Rifleman Archive
Thread: The Value of Ranged Support?
What would you do?
OditeFosore wrote:
zzSeawock wrote:
I'd welcome suggestions. I was looking for a tough PvE template. Seemed like Warcry 2 & Intimidate 2 plus the nominal mods would be useful.
What would you do?If you were into PVP I'd recommend dropping master brawler and picking up a couple trees of fencer. But, you're into PVE. Seems like intimidate 2 would pay for itself. Only other thing I can think of that could be better, but don't know of from any personal experience, is getting a couple trees of 2H swords. I know they kick @ss in PVE, but I don't know if you could get enough dabble points to be a serious damage dealer with a powerhammer. Maybe a 2H swordsmen could give you some advice on whether dabbling with like 0400 or something would be worthwhile.
Cheers,
- Odite Fosore
Thanks. That's interesting food for thought.
Best!
I had just the accuracy line from Swordsman until yesterday. I found that even with a good speed power hammer it was still way too slow and not wonderfully accurate. I almost never ended up pulling it out. You could try the speed line, but the accuracy mods on a PH are so bad (generally) that I'm not sure you'd hit too often.
I kept Scout and Exploration I for the terrain negotiation, Hunting I didn't really give enough of a bump to be worth it to me.
I'm going toward Smuggler now for the Feign Death skill, I think that will be more useful in PvE scenarios (like the corvette for example).
We should give a comparative try of our various templates on the Corvette sometime.
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For pve, I would definately say the pts are well spent. I dropped it and am now gonna get it back. I kept the four blocks of fencer melee defense and it doesnt really seem to help.
Suppression fire and warning shot seem to work well against even higher level stuff. Suppresion fire can sometime help get a kd if you flurry shot for the dizzy, then get them down with suppression fire, and then startle shot them to posture up so that they fall down.
I do pve mostly, and I am doing CH. It is really effective for buying time to apply the riflemans massive firepower.
Leadhead101 wrote:Suppresion fire can sometime help get a kd if you flurry shot for the dizzy, then get them down with suppression fire, and then startle shot them to posture up so that they fall down.
I do pve mostly, and I am doing CH. It is really effective for buying time to apply the riflemans massive firepower.
That's a really interesting combination of shots. I think I'll try it.
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