Rifleman Archive

I think that summed up everything in the title. I'd like to see how many people support this, as opposed to having our minds drained 150 points each shot while BH's are spamming it with action damage.

Oh man Tek, where were you for the Eyeshot thread..

You could have loaded up some zingers in there.

Anyway, I think that as long as mind damage is unhealable, that any attack that directly attacks mind should use mind pool for the special move (including eyeshot) - Encourage some conservation when using em.For our random pool attacks like Strafe, Flurry, Startle, Conceal, Surprise, I think it would be reasonable to use action.

I totally agree with you Iodan.

Why people are asking for mind heals and such just pisses me off or asking that our special attack drain the action or health pool is just stupid. For one thing if they change our special attack move to drain health our action you can be assured of a mind stimpack to go along with that.

The only thing us rifleman have going for us is that our damage is not healable. The cost of having this skill is having it drain our mind to use it. So i would rather use mind to use our special attacks then the DEVS changing our special attacks to drain action or heath....the DEVS would then have to incorporate mind stimpacks which would totally make the rifleman the **edit**s.

IMHO

SOKO

Perhaps we should get an advantage against mind damage: if someone attacks our mind, it will do less damage that normal. Not by a lot, but enough so that it makes a small difference. Only masters of the specific weapon should do horrible damage with it. Therefore, only Pistoleers can do X000 dmg with a pistol, only Rifleman can do X000 dmg with a rifle, only Carbineers can do X000 with carbines, etc. AND, a bounty hunter should master all three of these before s/he can do X000 with any of them.

Now i know that isn't possible with the allotted points, but it makes more sense. If you think about it, a person who decides to go Master Bounty Hunter is becoming a Pistoleer, Rifleman, and Carbineer with lower stat point cost.

Tell me if I'm wrong.

Drighton - Radiant (still waiting for Rainbow Crystals)

If we use Action for our styles, then what use would Focus be to us? Headshot II and III would become the new Eyeshot variation for Riflemen. People would scream nerf.

Leave our HAM system the way it is, just change the amount of Mind it takes to do the styles.

I can't agree with suddenlychanging the entire system of how rifles use HAM.It would hurt all the people that made Zabraks or Mon Cal riflemen for high mind stats. It would also be an excuse for the developers to reduce rifle damage in the future, if we're able to easily heal our special attack pool and fire forever.

Besides, the developers are adding in mind healing. It will be weaker/harder to dothan health/action healing, but it will at least let us recover our mind and jump back into battle faster.

Maybe use something other then a T21 or Laser. Very surprising you havnt realized that the T21 is not the end all weapon, sorry to burst your bubble.

Im a wookie i would love to have action but im still staying we should stick with mind.... We just need our ham costs adjusted....

Seeing as the other range weapon types weapon that they get upon getting their elite class is their end all weapon (tell me if I'm wrong here) why isn't the T21 the best rifle? And it almost is our best, not because it's good, but the rest just suck. Maybe once they fix the AP vs no resist bug....

So I guess all the Carbine users using the Laser Carbine should be told they should be using the Elite. Also better tell all the pistoleers to stop using the FWG on unarmored targets because the DX2 should be used all the time.

I have said in previous posts why each weapon we have is good in its on way. The 20a rips unarmored targets to shreds in secounds with almost no mind use. The Jawa rips armored targets to shreds with less mind use, and a tad bit better accuracy then a T21. The T21/ Laseris used when you have to kill someone in one shot and mind use is the least of your concerns.

We are not the only class that uses diffrent weapons depending on the situations. I know alot of people never switch weapons and that is probably one reason they have trouble PvP'n. There might not be much skill involved in this game, but using the right weapon is something that can make a huge diffrence on how well you do.

Kepamind stims are the last thing that rifleman need. Now if mind stims do become available then the rifleman is just crap. I can'tstress enough how bad mind healing in the form of stims would be. Just imagine shooting someone and taking then to 25% mind and they and the 3 or 4 others with them just heal the mind for the target you were planning on killing. There be no way a rifleman could compete if mind healing becomes reality. As fast as you could drain a person's mind is as fast as the group would heal it and they would also be auto shooting at you.

MIND STIMS OR MIND HEALING IN ANY WAY IS A VERY BAD THING FOR RIFLEMAN.

SOKO

Mind stims that could be used by medics / doctors would make a doctor thebest combat character around.

I already think the health / action buffs are a bit OTT, giving them mind heal as well would be insane.

If pistols use action then why not rifles? Or switch pistols to use health instead.