Pistoleer Archive

I was a pistoleer back in the day when there was no answer to pistol melee 2 (whip) and even stayed on it after they made the cost for it rediculous, but then left after they put the crazy delay on it (not sure which one came first). I also used quite a bit of stopping shot and body shot 3 and was quite pleased due to the fact this was about week 2 or 3 in the game and no-one was hitting for more than me unless they were a bh (this was waaaaay before commando godness). Anyway I decided to master it again about a month ago and I've come to the conclusion that when the devs nerf a prof. they normally just change it to a lower pwer lvl, but w/ pistoleer they just demolished it and then left it alone..... Retorical Smart Ass Questions: Does whip even have the possibilty to knockdown in pvp, or how bout greater than a 1 in 1000 chance against creatures, is it just me or is regular attack about 100 times better than disarming shot, while on disarming shot; wth is da2 doing in the master pistoleer box doesn't it just get near being as good as regular attack, how 'bout that wonderful fanshot that seems to shot 3 things only half the time for terrible damage, but does to a heck of a job getting things to aggy off you're pet, on to body shot 3; not much in the way of good but I actually use it when the only good attack, stopping shot, pisses me off and never hits for health once you get them to about 20% of their ham, now for my favorite...... MULTI-TARGET SHOT.... I belive that the name would be more applicable if they replaced the "o" in shot with an "i", I mean what in the world does the attack do, I've used it in pvp and was once again discovering to fruits of regular attack as apposed to the skills given by MASTER PISTOLEER! *takes deep breath and waits for heart beat to steady...... Now that I got to tell the 50 some odd people that took time to read this me personal problems with the profession... I would ask those same 50 people to sign a petition (along with the force signitures of all their friends, regardless of their non-pistoleer profession) to at least get the skills working esp. now that the next patch will get rid of the stacking defenses, pistoleer will be usless as a dabbling for def. and res. PLEASE MAKE DECIENT SPECIAL ATTACKS!!! peace......

EDIT: Not to mention the fact that almost all the specails hit for every ham bar, and the.....nm not even going to get started again.... *sigh

PMD2 never did KD. Its been borked since Beta. PMD1 does KD.

/nosign

have you rally tried fanshot?

really*

Man thats hard to read. Use a paragraph once in a while.

I'm starting to just be pleased when they don't break us worse with each patch that passes. Fan is not too bad, but it takes a little finesse. Considering we haven't had a finesse attack till recently (fan fix) it's understandable that some of us are confused by it.

As stated above PMD2 never had a KD, and when you could spam PMD1 and stack up a 3 minute KD on a guy it NEEDED fixing. Yes they gutted Disarm2 from the AOE KD it was to the nuthing it is now(that was wrong and we are all eagerly awaiting the fix on that one).

As to your problem with stop, if you really need to hit the health bar, use our targeted health attack insted of trusting to luck and spamming stop. It's the 1 button mashers that think this class is unplayable instead of merely unbalanced. And yes, I reglarly land with PMD1 in PvP and have it stick. I love it when it sticks on TKA's, they never expect the KD once they close.

As for your petition, we have one going. We call it the pistoleers forum and if you look thru it you will see piles and piles of CONSTRUCTIVE posts with the same gist as yours.

Start all the petitions you want and have every player in the game sign them,we have only ever had 1 red name post in here, TH, and it was to say (paraphrase) "trust us, we know what we are doing."

No one with any influence reads this board, or if they do they sure don't care about this proff. Currntly we are filler and dabbler fuel, that is all. Maybe someday folks wont use our tags to hide their prowess like a BH flying Nov. Scout, maybe someday someone will fear the tag dead-eye, maybe.

PwNz0riZed

However, you made me depressed with that last paragraph.

I wish someone would pay attention to us... I wish they would, for once...

*hears voice* click your heels three times....

Hmmmmm.... Pownerixedlktlakjacoke or not here is my response.....

(start paragraph) You are completly right about whip2 not kding, its been a while since it was useful so I forgot that one reason it was heavily nerfed was due to the fact that it could be aquired so eaisly. That still doesn't justify the fact, as you actually enforced, that whip2 is quite useless.

As for fan...... well you and your finesse and ludes to me being a noobish button masher (I said that I only used stop to a certian extent till I started using body3), well I have one question for you.... do you go out and use your "finesse" to kill 3 rock mites, cause if you do then more power to you and your master profession. But as the devs in this game have made quite clear, they want people to group hunt... so if you have 15 people fighting a ancient bull rancor or nightsister protector, you can use all the "finesse" you want and succeed in looking at the sky, feeling assured that hit it for at least 400 points on each bar at least once.

On to your comments about the usefulness of our profession, if you had read mine first post, you would have seen my remarks to the upcomming changes in the ability to dabble/fill with this prof., there for hopefully forcing a change in the concentration of the prof,'s skill mods to their respective attacks.

And finally, if you fully belive what you said about no one important reading these forums (and you might be right), then you must get off by coming in and blasting people when what they say makes no difference anyway. As for my constructiveness.... well most of what I said was in a joking manner, although I would like to see quite a change in the vailiblity of most of the specail attacks, even if they did nothing I prob. still wouldn't drop it till the march "art of combat" patch to see what comes of all of this.

In ending... thanks for your reply!!!!!!