Rifleman Archive
Thread: Lithitanium Rifle is now Energy... Why ???
Cassinko wrote:
does the Tusken King rifle have a cert? cause it has Kinetic damage but a long ass delay and low damage.... like 14.0, 210 max
TheGreatFreyr wrote:
umm lithitanium rifle? someone mind filling me in on what it is and where to get it? ty
Oh Christ, this isn't about fun, it's about people wanting to solo everything in the game.
Sony gave us the option of fixing it by giving us 250 skill points to play with. If you can't figure it out with that, find another game.
Oh, really? You mean like today, when I was with buddies on Dathomir and stood there with my thumb up because the NIQ (Nightsisters in question) were resistant to every rifle I had available? Yeah, its about soloing all right...
GraySeven wrote:
Oh Christ, this isn't about fun, it's about people wanting to solo everything in the game.
Sony gave us the option of fixing it by giving us 250 skill points to play with. If you can't figure it out with that, find another game.
Oh, really? You mean like today, when I was with buddies on Dathomir and stood there with my thumb up because the NIQ (Nightsisters in question) were resistant to every rifle I had available? Yeah, its about soloing all right...
Vaelorn wrote:
This is about Rifleman, not Medic, not Squad Leader, not Artisan, etc.. If you are a Rifleman, your sole purpose is offense. As a Rifleman, you have extremely poor defense and precious few state-change attacks; your only purpose is to inflict damage from range. When the only thing your combat profession isgood at is completelyremoved from your list of combat options, something is wrong and needs to be changed. You should not have to pick up a completely different profession to give you something to dobecause your chosen profession is absolutely worthless in a situation where it should *not* be worthless. This goes back to "What role should your profession play?", and when it comes to Rifleman, that role is pure offensive output and little else.
Ackehece wrote:
GraySeven wrote:
Oh Christ, this isn't about fun, it's about people wanting to solo everything in the game.
Sony gave us the option of fixing it by giving us 250 skill points to play with. If you can't figure it out with that, find another game.
Oh, really? You mean like today, when I was with buddies on Dathomir and stood there with my thumb up because the NIQ (Nightsisters in question) were resistant to every rifle I had available? Yeah, its about soloing all right...
sorry I tend to disagree with you on that situation - everyone is useful even if they do no damage to the NIQ as you put it. I have novice medic... I can throw a heal on a member that just got slammed... as a SL I was able to help just by existing. Hell pretty much the only people who can't (currently) help are crafters and after the revamp thatcould change. If you have master marksmen (as many of us do... ) pull out the old striker pistol. So many things you can do... draw aggro and have some tough sister chase you for a bit to lighten the load on the poor meleer... so many things to do! standing there is pointless! you can always do something!
What, pray tell, is a Ranger to do then? only a single combat class can be mastered... or we can REALLY gimp ourselfs and split all the skillpoints across all the novice boxes. Ya, that's a plan.
Sorry, I'm with the guywith the thumb up... splitting up damage types like this does NOTHING for balance and is a continuity breaker. I'm not about to "lighten the load" for the melee guy that is supposed to be the tank and make me the tank (which I'm quite ill equiped for). This is promoting soloing. It's just that you are soloing different things. No, I firmly believe that they have not thought this through and went "balance happy" in this one. All ranged professions should have a wide range of damage types available. It's the melee proffs they messed up, they need to make vibro blades something other then kenetic... energy or perhaps heat? The should all have at least one AP weapon. There are other variables that they can use for balance without making someone in the group totally useless in some situations they should not be.
Dynastar wrote:
Rinndalir03 wrote:
Dynastar wrote:
The 158 skills points you have left after Rifleman are the answer to your problem.
Unless the majority of those158 skill points are devoted to one of the many non-combat professions (artisan, medic, ranger, squad leader, entertainer, and politician). In which case you're still screwed and you're nothing but dead weight in a group (e.g. when hunting mobs like Nightsisters).
No animal or NPC should be immune to every damage type that a profession has available to it... 90% resists are fine, but they should never be any higher. SOE can fix this by either (1) giving every profession a weapon of each damage type, or (2) overhauling NPC resists. Option #1 would be easier for the programmers and more fun for the community since we'd get to play with lots of different weapons and crafters would have more items to make.
Oh Christ, this isn't about fun, it's about people wanting to solo everything in the game.
Sony gave us the option of fixing it by giving us 250 skill points to play with. If you can't figure it out with that, find another game.
Message Edited by Dynastar on 08-28-2004 12:58 AM
Did I say anything about wanting to solo everything? No I didn't. Like a moron, you just assumed that. Do yourself a favor and work on your **edit**ty little pre-teenattitude too.
I actuallythink that the current high end game is far too easy. Hopefully, the CB will fix that. However, making many high end mobs completely immune to every damage type a professional can use is just ridiculous. Not everyone has the extra SPs to spend on another elite combat profession. Some of us actually do things like crafting to support the server's economy... andit shouldn't be a requirement to open a 2ndaccount just to craft andhunt on the same server.Think about that the next time you buy your uber armor or weapons. It's professions like those that feel like dead weight on many high end hunts.
And please spare me the suggestion of getting Novice Medic,etc.. You know that's a load of crap. What happens when the uber lance of infinite mind fire drops that sells for 10 million credits? Do you think you really deserve a shot at that loot just because you stood around doing something that any novice can do? Or should the TKM who just ruined a set of 500K armor get it?
Even without cert it has some use. I carry one on NS hunts. When the TK's get the NS down to 1% and she starts walking and warping away i pull out the tusken king rifle and strafeshot2 for around 150 points of damage. Sure beats running all over Dath trying not to lose your loot.
XaverriJade7 wrote:
Cassinko wrote:
does the Tusken King rifle have a cert? cause it has Kinetic damage but a long ass delay and low damage.... like 14.0, 210 max
No certification