Sept. 1, 2003
Searious
Fri Oct 01, 2004 3:30 pm
#5
pistoleer moves are garbage i use the smuggler moves and bh moves there the good ones smuggler low blow which knocks guys down is awesome.
Randonb
Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:22 pm
#6
I don't think our Dodge is so great until you hit Master Pistoleer, so yeah having a 10m knockdown would be worth it. You may as well take the whole line even though PMD2 is broken so you can get the Pistol Speed (unless you are a Bounty Hunter already and have enough speed).
Low Blow is better of course because it is ranged, but that requires Smuggler.
biwan:
Tempestorm
Sat Oct 02, 2004 12:28 am
#7
Neary every pistoleer special is broken or useless...
One of these days maybe Disarming shot will... oh I don't know... disarm perhaps?
Perhaps onewonderous midsummer night we will pull our pistols out and fire a stopping shot and it will... *gasp*... stop something. Somethingbesides a gnort... a little one... with a broken leg... thats been mauled by a razor cat... and ran over by a bantha...
One crisp winters morning we will awaken to discover that Doubletap and all of the other redundant, pointless, random HAM, boring shots we have will actualy... do something.
But even in light of how bad pistoleer specials are I would trade one thing for all of these fixes... A damned holster!
But I digress...
Message Edited by Tempestorm on 10-01-2004 12:29 PM
Yrai
Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:18 pm
#8
Since someone else asked this question, I'll just say that according to the JtL game guide put out by PRIMA, it states that pistol melee defense 1 has a knockdown, but 2 does not. It also says that disarming shot 2 has a knockdown so take that for what it's worth. 
Jacobb
Sat Nov 06, 2004 4:34 pm
#10
Pistol is cool if you use it right.. you need BH 0040 for torso shot(on fire), but what you really need is a set of good bleed resistant cloths and smugler 0040. Last Ditch something after you bleed it and set it on fire. When your ham gets low then feign Death and lay on ground till you heal (watch creature burn and bleed). Stand, fire,bleed, and Last ditch the creature again till your ham gets low again.. Feign Death... repeat :-) If the creature bleeds you.. pay the 12k for another set of buffs and repeat..LOL
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