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Thread: Ranger Soloist: Is marksman 0004 worth it?????
Master Ranger/Master Rifleman
Eclipse Server
However, all things being equal, I prefer medic skills
I use the combat side also. /threatenshot actually seems to work, and /warningshot when it hits gives me enough time to regroup and finish the hunt.
Good question by the way, Ijust got done moving my skill points back to that line. 5 stars for you, bro.
Message Edited by Enoshima on 04-29-2004 11:07 PM
Rifle, maybe worth it, the jury is split - some say the rifle skills make up for it, others say it works.
Pistol - not worth it. I am a Master Pistoleer, my specials are all close range (pistol melee defense 1 - aka whackyouupsidethehead, take a nap). My stuff gets weak, I pdart and split.
Carbines - (deep breath) worth it, only because carbine is still broken, underpowered, and overlooked by the Devs. If and when they fix it, ranged may not be worth it. Until then, keep it.
Oh yeah, I was a master marksman in a former life, went at least halfway into each ranged speciality at one time or another to figure out what weapon I liked best. I am not picking on carbines, they are fun and could be really fun, but right now they are really borked.
JB
JBMat wrote:Rifle, maybe worth it, the jury is split - some say the rifle skills make up for it, others say it works.
It works, yes. It's just totally unneccessary given decent weaponry and the right approach(tm) is used :-).
If you pick the /maskscent, /prone, /headshot3-spam approach every single creature that is worth hunting for ressources (and where any of the ranged support specials would actually have a slight probability to stick) drops dead before it knows what has hit it.
Problem with this approach: It's boredom and boredom alone and the reason I dropped creature hunting as a whole.
OK from the look of it Marksman 0003 is worth it for teh warning shot and threaten shot. How about the 4th box for suppression fire.
The reason I ask is that I hate ginding combat XP, I perfer to explore and runNPC quests to gat rare items. and 22K of cambat XP is achunk of a carbine cambat xp box which has a cool KD shot, (yes i know the box shot is still not up to par, but i play for fun.)
You should see my house (Valcyn server, Player city Olympus mons, Corelia) near ther cloning fac.
Fderrr wrote:
OK from the look of it Marksman 0003 is worth it for teh warning shot and threaten shot. How about the 4th box for suppression fire.
The reason I ask is that I hate ginding combat XP, I perfer to explore and runNPC quests to gat rare items. and 22K of cambat XP is achunk of a carbine cambat xp box which has a cool KD shot, (yes i know the box shot is still not up to par, but i play for fun.)
You should see my house (Valcyn server, Player city Olympus mons, Corelia) near ther cloning fac.
It really depends on how you play. A knockdown shot is probably more useful than suppression fire. But you should be worried more about Skill Points than XP. I have capped my combat xp (300k) many times over already. Yes, it is slow. But, if youcan get the skill points, both will eventually be useful (well, they would be to me at least).
Lythender Nirou
Master Ranger/Master Rifleman
Eclipse Server