Rifleman Archive
Thread: You CAN dabble in Rifleman
WaspBlade wrote:
Well, this template works, so im sticking to it, and i like bing able to rez and buffso i'm keeping the second line of doc
I agree that dabbling in rifleman is not as easy as with other profs, but as long as you have 4004 you have just under master speed and accuracy, so 4124 fills my needs
It's perfectly fine if you just want it to augment your other abilities, but I wouldn't consider 70 speed "just under" master speed. You're looking at between one half and one third the damage with headshot3, depending on the speed of the weapon. I'd consider that pretty significant.
It's also pretty weak in pve, as the major strengths of the rifleman aren't available. The heavy AP of the T21 isn't practical because T21s are too slow,the lack of a decent AE attack (flushing2/strafe2, they'd be too slow with 70 speed too anyway), and the inability to hit the really high DPS numbers that rifleman are known for.
It shines in pvp as a support character, which is how I assume you plan to use it. In that case the two major rifleman strengths for that are there: The AP1 stun jawa and the targeted mind damage, even if the total damage output is a little low.
Personally, I was Master Rifle/CM4004/Doc4030 for a while and found it to be pretty nice. I suppose that's not much of an option if you want to buff and rez though. 
Tavias wrote:
WaspBlade wrote:
Well, this template works, so im sticking to it, and i like bing able to rez and buffso i'm keeping the second line of doc
I agree that dabbling in rifleman is not as easy as with other profs, but as long as you have 4004 you have just under master speed and accuracy, so 4124 fills my needs
It's perfectly fine if you just want it to augment your other abilities, but I wouldn't consider 70 speed "just under" master speed. You're looking at between one half and one third the damage with headshot3, depending on the speed of the weapon. I'd consider that pretty significant.
It's also pretty weak in pve, as the major strengths of the rifleman aren't available. The heavy AP of the T21 isn't practical because T21s are too slow,the lack of a decent AE attack (flushing2/strafe2, they'd be too slow with 70 speed too anyway), and the inability to hit the really high DPS numbers that rifleman are known for.
It shines in pvp as a support character, which is how I assume you plan to use it. In that case the two major rifleman strengths for that are there: The AP1 stun jawa and the targeted mind damage, even if the total damage output is a little low.
Personally, I was Master Rifle/CM4004/Doc4030 for a while and found it to be pretty nice. I suppose that's not much of an option if you want to buff and rez though.
No, my template is for PVE, I don't PVP. It seems pretty good so far apart from the cm side, i can never get the poisens to stick often enough.
The difference between 70 speed and master isn't proving too far apart. I'm pretty convinced that i've found the perfect RM dabble template 
WaspBlade wrote:
No, my template is for PVE, I don't PVP. It seems pretty good so far apart from the cm side, i can never get the poisens to stick often enough.
The difference between 70 speed and master isn't proving too far apart. I'm pretty convinced that i've found the perfect RM dabble template
you get:
+10 def vs dizzy, blind and stun, even in pve this is useful.
Flushing shot 2, once again stun can mean the difference between missing every other shot and hitting every time, especially
extra block, (assuming they ever fix it)
i would also suggest investing in a kryat e11, since you do not have a very high speed mod, the faster rifle speed on the e11 will mean you have a higher damage output because you are firing more often.
dimmu-borgir wrote:
honestly, if i would suggest any change, it would be to do 4044 instead of 4124, the reason being:
you get:
+10 def vs dizzy, blind and stun, even in pve this is useful.
Flushing shot 2, once again stun can mean the difference between missing every other shot and hitting every time, especially
extra block, (assuming they ever fix it)
i would also suggest investing in a kryat e11, since you do not have a very high speed mod, the faster rifle speed on the e11 will mean you have a higher damage output because you are firing more often.
cool, thanks for the feedback guys. well i'm not too fussed about the defence stuff, and I really like conceal shot. Combat Medic seems to be my weak profession, i've always heard how good it is but to be honest i'm not getting much joy from it, nothing ever seems to stick lol