Rifleman Archive
Thread: For the Record!! What other Skill do you use?
Hey all, its something that i think we need to dicuss as Aldeon seem to think everyone has swords as their second skill, myself i dont so just for posting sake could you please post just your professions so once for all the debate about getting rid of the Melle Damage can be decided once and for all. My personally i find it crazy that we have a melee defence - we are a ranged skill and thus we should have benefits that are of a ranged persuasion, not melee, i dont melee. I cant, rifleman or not meant to.
To say that they have to have a melee skill to survive is why the skill is heavily unbalanced. On that note, why can traps be used against NPC's. Its a trap, not animal food!!!
So please, once for all, lets all post what your actual chosen profession is.
I go first
For the record - I use a 2H curved sword...and yes, it does make an excellent compliment to the rifle damage. However, I recently started wrapping up my scout and marksman mastery in order to access the BH pistol tree and will be surrendering my 2H sword skills ( not happy about that ); why, you ask?
Well, the 2H sword is strictly for situations when I found myself overwhelmed and burst running wouldn't get me far enough away before I would be incaped. The problem? All rifleman specials soak up large amounts of my mind pool; as does the 2H sword. Oops.
Another problem - when grouped and taking on the nastier/hardier MOBs I would run out of mind pool points after the second MOB was dropped, usually with me being the only rifleman in the group. I found it easier to regen the mind stats if I gave them a rest and used the pistol skills, which seem to draw primarily from the action pool. And I figured, as long as I'm getting this ridiculous amount of XP in pistol, why not get a truly devastating pistol attack that compliments my rifle damage? The BH eyeshot.
Rifleman/doctor here.
Im petitioning to Aldeon that we change our +20 melee defence to +20 wound treatment. He himself admits that melee defence "is there to help rifleman/swordsman". Well, doctors want some luvin too!
Also my friend is a rifleman/ranger. He would like +20 melee defence changed to +20 trapping.
/sarcasm off