Rifleman Archive
Thread: Ummm.. I'm not a CH and I don't have any medic skills... Rifle is so easy to level...
I don't see how everyone is saying that rifle is supposedly hard to master.
I am leveling this just as fast if not faster than pistol, Teras Kasi, Fencer and Heavy swords (the combat professions I've mastered). Unless you are a broke newbie starting from scratch on the server ... actually that doesn't even count anymore since everyone can sell their holo... unless for some reason you can't afford Muon Gold this profession is soooooo easy to master. I predict master in 5 days total, and half the time I am leveling medic and not rifle.
I started rifleman on chimaera server, with no creature handler skills , and the best weapon being either a tusken rifle or an e11. Yes it sucked to level.....and money was a problem too (mission wont spawn bug for 2 weeks)=)
You sir probably got lucky in some way
Rifle has gotten alot better in recent times. We have benefitted from TWO significant patches that have made Rifleman viable fighting class.
I mastered Rifleman before any of the aiming and defense boosts were addedand it was alottougher then.
He's speakingas one who wasn't there from the beginning, when all these guides were't written and when being a riflemen truly sucked because of the Power gap between novice and master and the general lack of scaling in damage from one to the other. This is almost the golden era of riflemen now and this guymanaged to catch the bandwagon as it rode by.
Most folks in this game seem to believe that because they did somthing , They are amazing and are the first person to have ever done it. Riflemen is alot easier than it was to attain now, hell for awhile when Food was bugged and Spice was broken I found it very hard. but of course all that never happened because this guy never did it...........
Having extensive knowledge of the game's geography and combat dynamics, combined with combat skills obtained from previous professions, money, transportation, etc is not comparableto a new player working his/her way up the Rifleman tree while learning everything else at once. You may play more than the average gamer, or spend most of your time fighting while a casual gamer might spend 3 hours ingame and only 1 hour of that in combat. It's all relative.
I'm slowly working my way up the Rifleman tree. No complaints about the experience requirements here.
Well as someone who sarted out as a newbie without cash as a Sharpshooter, BH, Pistoleer, and CH.
Sharpshooter was the hardest to level
Though I will say after they fixed that BAF thing Sharpshooter is easyer to level than before but so are the other professions.
The hardest profession to master when you are an established character is weaponsmith. Gebus buying grinding metal bankrupted me and personal extractors and wind harvesters suck.
Arkon_Liie wrote:
**edit** are you talking about Myumi... I never made any sort of statement of value about anythingyousad littleflamer. I simply said this profession is easy to master. Everyone saying that it is hard just isn't donig something right.
He's thinking wistfully, just like the Master Bounty Hunters who dropped MBH after the Investigation fix "cheapened" it. Personally, I'm annoyed at them making it easier because it means we'll have to get nerfed after everyone and their cousin lenny takes up the rifle.
Weird.. I hit master rifleman back in July or August.. don't remember exactly would have to check back heh, I didn't have pets until I was a couple of boxes into the top row of rifleman.. it took < 70 hours playing time total to level from absolute newbie *shrug*.. what I did was research mobs, found mobs that wereas slow, or slower than a player, and mobs that didn't add.. simply went bleeding mobs and running away.bleeding 4 or 5 at a time. I had the scouting xp saved and eventually took up novice ch with 2 or 3 boxes to go to master, I was going to go swordsman, but changed the plan.. when I got CH I just AE'd through mobs that night and got it. It wasn't difficult at all. Now those mobs are faster, but everyone gets a pet..easier, and mobs don't come right out and add on you... should be alot easier. Only reason I would think that it would be difficult is if the laser rifle didn't exist on your server when you were levelling the profession.
PyscoJuggalo wrote:Well as someone who sarted out as a newbie without cash as a Sharpshooter, BH, Pistoleer, and CH.
Sharpshooter was the hardest to level
Though I will say after they fixed that BAF thing Sharpshooter is easyer to level than before but so are the other professions.
The hardest profession to master when you are an established character is weaponsmith. Gebus buying grinding metal bankrupted me and personal extractors and wind harvesters suck.
wanna know the meaning of suck?? try mastering BE with a PA hall on ur lots leaving 1 for a single harvestor....
fortunately i got a heavy flora and buy my power to run it. i dont want to even think about having to master another crafting proffession. i just want to get my uber gurrecks made and hope i dont have to master anymore crafting skills.
BE is evil to master.
Rifle used to be hard when conceal shot agroed all BAF mobs, there was 2.5x melee damage, mob warping was still rampant andyou didn't have / want CH. The last 2 patches have made rifleman far easier to level than it ever has beenexcept maybe when there were mobs that you could kite in a wheelchair. (Talking firstfew weeksof release.)
Anyone leveling with these gone or mostly gone can hardly be expected to understand what it was like then.
Arkon_Liie wrote:
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I predict master in 5 days total, and half the time I am leveling medic and not rifle.
I'll be sure to come back here in 5 days and see. Betcha don't have to worry about critter, even little ones, smaking you up side the head for a one-two knockout. Betcha don't have to worry about "Psycic Friends" that see you shooting when they really shouldn't.
Let's try a test, shall we?
do this w/o using Conceal Shot. For the majority of my rifleman career it was useless.
do this standing. This will simulate what our accruacy and the effect that BAF types had in combat.
God I hate holomadness...