Rifleman Archive

The only branch I see wothless, is Concealment. Counter-sniping I find very useful. Flushing shot 2is very useful, against another rifle user. (pve) And so is Startle Shot 2, against NPC chars this is. I Dizzy them, startle 2 them, they try and go back down and fall on there backs. giving me a chance to have 3-4 shots.

Concealmetns only use is + to ranged defense, except its only like +2.

That concealment to work like AIM, seems like a very good idea. But it would have to only work with a single shot, not an AE. Since its kind of hard to conceal your location when you shoot 5 people at once. I like the idea, it would make it 10 times mroe useful.

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That concealment to work like AIM, seems like a very good idea. But it would have to only work with a single shot, not an AE. Since its kind of hard to conceal your location when you shoot 5 people at once. I like the idea, it would make it 10 times mroe useful.

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Im glad you see this to be a good idea Aldeon. I completely agree with you on the AOE restrictions that would need to be placed.

Will you be asking SOE to consider this?

Also, will you be asking SOE to change the +20 melee defence we get to something more useful? This has been a concern of MANY rifleman on the board and we would all like to know if the issue is going to be adressed.

Thank you on behalf of all the riflemen who would like to see our class prove to be more useful and more defined in its role as snipers.

I'm just curious what weapon you used to one shot 2-6 people...

With the Jawa Ion rifle I have gotten, 4 people at once. Usually 2-3 people at once. Unless I get the bugged AE, wich does damage, but doesnt do it on the HAM bar.

Aldeon, what type of damage does the jawa ion rifle do? Does it have an attack that passes by armor? Also, what is the armor peircing value?

Finally, are they craftable by weapon smiths? Ive never seen one for sale on a WS vendor.

Aldeon -

Reducing pvp damage 50% would SCREW us. Right now our only chance is a 1-shot incap. If we need even 2 shots to incap, we're doomed. Meanwhile, pistols will be barely effected by such a change. A BH will just need three 400-damageeyeshots on us instead of two, which will take about 2 seconds. We, on the other hand, will need two headshots, which will take about6 seconds. THINK a little.

Anyway, at least you figured out that our rifle speed doesn't need to be nerfed. Ugh...

I would agree with Aldeon that PvP damage needs to be slowed by 50%. At least.

Rifleperson single-shot multi-kills is overpowered. BH eye-shotting for kills in a couple of seconds is over-powered. TKA's doing thousands of points of damage is over-powered. Knockdowns should have timers on them: in most other PvP games crowd-control abilities are timed to prevent them from dominating combat.

Combat should involve some player skill as opposed to character skill. Combat should last for at least 10-30 seconds to giveall players the chance to use theircharacter abilities as best they know. Players dying instantly or in the first few seconds of battle just leads to frustration and player dissatisfaction.

Slowing down damage rates would also give medics a greater role. I also think armour should be a lot less painful to wear.

Yes, I know this is Star Wars, and laser bolts are deadly stuff. But before that this game should be playable and enjoyable. From all the threads I have read, it's not that for many. Swing the nerf bat I say. Swing it hard and furiously.

The idea that a special shot could knock someone down is...hmmm...dumb. I also agree that pistol accuracy and BH should be nerfed all to hell. BH is simply to powerful. Let me tell you guys a story....

So I'm coming back from a trip to my house south of anchorhead... And I get ambushed by an imp BH who used TEF. One hit with his uber laser carbine and I'm incapped. Not even the chance to attack. Where is the fun in that? Any pistol or carbine that can incap someone in one hit should be nerfed..Nerfed as bad as probots..but thats another story. Rifleman sacrfice speed and Health for the one shot incap. It just depends on who fired first. Some thought must be given to the BH, because BH is a 220point skill while Rifleman or any other is a 60 point profession. Lets see a master BH take on 2 sludge panthers lol

Being a Bothan rifleman is sweet because of the camo bonus. I can shoot npcs/creatures 3 times before they will attack back (not that I'd need to lol). This doesn't work on reds of course.

The BH gets their own combat-oriented revenue stream, which replaces the rifleman's option of taking up artisan. That's it. They're not supposed to be unstoppable in pvp. It's just a choice on how you make your money.