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Stopping shot does 2x damage.
Last ditch foes 6x damage and stuns.
The delay on both skills is the same.

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NobodyHasThisHandle wrote:
Stopping shot does 2x damage.
Last ditch foes 6x damage and stuns.
The delay on both skills is the same.

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no my friend that is incorrect. i dont have the exact figures but it is closer to:

stopping shot 5x damage

last ditch 6x damage and stun

i think that the delay is slightly more for last ditch but i am not 100% certain.

to the original poster, definately make your first aim fan shot. firstly because of the cone effect you can get massive xp really quickly if you use this fantastic shot correctly. another reason why you need fanshot is that without the speed mods of master gunfighter both stopping shot and last ditch are disgustingly slow and so damge over time is super crap.

I don't have figures for Stopping Shot handy but LDA is a 6x damage 4x delay +75 to stun.

Well seeing as how there isn't much advantage in getting Last Ditch if I plan to go Pistoleer also, there is not much point in spending the extra 450k pistol xp on Last Ditch, when it could be used for my Pistoleer advancing. If Stopping Shot is about the same as Last Ditch, it would seem to be a better hit to go for because it's in Tier 3, unlike LD which is in Tier 4.

However, if I were to go Dirty Fighting, I'd have a KD and a delay. I guess Fan Shot is going to be the tiebreaker. Are you guys able to spam Fan Shot, and what's your average damage? I will not be able to spam SS nor LD, but I hear that FS doesn't have a high delay. Thanks.

With Master Pistoleer you'll still have tons of skill points left over. The smuggler pistol line goes a very long way since pistoleers have only 1 state change, and its only usable in melee reange (PMD1). Having a ranged kdand aranged aoe delay is incredibly useful in pve and pvp. Not to mention Rogue is just an awsome title ;p

Well I plan to get Master Pistoleer and Dirty Fighting 4. I'm curious if Fan Shot would be better in a group for faster xp than Last Ditch, since xp is based on your damage dealt. I currently am novice in bothPistoleer and Smuggler, and want to decide if I should get Pistol Tech 4, or Dirty Fighting 4 first.Any info is appreciated. Thanks.

If you're fighting social mobs and have something to tank, Fanshot will bring faster XP. If you're doing mobs individually, Panic/Lowblow + LD work nicely. I'd probably go the Trickshot line then get DF3 for Lowblow since Stopping Shot does almost as much damage as Last Ditch but without the stun.

Hmmm so is Last Ditch not even worth getting if I plan to go for Master Pistoleer? If so, I'll do Pistol Tech first.

LD is more or less a glorified Stopping shot that includes a stun. It's a bit better IMO, but if you have stopping shot, you can do without it for a while.

Go up the Pistol technique tree first, then the dirty fighting, fan shot just brings in the XP. Others may disagree, but that is what I did and on my second day as smuggler almost have the rogue title, and I am not exactly a power player and am happy with whatI have gotten.

Pistoleer 2/0/4/3 Smuggler 0/1/3/0 with a little Doc left over.

Ok. Thanks a bunch to everyone. I suppose I'll go with Pistol Tech 4 first.

Deffinately go with Techniques first....if your concerned with getting xp. The cone effect lets you hit the mob when your grouped with a tank and will show a huge increase in xp. Not to mention it is a much easier shot to spam than LD since the delay isnt as big.

Well I plan to get both, but I'm curious as to which would help me most right now (I'm currently Novice Pistoleer and Novice Smuggler). The main thing I need is DPS for PvE groups. Which tree (Pistol Tech or Dirty Fighting) would be worth getting first?