Rifleman Archive

Rifleman's reputation is as the "One shot wonder" faded quickly as people soon figured out that if they wear armor, it takes a good 4 shots even with a t21 to take someone out, even using Headshot 3.

Rifleman also suffer from a major XP drop, as there "Damage per minute" is MUCH lower then any other class in the game, thus, even in groups, they get the least XP of people there same level or even slightly lower then them.

Rifleman also have not that many usefull skills. Headshot 3, and Mindshot 2 are by FAR the most useful skills. The rest, are nearly junk (With the exception of a few)

Posture up attack? ??? What is that!

Enemie out of a covered state? What is that! no enemy i've seen even uses cover!, and pvp lasts no longer then 10 seconds so its junk there too

Suprise shot? What is that BS, you can already attack when covered so whats the point in this shot?

They also have the same range as everyone else, which means a master gunman can easily waste a Master Rifleman before the Rifleman can even get a shot off.

Ontop of that, rifleman get the Rifleman tree and thats IT. Other people are become Hybrid bonuty hunters, pistoleers, and smugglers to team up skills and get 140+ skills for pistol and carbine.

Someone help me here?

Oh! Then they also suffer twice the damage from melee, forgot that bit too.

While Id say a master rifleman isnt gimp I will agree that we have some major issues needing fixin.

Not a gimp? What do you call something that cant match another combat class at the same level?

Im a expert sniper using a T21 well made rifle, with Intermediate range support, and my buddy who's a Pistol specialist can waste me everytime. (Were both wearing full sets of identical Chitin armor)

T21 vs Scout blaster

Headshot 3 vs body shot 2

The T21 with headshot 3 will lose everytime if the opponet is wearing armor.

lol

again I say... at least (I hope) you didn't chose to play a Human/Rifleman/Squad Leader! Man did I get burned on all three of those coices or WHAT?!?!?!

just a pvp combat strip:

You go Prone

You Aim

You use Master Headshotat ---- and hit for 1624 points of damage (Actually deals 528 dmg to the guy, which is nothing to him)

--- Uses disarming shot and misses

--- Uses disarming shot and hits for 428 damage

Your knocked down

---Uses disarming shot and hits for 462 damage

--- Uses disarming shot and misses

--- Uses disarming shot ad hits for 382 damage

Your knocked down

---Uses Disarming shot and hits for 487 damage

You've been incapp'ed

Another is:

--- Uses eyeshot and hits for 628 damage

Your have trouble seeing clearly

You kneel

You Aim

---Uses Eyeshot and hits for 428 damage

You become incapped.

Whats even better is that i lose 23-28 faction per one of my deaths and only gain 11-14 a kill.

I really think you need to get more experience before calling the profession gimped.

That would be becuase the T21 is bugged as an AR0 weapon. Its suppost to be AR3, and penetrate armor, with bonuses. Im refering to you saying the T21 sucks.

Unfortunatly I have to agree with Zariell, the Rifleman, in its current state is utterly gimped. I have HS3 and such, a very well made Tuskan Rifle sliced for speed (4.9). And I frankly am a mere shadow of the character I should be. My brother is a fencer and he utterly owns everything,I can barely hold my own in combat vs real opponents, as I had to resort to killing Langlatches (i.e. slow **edit**) to get any exp (but so much for that now). I'm really dissapointed in the whole Rifleman class, and am seriously thinking about surrenedring all the skills and going a different route, as the Rifleman is **edit** compared to the other intermediate classes (all melee classes, pistoller, etc *sigh* and I thought the Rifleman would be an awesome class...

my thoughts exactly, it is an extremely flawed position that needs to be seriously reconsidered. it seems like after head shot 3, there is nothing even worth leveling for.

yeah I agree totally Aenema, after HS3 there really isn't any cool skills to get. Its just a whole lot a grinding for not a whole lot of reward.

According to the manual, the holocron, the strategy guide, and all the SOE BS rhetoric, the Rifleman class is the one that deals the most damage at the longest ranges. I don't see that happening. Pistols shoot just as far as rifles and have a MUCH higher DPS.