Rifleman Archive
Thread: killin elders
Aeryn01 wrote:
I posted on another thread about my experiences with the elder sista's. I have new experiences with the all mighty elders that taught me alot to help improve my rifle skills against them.
I went eldering the other day and soloed 5 elders. The time ranged from 13 minutes to 21 minutes. Not one time did any of them pop a bleed and only once did I get chased and that was because someone drove up to it on their swoop and I peaced out and by the time I could stand up she was on me. Believe this one or not....LOL.....doesnt matter either way, I went toe to toe with her and actually finished the job this way.
I was able to accomplish this because I had read on another thread that instead of dmg pups you should try speed pups. I thought to myself, eeeeeeeeee ummmmmm, why not, cant hurt anything.
I did not notice the dmg decreasing from my previous encounters with them and my speed pups enabled the job to go faster without popping any bleeds from the dmg done to them. Something else I found to be a tremendous + was the pups I am currently using do not tick my mind, they tick my health. As a master doc I can fix this where as the mind ticks really get me at times. I have been killed many times because of my mind dealio and there is nothing that peeds me off more to have an elder down to where I begin to rub my hands together wondering what Im going to loot only for them to spot me, chase me down, and kill me because of my mind being so low.....LOL
Now I do have a question for you fellow rifle peeps. Does anyone use cover when they conceil and if so what does this bring to your ability to conquer the almighty elders? Another thing I have wondered, if you do use cover, does this decrease your speeds between shots and do you still use the conceil shot when using cover?
I have only tried cover when I was leveling and I cant recall a successful venture with that so I just quit using it. I'm not for sure if I even used it right. Any suggestions or input on this?
like wayne said bring a sword friend. both of you working together will get more loot if you take turns than one of you working solo. a 2 beingteam of rifles and swords can kill 3-4 elders in the time you can kill one solo.
you should have SOME medic to keep the swordsman alive while he is dealing witht he spellweavers and protectors. when i go out with my sword friends we loot 2-1 in his favour since he is doing most of the work on the weavers and protectors. on elders we split looting and you get what u get. this allows me to get loot i wouldnt normally be able to have just by keeping him healed. this greatly speeds up looting. 3-4 people and you start running into issues of everyone not getting enough loot for the trouble. i dont like hunting like that in groups larger than 2.