Rifleman Archive

Yeah once you hit master you go crazy awesome, Mokk missions normally took like 20 min to do ended up taking like 5 min with master.

There's really only four attacks you need as a Rifleman.

1) Point Blank Area 1
Gets you through the Marksman tree and up to Counter-Sniping III. Take Huurton/Quenker missions, run up to the lair and spam it until you're done. Hell you can put it on a looping macro and go do something else and check back to move to a new lair. This does, however, require you to either have medic to heal yourself or enough defense from another profession to not need healed.

2) Flurry Shot 2
Once you get to Counter-Sniping III get a disruptor and start picking up Voritor Tracker missions. Drive up 50m away and start spamming on the lair until it dies, you'll kill plenty of Voritor in the process and once it's down you can finish off any that are left. Once again you need to either be able to heal yourself, have a tank, or have enough defense from another profession to survive.

3) Strafe Shot 2
Highest damage multiplier of any Rifleman skill. This is what you use to complete Janta missions in seconds by targeting the camp, usually the Janta/Mokk are dead before they even reach you although sometimes one or two make it.

4) Headshot3
Good for single targets and of course it is what you'll use 99.99% of the time in PvP.

Mindshot2 is worthless since bleed was nerfed, it's good in the very rare and very limited situation in which you need to stick a dot on something and run away or hide. Conceal shot is occasionally useful when you're looking to get some hits in on something without getting aggro, but that's rare. I mean, come on, I'll kill two or three AT-STs without even needing a heal simply using SS2 or HS3. We didn't even bother with it against Mellichae, they simply tanked him for the 60 seconds it took for me to kill the crystals and everyone in the camp and then we finished him off too. It just isn't that often when conceal shot is worth the trouble. Sniper Shot is a useful attack that I did not include because, well it's not really attack, it's just a ranged deathblow and only useful to us PvPers.

Rifleman is pretty easy to Master with a set of buffs and some decent armor and weapons. Doing so without them is going to be tough, but let's be realistic, for 99% of the things that involve any form of combat you're wasting your time, or at the very least it's going to take much longer. I wouldn't bother trying to make money or do anything in Rifleman until you've mastered it, just go straight through and complete that sucker in a day or two, you get fully one third of your speed from that Master box and you need it, not to mention the accuracy. Don't dabble in this profession.

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Atobusarragra wrote:

Hi everyone,

I finally made Master Rifleman yesterday. YaY!!!!

I was doing Mokk/Janta missions on Dant. They certainly paid well, hence allowed me to make the money I needed. However, the xp gain was not as fast as quenkers. I used concealshot to take them out so one outpost would take about 20-25 minutes. This meant per hour my credit intake was about double that of quenkers, but my xp was significantly less. Even though mokks/jantas give more xp per head, becuse they were taking so long to kill the xp gain was limited. But this did not bother me so much. I also joined up a couple of times with a melle fighter in my group and I shot while they tanked. Again, the xp gain was not great, but the credits rolled in.

Once I had enough money, I went back to quenkers to finish off rifleman. I found that using flurryshot on the lair really took them out fast. As the lair would lose condition the quenkers would run back to try to fix it. It was here that they mostly died.

I'll have to say that I've found warningshot and threatenshot to be rather ineffective. As well as surpriseshot. My main tools have been mind attack shots, concealshot, aim, normal attacks, flurryshots, and I cant wait to try strafeshot2.

Ato

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You can finish Janta Missions in under 1-2minutes with strafe2... just get in position so the most jantas are in line and start blasting either one of them or the lair. As soon as your target dies (if you are targeting the jantas) switch to another one and contiune blasting until they are all dead. I can get about 300k-400k/hour and that's on a bad day. If I go with my bud we can make about 500k each / hour.

I also play on bria and if your looking to make a couple extra thousand creds per mission then you should head to sweet water. its just north of the mining outpost.

Message Edited by teamdoa on 09-22-2004 01:15 PM

Message Edited by teamdoa on 09-23-2004 12:52 PM

No contest this is the fastest way to make cash Iv ever done. I made 1 mil in 1 buff session (including lots of talking and a trip to convert xp), so its pretty good =).

You need these things to do it this fast:
Speed capped/Master Rifleman
A good damage sliced/damage PuP'd rifle(700ish max is plenty)
Composit(must have)
Buffs(duh)
Food, Brandy and Arisha are a must, Canape wont save your mind nearly as well, trust me.

Get in a solo group and do Mokk Shaman missions, 5 around the lair each time, 30K xp for each lair(crappy xp I know), but from an improved job market its 32K per mission. Fly in to 64m range, target lair, and just oblitarate the lair with straif2, they shouldent even get close enough to hit you with your cone taking them down like MAD. Takes around 20 seconds to off the lair.
Run over, loot there bodies(still some decent stuff to be had from them!) and move onto your next mission.

Easy as pie, I did 31 of these in 1 buff session without pushing myself very hard at all, thats 930K total, decent xp, but 1 mil cash is hard to beat in 2 and a halfish hours.

=) Enjoy!