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Thread: how im supost to hunt if i cant kill
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aibo220
Sat May 07, 2005 8:32 pm
#14
Transfer pistol to carbine or RM unless you really love pistols.
I been pistoller since launch and post-downgrade we are worse off.
Before the downgrade us pistollers had several nice, distinct pistols to choose from along with some good specials and were able to hold our own in both pve and pvp. Post-downgrade... We got no special specials - as in, anyone can use them - and we got 3 totally similar pistols to choose from and can barely hold our own in pve and pvp.
As a MP/MBH/0404 SL, I'm better off using my proton carbine -- a carbine that is not top class -- than I am any of my pistols. Astonishing. I keep asking myself why am I not converting all my skills to carbineer or RM. With all the pistol skills offered in game I am better off using a carbine. And no... Smuggler is no longer a pistoleer thing seeing how anyone can use those specials, which to me are useless.
If I use our root I might as well use the carbine as the mob is stuck in the distance, which is why I don't. Instead I go up to them to justify not using a carbine. And even then, the carbine only does about 100 damage less than my pistol. Better off saving the effort of switching guns.
IMO, the only way for pistollers to become at all valuable is for us to either excel in speed or for carbines to be unable to shoot from close range. I can't fire my pistol pass 35m, so why can a carbineer shoot when in pistol range?
I been pistoller since launch and post-downgrade we are worse off.
Before the downgrade us pistollers had several nice, distinct pistols to choose from along with some good specials and were able to hold our own in both pve and pvp. Post-downgrade... We got no special specials - as in, anyone can use them - and we got 3 totally similar pistols to choose from and can barely hold our own in pve and pvp.
As a MP/MBH/0404 SL, I'm better off using my proton carbine -- a carbine that is not top class -- than I am any of my pistols. Astonishing. I keep asking myself why am I not converting all my skills to carbineer or RM. With all the pistol skills offered in game I am better off using a carbine. And no... Smuggler is no longer a pistoleer thing seeing how anyone can use those specials, which to me are useless.
If I use our root I might as well use the carbine as the mob is stuck in the distance, which is why I don't. Instead I go up to them to justify not using a carbine. And even then, the carbine only does about 100 damage less than my pistol. Better off saving the effort of switching guns.
IMO, the only way for pistollers to become at all valuable is for us to either excel in speed or for carbines to be unable to shoot from close range. I can't fire my pistol pass 35m, so why can a carbineer shoot when in pistol range?
Almagill
Sun May 08, 2005 5:44 pm
#15
DaveG wrote:
Arkadius_Radd wrote:
Phecnacine darts. One of a few traps that are working and quite well too. Toss one, pop off a few shots and toss another. Lather, rinse, repeat as neccessary.
Funny, they don't seem to be doing much good for me.
They're probably depressed. Stuck in a box all their life, taken out to rattle about in the bottom of your inventory then flung at some smelly critter...
Arkadius_Radd
Mon May 09, 2005 5:14 am
#17
That's odd, p-darts seem to be working better for me now than pre-CU. Haven't had a single ad.mesh work though.
Starson
Mon May 09, 2005 4:44 pm
#18
I use the 'glow wire' traps all ways, it lowers both the ranged and melee defence of the critter, ie more hits faster kill. I am melee myself so no p.darts, I want them to come to me 
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