Rifleman Archive
Thread: T-21 Composite Mind Drain
Migration and mind buffs - there is no way around it, as a rifleman you have to put everything you have into your mind.
migrate your stats and try the new brandy for long-term fights, or muon gold for quick skirmishes
Get to know a master musician, I currently have an alt account with a master musician with +23 musical mind enhancement. Thats a 1353 focus buff with 1100 focus, making your focus 2353. I wear a full set of composite and without food/drugs I can spam rifle shots with no mind cost.
Another useful tip for all you rifleman.... you can store music buffs... make that 2 hour buff last 4 hours....
Storing a buff:
1) Get a music buff
2) stop listening when its done
3) listen again right away for the full buff time
4) walk away without stoping listening
5) when your first buff wears off type /stoplisten and boom your buffed again for another 2 hours.
Musicians are a rifleman's best friend, no arguments about it.
And I'd be taking those foods/drinks anyway to save me from the enemy riflemen so it's no disadvantage really.
Composite has high hams costs, however, take off your helmet and you will notice a huge difference.
I only wear my helmet when a mobs gets up close and personal. Makes a HUGE difference. Aslo, unless you are going pvp consider ubese for pve. I've got a set on order and I'm looking forward to it.
LinkinSUN wrote:
make sure you get 1500 focus, thats the magic number. after that you dont use any mind at all on specials.
with the new brandy, that shouldnt be a problem, its usually around +400 on all mind stats. so if you cant get ahold ofregular musician buffs, migrate your focus to like 800, drink 2 brandy and you will be fine for 30+ minutes.
You don't have to buy that high level brandy to get good results.
Last night our hunting group was down to two others, me and my pets. I was the only one left with buffs (my pet's buffs still had time on them also) and my last mission was thunes. The other two started to balk and I said I was going to take the lair and they could join me if they wanted to... Just hold on for the ride.
When we arrived I took two hits of +194 brandy, ate two canapes (which add willpower and focus) and sent the pets in after the lair. I started spamming strafeshot2 and killed them all and never once saw the slightest sliver of white on my mind bar.
Now canape only lasts 10 minutes (like muon) but with all that I shot alot of strafe shots and it was awesome. I made sure I had my helmet off, that makes a 200+ difference on my mind hams...
With the brandy and the canapes my lowest stat for mind was 1300...