Pistoleer Archive

I'm not a power gamer, so it took me over 2 months, but finally made Master Scout, Novice Ranger& Novice Bounty Hunter! This all happened last night, lol. Wow, what a rush! This wookie is happy!

Novice Ranger has some nice skill enhancements. Is it worth pursuing over the others?

The question, as I'm sure it's been asked many times before, is what's next? I have plenty of credits, but skill points are almost gone. I had to sacrifice all my Artisan skills except for Domestic 1 (I'm not giving up making food or my Generic Crafting Kit). I also gave up Novice Carbineer because Bounty Hunter has its own carbineer column. 125,000 carbineer points down the tubes, lol. Elite Carbines seem to suck, though and I still have 38K ofcarbine xp I can use in BH tree.

I gave up Novice Brawler & Novice Entertainer, too.

I have Novice Medic and First Aid 2 and I hate to give that up. Healing is quick. I also like using T21 Rifle (Novice Rifleman) and DX2 Pistol (Novice Pistoleer).

I'm also a Novice CH at Taming2 and Training 1 (soon to be 2). I love using my pets and I sure don't want to give that up. Are droids better? Do Bounty Hunters need to use droids to be good?

Also, how good is the Light Lightning Cannon? Its stats don't look so hot. Is the electricity damage what makes it better?

And finally, I'm a neutral and I'm not a member of any PA yet. Don't know if I want to be. I did all this mostly by myself and my house is in an area surrounded by mean aggro animals to keep the soliItude, lol.

Any guidance from those who walked this way before would be appreciated.

-ScottieFL, Wookie Master Marksman, Moenia, Bloodfin

I've been debating this point myself, since running out of skill points and having had to start making choices.

Having the second health bleed is valuable, since it stacks with the first one (as far as I know.)

There are uses for pistolwhip.

The defense adds will be valuable, assuming they work.

On the other hand, with the coming additions to ranger skills, ranger might be more useful.

I'm holding out for ranger skills. If they're good I'll stay, if they suck I'm dropping ranger and getting BH pistol line to accompany master pistoleer.

-- YP

Go up the BH pistol tree and forget about Pistoleer. There are only two boxes in Pistoleer worth getting -- Novice and Special Abilities 1. The rest of the tree is worthless. You can get those two and then spend the rest of your points in BH.

To answer your other questions, droids are far worse than pets because they are permanently destroyed when they are incapped. As a Bounty Hunter you'll have to use seeker droids to find your marks, if you want to head up the Investigation tree, but those are not combat related. As for the light lightning cannon, itis a piece of crap right now, but that will supposedly change in the next patch.

Hope this is helpful.