Rifleman Archive

I was rifleman. I had been tka/ranger, but wanted something that kills creatures quicker. So I dropped ranger temporarily to pick up rifleman. I kept it for a while, but dropped it due to frustration. Your respondent was correct in the notion that you MUST have brandies, entertainers buffs, and canape. If you're going to wear armor, you MUST have canape or you're dead. The frustrating part is that fact. If you want to hunt on the spur of the moment, you can't without all those. Trandos are gimped in rifle with that in mind. We have great health and action secondaries though. I dropped it all and went up pistoleer/bh pistol lines and I do much better. I only use brandy when wearing my comp, which isn't often. Getting secondary action buffs are really the only thing you'd need to think of when using pistols.

2 weeks ago, I got doc buffed (12k), went for musician buffs (10k), picked up my comp armor, and headed to the geo cave (count that as ah hour of prep). I utilized 3 specials and my mind was half drained. I waited 20 seconds, and the crazed geo's fired at me and concentrated on mind. Needless to say, I got incapped and nearly DB'd if it weren't for my buddy pulling aggro. He was happily slapping them with eyeshot with his pistol and saw none of his bars depleted. This was my last straw with rifles.

My point is this: if I can't do PvE without buffs, there is no reason to play. I had to change my weapon type. Now that I'm BH, I only get buffed if I'm heading up to the corvette. Other than that, I simply heal the stats that get drained from pistol.

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TheUrbanPrimate wrote:

Thanks for that insight...

I suppose my issue is with the fact that I don't seem to make money fast enough to keep me in food and spice buffs for my mind, and I feel (perhaps wrongly) that if I take out a lair of creatures (con: white)without getting hit I should be able to do so without camping for 15 minutes halfway through. I'll concede that my lack of funds is probably also causing me to use weapons with higher HAM costs than I should have to deal with.

I don't mind buffing. I guess I just thought that was something you do when you go after critters that would normally be beyond your ability. I'll adjust my mindset and see what comes.

I didn't realize that strafe was an AOE shot (I wasn't aware that any of the rifle specials were AOE). I'll have to look into that too!

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With rifleman, as a trando at least, you MUST have mindbuffs to deal more than 5-6 attacks or you're dead meat. Strafe, along with flushing shot, is AOE. I'd hit a flag for a rebel mission and the stormtroopers would be dead before they hit me once. Of course, you must be brandied out of your gorde and wear NO armor.

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silmarien wrote:

Also, many don't know of this food b/c they still think canape is the best thing since sliced bread, but Ahrisa is the rifleman's best friend. Actually, my entire guild will not even touch Canape anymore b/c they are now Ahrisa junkies. So when you start getting mind costs from those special attacks, pop another Ahrisa or Brandy!

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