Rifleman Archive
Thread: **edit**? Rifleman is useless!
jdmaldo
Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:42 pm
#27
uh... you can solo pretty much anything in the game with rifleman. and if you cant do it with rifleman, you cant do it with any other profession.
kenkenken
Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:57 pm
#28
"and if you really dont like rifleman that bad, then simply drop and get a new
profession it instead of throwing a tantrum like you are"
/agree
and one more thing, the people posting here know from
firsthand experience what its like to be a rifleman, while
your "proofs" are all hearsay
<< from what I've heard, Krayt's are MUCH more difficult
with the new patch. And that I've never heard of a Rifleman
soloing a Krayt without CM>>
above are posts by people who HAVE soloed krayts, while all
you can reply with is "i've never heard of blah blah"
you can't get your facts straight, like the thing about the
warning shot being a pistol skill.so dont start laying down "facts"
about krayts and whatnot. and yes i meant threaten
shot, i mix the two up alot
profession it instead of throwing a tantrum like you are"
/agree
and one more thing, the people posting here know from
firsthand experience what its like to be a rifleman, while
your "proofs" are all hearsay
<< from what I've heard, Krayt's are MUCH more difficult
with the new patch. And that I've never heard of a Rifleman
soloing a Krayt without CM>>
above are posts by people who HAVE soloed krayts, while all
you can reply with is "i've never heard of blah blah"
you can't get your facts straight, like the thing about the
warning shot being a pistol skill.so dont start laying down "facts"
about krayts and whatnot. and yes i meant threaten
shot, i mix the two up alot
DocaBaka
Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:34 am
#29
I'm on my second time up the rifleman tree. I am MCH and Master Marksman. I just go prone and mask scent at about 60m from the lair. Send in a multiple creature combo (2 or 3) and just blast with Flury shot 2 or any hit multiple shot. I always get buffed by a doc and drink two swigs of Brandy. I can drop a lair quickly calling my critters back between spawns or just let them chew on the lair and pick em off . Oh and i keep a nice pistol handy if one of the baddieswanders too close. I have a ton of sliced laser rifles for this and i power up min/max damage.My two cents for what it is worth.
Baka
Sunrunner
Love being rifleman again. It is the most fun to mind bleed and headshot helpless critters HeeHee
Boberino
Sun Jul 04, 2004 1:51 pm
#30
Naktu wrote:
Ok, I'm having a really hard time with rifleman. I'm a Ranger and as such make my money hunting and selling creature resources. But as rifleman, this isn't very effective. The recent spawn of Nabooian Wooly Hide, well, I was only able to pick up 5k of the stuff before it despawned because rifling is so SLOW. I picked up a damage sliced T21 as was suggested by another rifleman, and it does decent damage, but the speed is 7.5! That's useless. Even a mediocre laser rifle is much more effective, because it fires over twice as fast. I tried going to the squill cave, dead almost immediately because after one or two Head2/Conceal shots, which do maybe half a HAM bar of damage, they aggro and close to melee, where rifle is COMPLETELY useless. And I'm firing from 60m laying prone. Krayt Graveyard, even shooting Banthas for 900 XP, which is pretty much a waste of time considering the hundreds of thousands of XP you need, takes 2 or 3 hits. 2 or 3 hits at 7.5 seconds each for 900 XP??? And forget about Rancors or Nightsis, can't even thouch em, you get a few shots before they aggro and then they're too close and too tough to hurt. How do you make a successful profession out of rifleman?! Anything bigger than a Bantha is just not worth trying to kill, they close to melee range and then it's either suicide or a waste of time.
Then don't be a rifleman...
Simple as that
SK8Tendo1201
Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:01 pm
#31
Soloing rancors is the easiest thing in the world for me. Maybe thats just because I'm a master CH too. I just send a pet in to keep the attacks away from me and spam strafe shot 2 a couple of times and its done. 20,000 credits richer. I'm making my fourtune with rifleman. The only downside is you need to buy buffs and brandy to do any good damage. Thats why u died at the squill cave. The reason u got owned there is because u dont know how to use the profession.
Junsa
Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:05 am
#32
its really simple man, before master, make sure u get a speed slice on that t21, after master ........dmg slice
i dont think i used the laser rifle once when lvl'ing rifles for the 2nd time, the min dmg is just to low for me, reminds me of when i was a pikeman and tried using the normal lances.
the t21 is probably one of the best weapons in the game...without a doubt. Heavy AP will bring pretty much any target in the game down pretty quickly.
as for the sisters the onlyones you cant touch as a rifleman are stalkers, spell weavers and protectors. the rest usually drop before they have made up the 64m...unless its an elder of course.
i used to be a pikeman while my spouse was a swordsman, wed go and pretty much take out anything, but i decided to switch to rifles again to compliment the mind hits with her swordsman just to take the highest lvl stuff in the game down alot quicker. and let me say, when you have a swordsman up front htting mind, and a rifleman at the back hitting mind, there is nothing in the game you cant take down, and pretty easily i might add.
the only thing in the game so far that has thwarted us is the corvette - but i didnt expect to win going up there just the 2 of us *halo
were actually thinking to go fencer and pistoleer, just so fighting is a little bit tougher, *sigh.....its tough when you r the best heh j/k
i dont think i used the laser rifle once when lvl'ing rifles for the 2nd time, the min dmg is just to low for me, reminds me of when i was a pikeman and tried using the normal lances.
the t21 is probably one of the best weapons in the game...without a doubt. Heavy AP will bring pretty much any target in the game down pretty quickly.
as for the sisters the onlyones you cant touch as a rifleman are stalkers, spell weavers and protectors. the rest usually drop before they have made up the 64m...unless its an elder of course.
i used to be a pikeman while my spouse was a swordsman, wed go and pretty much take out anything, but i decided to switch to rifles again to compliment the mind hits with her swordsman just to take the highest lvl stuff in the game down alot quicker. and let me say, when you have a swordsman up front htting mind, and a rifleman at the back hitting mind, there is nothing in the game you cant take down, and pretty easily i might add.
the only thing in the game so far that has thwarted us is the corvette - but i didnt expect to win going up there just the 2 of us *halo
were actually thinking to go fencer and pistoleer, just so fighting is a little bit tougher, *sigh.....its tough when you r the best heh j/k
SK8Tendo1201
Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:51 am
#33
I could probably stop using my DRX6 rifle and start using one of my 3 T21s since I just mastered rifleman. Once you master rifleman is your attack speed 1.0 no matter what the speed on the rifle is.
RemoMoxey
Tue Jul 06, 2004 1:52 am
#34
Naktu wrote:
i find it hard to believe you can solo krayts since this publish went live. they have what 350K HAM and do 600dmg a hit to 90% kinetic composite now...? and even if you can, that's only with the help of CM, right?
I soloed Krayts tonight (7-5-04) and they still did the same old 150-180 damage they've always done.
SpawnofHell
Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:02 am
#35
by master all of those i can't solo this i cant kill that. are all gone one word of warning if anything can blind u be careful and ready to miss 5 or 6 times in a row happened to me in squill caves couldnt hit the wee guys for anything just was always blind and buff with 1brandy and 1 canape spam attack is fun u lose like 20 mind tops of course canape and brandy expensive but whenu can do 20+k in 10min flat u arent worried
SpawnofHell
Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:17 am
#37
sorry im deslexic (sp?) so it happens. i try my best but as u can tell i forget about them a lot.
Naktu
Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:53 am
#39
Wow I didn't realize this post was still goin, lol. There's no way to flag posts for easy locating and reading later is there?
Anyhow, a couple more questions. How exactly do the speed mods work as you progress through rifle? How much of an increase do you pickup from those +10's? The cap on rifle speed is 1.0 right? Is there any point in getting speed attachments? If you master rifleman, you cap out on speed anyway, so attachments are more for people who aren't going master...?
Also someone recommended picking up a Disruptor and heading to the Geo caves for faster leveling since they're vuln to acid damage. You guys agree?
Anyhow, a couple more questions. How exactly do the speed mods work as you progress through rifle? How much of an increase do you pickup from those +10's? The cap on rifle speed is 1.0 right? Is there any point in getting speed attachments? If you master rifleman, you cap out on speed anyway, so attachments are more for people who aren't going master...?
Also someone recommended picking up a Disruptor and heading to the Geo caves for faster leveling since they're vuln to acid damage. You guys agree?