Rifleman Archive
Thread: What's a good template/Sec. Profession to go along with Rifleman?
For PvP, go CM. You can heal yourself and, well......CM's are just killer when combined with any profession 
Plus, you'll have the double mind-whammy thing working for you 
Ooo OOOoooo go teras kasi, we teh ooba 1337!
You get to pwn people with da 1337 tera kasi skill and then use da ooba T21 to blast them as they run away. Sees you can't loose! OOOOO and you get powerboost, make you all big and tough.
But in all seriousness TKA is a solid second profession for rifleman and vice versa.
Combat Medic. Definately. No ifs ands or buts.
As a combat medic, you get all advanced heals, ranged heals (for battle pvp) therefore staying at your max firing range and healing your friends. For 1v1 pvps you're still deadly since you just fire off your mind bleeds, top it all off with a mind poison, then kite and fire headshots at will. Then you db with sniper shot and whatch all his buddies incap as you fire random headshots and thanks to area effect poisons....you're unstoppable..mwhahahahahahhahahahahhahaha
...hahahaha
You want to pvp?
I got one word for ya... DEFENSES.
Rifleman is a great start, build on it. forget about CH.
if you want to be a terror, yeah, CM is great offensively - i daresay that mind poison is the only thing that reliably kills me when i'm buffed... but rifle is already fantastic offense, why not supplement that with defense? I did the master rifle/master Doc template, that was good fun, but there's so many doctors around now that finding buffs is terribly easy. If you really want to kick-ass pvp, spend every single skill point on combat, and maybe up to first aid 2 in medic..
I made 5400 faction points this weekendjustpvp'ing- and my composite armor is in the bank 
some doc buffs so you can spam specials all day, and some food for your mind, that's all ya need if you have the right template.
As of my experiences in pvp i've found master rifleman/tera kasi is super. You get masive defense bonuses and it makes for a nice suprise for those commando that think they can rush a rifleman . Plus power boost is simply awesome with doc and entertainer buffs.
shooting fora combination of these skillsafter i unlock my jedi
wards off SOE and keeps quiet about the important particulars... Master Rifleman, Marksman, Fencer, TK with 3-0-3-0 medic (i'm a self stim addict)...
People have proposed mostly PvP templates. I have nothing to add there. For PvE you'd get a lot more bang for the buck out of swordsman. You get two more mind bleeds that stack with MS1 & 2. Thats 4 bleeds total. You also get a mind targeting attack that is better than HS2 and much less draining. You also get some very decent defenses allowing you to tank pretty effectively. Get buffed up fully and equip high quality composite minus the helmet. Nail your target with stacked MS 1 & 2, peace and wait for the bleeds to tick. Then start hitting headshots. When it closes equip your helmet and the sword (or hammer) and stack Mind Hit 1 & 2. Then pile in with Head Hit 3's. Plus you have your usual melee bag of tricks - CoB, Warcry, Dizzy/KD etc. I think this is better for PVe than other templates. For PvP some sort of dabbling scheme involving TKA, Fencer and Pistolier is probably uber.
CM's good but expensive, hopefully your guild can help ya out with that though.
CH is a no no for PVP, Pets are just too easy to kill.