Rifleman Archive

HeHA, we are in the same boat, I too was a bounty hunter and am now going rifleman, all I can say is either quenkers or the geonosian caves, I'm on day 3 today at the caves and I went from novice to 2/1/0/3.

Heh, I started doing some rifleman a few days ago aswell, got a few boxes on the way then realized how much I utterly hate rifles and dropped it again. Nothing beats carbines

Message Edited by Khyron2k on 03-21-2004 11:43 PM

Hehe, yeah was the same thing for me, but don't go over to the dark side of pvp where riflemen and CM's rule

"I'm a BH/Carbineer now. 0/0/0/3 in Carbines (Working towards 0/0/3/4) and so far 2/2/3/4 in bounty hunter (Working towards MBH)"

Lol, you are not even Master Carbineer and you are complaining about how l33t Rifleman is. You shouldn't even be attempting PvP unless you are a master of an elite combat profession. I agree that Carbineer by itself is kind of crappy but that does not mean that Riflemen are unbeatable. I think Rifleman kind of sucks actually because of their accuracy at close range. They can't even hit me after the defense stacking nerfs. Here is a combat log of a duel with a Master Rifleman starting at 64 m.

rifle man is "leet" i was one up until yesterday, they do need a nerf.

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RxCoup wrote:
Dont blame riflemen for beating you in PvP, blame your templetes. Im looking at your sigs and i see; master weaponsmith carbineer and scout, ranger , pistoleer. Who colud you actually kill with those builds?

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Don't underestimate a carbineer with +90 speed, I've taken down fully buffed and armored Riflemen/TKM's with my current template and I'd like to see a pure rifleman beat me in a duel. Only ones I have problems with beating is people who have pure pvp templates but I guess that doesn't come as a shock to you

And I'm not blaming riflemen for anything, I just don't like rifles and this is not because I get killed by every rifleman I come across.

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Khyron2k wrote:

I agree with you on the skills, however my sig is horribly out of date.

I'm a BH/Carbineer now. 0/0/0/3 in Carbines (Working towards 0/0/3/4) and so far 2/2/3/4 in bounty hunter (Working towards MBH)

But what's the point of any profession compared to Riflemen?

T21's hit the speed cap at Master, making them hit just as fast as Pistols/Carbines. Strafe2, HS3, and SniperShot are easily three of the best specials in the game. I watched a rifleman take down an AT-ST in under a minute using Strafe2 with a T21, making them as effective (If not more) as Commandos, plus the T21 doesn't have charges.

I don't want to be the generic Rifleman / Fencer / TKM template that everyone and their pet uses. I wanted to be something interesting. I picked BH because I thought it might give me some power in PvP and let me hunt Jedi. But with 80% of my enemies going master rifleman to spam advanced strafe / snipershot all day long, it makes me wonder why I try anymore.

Message Edited by Khyron2k on 03-22-2004 12:36 AM

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Rifleman isn't overpowered as such, it's more than 90% resists to all except stun armour and doc buffs mean the only easy way of killing people is poisons or stun mind damage.

Take away the Jawa and/or headshot and you'll halve the rifleman population overnight.

Bah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, n00b whiners always make me laugh.

I also have a master BH/3-0-0-4 Carbineer(Went speed it's better to me to use any carbine at one shot per second), you don't even know what your talking about.

I have 4 KD's if it comes to it to get someone on the groud, Dizzy-Stun-Blind, and a hell of alot of meaness. So what your Telling us you want a Master Rifleman(Only master has strafe 2) to equal a novice carbineer or novice BH? Sorry thats dumb.

If you were a Master BH complaining maybe you'd have a point, but first you'd have to understand why the system makes Rifleman/CM overpowering(Armor+75% PVP damage Reduction+ Mind Damage+Buffs) and I'm sure you just read the nerfherders and never looked at the entire system.

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Khyron2k wrote:

T21's hit the speed cap at Master, making them hit just as fast as Pistols/Carbines.

Message Edited by Khyron2k on 03-22-2004 12:36 AM

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I find this to not be entirely accurate. While during conventional firing with my 90 rifle speed and 7.5 speed damage-sliced T-21 I -do- hit the cap, the delay for things like strafe2 and Headshot3 means I spam specials at 1 every2 or 2.5 seconds. Most people come across rifle speed tapes to help them with this, I just haven't gotten any yet (besides a single +1 armor attatchment ). To my knowledge, Master Pistoleers and Carbineers spam specials at the 1 second cap regardless.