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Thread: Yet another gripe about the profession...

ImperialReborn
Wed May 26, 2004 8:44 pm
#1

Ok, I just went hunting with some of my guild members, plus a couple of extras. When hunting Night Sisters, protectors to be precise, I've found that I don't have a weapon... no... a pistol for Master Pistoleer to deal much (if any) damage at all to the Entities. I don't have the certification for the launcher pistol (commando profession cert.) so I can't deal any blast damage to them, the Genome Stun Pistol is rare - at least to me it is, and if I do find one, its so badly damaged that I lose it before I have a chance to dispatch one of the Night Sister Entities. I don't understand, Im supposed to be a master pistoleer, yet, I don't have the skill to wield any pistol I see? Hm... probably something in the works, yes?


/shrug

/emote wanders off into the horizon, pondering the meaning of being a Master Pistoleer.


I'Allor Auron

Empire's Elite Force

Eclipse Server



"The only TRUE smuggler is the smuggler that No One knows."
I'allor Auron
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Imperial 2nd Leutenant
Master Pistoleer/Bounty Hunter
Eclipse Server
Fordep
Wed May 26, 2004 11:50 pm
#2

striker pistol made with premium and loot components with a damage slice and some power up would serve you quite well. That is the weapon you are looking for.



Mr_Wibble
Thu May 27, 2004 2:34 am
#3




MetallicaJunkie wrote:

And although a powered up Striker pistol will allow you to take advantage of a few low resists and a few alleged vulnerabilities (which don't work as the devs claim) you'll always be outdamaged by every other profession in the game due to higher levels of armour piercing.




On my one and only NS hunt, I was doing a little damage (the other pistoleer in the group forgot his striker)to them and the two riflemen in the group were getting no joy (Vulnerable to blast and electricity, 40% kin, 100% everything else, or something similar IIRC). Oh I smiled



Formerly:
Pedr-Dwl Wibble - Gunslinging tracker for hire on Farstar - Staff Cpl, Imperial auxillary
Elisa von-Smolloff - Pyromaniac bird of Infinity - Cpl, Rebel special forces
Now gone.
Doesn't see the point of a bile-venting "I'm leaving" thread.


MetallicaJunkie
Thu May 27, 2004 12:31 pm
#4

I know exactly how you feel, I was taken along by a pikeman friend of mine to beat the NS Elder until her resists dropped. I posted the story here a while back, think the thread was called "pistols?" it was supposed to called "pistols? why bother?" but something went wrong in the post. Basically it took me hald an hour to drop her resist while she was tanked up by the defence stacked pikeman and a TKM/MD who kept thepikeman and herself alive. Half an it took with speed capped stoppingshots and at about 40% total ham remaining the Elder's resists dropped by 1.5% allowing the pikeman and TKM to damage her, the TKM was about equalling my damage while the pikeman by far overtook. The Elder had 98.5% kinetic resists and only 23.5% resists to my republic blaster.


That's my long story cut short and about to be cut shorter, pistoleers at the moment shouldn't hunt nightsisters.


And although a powered up Striker pistol will allow you to take advantage of a few low resists and a few alleged vulnerabilities (which don't work as the devs claim) you'll always be outdamaged by every other profession in the game due to higher levels of armour piercing. Stick to killing quenkers and trying to sell the meat to the last of the grinders who haven't unlocked yet, maybe then you could buy some NS loot...



Murton
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