Rifleman Archive

I don't have a problem with changing the numbers around for the T21, I am all for being fair. What I wish the Devs would change is the fact that anybody with Novice Rifleman can use the gun. I'd like a high powered gun such as the T21 to be used as a reward for someone who has progressed far enough into the rifleman profession. Maybe not all the way to Master, but at least to the 2nd tier skill boxes. Ifa T21 is going to be the most powerful gun in the game, and its not too difficult to reach novice rifleman status, I think we are going to see everyone running around with this gun and hitting for big amounts of damage. This doesn't seem right to me, I think only experienced rifleman should have access to the weapon. I don't see the incentive in working all the way up the rifleman tree. Give me some sort of reward besides skill points and special shots that don't work,and seperate me from thetons of other rifleman by giving me a special gun. It's done in the marksman tree, why can't it be done in the elite profession trees?

There was always talk of eventually putting better guns in the advanced trees, though how they're going to top the T21 is beyond me. It would be interesting if they would move the Certification for it halfway up the Support tree (the one that uses Combat Experience) for all of the advanced combat trees.

It already requires more rare minerals than everyone elses elite weapon. it also requires 2-5 more handlers per weapon to make, shooting up the price to make one regardless of the rare materials...

I made the same suggestion earlier...........it seems the easiest, most obvious method of keeping everyone from rushing to get the gun to 1shot each other to infinity..........but somehow it's eluded the dev's thinking capacity. Below is the thread to my post.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=rifleman&message.id=7820

You can't one-shot a player with a T21. You hit for about 350 average with a HS3, with highs around 500.

taco,

The comment I made about 1shotting each other to infinity was meant to imply if the dev's actually would restore the gun to it's original INTENDED specs. The specs they said were doing 1000's of pts of damage.......but with them nerfed you are correct, no 1shotting.

Make it harder to obtain? They haven't even made the resources necessary to make it avaliable on Tarquinas yet. I image it being any harder to obtain than that!

Lets first make it avaliable on all servers before we decide to change it's place in the skill tree.