Rifleman Archive

The pure damage dealers might tell you to go with swordsman, and it compliments your mind attack. Personally, I think you get more benefits out of TKA, powerboost and meditation are excellent bonuses. I also find it very satisfying to KD/dizzy the opponent (2 legs), then bring out the rifle and shoot him on the ground. But thats just me.

My alt is a tkm/rifleman and i love it. There isnt much i cant kill except of course a krayt dragon. But i take out everything else and if something gets to close ill switch to my knucklers and go to town. I dont do much pvp- but this combo can be deadly as well. I like to attack the mind pool of players and creatures. Even with moun and brandy you can go through 1k-3k mind pool fast. Plus having all those different types of damage weapons for rifleman is so wonderful.

Diseased, poisoned, wounds? Ha who needs to carry around wound packs just meditate for a few minutes and you are good as new.

I have yet to try swordsman,pikeman, or any other melee combat skills- i like the way i am set up and works great. But you as an individual have to work on the best combo and attack.

I have the same conundrum actually. I just decided to change my build from interesting and sorta RP'ish to more of a combatant. I only have the sp to master 1 other supportive prof. I weighed the pro's and con's and asked for help here and I'm gonna go with fencer. You get another good stun weapon if you can find the pieces, but more importantly you get great defenses. Why meditate the wounds away when you can just not get wounds in the first place Plus I feel that I am much more likely to use rifle to kill things at all ranges then switch to knucklers or a sword so this works out well for me. TKM is a great prof too but I just feel fencer is right for me. Heh, I'll tell you how it works out; if you go TK we can compare notes

i am doing the same template and i absolutely love it!!!!

Rifles is a bit slow going through it, but TKA went by really quick

I personally think it is a nice match as u have ranged and close attacks, plus the meditation side of things really helps.

I do a little pvp and rifles seem too help more as near enough everyone has 80% kinectic armour on, but it rocks for pve, take a couple of shots at long range , then when they come close knock there ass down and pound away!!!!

I'm going Master Rifleman and Swordsman with 4004 in TKA. I already miss being a master TKA, but Swordsman is better in PvE and I still keep the meditation tree in TKA.

This is why i love these forums i was wondering what other profession to take up with rifle beside CM and it sound like TKM might be it thanks

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Ranxero wrote:
The pure damage dealers might tell you to go with swordsman, and it compliments your mind attack. Personally, I think you get more benefits out of TKA, powerboost and meditation are excellent bonuses. I also find it very satisfying to KD/dizzy the opponent (2 legs), then bring out the rifle and shoot him on the ground. But thats just me.

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Its not just you.

TKA is also good to have a different damage type since nightsisters have low resistsagainst kinetic damage and there is no kinetic rifle anymore.

It's a great templet. I PvP alot and all the melee professions cry that I run away from them in combat. As a TKM I have melee mitigation 3 so I can take their beating and as a master rifleman my accuracy bonuses are so high that it doesn't matter how close they are, you still hit them.I guess swordsman would be good if you like the extra mind damage but it's kind of pointless when you can just keep your rifle out and do even more mind damage. Not to mention nothing is funnier then watching another ranged profession wak to DB you and you pop up at almost full health with force of will. They take of running like hell. This combination allows me to win many fights where I'm out numbered because you can focus one killing them one at a time and when you incap you get a second chance to finish off the rest. Then when you are done you get to meditate and heal all your wounds. I think I got my defense accuity from TKM also which enhances the effectiveness of your block. The last thing people expect is a ranged preofession to stand his ground when a melee profession charges.

i have arifleman/ swordsman i have soloed a giant krayt

tkm, master rifleman, and fencer 0444! my defenses rock and i can deal the damage to people or opponents at any range. I have not pvped much, but the times i have, i lives until i got a nasty dot.

I use TKM/MRM on one of my alts and it's very effective, used to be MRM/Master Pikeman but unless you can get hold of the uber DOT pikes you're wasting skillpoints :/