Rifleman Archive

Honestly, riflemen pretty much suck until you get the master box. Speed is crucial for rifle to be effective.

I don't know if you're asking because you want to mix partial rifleman into a template or if you just want to know what tree to go up first to master. If you want to mix it in, I can tell you right now you should forget it, it's just not going to work. Rifleman is an all or nothing kind of thing.

If you want to know what tree to go up first on the way to master, then there's more than one school of thought on it. Personally, I say go for Counter sniping 3 for flushing 2 as fast as possible. Use a BE pet to tank creature lairs and use flushing 2 to AE attack everything for the fastest possible exp. Other people say get cealment1 for conceal shot, but conceal is pretty slow for killing things, which means not so good experience rates. In either case, you want to climb the abilities line as fast as possible for the speed increases. If you can get flurry2 from pre-existing combat xp, then that works for AEing things too, but flurry2 damage is pretty poor compared to flushing2.