Rifleman Archive

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Ackehece wrote:

try all but the last speed slice and 1 damage slice?

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Message Edited by KaiRan on 09-08-2005 10:37 AM

I'm with the speed guys on this one. you're not going to be able to use 100% customisation on it with the max speed slicing but the damage must be near capped and critical hit will only increase your chances by 1% with a single level slice. Get SAC lowering pups and chew on some blob candy for action regen then that guns going to hurt when you keep hitting someone with it.

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Vampiric_Hoshi wrote:

"I dont know much about slicing but I can say this. If your gonna use the rifle tosolo hunt Big Game (Krayts, GDK, Gorax )......Minimum damage is what you need."

Not true. a full damage slice on a weapon will only add a max of around 100 points of damamge to the min/max damage and that would require an already high damage value. The extra 100 points in combat will ultimately add about 30 extra points of damage per-hit.

Speed, on the other hand, can reduce the base speed of a weapon by about .6 to .8 seconds on average which means rifles with a typical speed of around 2.5 are reduced down to a base speed of about 1.8 .. and thats BASE speed. Add to that rifleman speed mods and you're looking at a rifle with around 1.02 speed which in combat results in a DPS of around 400 to a DPS of atleast 570 .. which ultimately will be a combat winner in both PVE and PVP as it allows the chaining of specials to produce an almost continual fire.

I did a full speed slice on the 4th Sordaan wager loot rifle and my modded speed was 1.5 and I don't even have the marksman rifle branch. I can only image the speedof this rifle in an MR's hands ... and with its 900+ max damage, its lethal.

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/agree

I try to stay as far out of melee range as i can, so for me Min damage is what i go for. But your right speed would also help a great deal. You'll definatly get the kill faster.

The big reason i like min damage is with the "High end" critters you will hit for the minimum damage more often than a mid range or max damage.

Message Edited by groundcrew on 09-08-2005 10:53 AM

If I recall correctly, the damage will cap out after the level 1 slice at 1183. I'd skip the damage slice. I agree with the recommendation for a critical slice if your modified speed is 1.2 or so. A 10% critical slice along with critical shot may produce some nice results, but I'm not a BH, so I can't speak from experience.

my new trand rifle, is like so:

2.47 speed

504 / 1168 (min / max dam) so far the highest min dam on our server (so I was told, on any rifle on Shadowfire)

66 accu

31.05% wound

337.92 dps

sac (capped)

I was recommended by A LOT or people to get a 12% slice, which I did.