Rifleman Archive

I started the game a little while back and finally have more time to play. I decided to go Master a few skills to decide what I enjoy in this game. So I went up the entire Marksman tree and figured out that I enjoy Rifles the most. My question is this, what do you feel is the best suppliment to this class? Right now I am also enjoying having some Medic skills and I like alot of the Ranger class. So is Rifleman/Ranger/some Medic a pretty good path or should I use some of those points for a backup weapon?

A lot of riflemen go ranger simply because it complements the personality well, not to mention camo bonuses, which may or may not do anything.

If you decided on a melee class, Swordsman (two hand sword) is a good complement, because they are the riflemen of the melee world (they attack mind). You can start the fight with a rifle and when they run up to you, whip out a sword and finish the job. I haven't even made it to swordsman yet and I love it. Strong *fast* weapons, no 2.5x damage, and great mind bleeds as well as mind hits. If you're used to rifle HAM costs as I was, you'd be amazed how much lower a swordsmans are.

Cool thing is, if you wanted, you could just get novice brawler (15SP) and 2H II just for the mind hit, which is still effective since you get the Two Hand Curved Sword spec (best weapon) and can pump out 400-800 mind damage every couple of seconds.

Creature Handler, 2x damage from wielding a rifle will really get on your nerves after awhile. You can't tank, you never will. Creatures and NPCs will always warp on top of you and kill you in one hit. Groups will be difficult, you're a support class no one wants. While everyone else hits health and action, you specialize in hitting the HAM people hit the least. Not to mention the unhealable mind is difficult to regenerate. So get yourself CH and solo. At 1/1/0/0 you can get yourself a greater sludge panther, good kinetic resistance and 8000 HAM. It'll aid you until you get flushing shot 2 and people start to want you.