Pistoleer Archive

Okay, in short term it doesnt look like pistoleers are going to be effective, but there are alternatives to fighting (fair), you can fight dirty. Two things that will make you VERY effective as a Pistoleer are:

1. Spend your extra skill points in going up BH Pistol tree, it will make you be the most uber Pistoleer in the galaxy and it will piss them off at the same time.

2. This is my preffered option and much easier, do some smuggler up to LOW BLOW, this is a ranged KD and one of the best moves of its type in the game, there are also a couple of other good specials in that line too and the slicing line is useful and fun.

True. Unforunately some people chose to master pistoleers so they'd be, "good with pistols".

So other combat professions are solid without needing to double-spec the same weaponjust so they have useful special attacks? I don't like it one bit :/

What I'd like to see is disarming shot 1 and 2 be useful, and for us to have AOE attack through MTPS (that works). AOE attacks are a huge bump in DPS, and if disarming shot 1/2 is as useful as any low blow or panic shot, we'll be in better shape.

IMO nothing in the smuggler line should surpass a master pistoleer. They can be be equivalent, but I'd prefer to see them REDUNDANT that is, if you want to master pistoleer, you dont NEED to get smuggling skills to have good specials, you get smuggling if you want to be a smuggler, and you wont have to max out pistoleer, just a line or two, and rely on the smuggler line for the special attacks. That's just my take anyway.

Don't you mean Smuggler ? Or do BH's have slicing as well?

oops, I misinterprited what you said nevermind =P

great lets all go smuggler and BH, we can place bounty's on each other, its as simple as playing tag

you're it....

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Jaegen88 wrote:

True. Unforunately some people chose to master pistoleers so they'd be, "good with pistols".

So other combat professions are solid without needing to double-spec the same weaponjust so they have useful special attacks? I don't like it one bit :/

What I'd like to see is disarming shot 1 and 2 be useful, and for us to have AOE attack through MTPS (that works). AOE attacks are a huge bump in DPS, and if disarming shot 1/2 is as useful as any low blow or panic shot, we'll be in better shape.

IMO nothing in the smuggler line should surpass a master pistoleer. They can be be equivalent, but I'd prefer to see them REDUNDANT that is, if you want to master pistoleer, you dont NEED to get smuggling skills to have good specials, you get smuggling if you want to be a smuggler, and you wont have to max out pistoleer, just a line or two, and rely on the smuggler line for the special attacks. That's just my take anyway.

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Your right, its not quite fair that we need to double up to get a decent special, BH for eye shot and Smuggler for Low Blow/Panic Shot. At least with the smuggler option we can get 2 awesome specials and still have points to master another profession. IN YOUR FACE BOUNTY HUNTERS!

I started working on smuggler for lowblow the day after the upcoming nerf was announced. I should be completely finished, master pistoleer & smuggler 0/0/3/0 in just another day. It really sucks I feel like I have to do that, I was going to do as much of doctor as I could but now, since most our special are broke or underpowered I feel I have no choice.

Smugglers and bounty hunters are not pistoleers. That is like saying, if you want to do good damage, go carbineer or rifleman because pistoleer just doesn't cut it. If you have to rely on another class to do good damage with your original class, then what is the point? You might as well dropsome ofyour pistoleer skills and become a smuggler or most of your pistoleer skills and become a bounty hunter.

I agree with everybody ... I've been telling all the people in my PA who are interested in pistols to ditch Pistoleer and get BH Pistol + Smuggler. It kind of sucks that our profession isn't even the way to go if you like pistols.

Jaegen can't you just send the Devs an early email? Tell them we're broken, make them see that we're all pissed off. They seem to react when they think the community is up in arms, like when the Commando Correspondent quit and suddenly there were 20 Dev posts in the Commando forum.