Pistoleer Archive

As I advance up the pistoleer tree, I notice that the missions difficulty goes up, but I die more and more. I'm not getting any stronger, but my enemies are. I don't even feel like logging in anymore.

I guess the only way to do it is to group on an adventure planet and leech experience...

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I feel your pain, I too am stuck in that gray area between being really good and just not good enough to take the harder missions out. Its just too bad , you have to be a CH to solo the high paying missions.

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well if your just spamming double tap that might explain why you are dieing..

try using healthshot 1, healtshot 2, then spam bodyshot 2 or 3..

also study your enemies. learn from the failures.. why did you die? did they "zerg" you after you hit the first one? If so don't take missions for that type of mob again, try them untill you find mobs that don't have pack mentality and are not agro. good example of that would be tortur missions on Talus, might want to try them out

My strategy was to get Techniques 4 ASAP (ignored all other trees except Grips(? The 4th one)) Because Stopping Shot/Fan Shot arevery effective especially coupled with BH speed mods without raising your difficulty as much. If my first couple of stopping shouts (that I crank off at ALMOST 1shot/second with a 1.8 speed Krayt FWG) hit the mind pool I continue with Eyeshot otherwise I stick with bleeds, warning shots, suppression fires, Pistol Melee Defense 1, and more Stopping Shots.

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Ataecht wrote:
I feel your pain, I too am stuck in that gray area between being really good and just not good enough to take the harder missions out. Its just too bad , you have to be a CH to solo the high paying missions.

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We CH'rs talk about soloing, but you really have to understand it's not really soloing. You can't really compare a single CH with 2 pets to a single player of another profession. What you should be looking at is, say, a CH and 2 large pets vs 3 strongly armed and armored combat professionals. They as a group can do what the CH and pets do, and they will do it faster and better than the CH. Sure, CH's can hold out in a fight longer due to the higher HAM of the pets, but CH's don't get their pets to do specials, such as Fan Shot, Stopping Shot, Panic Shot etc etc. While you guys are doling out 1000+hits, the poor GSP is doing ~200pts kinetic, tops. And then the CH has around 4000 health to heal on the pet(s) (all by himself...ouch the headache) whereas 3 people with rudimentary healing skills can be back up and running in just a few minutes.

Not everyone wants to be a BH/Commando ya know.

Not everyone wants to be a BH/Commando ya know.

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Yea, some people want to be a Jedi.

1) good armor (when they fix it today) ... I use ~45% composite with low encumberance

2) mk3 shield gens ... another 30-50% damage reduction

3) as you go up the tree you get faster, so your dps goes up

Yeah I agree, difficulty 20 missions, kick the $#i7 out of me, have 0/2/4/2 I'm desperately trying to find some armour that protects vs all (not composite) that helps me, currently working on getting advanced ubese, with enhancers for segments that give protections for its vuln and a layer to pick up the other vuln, this way will only be vuln to stun... woohoo,

I watch what I fight, I use best weapons possible, my poor little mountain krevol fights his best, but as a lvl 14 pet, he is usually not worth using, but I need to dish out more damage, I can't believe my hit /miss ratio, its horrible, dual pistols would be nice....

do what I do, remove your weapon, get a level 5 diff mission.... or take up unarmed, then you can get your level 12 missions that I miss, oh so much

Pistoleer has fairly discrete power jumps mainly determined by your speed. You'll see a big power jump at master for example because of the large+20 modifier there. Until you get there you will need to use tactics though, use a non CH Pet, use traps, use warning shot, fight mobs that don't BAF etc.

Heh no I don't spam double-tap, that would be suicide. That's just what I do when I'm in some huge group.