Pistoleer Archive

I guess feign death might have it's uses, but can Panic Shot and Low Blow really do anything you can't do with Pistoleer skills?
Do any of the Pistoleer posture change moves work on people? Stopping Shot maybe?

Also - Does anyone think Ranged Support is really necessary?

nothing goes better with pistoleer then the dirty fighting line. low blow is a awesome ranged knockdown and on a different timer then pistol melle knockdown. with low blow you can knock down the mob and apply bleeds or last ditch ( u get 50% damage bonus when target is knocked down) from a safe distance. once the mob recovers from knockdown you can panic shot it which delays all its actions for ten seconds, if you have all the speed mods of master pistoleer and a decently quick pistol you should be able to fire four last ditch shots (the most powerful pistol move in the game) while the target is delayed. if the mob still isnt dead you can then get in range of target and use pistol melle 1 and run away firing at the target. by this time the timer for low blow is probably reset so rinse and repeat all of the above. other interesting moves are that panic shot is aoe just like fan shot which allows you to panic all the targets in front of you and then for ten seconds spam fan shot on all of them.

p.s. i am by no means a great pvp player but since i got the dirty fighting line , i can with a little bit of planning take out four to five average players before going down in a blaze of glory. curently feign death is not very good for pvp cause your opponent can completely wound you while you are down but when the item decay penalty is introduced for death blows then it might be a usefull move ( better to have to heal your ham bars then lose condition of your uber weapons and armor etc.

Ranged sucks, its worthless and i'd rater put points in Tailor. Dirty is the way to go. Finding out why is your job, but trust me i wouldnt stear ya wrong. You wont be disappoianted.

Well, my Pa hold some kind of Fight Club every month. The past 2 lonths, I always ended up 3th or 4th (stupid commandos ), but last night I just used panic shot (KD was not allowed), and finished them all

Panic shot is THE best PvP move there is.

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FILTHPIG wrote:
I guess feign death might have it's uses, but can Panic Shot and Low Blow really do anything you can't do with Pistoleer skills?
Do any of the Pistoleer posture change moves work on people? Stopping Shot maybe?

Also - Does anyone think Ranged Support is really necessary?

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Are you kidding? PanicShot and LowBow are two of the best specials you can get with a pistol. They're way better than anything in the Pistoleer tree.

As for your other question, I'd keep Ranged 3 no matter what. WarningShot is the most powerful PvE special in the game, in my opinion.

I'd like to keep Ranged Support, but everything else I have is more important.
Master TKA, Master Pistoleer, Dirty Fighting, Exploration III, Pharmacology III (for Stim C's)
That's the bare minimum of what I want. With no Ranged Support I can only get Dirty Fighting up to III.
Should I lower Pharmacology? Are Stim C's that much better than B's?

Nyx

not a high end stim b anyway.. I get by with high end stim b's quite well.

I'd like to keep Ranged Support, but everything else I have is more important.
Master TKA, Master Pistoleer, Dirty Fighting, Exploration III, Pharmacology III (for Stim C's)
That's the bare minimum of what I want. With no Ranged Support I can only get Dirty Fighting up to III.
Should I lower Pharmacology? Are Stim C's that much better than B's?

Nyx

I can say that Last Ditch is by far, the best DF skill (I like low blow too, but LD is just tough).

Same high end stims are easily good enough so you dont need C's.

My stims are 431/29. They work, i can do 1000+ heals on targets. Personally my stats are only 850 a piece so i dont even need this high. They work well so you might as well drop the tree.

Smuggler/Pistoleer combination is in no doubt of being stronger then any BH/pistoleer, commando/pistoleer or pure commando or pure BH.

Ranged KD and Last ditch with pistoleers speed and accuracy mods make it perfect for pve and pvp. I've seen last ditch do 1k of dmg in pvp, really is the attack that makes us powerful. Shame it isn't a pistoleer skill, that's where i'm going for once servers come back up.

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Put those pharm points into first aid. First aid 2 stops bleeds anyway. And the extra boosts to stim b's will be fine. If it really worries you get some bio-clothes to bump up your injury treatment up some more.

I have master TKA. Meditate stops bleeds quickly.