Rifleman Archive

ya, 3-4 shots under cover, then they spot u and attack. ya, u can do the same thing with any attack, EXCEPT: the other attacks take less time iirc.

Are you spamming conceal shot? Or, like me, are you waiting until the combat music stops and then firing again? I can hit several times like this, don't know how long it would last, I get impatient, stand up, KD, snare, kite til dead. But I know I've gotten off 5 conceal shots and not been discovered. It's groupmates that don't listen and wander close to me (fixed pub 20) or something spawning on top of me that blws my cover. That or my impatience.

id like to know if u can do SEVEN or more shots while under cover. otherwise, the time u spend doing the conceal warmup-execute-cooldown over time will not b anywhere as useful as using any other shot from prone then laying into the targ as usual. 7 shots from conceal will make a significant diff. 4 shots or 5 is still only a 5% diff.

I'll test it out next time I log in. Usually it's not the target that breaks my cover like I said, but even pre-CU it was hard to get more than five shots in if your target was a higher /con than you. Too many times I got raped by voritors grinding out rifleman. /shudder

Yeah, I wait until their symbol/con/name isn't flashing red anymore, then fire another one. It seems to reset the 'I've been hit' flag, allowing you to hit from cover again and again without getting aggro.

Not for the impatient, however

the only time i use cover/conceal is to pull a target from a cluster of mobs, using conceal to draw the target out can help you if you don't want to agro the pack

Yeah, thats just how conceal/conceal shot works, and its exactly why I never use it, it's a pretty useless special attack

last time I tried concealed shot to pull a piket - I pulled the pack.

Ok, I tested this several times under varied circumstances.

1. Master rifles/carbines with an unsliced T21, Exploration 4 (Mask Scent). Single of conceal shot, wait for combat music to die, creature roams around for about 20 seconds, and charges me. Second attempt was same conditions, consecutive conceal shots, discovered from 65m after second shot. Third attempt, same conditions, single conceal chot, ESC to clear target, target roams for 20 secs and charges me.

2. Rifleman/Ranger - 3423 rifleman/4133 ranger on Tatooine using Mask Scent, Assault Bowcaster, CL53 dewback. Tried same combinations as with rifleman/carbineer, same results.

3. Same rifleman/ranger, weapon, creature. Used a tatooine camo kit instead of mask scent. Tried same combinations as previous, same results.

My only theory at this point is that when I initially replied to this thread, I was using dial-up with a bad ping time, and with the rifle/ranger, 5-10% packet loss at all times. I tried these combos after I got my cable internet hooked up, and have no packet loss and max ping has been 112. Now, conceal shot doesn't seem to work for me other than to single pull, and I can do that with a trap on my ranger.