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Thread: Armor for the Rifleman?
I'm working my way up the rifleman tree and I wanted to ask what is the best type of armor to buy. An Armorsmith suggested Ubese, due to it's high Kenetic protection. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm deciding btween Tantel, Marabi, and Ubese. Thanks so much
Aralithia Oran
Master Architect/ Rifleman
=Blade of the Alliance=
another option is to go do King Teraks missions on endor. he gives you marauder armor - only leggings, biceps, and chest plate. I'm told it can be sliced for effectiveness/encumberance as well.
the armor has 25% special against kinetic, 15% against everything else except stun, electricy, and blast.
best part - it only uses 10 mind encumberance for each piece. if you want a full suit of low mind + kinetic protection, have an armorsmith fix you up with ubese or mabari armor pieces to complete the suit. also, a composite chest plate (sliced for encumberance) looks really cool with this armor, and mind cost will be under 20 - not TOO bad. (i just luv the look though).
thats the way i'm going. i will also have a full suit of insane mind-cost composite for when i'm buffed and drugged + pvp'ing. 
(i'm going to try it anyways).
Jeisyn Blackwell ~ Tempest ~ Master Sharpshooter ~ Master Marksman ~ Doctor-in-training
I did all pve without armor. I do pvp with a mixed marauder/tantel/chitin set, so I get many damage types covered and encumberance is in control.
Ubese aint that bad with the exception of the helm, the mind encumberance is pretty high on it.
As for PvE, I would personally recommend no armor at all, and lots of crates of Muon Gold and other mind/focus/willpower enhancing foods.
whats the point of paying for drugs and shield generators and armour for PvP... you're not making any of your money back, while the BHs and CHs and Commandos dont need any of that to own you.
Wearing a full suit of composite means you get to fire off 4 specials before its sit-down time
bounty hunters just LOOVE riflemen with full composite, because the rifleman's specials help the BH along with his eye shots!
you're so full of sh|t harpoon. you clearly have no experience pvp against commando's or BH's and you clearly are not a master rifleman.
"whats the point of paying for drugs and shield generators and armor for PVP...you're nort making any of your money back, while the BH's and CH's and commando's don't need any of that to own you."
so utterly and completely WRONG.
if a dude isn't wearing armor pvp, Ione, two, or threeshot him with my T21. if he IS wearing composite, It takes 5 shots max with my jawa, and take very minimal dmg to myself if i'm wearing armor.
"wearing a full suit of composite means you get to fire off 4 specials before it's sit-down time".
again, WRONG.
1. it's called STAT MIGRATION. put as much into your mind as you can, for PvP.
2. you will most certainly get off more than 4 shots unless you're using the craziest mind cost on your T21 or Laser. and even then, 4 is unreasonably low and is not true, unless you're playing with Pistoleer HAM stats... in which case, you're an idiot.
3. 4 shots + sniper shot is usually enough to kill most opponents anyway.
"Bounty Hunters just LOOVE rifleman with full composite, because the rifleman's specials help the BH along with his eye shots!"
maybe they like YOU, because you're a moron. If you're wearing a composite helmet, and have appropriate rifleman stats, Eyeshot will do minimal dmg to you before your enemy goes down. obviously you've never tried armor, are not master, do not pvp.
At first i thought your breath was bad... but now i see you're just talking out of your ass!
That wasone funny post.
Jeisyn wrote:
you're so full of sh|t harpoon. you clearly have no experience pvp against commando's or BH's and you clearly are not a master rifleman.
"whats the point of paying for drugs and shield generators and armor for PVP...you're nort making any of your money back, while the BH's and CH's and commando's don't need any of that to own you."
so utterly and completely WRONG.
if a dude isn't wearing armor pvp, Ione, two, or threeshot him with my T21. if he IS wearing composite, It takes 5 shots max with my jawa, and take very minimal dmg to myself if i'm wearing armor.
"wearing a full suit of composite means you get to fire off 4 specials before it's sit-down time".
again, WRONG.
1. it's called STAT MIGRATION. put as much into your mind as you can, for PvP.
2. you will most certainly get off more than 4 shots unless you're using the craziest mind cost on your T21 or Laser. and even then, 4 is unreasonably low and is not true, unless you're playing with Pistoleer HAM stats... in which case, you're an idiot.
3. 4 shots + sniper shot is usually enough to kill most opponents anyway.
"Bounty Hunters just LOOVE rifleman with full composite, because the rifleman's specials help the BH along with his eye shots!"
maybe they like YOU, because you're a moron. If you're wearing a composite helmet, and have appropriate rifleman stats, Eyeshot will do minimal dmg to you before your enemy goes down. obviously you've never tried armor, are not master, do not pvp.
At first i thought your breath was bad... but now i see you're just talking out of your ass!
Composite works great against a commando that uses burst run to get close.
http://www.zen23690.zen.co.uk/Flamethrower%20on%20Composite.jpg
You can set up a macro to remove / equip your armour, makes it easier to regen your mind after a battle.
my stats are already high for mind
i cant my my secondary stats for action and health any lower, my health is at 900 and my action at 850. Get it any lower and I'll be getting one shotted by pistoleers.
I PvP more than you do, and I dont pvp with big groups to back me up vs single opponents like you do and then say that "rifles are good"
rifleman's speed is being capped to 3 with the next patch anyway
pistols are capped at 1 and good ones do do nearly as much damage as goodrifles, and more damage than average rifles,with much higher accuracy
But anyways, you must be utterly moronic or something, the whole point of PVP is to have fun, you might not get nothing back in return, but its fun none the less. Also Riflemen arent solo PVPer's, we are more or less group support, in solo PVP a master can get wasted fairly easily.
in my humble opinion, and experience, you can safely lower your health and action to at least 750 - put secondaries at 400, and just use stims when you need. pour the rest into mind.
pistoleers and bh's won't be able to one-shot you. show me proof of this.
put on some nice light armor - as many people have suggested.
i've posted dozens of things in various threads to try and shake you of your erroneous opinion that our class is crap PvP. if you're unwilling to try different, and perhaps even unconventional things in order to be effective, then you deserve to be beat.
the only person holding you back, PvP, is you. I go into Bestine overt (reb) alone quite often and do just fine, thanks.