Rifleman Archive
Thread: Swordsman or Rifleman?
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realvorda
Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:08 am
#2
it depends...
I have chosen for rifleman, and am very happy, because I am able to kill elders and krayts a lot faster then swordsman (also, my fencer defences make me a good tank). But the problem is that with just rifleman, you cant kill high lvl ns other then the elder.. they have all 100 everythign other then blast, restraint and kinetic..
thats why I've been thinking about swapping fencer for tka, but I fear this will greatly affect my tanking abilities...
ps: fencer with their ap0 weapons suck at pve (yes, we got one ap1 weapon, but look at the dmg on that..)
JUGGALOTUS
Sat Jun 26, 2004 10:46 am
#5
well i say both as well, i have mastered swords,tk,medic, and i find that swords is awesome for kinetic,and blast dmg for those things that are 100% resist to your t21. the temp i find very usefull is swords,rifleman (master of course), tk meditate tree and novice medic try it out
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B4k4slayer
Sat Jun 26, 2004 9:22 pm
#7
It's strange how so many people want to ask advice as to what professions they should do and that's ok if your new to the game and the person your asking has a good idea as to what you like to do...but nothing better then trying out all the choices and figuring out what you like best for yourself. 
NonStop
Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:54 am
#8
i'm master swordsman & master rifleman, gonna pick up 4404 tk, should be nice
Thrasher13
Sun Jun 27, 2004 4:00 am
#9
Riflemen uses alot of mind, your always having to buff your mind, also the better your weapon the easier riflemen is, another thing I find is I have to take off pieces of armor cause the of the heavy mind use and with publish 9 and delay's coming it's going to make a difference.
Concealshot is awsome for npc and the acklay (which by the way seems to attack the mind more than anything).
Swordsmen uses stuff all mind but tends to go through the armor cause your tanking alot, scythe blade's are rear and hard to find on vendors which means you usally end up with a powerhammer.You can use swordsmen area attacks in caves where riflemen strafeshot2 will agro everything with in 70m of the direction your firing even through walls.
Both professions have mind attack but riflemen with a good rifle will kill a mob faster.
Swordsmen seem to be better a tanking multiple mobs where is a riflemen will take down a single mob really fast.
With swordsmen I can take on 6 or 7 enraged rancors at one time with no problem and 10 nightsisters with hams between 10k and 50k without breaking a sweat riflemens mind cost are just to high to do that.
One last thing is I have never had a krayt T21 or a good dxr-6b my T21 has a max damage of 406 and my dxr-6b has a max damage of 350.If I could get my hands on a krayt T21 or an exceptional T21 one it would be a different story and I'm sure someone that has one will say im wrong about riflemen but it's a facter in the riflemen profession your only as good as your rifle.
Oh riflemen takes alot longer to grind than swordsmen.
Master Riflemen/Master Swordsmen/Rogue
Concealshot is awsome for npc and the acklay (which by the way seems to attack the mind more than anything).
Swordsmen uses stuff all mind but tends to go through the armor cause your tanking alot, scythe blade's are rear and hard to find on vendors which means you usally end up with a powerhammer.You can use swordsmen area attacks in caves where riflemen strafeshot2 will agro everything with in 70m of the direction your firing even through walls.
Both professions have mind attack but riflemen with a good rifle will kill a mob faster.
Swordsmen seem to be better a tanking multiple mobs where is a riflemen will take down a single mob really fast.
With swordsmen I can take on 6 or 7 enraged rancors at one time with no problem and 10 nightsisters with hams between 10k and 50k without breaking a sweat riflemens mind cost are just to high to do that.
One last thing is I have never had a krayt T21 or a good dxr-6b my T21 has a max damage of 406 and my dxr-6b has a max damage of 350.If I could get my hands on a krayt T21 or an exceptional T21 one it would be a different story and I'm sure someone that has one will say im wrong about riflemen but it's a facter in the riflemen profession your only as good as your rifle.
Oh riflemen takes alot longer to grind than swordsmen.
Master Riflemen/Master Swordsmen/Rogue
Thrasher13
Sun Jun 27, 2004 4:01 am
#10
Riflemen uses alot of mind, your always having to buff your mind, also the better your weapon the easier riflemen is, another thing I find is I have to take off pieces of armor off cause the of the heavy mind use and with publish 9 and delay's coming it's going to make a difference.
Concealshot is awsome for npc and the acklay (which by the way seems to attack the mind more than anything).
Swordsmen uses stuff all mind but tends to go through the armor cause your tanking alot, scythe blade's are rear and hard to find on vendors which means you usally end up with a powerhammer.You can use swordsmen area attacks in caves where riflemen strafeshot2 will agro everything with in 70m of the direction your firing even through walls.
Both professions have mind attack but riflemen with a good rifle will kill a mob faster.
Swordsmen seem to be better a tanking multiple mobs where is a riflemen will take down a single mob really fast.
With swordsmen I can take on 6 or 7 enraged rancors at one time with no problem and 10 nightsisters with hams between 10k and 50k without breaking a sweat riflemens mind cost are just to high to do that.
One last thing is I have never had a krayt T21 or a good dxr-6b my T21 has a max damage of 406 and my dxr-6b has a max damage of 350.If I could get my hands on a krayt T21 or an exceptional T21 one it would be a different story and I'm sure someone that has one will say im wrong about riflemen but it's a facter in the riflemen profession your only as good as your rifle.
Oh riflemen takes alot longer to grind than swordsmen.
Master Riflemen/Master Swordsmen/Rogue
Concealshot is awsome for npc and the acklay (which by the way seems to attack the mind more than anything).
Swordsmen uses stuff all mind but tends to go through the armor cause your tanking alot, scythe blade's are rear and hard to find on vendors which means you usally end up with a powerhammer.You can use swordsmen area attacks in caves where riflemen strafeshot2 will agro everything with in 70m of the direction your firing even through walls.
Both professions have mind attack but riflemen with a good rifle will kill a mob faster.
Swordsmen seem to be better a tanking multiple mobs where is a riflemen will take down a single mob really fast.
With swordsmen I can take on 6 or 7 enraged rancors at one time with no problem and 10 nightsisters with hams between 10k and 50k without breaking a sweat riflemens mind cost are just to high to do that.
One last thing is I have never had a krayt T21 or a good dxr-6b my T21 has a max damage of 406 and my dxr-6b has a max damage of 350.If I could get my hands on a krayt T21 or an exceptional T21 one it would be a different story and I'm sure someone that has one will say im wrong about riflemen but it's a facter in the riflemen profession your only as good as your rifle.
Oh riflemen takes alot longer to grind than swordsmen.
Master Riflemen/Master Swordsmen/Rogue
Hellskeeper
Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:22 am
#11
im a master swordsman and very very nearly master rifleman,ive also gone up med use in medic and medative techniques in TK they all work together pretty good.
APB
Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:38 am
#12
I have to agree with other posters on the rifleman/swordsman. I was able to take NS elders down just fine with a power hammer, but I needed to change things up a bit, as I was getting bored with Master Swordsman, tk 4/0/0/4, ranger 0/0/3/0, novice medic, so I dropped all scout/ranger and started working on rifleman(was 0/0/0/3 the moment I made novice...gotta love stored combat exp), now I'm 3/0/0/3 with 20k combat exp to go unil I get abilities 4 and so far I'm enjoying it a lot. Now I just need to find some speed/accuracy tapes
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