Rifleman Archive
Thread: I've Been Told this is Definitely not a Dabbler Profession
HARP00N wrote:
swordsman still has random pool attacks (two hand hit, etc...) so you can be hitting health as much as you can with strafeshot2.
anyways, i dont care what you think - you know im right. People chose tka/rifleman because they are uber. Depending on how long you have been here, you might have noticed something about me: I b1tch about imbalances in the game... a lot. I have been a plain rifleman since the game started, and have gone through the CHs, the BHs, and the Commandos alternatively dominating in PvP. But while I b1tch, other people like the ones i mentioned just hop to the next flavour of the month like a cheap wh0re, and then brag about how good they are. People chose the path of least resistance,kind of like you PhsychoticChipmunk, seeing as you're a rebel.
Just look how many rifleman/TKAs there are. Am I lying?
i hope TKA gets nerfed into a small fluffy pillow like they deserve, im sick of TKA's bullsh1t. but i fear that by the time i get master, riflemen will get nerfed by association, as they are beginning to be. I guess we'll be losing you when the next patch comes out and fixes the rifleman's stacked defences... i heard CMs pretty good, why dont you head that way?
Wow, slanderous and borderline idiotic. Nice touch getting them both. In case you haven't noticed I've been here since the first month of the game and have gone through just as much, if not more then you have. And what does my affiliation have to do with anything? God, you're method of complaining and ideas are just a remnant from our past that would be best left alone and buried.
Learn some tact, learn the game, and for goodness sakes at least learn something about the person you're insulting beforehand. I've been a rifleman since the beginning you twit, and I"m a rebel in order to get an A-wing in the space expansion, even htough my affilitation to PvP has no bearing what-so-ever to anything remotely relevant to this discussion.
Grable22 wrote:
Yet I am still trying to dabble. I'm trying to get 4/0/0/0 just for the ranged aspect. I was just curious as to whether the damage done with only one tree would be substantial (I'm aware it would be slow, but I can live with that).
What Mathos? Didn't trust my answers on the TK boards? 
Good luck to you though, would be good for getting critters attention and maybe putting some damage on them until they get to you.
HARP00N wrote:
no you dont lol, you want to win. Otherwise you wouldn't get the super combo. People like you are always jumping around, getting the best combinations, etc.. i know thats just the way some people are, and its theoritically intended in the game mechanics... but it just irks me when people brag about how good they are, then they say they're rifle/TKA.
Guess what genius, i'm a master pikeman along with my master rifleman and i'll slaughter any pet people throw at me before it can even think about hitting me so cut that crap about the only reason he can do it is because hes rifle/tk
Oh, and just because YOU want to be strictly rifle doesn't mean everybody else that mixes stuff up is less worthy of offering an opinion...go away troll
Message Edited by Robogrowl on 02-27-2004 01:06 PM
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Grable22 wrote:
Yet I am still trying to dabble. I'm trying to get 4/0/0/0 just for the ranged aspect. I was just curious as to whether the damage done with only one tree would be substantial (I'm aware it would be slow, but I can live with that).
Dude... I just wanted to apologise for pretty much Hijacking your thread 
.. I'll try to never do that again to anyone..
My most humbleapologies.
/salute
Nerutef wrote:
Grable22 wrote:
Yet I am still trying to dabble. I'm trying to get 4/0/0/0 just for the ranged aspect. I was just curious as to whether the damage done with only one tree would be substantial (I'm aware it would be slow, but I can live with that).
What Mathos? Didn't trust my answers on the TK boards?
Good luck to you though, would be good for getting critters attention and maybe putting some damage on them until they get to you.
Onichi wrote:
Grable22 wrote:
Yet I am still trying to dabble. I'm trying to get 4/0/0/0 just for the ranged aspect. I was just curious as to whether the damage done with only one tree would be substantial (I'm aware it would be slow, but I can live with that).
Dude... I just wanted to apologise for pretty much Hijacking your thread
My most humbleapologies.
/salute
Don't worry about it, I find this quite amusing.
Grable22 wrote:
Sorry to get a bit off-topic but I really don't feel like posting this in another forum. Would dabbling in smuggler be a good idea? I hear much about feign death.
Hmmmmm.. Feign Death huh? From what I understand it's only really useful if you can put a nice bleed on before you Feign Death.. and now with the changes to bleed you wont get looting rights to the corpse if someone else is attacking it.
I'd think Low Blow would be a more useful skill in Smuggler, ranged knockdown is what I'd use more than Feign death..I just like getting my hands dirty when fighting rather than playing dead 
Balute wrote:
Aloha Folks!
Thanks for coming to my defense on this, although with Hapoon we still won't get through his thick skull on this
Now Harpoon...*shakes head* where to begin? Let's try these facts, questions, and responses to you:
1. Why don't you post your template? Including ALL the professions you have mastered, and what you are right now. Here's mine: Master Rifleman / Master TKA / Scout 4040 / Medic 2000 / Marksman 4001 / Brawler 4000. There ya go. If you add up all the skill points, I think they come out to 250. Now I could go and take away the medic and scout skills and get something else to do (i would have 66 points to play with) but I don't because I use Ikaika to also hunt and gather resources. I haven't mastered ANY other professions as Ikaika. And I mastered Rifleman about 6 weeks ago now.
Rifleman 4/1/3/2 scout 4/0/4/3 medic 4/4/4/4 artistan 3/0/0/4 marksman 4/0/0/4
2. I chose TKA / Rifleman not because it was FOTM. Here's my reason for choosing these 2 professions. TKA = because my buddy was TKA and I noticed a few things:1) he could take a lot of damage; 2) he could deal a lot of damage; 3) he always got the loot (what can I say, I'm greedy!); 4) because I though it was cool and fun. Here's some of the reasons I chose Rifleman: 1)I'm a rifleman in the Army reserves, why not here?; 2) I always wanted to be one in this game anyway; 3) I wanted to be able to deal A LOT of damage, and after researching, rifleman were the best damage dealers, 4) I was going to going to build Ikaika to be a PvP and PvE damage dealer to begin with, and 5) I wanted the ranged DB to kill people with.
so? thats why its become the bread and butter combo for riflemen. I never said it was not effective.
3. Defense stacking? Man, are you on crack...still? If I wanted a defense stacking template I'd have gone Pistoleer / Fencer / Rogue or some such. As near as I can tell w/o being in the game to check, my ranged defense is +50, and my melee defense is +52. Compared to the +180ish and +200 ish from the true stacker, I suck. The only thing I have over +100 is unarmed speed and accuracy. Yes, I have melee mitigation 3 and ranged mitigation 3. So would anyone else who has a Melee / Ranged combo. LOL...drugs are bad, mmmm'kay?
did u read what i said?
4. Anotherreason why I chose TKA - I can cure my own wounds and disease / poison / bleeds. That's it. While grinding TKA and Rifles, I never used powerboost or FoW.I only use it now as needed in PvP, and I do this only because I thought I'd give it atry. Besides, in PvP..assuming I live after the FoW, I can only use it like 1 time every hour.
... what does this prove? You're just reiterating how good TKA is
5. My other character Kamehameha was my Holo-Whore.Ikaika is going to stay a TKA/Rifleman until he dies. Jump around to the best combinations?Why the hell not? If someone wants to be the best atkilling, he'll go to wherehe will have the best chance at survival or stay where he is and learn how to fight effectively and survive. It sounds like you are advocating staying in one professionthe whole time you play. If you are, you're just being ignorant...again. At the same time, every profession has a weakness or counter profession to it. If you are a Rifleman / Chef...please don'texpect to beat me all the time. However, a Rifleman / Chef could easily kill me if they use good tactics. Not likely, but they could
no, with the new foods, chef would be buffed out the a$$ and he'd win..
6.Sorry this one is for PsychoticChipmunk: 2 things : 1) Love the name!, and 2) I was seriously considering Swordsman for that same reason, but really wanted the ability to heal my wounds and different DoTs. But, what I would love about Swordsman is the Blast Damage on the Powerhammer.
just stick w/ TKA, thats what everyone else does
7. Attacking Random HAM bars: Dude, you really are friggin stupid aren't you? TKA has 1 attack that specifiacally attacks the mind pool, UA Head Hit 1. 1 attack for the action pool, UA Leg Hit 1, and 1 attack for the Health Pool, UA body hit 1. Everything else is an attack on a random pool.
what are you arguing about????
8. TKA aint getting nerfed. Get over it...and damnit, learn how to friggin fight, will ya? Are you a Rifleman or a crybaby? Rifleman don't cry, we get even.
you mean we get TKA...
9. Picking the rebellion is the path of least resistence? Not on Valcyn, dickhead. The GCW is in full flavor over here, and the Imps kick some major butt! Tossing out one liners just makes you look more and more like a friggin idiot.
sorry, I'm on Bria
10. Ok, timeout. I want you all to look at a couple things here:
Harpoon said"...but i fear that by the time i get master, riflemen will get nerfed by association, as they are beginning to be."
He also said "...I have been a plain rifleman since the game started."
and also "...But while I b1tch, other people like the ones i mentioned just hop to the next flavour of the month like a cheap wh0re, and then brag about how good they are."
and finally "...People like you are always jumping around, getting the best combinations, etc"
other facts: he joined the forum 7/03, but claims to have been playing since the beginning...ok, I will give him the benefit of the doubt. He has posted 1700+ times. Ok, good, he likes to post.
my account got reset after i had to leave for 3 months, if you search for my posts they dont have any of the ones i posted from this year at all since (maybe because it considers the account before cancellation differnet or i maxed out).. they start at july and end in september.
What really got me here is the fact that he plainly says he isn't a master rifleman yet. Despite being here since the game started.We are talking around 8 months now. Even playing for only 8 hours a week, he should have mastered Rifleman, but maybe he is just a REALLY slow learner. And yet he also accuses us of being FOTM folk who jump from profession to profession. Hmm? I smell a rat, a liar, a hypocrite, and someone just trying to get a rise out of all of us. My suggestion...let's just ignore his dumb a$$ everytime he posts. Maybe then he'll finally go away.
Sorry for the length on this, I just hate some twerp trying to argue something he has no friggin clue about.
Take care folks...shoot true.
Ikaika
it took me so long because riflemen were once much harder to get xp in... you registered in novemember, but u have another character and i dont know where you started your rifleman. Now that 2.5x melee damagage is gone, accuracy is much better, buffs are good, i am making much more progress. But i still can't have huge grind sessions like some people can. And I was also never a CH and didn't use a pet for XP to any degree. You sound like you came in on rifleman after it was improved, with a pet that nullifies all challenge in the game.