Rifleman Archive

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Fred_Skinner wrote:

Love Rifleman? funny, didn't feel like it when Crazed Durni were cutting me up into bloody chunks last fall. I call it Karma

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Then Pikeman is about to become Uber!!!

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Fight- wrote:

I hate to say it. But every single "winner" pvp is a rifleman/something. With the odd exception (hardcore pvp'ers who love thier broken/underpowered professions) EVERYONE is going rifleman. Next time you are anywhere at all take a look around and count on your fingers how many rifleman-in-training or masters you see. You will run out of fingers and find your shoes off using your toes.

This clearly states a fact. It is better than the other professions. And in a "blanced" game having one profession dominating the rest sort of removes the "balance" doesnt it? I hate it when i am a good prof and it gets nerfed. we all do. But this profession needs a nerf.

Flame and when you are done think about it.

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You can't get a perfect balance in an MMORPG since there will always be a profession that will be stronger than others, currently it's riflemen but that could change anytime. Only good thing about riflemen is that they make good customers when it comes to buying weapons, besides that I don't really care about them at all, just gets annoying when everyone and his dog is a rifleman. It's not the proffesion in itself that I dislike it's this whole FOTM thingy I dislike and that's the thing that will get rifleman nerfed eventually.

Master Commando here. Pub 8 was suppose to be the BIG fix to balance everything. Now they changed there minds and said 6 months to fix everything. A blast damage rifle would just be the biggest slap in the face to a commando. I told myself to just stick with it until pub 8 and everything will be fine. Honestly... theres no way ill stick around for 6 months and wait for this. Looks like i will be joining fotm rifleman. Energy, Acid, Stun, and soon Blast damage all with at least meduim up to heavy AP im sure. Reena will probly hate me for this since im switching weapons again lol... but the Dev's sure do love rifleman.

well said CairnTrenor

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Darth_Llama wrote:

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gunner4life wrote:

its those dastardly pistoleers brandishing their hand cannons , aka dx-2's that cause all the imbalance issues in the game.

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Huh?

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Might thought's exactly. Granted the DX2 is one of our most usefull pistols but it's hardly an imbalance issue. Pistoleer is so weak it's silly and the DX2 certainly doesn't balance things ( helps but doesn't fill the void completely).

FWIW I think the high AP weapons should be hybrid skills only. Elite skills being limited to AP1, or at a push AP2. Commando and/or BH should fill the bulk of AP2 and AP3 requirements.

(BTW I have Rifle and pistol toons so this is a balanced viewpoint)

if it does become a blast rifle.. commando becomes extinct and no more turrets and bases in the galaxy.. that rifle will end gcw well end what little gcw as we know it right now... ahem.. all those who can take down an at st in under 5 shots raise your hand.... thought so... hmmm now how many shots does itcurrently take to take out a turret and then how many will it take with this new gun.. it is too much under the current system

im not complaining

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Sivol wrote:
Master Commando here. Pub 8 was suppose to be the BIG fix to balance everything. Now they changed there minds and said 6 months to fix everything. A blast damage rifle would just be the biggest slap in the face to a commando. I told myself to just stick with it until pub 8 and everything will be fine. Honestly... theres no way ill stick around for 6 months and wait for this. Looks like i will be joining fotm rifleman. Energy, Acid, Stun, and soon Blast damage all with at least meduim up to heavy AP im sure. Reena will probly hate me for this since im switching weapons again lol... but the Dev's sure do love rifleman.

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Well like was said several times, we don't know if it is going to be blast and honestly I highlydoubt it because that would just be too powerful for us to have access to. And the devs didn't love us when durnis warped 80 meters over to kill me back in the beginning. Of course they were sadistic enough to put that horrible modifier on you commandos as well but I think satan made them do that in order to keep some extra players

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Shivash wrote:

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Darth_Llama wrote:

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gunner4life wrote:

its those dastardly pistoleers brandishing their hand cannons , aka dx-2's that cause all the imbalance issues in the game.

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Huh?

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Might thought's exactly. Granted the DX2 is one of our most usefull pistols but it's hardly an imbalance issue. Pistoleer is so weak it's silly and the DX2 certainly doesn't balance things ( helps but doesn't fill the void completely).

FWIW I think the high AP weapons should be hybrid skills only. Elite skills being limited to AP1, or at a push AP2. Commando and/or BH should fill the bulk of AP2 and AP3 requirements.

(BTW I have Rifle and pistol toons so this is a balanced viewpoint)

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hehehe , i am a pistoleer . i was being sarcastic because i am so frustrated at how gimped pistoleer is . in pvp the dx-2 is like a toygun compared to a t-21 or jawa ion .

oahep acto

So bascally. Rifleman lap up your goddness for the time being and when the 3000000 novice newbs master and the davs take note of some basic statistics "hmm 80% of the server are rifleman and the rest are sw's guys" you'll be nerfed and Ill laugh have a nice day

Nerf rifleman? Sure...make all professions suck equally. I mean seriously...some people are just delusional if they think that nerfing Rifleman will fix PvP in any way. Armor, buffs, and heals DO need to be addressed first. I mean where were all these nerf herders before armor stats started sky-rocketing and buffs became insane? Somehow Rifleman is a big problem when it hasn't even changed much since the game started. Masters have always hit hard and fast. The difference is that other professions did the same until crazy ass armor, buffs, and defense stacking came along. Armor, buffs, and novice medic heals have basically gimped carbines and pistols.

Seriously, these nerf herders are just bitter. Bitter that Rifleman is one of the only combat professions that actually has a way of getting around overpowered aspects of the game such as armor, heals, and buffs (including BE foods). Other professions should either be able to get around them to or maybe those aspects just need to be toned down a bit.