Rifleman Archive
Thread: Thinking of dropping rifle
Looks like Im switching to carbines or pistols. (Cant spare the points for BH)
Keep fighting the good fight. I'm gonna miss those huge hits.
Pecos wrote:
Doctor/rifleman is a terrible combo.
1) Doctor heals use up mind. Rifle shots use up mind. You're double dipping into an unhealable pool.
2) Heals queue up behind attacks. After you fire a weapon, you cannot heal until the weapon delay timer is up. If the weapon delay is 9 seconds, you're stuck unable to heal for that long.
Doctor/Carbineer or Doctor/Pistoleer is a significantly better combo.
If you want the BEST combination, go for BH/Medic. Eyeshot will allow you to do mind damage just like a rifleman, but it uses your action pool, which you can heal with your medic ability. It's the perfect combo. Also, Eyeshot uses a pistol, so you avoid the 2.5x melee damage penalty that riflemen suffer. There's really no downside to a BH/Medic, you can do everything but dance.
Actually, Rifleman/Doctor is a very nice Combo. Everyone knows Bounty Hunter is uber and any combo you pick with BH will be handy. But Rifleman\Doctor isnt a Terrible combo, you should possibly play the game before giving bad advice on the boards. Rifleman\Doctor can have 3k Health 3k Action, 1500-2k Secondary Stats, and with Moun gold +500 too all mind stats. Give this person Full Composite, and a high Resistant PSG and they are a fuggin BEAST in PvP. with 500 too all mind Stats, that Bounty Hunter can Spam EyeShot on you all he wants, 2-3 StrafeShot2's and he is dead.
Well since day one I really wanted to be a doctor and a rifleman. I just got my T21 and I'm starting to realize this was a huge mistake. It's next to impossible for me to die from Health and Action because I can usually fully reheal my bars in one or two hits from a stim.
But that itself drains my mind as does firing anything worthwhile on my T21 
Has anyone gotten the doctor/rifleman combo to work well and if so how?
Doctor/rifleman is a terrible combo.
1) Doctor heals use up mind. Rifle shots use up mind. You're double dipping into an unhealable pool.
2) Heals queue up behind attacks. After you fire a weapon, you cannot heal until the weapon delay timer is up. If the weapon delay is 9 seconds, you're stuck unable to heal for that long.
Doctor/Carbineer or Doctor/Pistoleer is a significantly better combo.
If you want the BEST combination, go for BH/Medic. Eyeshot will allow you to do mind damage just like a rifleman, but it uses your action pool, which you can heal with your medic ability. It's the perfect combo. Also, Eyeshot uses a pistol, so you avoid the 2.5x melee damage penalty that riflemen suffer. There's really no downside to a BH/Medic, you can do everything but dance.