Rifleman Archive

We do not do 10 times less damage than pistol users. We probably do 75% at the lower levels; however, when they are getting diminshing returns for their +pistol speed mods, we are laughing to the bank. I believe I fire my laser rifle right now at slighty slower than 1 shot per second. I say slightly becuase when dueling it seems pistols still have ajust s slight edgeon me. However, let's look at the math:

Laser rifle, with a damage mod, 25-600 damage. with the ~ 1 second delay, this is 312.5 raw base damage a second.

No pistol comes close to that and no pistol has AP2 for that matter.

Without the mod: 20-460ish = 250 base damage per second.

Now consider that these shots can be strafe 2 shots, which for me I can max hit for about 4.5k with... That is with the mod making my rifle ~600 base damage(high quality laser rifle, sliced with 30% damage, using a 32% damage mod). Granted, usually they only hit in the 2.2k ish range or somewhere about that. However, using that average, 2,200 damage a second! Find me another ranged profession that can even come close to that. But wait! We aren't done yet! that's an AP 2 laser rifle, against most mobs and the majority of players we are looking at a 25% to 50% damage increase; 2750 DPS, 3300 DPS repectively. We haven't even talked about t-21. *grin* Needless to say, we are the paper cannons of SWG. We will far outdamage even melee with their nastiestdamage moves. These numbers here already excedemaster TKA halfs damage potential by a decent margin...I manage maybe 1.7k a second on average with the TKA. Of course these moves are getting tweaked and powered up with the coming changes and vibros are getting a boost sincetwo parts of making them is being recified. i still dodn't think I'll close to my rifleman numbers...

Rifleman is a culling profession. Only those that can live through the hellish purgatory that is a novice rifleman will be rewarded in the end.

With the upcoming changes, the most powerful character in the game will probably be a CH with 4 in taming and 3 in managment, master rifleman, master medic, and properly selected pets, of course.