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Shortly after I made master rifle (yay!) our base was raided and I thought this would be an opportune time to test out this new strafe 2 that everyones been talking about. So I got a full doc buff, slapped on some good composite, drank a breath of heaven and swallowed a muon..and there I was holding my trusty old T21 ready for battle.

A single red dot appears on the radar and I thought 'hmmmm, first catch of the day'. I approach to 65m and start spamming strafe 2 like there's no tomorrow. I look at the enemy's HAM expecting to see a lot of white and there are barely scratches! At the same time the enemy has started spamming eye-shot which depletes my 1400 mind in about 10 seconds. Incap and death followed, much to his delight (I could tell by the way he danced on my corpse).

As he approached to db I could see he was wearing composite, so perhaps I should have used a jawa? The combat spam indicated I was hitting him for 400-500 each shot but his HAMS were barely touched and he wouldnt have had time to heal (no others around to heal him either). So he must have had some **edit** good armour.

He was hitting me for around 250 with eye-shot (but my helmet has 60% resists), and he was firing so quickly he must have been master gunfighter as well. And he wasn't missing a shot (either was I).

Does anyone have advice on what to do in this situation? Should I have spammed headshot 3, or tried a flurry2/supression combo KD? Strafe2 really didnt work in this situation despite hitting him about7 times (I think about 800 was missingfrom each his health/action ham's but they were buffed to 2500+).

Thanks for your help fellow sharpshooters,

tylastar.

my pvp is this /mindshot1 /mindshot2 then /headshot3 about 20 times heheh always use a jawa if they got comp on.... this way they will bleed even if i go down i get full buffs b4 pvp too not just dancer but mucisian too and fishak and muon .. i usually win .... and u should get at lease a comp helm to block eyeshot spam

The problem with using Advanced Strafe in PvP is firstly that it doesnt target a specific pool and secondly that regen on a person with secondary stat buffs is too high. You need to concentrate your damage on one pool to drop them as fast as possible, therefore mindshot1+2 followed by headshots is the fastest way.

The only problem is that people can easily counter head shots by using a high resist composite helmet, hence using a Jawa Ion Rifle isthe best option versus people in with composite helmets as most composite will not be stun layered sufficiently to stop much of the damage.

Well, dont expect to beat a someone that invested more skillpoints in combat than you so easily. When i go to battle my mindpool is usualy somewhere between 1600 and 2500 and i wear a helmet. With a good java you have a higher damage per second than most scatter pistols and there a helmets with up 80% acid damage resist while the best java layered helmets are 35% on my server.

On offence but getting master sharpshoter dont give you a "i win button".

If you're master use a combo of mind bleeds and head shots as they will tear into the armor. Also, if I know I'm facing a master bounty hunter or somebody with god armor I'll do a burst run and kite them. You'll still hit and if you're running a good damage power up on your T21 you'll waste them. I had one kid last night think that his comp helmet and buffs was going to stop me from kicking him around. My first 4 head shot 3s connected and took down his mind to less than 200. I did pull a KD on me but botched up or my guy was too spiced out to stay down as I got up I pulled off one two more head shots to finish him off.

I've had a few players who run near god armor ask how I cut into so fast and from what I understand there are still holes in helmets. Anymore I'll mess up a players mind as many combat medics are either missing from pvp or will not heal minds so this is a partial unhealable pool. Remember, kiting is a good thing and if you can place objects between you and your opponent as they will lose the line of sight. If you cannot cut into the armor use the jawa to dizzy and flush them and don't forget to stack the bleeds. When done right it's almost a sure bet they'll have problems keeping the mind pool up and sooner or later will either ditch the helmet for a faster regen or some other rifleman will come along to finish him off.

SOE recently suspended like 50 accounts or so for using a slicing exploit to get double sliced armor and weapons. It's possible this guy had armor of that type. Anyway, a hard core PVP'er will have migrated mind stats to 1100 mind, 900+ willpower and 900+ focus (provided he was smart enough to start as a human)...then get a dancer buff for another 1100 mind points, eat a muon for +500 all mind, eat two glucose and throw back a fishak. Let's see...that would be roughly 3500 mind, 2200 focus and 1400 willpower. Add a full suit of heavy composite and it's still roughly 3500 mind 1200 focus and 400 willpower.

Given many riflemen get a mind pool drain too high while wearing armor, BH's will often prey on us cause we aren't wearing the necessary composite. This is where the Jawa comes in again IMO. In addition to possibly hitting a comp suits vulnerability, it's faster for non masters to use and requires less HAM to use it in PVP.

Personally, I look for any buff that will increase secondary mind stats. I choose Master Musician buffs over Master Dancer buffs, drink breath of heaven and eat glucose cause they buff focus...and then of course muon is our best friend. This way, buffing secondaries more in stead of the main mind pool helps us fit on that whole suit of composite and not make our specials drain us too quickly.

Migrate stats to mind, get doc buffs, buff mind secondaries, wear heavy composite, use jawa ion rifle mainly. That helps to manage the mind pool IMO, but I'm sure there are other very good strategies.

I wear full composite as rifelman in pvp. Thou its not the best i get it for free and its about 50-55%. All HAM cost sliced. With the food a eat i can spam all shots without no HAM costs at all for about 5 minutes when the i am doc buffed. Getting and additional dancer and or musician buff and having the toolbar full of food and spices i am a walking tank that is very hard to take down (well CMs still can, grrrr).

My basic mind setting is 1100 800 650 mind focus willpower