Rifleman Archive

Anyone know an effective way to kill these monsters of HAM? I watched one knock a Grual Mauler to half health and decided it wasn't for the best for me to try to take him down.

Does anyone know if Flurry shot works on them? Do they have a ranged attack?

I think they beat grauls to death because they use stun batons(those are stun batons right?) grauls are vulnerable to stun.

my bile drenched quenker takes way less damage from the darktroopers than my mauler does..

I know this didn't answer your question, just explaining the graul thing..

yes they use DLT20a's and E11s

yes they use stun batons

yes a graul will go down faster than a malklok

yes flurry shot occasionaly makes them dizzy

i was on mouns and i took down a imp with a graul mauler and 3 dark troopers solo... .. its all about the strafe 2 and a WICKEDLY strong laser rifle ..,. go me

I can kill one with no problem with my greater sludge panther and strafe 2. My sludge panther looses a little more than half his health. The laser rifle I use is 92-705and70 mind powered up. When the battle is done, my blue is completely gone but the best part is if theres 2 dark troopers, strafe 2 hits them both so when my target dies, my next victim is already almost dead. This also saves my creature from getting a severe beating.

can i get a waypoint to where they can be found ? i havent been able to locate any in game.

I kill them with my laser, with mind bleeds and headshots, no pets, though I do use muon (We're all spice heads huh?) and heal myself with adv stim b's. Just have to keep your distance and be patient. I try to keep at the edge of range and go out of range to heal myself while they're prone, and flurryshot them to dizzy.

Easiest way to find darktroopers to kill is to take missions for Garm Bel Iblis in the capital building at Coronet. The last mission you do for him spawn lots of darktroopers. Just don't kill the NPC you're supposed to kill and you can redo the mission multiple times. Someone killed mine so no more spawns for me...

There is an Imperial base south of the Lake Retreat as well (sorry no wp, but you can find it on the boards somewhere)...I dislike the base because of all the camping though, and sometimes they don't spawn for a long time.

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ok, now where is this Lake Retreat exactly ?

Lake Retreat is South of Theed on Naboo.

Please forgive me for this bragging, but I feal that I have the right.

I killed two simultanius Darktroopers without pets, buffs, or drugs. Just me an' my `ol T-21.

MS2 + HS3 till they go prone at range, move out of range till they remember to getup and chase you. Rinse, repeat.

I do have maxxed out mind/willpower/focus pools, and that helped.

"The laser rifle I use is 92-705"

Geez! Where did you get a laser rifle with a max dmg of 705? Mine only does like 395.

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Anisri wrote:

"The laser rifle I use is 92-705"

Geez! Where did you get a laser rifle with a max dmg of 705? Mine only does like 395.

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I would thinkevery server can break 600 damage laser rifles now. Just make sure you get a nice damage slice and stick a +30% max damage powerup on it. Although you should be aware that powerups now make your weapon decay a LOT faster.

i have 2 lasers on me, one has max dmg 738 the other 666. i preferr the 666 since strafe2 costs 84 mindpool points, whereas the 738 (which totals to roughly 1k extra max dmg from max 5k to max 6k) uses 135 mindpool points per shot. so the smaller dmg is actually more effective in battles.

the cool thing is i switch to the higher rifle once all my mindpool is gone, its a great weapon for just dumbfire without using specials.

you get rifles like this in several ways.

1st advanced components, but they do raise HAM costs very badly.

2nd tehre was a double slicing exploit a while ago

3rd have NPC dropped weapon enhancement components installed into it during its creation. these results of course vary and you can get it wrong sliced too.

4th. Krayt tissue. thats kinda like a part of #3, but the most widely used one.

of course you slice em and use powerups on top of that.