Rifleman Archive

I was participating in a base raid last night, and as we made a rush into one of the bases, all I could hear was the sound of a thousand Jawa rifles firing, filling the screen with little blue bolts everywhere.

How long until the rifle nerf? I give it a month.

i know what you mean, in my guild only 2 of us where doing it and now there is like 12. its nuts.

but im 4-2-4-3 and i still get owned by everyone , tka mate took me out in 5seconds lol, i tried to kite and he KD'd me hehehe

im doing fencer to help when i get close and the holo told me to.

I hope i master rifleman before the nerf monster comes out. Then i'll dump it and move one to something else.

I only do what my holo says.

Rifleman was my track of choice. I wanted to Master CH first, and it only seemed logical to choose a ranged profession to back up my Creatures, and since the CH Nerf and their Suck, and the higher I climbed in Rifleman tree the more I liked it, When I hit Master I was Floored by the Night and Day difference it is to make Master. When I hit Master CH there was no big woopie, I could take out 3 Creatures, but I was no more powerful.

I am glad I stuck to my plan and persued Master Rifleman. It is the Bomb.

Bostaka'Quinta

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Bostagor wrote:

Rifleman was my track of choice. I wanted to Master CH first, and it only seemed logical to choose a ranged profession to back up my Creatures, and since the CH Nerf and their Suck, and the higher I climbed in Rifleman tree the more I liked it, When I hit Master I was Floored by the Night and Day difference it is to make Master. When I hit Master CH there was no big woopie, I could take out 3 Creatures, but I was no more powerful.

I am glad I stuck to my plan and persued Master Rifleman. It is the Bomb.

Bostaka'Quinta

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yes that was the orignal plan for my secondary account as well... idropped CH when the nerf was announced and instead chose to master BH... cracked my first holo after master and got squadleader... thought to myself long and hard about which ranged profession to take with SL... rifleman just felt right again (esp since they removed the 2.5x melee damage penalty and replaced it with 2.5x melee to-hit bonus - the extra +melee defense we got kinda evened this out)

If they nerf stacking defenses, you will see a lot less riflemen out there. As is we are a juicy component of an uber template.

I picked Scout as my starting profession, so to me rifles were the only weapon that made sense for hunting. I started just a few days after release........not power grinding, but and now 15k combat xp from Master Sharpshooter. I was a rifleman when everyone would laugh if they knew. I didn't care because it's what I wanted and it worked for me. There were lots of things broken but its mostly fixed now. Just the other day I saw a nameless rotten player that I was at odds with (they always follow the skill of the moment for pvp) running around asking for training for a rifleman skill............that for me confirms that rifleman is the biggest nerf target on the radar. Needless to say I didn't offer to train that player, and I will still be a rifle man regardless of any nerf we get. If it's too much of a nerf, I won't change professions............I'll most likely just quit SWG all together.

Zephyer Yar'Kal.........Master Ranger <AR>..........Rifleman (4/4/4/3.9)

Well it is mosty TKA/Fencer/Pistoliers that occasionally get tagged by a rifleman cry nerf the loudest because nobody else can come close to landing a shot on them.

I took up commando, cuz I was all "I'm furry, so a flamethrower is the most logical weapon!" and had the most fun playing with rifles as I went up the Marksman tree. I got an uber DLT20 that had like 100 min damage or something for just 3k off the bazaar, and I compared it to my crappy crappy newbie pistol/carbine. "Yeah, Rifles own."

I play on a new server so I don't have much experiance with the super tank characters, but if I had to guess I'd say a large part of the problem is these people running around with 3k HAM and 90% composite.

I really don't see how you're going to take them out on health or action damage, add to that the lack of stun protection on a lot of composite and you are left with very few classes that can kill them as well as a rifleman.

If they fix the bonus to hit us in melee penalty so it works then it might go someway to stopping the flood of riflemen, however I have a feeling rifle is heading towards a large nerf.

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JediBull wrote:

I hope i master rifleman before the nerf monster comes out. Then i'll dump it and move one to something else.

I only do what my holo says.

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You hit the problem on the head.

i'm interested to see what the combat revamp ham changes will bring.

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Serenius wrote:

I was participating in a base raid last night, and as we made a rush into one of the bases, all I could hear was the sound of a thousand Jawa rifles firing, filling the screen with little blue bolts everywhere.

How long until the rifle nerf? I give it a month.

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Half the problem is they took all our negatives away, well not all but its a hell of a lot easier to be a rifleman these days than it used to. The biggest of these being the 2.5x dmg mod we had against melee! The HAMs are still nasty etc but there are ways around that!