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What is this ability for? on the description it says something about blowing off enemy's cover. but cover doesn't work against PCs anyway, so that doesn't make sense....

can anyone tell me what this skill is for and what good strategy to use it in?

thanks =)

btw, whats the stats on a spray stick? i currently have a 15-309/5.7 with a 62 mind cost, sliced laser rifle. not sure if i should switch.

on another note, chitin armor killed my mind cost =P that was a waste of money.

I just got a spraystick and I think mine is 2.3 speed, 9 - 125 dmg... specials costs are... pretty high, but I don't think they were 62 (but maybe they were)... the specials cost was HIGH, whatever it was. In comparison to a DLT20a, anyway.

The spraystick's great for warning shot and for just spraying green death, but I've been eaten by too many gnorts and chubas to use it SERIOUSLY. Give me a 500pt single-shot kill from my DLT20a any day. The spraysticks' low-end damage really hurts when the dice are against you. Sure, it can occassionally get into the 400s, bu I've also gotten some sub-100 hits (or worse) which only serve to tick off the monster.

As for Strafe Shot... I don't have it yet, and probably won't get it. I -suspect- that it's totally useless. I don't know if a PC's Take Cover works against other PCs (as in, giving the Under-Cover guy a defensive bonus)... but it might. So maybe this is a PvP skill.

I tried using... what's it called... the one that's supposed to... hm... maybe I do have this one... I think it was supposed to force a foe out of cover, or something like that... and an NPC shooter was prone (although I had no idea if he was under cover or not)... so I wasted the time to fire this special (or whatever one it was)... did nothing I could see.

For my money, MindShot, HeadShot, Headshot, Headshot, Headshot, Harvest, Loot.

Defensive bonus on cover, right?