Rifleman Archive
Thread: Should riflemen wear armor?
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doltec
Mon Feb 16, 2004 9:32 am
#14
Zade has several good points. Use of terrain is a must for the unbuffed migrated rifleman
It really depends on what you want to do. If your PvPing then if you dont get buffed you are easy FP for your enemy. Get buffed everything, Bring food, drink drugs. Everything you need to get that extra boost and benefit. If you don't you will die, and die often, and you deserve to die 
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.In PvE i try to go unbuffed solo, it requires more strategy and cunning, presents a sense of danger also. In groups getting buffed really doesnt do anything but costs you a significant amount of cash. You should never have to be concerned with getting hit by a spawn as a rifleman. But if you are going someplace you know will be more dangerous than usual and has db ing creatures your attacking go get at least a health and action buff to give you some leeway in damage that can be taken.
Case in point i went to the droid eng dungeon on lok yesterday. I ran in fully buffed and got wasted by the first group of driodeka, i shouldnt have but i did. Lost all my buffs for no return whatsoever. Well i went back with my piddly 500 health and action. I worked smart and got halfway into the cave before the robots overtook me. Why? because i was more careful when i didnt have the buffs. Buffs typically make people careless. go head to head against creatures they should leave alone.So i encourage you to play around with your character go buffed and unbuffed intoPvE encounters and learn yourcapabilities.You'llbe much more dangerous in any future fight if you do so.
sanca
Mon Feb 16, 2004 12:07 pm
#15
When i've been hunting on Dantooine I don't wear armour at all...apart from some ubese gloves (cause i like the way they look on me lol) I do get buffed though, and dont see any bars go down and sometimes I can take out the creature just as they reach me, just depends on luck. Using the water on Dantooine sounds like a good idea, i'll give that a try - i'm not long started out as a Rifleman.
Chikitta
Mon Feb 16, 2004 6:38 pm
#16
I wear advanced ubese for PvE (minus the helmet), and no armour for PvP.
I've tried wearing a helmet in PvE and its totally useless. The number of times you actually take hits in the head is low anyway, and I'm almost always buffed with muon or food/drink anyway so it doesn't make a massive difference. The encumberence is a real pain - even when buffed your mind drains really quickly.
I haven't really tried armour much in PvP. My advanced ubese is useless (even against melee classes, epscially TKA who just dizzy / KD you anyway).
I either spam headshot3 or strafeshot2 in PvP depending on the situation - both of which really do your mind pool in. I should imagnie armour just makes this process even quicker.
I don't get killed loads in PvP anyway, and I've never seriously used armour in PvP.
Morik
Tue Feb 17, 2004 1:54 am
#17
56% 1x comp will let you kill anything, unbuffed, in full armor, which you can remove due to low ham cost. nobody beats an armored master riflemen.
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