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I was reading in the styles thread that strafe2 does 5x damage.
Is that 5x damage per target? or that its hitting 5 targets in
one special that is a total of 5x damage?

Rocker
Corbantis

5x damage per target on any yellow or red target within 64 meters that is actively engaged in combat with you, or your group.

The last bit's important, as its an aweful lot of mind points to waste on just one target when you meant it to hit the whole group. Equally important is to be aware that even though it won't take damage away from "bystanders", it can still cause them to aggro on you. Ex: You go up to a group of kreetles dispersed amongst some mountain dewbacks. Kreetles are aggressive, Dewbacks are not. If you fire SS2 on one of the kreetlesor any other AoE effect, while the dewbacks are in range, SS2 will take damage from the single kreetle, but aggro everything within the radius.

Kinda makes you wonder why the devs did that. I mean, if it only tookdamage from targets in combat with you and didn't aggro everything in the radius, I'd call that smart thinking and realistic. A master rifleman who can fire a shot every second should be able to target fast and drop it If it took damage from any non-friendlies in the radius and aggroed, I'd say that's dumb, but at least better than what it does now.

Ahhh..the life of a rifleman.

I think rifle needs a x4 at least single target attack, maybe startleshot seeing as other skills do everything this does and more.

RueKursk I wouldn't be surprised to find that AEs not hitting all targets is a bug.

well how would you feel if you where a dewback and some hot shot rifleman started spraying lazer bolts in your direction

i would feel violated in my inner dewback self, but then again I seem to one shot dewbacks....

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JFirestorm10 wrote:
i would feel violated in my inner dewback self, but then again I seem to one shot dewbacks....

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It wasn't the dewbacks that were the problem it was those **edit** Stormtroopers camping next to them that was the problem. Everytime I unloaded on the dewbacks the Stormtroopers came running. Finally I got tired of playing with them and came back and unleashed on them...then I took the dewbacks

Discovered something new, atleast to me anyhow. I'm a 3,2,3,2 Rifleman and we were hunting Langlatch on LOK. Before Flushing 2 theses things owned me so I go out with a group of 4 to get Hide. What I quickly discovered was that if I took the first shot and drew the BAF aggro, then hit flushing 2 that after 2-3 shots I dropped all of the Langlatch except the Maruader's (as well as damaged the lair). Then the group would draw them and we would finish them. There were cats all dead and lined up, hitting as many as 6 at time. Dropped 4 with one volley! There were 2 BH in the group but I was still the major damage dealer firing Flurry 2 every 2 seconds or so with a powered up laser rifle. I love rifleman, had my doubts but after hitting the 1/2 way point I am seing the light, this class rocks!!

Yeah, its hits 5x damage for each target, very neat.

I went out hunting alone last night with just my rock beetle.

Sent in rock beetle and waited till all 7 dewbacks were attacking it, then let loose with strafeshot 2, i was hitting all 7 for at least 2k+ damage each. every 1.7 seconds. so needless to say in about 6 seconds they all lay dead on the ground and my beetle was only slightly damaged. very cool i must say..

"5x damage per target on any yellow or red target within 64 meters that is actively engaged in combat with you, or your group."

Does it really affect every (combating) Target within 64m range of the creature you're firing the shot on ?
64m ??? Man, that's really a hughe range !!
Is it the Same with FS2 ?
I can't wait then till i get these AoE-Attacks then !!! (actually just 1-0-1-0 rifleman on my loooong way to master).