Rifleman Archive
Thread: Bump this up if u will quit if rifle is as weak as it seems it will be after the revamp
what are you basing your complaints on? rumours? suppositions? WAGs?
why don't we wait to see what happens when it's put on TC. then, if it sucks, complain loud and long. If it goes live still borked, quit if you want.
In the meantime, a post like this does nothing.
I dated a girl once who would write crap down in preparation for the next argument we'd have. Like, she'd brainstorm for hateful, hurtful things to say, and save the juiciest ones to launch on me when she needed them (we didn't last long). This kind of post is the same sort of counterproductive behavior, in my opinion.
Right now from what I read here that the consesus seems to be that the rifle profession works. Its specials work, it has decent weapons with varied damage types and overall is a fun profession to play.
On the other hand carbineer and pistoleer both have significant design and bug issues that prevent them from being what they could be.
Since the balance pass is about balancing combat and does not include a profession revamp for carbineer or pistoleer what you will likely find is that rifleman will be the profession that works and was nerfed versus carbineer and pistoleer that are broken and got nerfed, along with everyone else.
As far as the FOTM, rifleman like other mind targeting professions are popular because they target mind, the great unhealable HAM pool. After the balance pass though no one is going to be pool specific since the developers have finally realized what we saw all along, pool specificity within the professions was a very dumb idea.
Betatoxin wrote:
As far as the FOTM, rifleman like other mind targeting professions are popular because they target mind, the great unhealable HAM pool. After the balance pass though no one is going to be pool specific since the developers have finally realized what we saw all along, pool specificity within the professions was a very dumb idea.
Fencer is a FOTM, they do not target mind. BH can target mind, not an FOTM. Rifleman is popular because it can actually do damage through buffs and armor, same with Scatterhit for fencer with a stun baton (well if you are not wearing stun armor)CM poisons go right through armor as well. Riflemen have been good for a while, no one noticed till armor started getting good, BH/Pistoleers could easily kill you with eyeshot back in the day, they have a little more trouble now, not because all of a sudden mind was targetable, it was because armor got to good for pistols.
(forgot to add, will not drop it and just cause something seems weak at first doesn't mean it always is, ie riflemen hehe)Message Edited by cincoalto on 06-12-2004 01:12 AM
BlasterForHire wrote:
I dated a girl once who would write crap down in preparation for the next argument we'd have. Like, she'd brainstorm for hateful, hurtful things to say, and save the juiciest ones to launch on me when she needed them (we didn't last long). This kind of post is the same sort of counterproductive behavior, in my opinion.
Now that is what i call strategy
and i agree we cant start complaining just yet wait a few then go for it big time wait a year and everyone do 1 damage with specials or not thats combat rebalance i tell yah
Mabye a bad time to start nerfing big time like this other games did it and they got banged in the bunghole big time for doing itand with all the new mmorgs coming outitmight be a good idea to fix the bugs and make us happy that way and drop the jedi revamp or we can call this game jedi wars galaxies in a few months
Ahh it felt good to whine some 