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Shame on you Auto!

Either Auto is a troll, or he has a bad memory!

In this post he is claiming he saw an Rifleman hit a SQUILL for 27k damage... Jump back to page 2 of my thread (link in my sig) Auto is claiming that he saw a Rifleman hit a LAIR for 27k damage.

I'm going to assume that Auto isn't a troll and meant to say "squill lair" in which case the answer to his question was already provided to him in my thread shortly after he posted in it.

When you're walking around and something spawns onto your screen, it shows the damage done to that object so far. In that case, we believe that the Rifleman had dealt 27k damage to the lair up to that point, because as all Riflemen know, it is just not possible for a Rifleman to get anywhere close to that claim.

-- A6

Action bar is healable. I was a pistoleer at one point and I could spam ANY special attack and never run out of juice. It did drain my mind bar a bit after 10 minutes or so, but I could easily pop a Muon and pistol whip, or stopping shot all day long.

As rifleman I could not go past about 5-7 special shots with my T21 before I am out of mind. So regardless how much damage we do per hit, it is a mute point, because we can't do specials all day long like BH, Pistoleer, Carbineer, etc.

BTW: The largest hit I have ever done, with my absolute best pre-nerf T21 at Master Rifleman, with powerup on it was 11410. It was a one in a million shot. Average special attack shot with T21 is 1500, with Laser rifle it's 1200.

Zamook - Naritus

27k?? Hahaha...what a load of #*&%#!

Really, its true. Imyself am Master Rifleman with a laser rifle (damage sliced + damage/mind-cost powerups). The most I have EVER hit a mob (not a player in pvp with the 75% damge cut) in PvE was about 3-4k. And I do believe it was a very low level mob with no armor ratings of any kind. Most of my shots with Advanced Strafe Shot 2 hit around 1000-1500 damage against mobs and NPC's. Its pretty rare I get anything higher than 2k...thoughits not impossible or me to get one of those rare 3k shots off.

Scarl Nightrunner

Master Sharpshooter/ Master Heavy Swordsman -- Starsider Server

I am not trolling or joking. A Master Rifleman was demonstrating to me how much he could own me in a fight. He was on Eclipse Master TKA and Master Rifleman. He showed me several shots with his T21 which he says is one of the best on the server. His lowest shot was 3k and his highest 27k and he wasnt at all surprised by the 27k shot.

When I see him again I will ask him to demonstrate and I will take a screenshot.

Sorry, but the 27k damage is impossible unless youuse somekind of bug which makes targets take more damage.

A REAL good pre-nerf T21 can get up to 800 in damage (with slice and powerup). A good laser can get up to 650 (with slice and powerup).

Max damage with a T21 (not taking into account if targets are knocked down) would be:

800*1.5*4*1.25*1.25*1.25 = 9375

With a laser it would be: 650*1.5*4*1.25*1.25=6093

yeah I asked him about what multipliers go into letting him hit shots of that magnitude and he didnt give me any answer other than his T21 was 865 dmg. At the time I didnt see how he could reach 27k but I saw what I saw. Anyways, isnt roughly 9k a shot still way too much if your firing close to 1 shot a second as master? You could point out that 9k is best shot but all the other professions have a wide range of damage also and for most their highest damage shot isnt cone.

Pretty sure something was implimented that if the lair wasnt going to spawn any more creautes you get a huge damage modifier, though tonight it wasnt working but I could have sworn that last night I hit a lair for a really big number, in the teens, nothing like that tonight however.....thats probably what you saw, some lair with no more spawns getting blasted with a huge multiplier.

And to give my opinion on your question, yes I do think at master sharpshooter (rifleman), shooting at close to 1 second is fair, why? Becuase we miss alot, because only masters who have grinded forever to get there can do this sort of thing, huge ham costs making spammingspecials destroy our mind pool, and because its such a rewarding treat once the grind is over, I nice reward to a very, very hard struggle.

may the force be with you