Rifleman Archive

Yes, the whole Underworld tree is only useful as part of the GCW, which is to say, PvP.

Unless you never plan to join the Rebellion or the Empire, you will see PvP in this game. Even if you're covert doing missions, you will see PvP.

So with that in mind, pretty much every rifleman will have a chance to Snipershot someone. It's very handy when it'sa nasty firefight and you can't just run out and deathblow someone.

The real problem is that you get more faction if you disarm and deathblow bare handed (assuming you aren't a TKA). The amount of faction gain/loss is based on your skill with the weapon you have in your hand. So a Master Creature Hander / MasterCombat Mediccan wipe people out with his pets and poisons and get +20 faction per kill. When you kill him you'll get about +8 faction because he has no "weapon skill".

So basically you don't want to snipershot people, you want to disarm and kill them bare handed so you get faction as if you had no weapon skills.

One of my friends told me that in beta, snipershot also did an insane amount of damage. Obviously they nerfed it and turned it into a DB only move...

-- A6