Rifleman Archive

The simple matter is, I never *ever* fight a melee character unless I'm sure I'm going to get the first shot, because face it, I'm a rifleman and that's how I operate.

Use a spraystick, start combat off with a flurry to dizzy them and the supression fire. Assuming this works and they don't have good resisitance to dizzy and posture (see there's a counter to everything) this will put them kneeling. Well any melee character in that position obviously isn't going to hit you, and if they stand up to come after you they fall over. MS1/MS2 + HS2 is pretty much all if would take to finish that off.

That will kill a good majority of melee charcters even with the new timers. Assuming dizzy doesn't work, and they have posture defense, there really isn't much they can do against bleed/kite if the rifleman gets the first hit. The rifleman can unequip his rifle and burst run just as fast as the guy chasing him.

I had two friends who were melee characters and they weren't idiots but even they knew when they were in a helpless situation.

Most food have a duraction of 3 mins to 6 mins this is not a valid solution unless the buffs duration where to be increased. Considering the costs in useing food buffs constant;y say 500 to 1000 per use and fact they last 300 second to 500 seconds.

I dont view food buffs as being of much use while PvE

In pvp you can use spices and buffs but you also still face problem of ham being him going from 140/180 ham per shot to 100 to 120 isnt that great. Then you consider fact most other weapons do not face this problem where after takeing out 1 enemy your almost out mind unless your a zabrak with high regeneration rates.

Ham costs on weapons and someattacks are to high our elite head shot3 is classic example its effects are slightly more powerfull then headshot 2 yet ham costs are quiet a bit more. Meaning a lot rifleman prefer jsut use headshot 2 which is low style.
headshot 3 does around aboat right damage but ham cost should be same as headshot shot 2

Silverlobo you're right unlimited SS2 with a good rifle would be insane, our class would get nerfed, immediately.

But even at master rifleman auto firing my best weapon won't keep up with a pistoleer spamming stopping shot. I don't expect to spam specials every combat but I would like to be able to use some without draining my mind bar all the time. Yes I have bought a DLT20a, yes it does have great HAM costs, yes it is useful, yes it does do no damage to anything with armor... I'm not looking for HAM costs to be removed, just tweaked a little,being able to empty my mind bar in 5-8 seconds is a bit silly, especially for some of us still doing PvE when maintaining damage is vital to the group and our own exp gain. (I am zabrak with full focus/will btw, using a laser rifle or71 mind T-21 rather than the higher damage 100 mind oneswhen exping)

I'm guessing an entire mind baroften is notneeded for PvP, especially when dueling, but in PvE rifles have no power without specials.