Pistoleer Archive

I am Novice, Disarming 1. Could a few people tell me what they think is a good way up the tree to get the best skills?

Well my first thought is to say "turn back now while you still can and be a rifleman."

2nd I would say if you want to be a pistoleer, get fanshot first. Then get your dodge/accuracy, training whatever you seem to need more of at the time.

get fanshot first, then accuracy, then dodge.

wow i got accuracy first then fan and it worked great for me

I took accuracy first as well. Since at lower speeds, Fan Shot actually does less DPS than Body Shot 2, it made little sense for me to take it over a skill that gave me better accuracy. Once I got the combat xp to get my speed up, I got Fan Shot. Worked very well for me.

I agree that Accuracy makes the most sense as well, since you'll be relying on BodyShot ...as long as you don't use a pet regularly. If you're a CH then you want FanShot first since you can get a lot of XP by killing entire crowds of critters at once with FanShot since it's an AOE attack. For non-CHs, though, I'd probably go up Marksmanship so I could hit more on the move ... I'll be relying on BodyShot anyway.

Eh maybe thats why i liked fanshot....i dunno....bodyshot2 sucks lol...But yeah i was a CH when i did it.

I got fanshot first as well, but levelled mostly off NPCs, using a non CH pet to tank while I was killing them, it worked fine for me.

i hear everyone talking about bleeds...never really been a pistoleer so i wonder, how good are these 600 damage bleeds on 10k hp mobs? and í'm aiming at a situation where you are solo-ing without a pet...do you run your ass of and wait 2 minutes?

Its tough, but possible. It helps to have stims to use, and running around a lot like a little kid helps also.

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Fetei wrote:
i hear everyone talking about bleeds...never really been a pistoleer so i wonder, how good are these 600 damage bleeds on 10k hp mobs? and í'm aiming at a situation where you are solo-ing without a pet...do you run your ass of and wait 2 minutes?

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As someone has said, if you get Feign Death in the dirty fighting tier in smuggler, you can solo anything with a bleed.

A couple ofnote on bleeds:

- If you knock the mob down before bleeding the bleed damage will be increased (like all attacks).

- Bleed attacksdon't seem to be effected by AP and resists so use the highest damage weapon possible when applying the bleeds (max damage powerups really help).

- With a 400 max damage FWG5 (including powerup) I am able to get max bleeds of 1500 -1600 on a knocked down mob with healthShot2 (max of 1000-1200 if not).