Rifleman Archive

The rifleman profession is the biggest joke going right now. 3/4 of the skill trees are useless, the mods are ridiculous we get (+ to melee defense??? + to position UP? worthless). Our elite gun is bugged to hell. Pistols do over twice your damage in the same amount of time. Your only prayer in pvp is to get a one shot kill, anything other than that and you lose. I just lost like 5 duels straight against a pistoleer that wasn't even a master. These fights were all greater than 50m appart. He won ever **edit** one just spamming stopping shot. Never missed a shot... Here's the kicker: Invariably they will reduce PvP damage some, and that is going to really hurt rifleman cause right now one hit kills are our only hope. additonally everyone continues to whine about mind damage in both pvp and pve, since rifleman are such a small fraction of the population a nerf is just right around the corner, all this on top of already being a joke of a profession.

Signed, a master rifleman, a master TKA.

im gonna assume he was wearing armor. so your t21 was doing half dmg.

im making up numbers here

t21 does 100 dmg, fires every second

since its bugged and is ap0 you were doing 50 dmg per second.

when its ap3 youll get 2 +25% modifiers, so somewhere in the range of 155 dmg per second.

lets compare. 50:155, if you guys even came close in a duel as of now id say we were overpowered seeing as youre basically at 30% of your potential

No, he was wearing a trenchcoat. Heh.

Me and a bountyhunter dueled yesterday, and after I found out you cant iniate a duel from conceal (dont ask), he ate 1400 points to the head.....wearing a helmet. As soon as they start adding more snipe like aspecs to the rifleman class I fear that it will become a flavor of the month class like the pistoleer is now (until they nerf it, then watch the majority jump ship). In pvp, he who see the enemy first, usually wins...

Great, you one shot a BH, once. *rolls eyes* Do me a favor, don't take my advice.

Im assuming you used Head Shot, you do know Strafe Shot does more damage, nd is an area of effect?

Killed me in one shot 2 of the 5, 3 of the5 I got one hit off, not enough to kill though. Yeah, I use Strafe2 pretty much exclusively when fighting in small numbers/dueling. The fact that I'm also a master TKA with very large defensive bonuses to add onto my rifleman bonuses *and he didn't even use knockdowns* is extremely telling just how weak rifleman are compared to just about anyone with a pistol. The "balance" in this game is a joke.

I agree, right now im into pistoleer and riflemen.. gotta say pistoleer is well JUST better no getting around it. No "real" advantaged to being a riflemen. ALl i see is -50 on everything... miss miss mis.. with a pistol its different.

I the biggest problem with all range combat is that the range moddifiers are royal screwed up. Why on gods unholy earth does my friends Scatter Pistol and my DLT20a both have a -50 Accuracy modifier at 60 meters? Pistols need to be useless outside of 25-35m carbines maxed at like 50m and rifles at 80. I see them fixing range modifies and ranged combat changing a lot. Also if they give anyone in combat mind healing abilities I will quit this game. BTW there are ways to raise your mind while fighting, thrusterheads, but if you do manage to servive the downers going to mess you up like no other.

I dont bother with PvP cause there's no fun when it can all be over in one hit, what it boils down to is who has the skill mods to get the first shot off so there's not a single bit of tactics in there. For PvE I have to say that taking rifleman was the best idea I ever had, the pistols might be great for close range stuff but the rifles totally own when you're able to start the fight yourself from 64m and hit the target twice witha bleedshot for around 1500 damage and then cpa them with a headshot for the same before they start aggroing to you. I'd never have had a chance against half of the things i can kill now when i was only using pistols but since switching I'm taking on red and yellow cons by myself and only suffering around 50% damage when there's several of them attacking me while I'm behind cover.

Rifles rule for PvE!

Strafe shot is no where near as powerful as headshot3.....im hitting 2700-3000 with my T21 usign Headshot3. i can kill a BH just as he can kill me.....its whoever starts the duel first who loses.

I a'm a novice riflemen and haven't that many problems with. I kill everything in one shot, seems like a sniper to me. I'm happy with the proffessions(till maybe i hit one of these bugs) and I'll stay with it for now.

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SpecialForces wrote:
Strafe shot is no where near as powerful as headshot3.....im hitting 2700-3000 with my T21 usign Headshot3. i can kill a BH just as he can kill me.....its whoever starts the duel first who loses.

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Im talking about Strafe Shot 2. Its area of effect, and does more damage then head shot 3. Yet its random though.