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rifle ranger tips (^_^)

step 1) /maskscent; /prone

steps 2-28) /concealshot

of course, concealshot will not hide you from social creatures, if you /concealshot a gurrcat, you better hope you kill it in 1 shot or you will have the whole pack on ya. that being said, it will only hide you from your target, not your target's friends.

here's another nice one: put your rifle in your hotbar, and if a creature gets close and you have to run, unequip it. you will live 2.5 times longer without your rifle equipped when running away from melee mobs in case you are wondering wth i'm talking about, rifle-users take 2.5x melee damage with rifle equipped.

hope these help!

Working up the Ranger tree now (1010 atm), Master Marksman and dumping artisan tree as needed. Remainder going into Medic tree.

Typically I keep my rifle and pistol on the toolbar.

Prone, mindshot/headshot2/overcharge/mindshot with pauses in between if needed. Once the creature finds me and I see the distance to target dropping, kneel, equip pistol and just let it fire away to finish off the creature with the occasional action shot if needed. Equipping the pistol allows me to heal myself quicker than keeping the rifle up and gets rid of the penalties of using the rifle at close range. Once critter is in range, traps (particularly adhesive mesh) as I can get them off. Typically I can wipe out critters that are yellow without much damage and have even fought off multiple whites in a social critter setting.

Don't forget that any creature with ranged attack (spitting) is very innacurate over 35 yards. Bocatts and Dragonettes hit you like 1/3 or 1/4 of the time at 36 yar - er, meters.

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What's wrong with pets?

Shoot the owner.

Pets don't react to traps BUT they do react to warning shot, suppression shot, and threaten shot. I've had players sick their cowardly gurrecks on me, and maybe cuz their cowardly, they run away from warning shot like crazy. Rancors are less likely to react to that, but far fewer of them in the game.

Also pets can't navigate cities, especially large pets, to save their lives.

Put healthshot2;/healtshot1 on Rancor, go around side of building or through alley, pet can't follow, they're too dumb. Twenty seconds later, drip, drip...

Or if you have first BH box and pistol bleedshot;/healtshot2;/healtshot1 and drip, drip, drip...

Owners like that combo too. Nothing like head bleeding and body bleeding at the same time.

Of course Rancors and squills bleed too, along with owners.

Only complaint I have about GCW is Revenge TEF....

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my other sills points are in pistoleer i have 0/0/3/0 pistoleer

Aiming for either

1) Master Ranger, Master Pistoleer, RWS IV

or

2) Master Ranger, Pistoleer 0-4-4-4 or 3-1-4-4, RWS IV, Novice Medic

or

3) Master Ranger, Master Pistoleer, RWS I, Novice Medic

I'm gonna have to decide soon.

Of those 3 choices i'd go for the middle one. Seems like a good balanced template

I'm at 3-2-2-4 in ch with 223k of ch xp, Now I could master it but if i did then that leaves a very weak rifleman (700k riflexp in bank), but if I master rifleman, I'm left with very little in ch 0-0-0-3 go go 2 mnt krevols

Or i could 1/2 do both at either 3-0-0-4 rifle and 4-4-0-4 ch or 4-4-0-0 ch and rifle 4-3-0-4

i've been arguing with myself for the last 2 weeks on what to do. Honestly Racking my brain because one minute a f'it and master ch, but other side of me says

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO your gonna loose all that hard earned xp in rifle.

yet another voice says Who does the most damage, my rifle.

But my pets keep me alive, do they?
yes er sometimes,

not when the graul has gotten aggroed by crystal snakes and you use /sacrifice er /rescue

THATS it time to just unlearn all of rifle and ch and become a tka (i honestly thought about doing that)

Well, i must be the odd one. Master Ranger, Novice BH. Why Bounty Hunter, because it was the only way to get a BFG while still being Mater Ranger.

-gustavef

My template upon completion will look like this:

Master Ranger

CH (3,3,1,4)

Pistoleer (0,0,4,3)

Marksman (0,4,0,0)

Master Scout

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This gives me some nice pistol skills and speed.

Allows me to have 2 pets with a total of 45CL

Allows me to train and sell pets up to CL45

Allows me to train and sell mounts. (When completed)

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All this complements Master ranger very well. Would work with rifle as well.A blaster fits my characters back story....

He isreformed smuggler who grew up on the tough streets ofCoruscant.He soonshunned city life and headed into the wilderness and hasn't looked back since.

Actually have a very similar template to teh Original Poster Im half way through Ranger and Going for Master Im also A CH heading to Master as well.
For my Comabt to protect my self I have Rifleman Abilities I have Sniper box 2 and Concealment 1... this seems to Compliment itself...

Nope. I'm one of the rare Ranger Pistaleers. I like to be in the mix, running, jumping and blasting away. Although I'm working up my rifle as well. It does well for those big hunts solo.