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What would you think fits better for me, a more casual player who soon hits novice ranger -pistoleer or rifleman along with the ranger skills?I can only play now and then, mostly solo, and am in no hurry to advance through the skill trees. Does anyone have good or bad experiences, anything you would recommend?

Thanks for any input!

If you can, I would suggest going into a combination. Starting out, I was a Master marksman, with rifle, carbine and pistol, as well as ranged support. Dropped ranged and carbine totally... pretty much useless I think. I kept rifle and advanced to Rifleman. I can use the T21 for long range punch from the prone while either camo'd or maskscent. Works well on larger creatures. I kept pistol and an working on completeing the last 10 skill pts I have in Pistoleer. Pistol is for close in, or smaller game you don't engage at distance, as well as some PvP work.

Just my opinion

JB

Until the most recent update, I would have written a beautiful response on why the Carbine was the perfect weapon for Rangers. Now though, I think it just falls to personal preference. Get master mark and get the novice branch in at least pistol and rifle, if not all three weapons.

Roliando Cadeamai
Master Ranger/Novice Carbineer
Member of Naritus Rebel Alliance (NRA)

Evolutionary theory of the day: God nerfed the Dodo into extinction. Many, many eons ago, the Dodo started as the Phoenix, a great and wonderous bird. However, all the other birds bitched, so slowly God ate away at the beauty and power of the Phoenix until only the poor stupid Dodo was left.

Well right now the Devs have us Ranger/Riflemen bent over so you might want to go the pistol route.

I am a Master Marksman and I going the rifleman route. Just want to keep my options open.
I like the idea of te rifle...lots of range.

And when the creatures get close i just switch to the spraystick or pull a warning shot to send the creature away.

The way things are going for me I will get rid of master marksman and the carbine and pistol skills and keep all the ranged support stuff. Suppresion fire works great and warning shot has saved me many a time...

Just my opinion though.

It is a personal choice, I picked rifleman after hitting master marksman. Then as I leveled in Rifleman and ch unlearned most of marksman tree.

Reason's Why
#1 at the time, I could hit more accurately at longer distances with a rifle then my scout blaster. (which now hits about the same)

#2 Maskscent + distance allow 2-3 shots on a creature before it aggro's you. probably not that differant when using a pistol but of course at this time there where no master weaponsmiths either.

Now don't get me wrong its gonna be a sad day when I finally unlearn my last box in pistol skills and have to use a d18 pistol. but thats what happens

Test em all out , stick with what you like

Rifle's In my eye's should be the most accurate at 45-60m, have a hitable pool (mind) as does everyother weapon and hit hard. but not that fast , here are some key features. I'm recalling most of this from memory so the numbers might be a bit off. BUT BEWARE if a rifle is in your hand you take 2.5x-3x Melee Damage.

They have 2 medium armor guns
E11 Rifle = good average damage but piss pour special max damage base 49-89 damage, mine from a master smith is 109-184 3.3 speed, w/ slice my all purpose hunting, fire support gun.
Laser Rifle = so so damage, bad min damage 13 base max iirc is 179 (base guns) mine is 32-379 not the best damage, but good speed slice 3.4 This is my sniper rifle, no resources for a t-21, when it hits hard it hits hard.

Jawa Ion = Stun (light armor)
SWG-82(?) = Cold
I use these against resistant creatures or in pvp darn everyone has energy or acid resistance, not many have cold or stun. not everyone can afford composite armor with 40%+ res to all. Yet alone wear it

Spraystick = The rifleman's speed demon. Wanna watch your mind pool drain and and specials fly like mad. This is your baby. Great gun for fire support for grouping, when you need the xp too.

tusken = Kinetic (bugged atm) Nice for sniping if they ever get the damage type fixed.
dlt20a = your update to the cdef rifle, good all around gun
Key with this is low ham useage , great for bleeding shots.
One of the best guns in the game. I still keep mine in my pack .
dlt20 = lower base damage then dlt20a

Now for pistols, even though i hit master marksman at one time, I stuck to scout blasters. dh17 pistols and dl44's, there where no good fwg5's at the time, nor power5's

Carbs, erm I really can't say much because I didn't really use them much, just they have specials that target action pool's, which is nice for that low action pool ikopi thats running at you.

There is my tip, Play with what you like, sorry im kinda bias to my rifles.

I use the Laser rifle almost all the time.

I am a novice rifleman wih master marksman and I have no skills in rifleman yet. I can one shot bull bantha some of the time with my Laser Rifle...most of the time they take about 4 shots...

Bottom line...they never aggro me. I kill them first. It is great, I love my rifle.

32-360 damage, sliced for 4.2 speed, with a +33 at 60m.

This is using Headshot 2 of course.

In groups I use the suppresion fire and the strafe shot and they work wonders.