Rifleman Archive

I think the best PvE combo would be Master Rifleman / Master Swordsman / Fenver 4440

You get the best professions in PvE and all the defenses in Fencer. I would do this template, but I love the Meditative tree in TKA.

Im master rifleman/master fencer and part medic

attack the krayt with your rifle

and when your hurt go fencer to heal

I can solo giant canyons with this combo

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Akinoor wrote:

All of them are fine, allthough commando would be the weakest. But I think none of them could solo a big krayt easily without the use of some shoddy tactics.

Imo, Rifle/2h with the defense line from either fencer or tka and 2040 medic is the strongest solo PvE combo. Great defenses, best damage of many different types and the possibiliy to heal 1000+ HAM every 5 seconds.

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^----- what he said. I can solo dragons with my current build, but if a hit sneaks through my armor, I can get toasted in a hurry. Seems armor hole is STILL not fixed, at least for me. I am ditching master brawler to grab fencer and medic as metioned above. I dont use harvestors or any other tricks....just straight-out snout-to-snout with the big lizard. My armor is fairly-lightweight 90% kinetic Comp, doc/dancer buffs, Acklay PH, Krayt T21...set my COB macro to looping and go to town..as I said before, unless an attack sneaks through my armor, my HAM hardly budges. I can and have out-damaged large-groups that happen upon me while I'm fighting. The sad part is, I get hate tells from some of those groups when they were trying to steal MY kill.

im just able to solo em with a decent damage sliced t21with powerup,set ofubese armor,and some stim E's... some of you guys try to hard.

Message Edited by -Ozzie- on 05-10-2004 11:10 AM

This qualifies as a shoddy tactic but it works quite well. Go find an area with the krayt you want to kill. Next, bring out the ultimate tank, a structure factory! Yes, that's right, lay down a structure factory nearby. Hop on your trusty swoop and parade yourself in front of the krayt so that he chases you. Proceed to cirlce around the structure factory and the krayt will become stuck trying to get around it. After that, just shoot until he falls over. Very shoddy, but until my razor cat stops getting stuck on dantooine lillies while following me, I'm going to keep hemming krayts up with structure factories. Hopefully this will make the devs fix pathfinding issues. I know it will result in mobs being able to run through buildings, but here's to hoping.

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Akinoor wrote:

All of them are fine, allthough commando would be the weakest. But I think none of them could solo a big krayt easily without the use of some shoddy tactics.

Imo, Rifle/2h with the defense line from either fencer or tka and 2040 medic is the strongest solo PvE combo. Great defenses, best damage of many different types and the possibiliy to heal 1000+ HAM every 5 seconds.

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By big krayt do you mean giant or ancient? Both rifle/cm and rifle/doc could do giants with ease solo (although it's a questionable use of time, compared to regular/juvi krayts, unless you can only find giants). I've never tried an ancient, because it would take far too long even if it were killable. Ancients just aren't worth the trouble. Honestly, a rifleman/novice medic could do giants without breaking a sweat. There's no need for shoddy tactics, just get good armor and tank the things until they're dead.

I also agree that Rifle/2h sword is an excelent pve combo, which I would combine with medic personally. The question is about killing krayts though. Against krayts, 2h sword adds absolutely nothing, since rifle does higher dps and there's no need for kinetic or blast damage. CM is about the only thing that adds to the killing power of a rifleman against krayts, and doc as mentioned is just plain useful to have.

My build is as follows

Swordsman (Master)

Rifleman (Master)

Scout (3.0.0.0)

Medic (3.1.4.0)

I can solo everything up to Giant Canyons. Conceal shot takes a lifetime, so i kite around with my t21, and switch to a phammer when the dragon closes in. Takes a while, but when you get him distracted with other mobs attacking, the t21 tears through him. Powerups for both weapons aren't critical, but speed things up alot. 600+ stim C's, brandy and the def KD food are all thats needed. 5 Giants, 11 canyons and 30 some juvies, and ive needed one muon.

-note** take your helmet off when your 30m+ away, keeps your mind full.

Message Edited by MakersMark on 05-10-2004 10:42 PM

How would this work for hunt krayts solo?

TKM, The defence line of fencer and swordsman (I can't remember the names of them at the moment)

Great dmg (for the moment) and great defence. But you would need good armor buffs and food buffs.