Rifleman Archive

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ShadyCanuck wrote:

more elaboration on this topic!

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I think TalonCard missed the point of your question a bitsince he focused mainly on mind buffs. What I understand you to be saying is this: You have to setup your mind to be able to use your rifles effectively, and this means that you have robbed Health and Action stats to boost mind stats. Then, when you use your 2 handed weapons, you find that your are taking large hits to your heatlh and action because Strength and Quickness are so low.

As a Master Rifleman/Master Swordsman, I have to deal with this problem. A typicalPowerhammer has Health Costs of 115. So using the PH with a low Strength is like using a T21 with low focus. Using the 2H Curved Sword or Cleaver hits hard on Action. So what do you do?

Well, the answer is, it depends on how you see your profession mix. If you are primarily a brawler with Rifle as a secondary, you are going to have to shift stats to Health/Strenght and Action/Quickness and hope to boost your mind with foods and Muon enough to be useful.

I, personally, look at Rifleman as my primary profession and Swordman as my way of dealing with things up close. So I have my stats heavily favoring my mind, but I have more points in Health, Stength, Action, and Quckness than do most riflemen. I believe I am at 700/500/400, 700/500/400, and 800/800/600. That may not add up, but it is something like that. Since I am a novice medic, I can deal with the low regen on HA by using stems. This is not enough to keep me from hitting Health and Action hard when I use my 2H weapons, but then usually do not do anything significant without doctors buffs, and I never do anything without Brandy and Corellian Icecream or Canapes.

If I am going to be in a fight of any kind without Dotors buffs, I will use a Pixie to deal with Health and Action. But note that that the boost from Pixies does not help the Action substats as much as the Health, so you need to be careful. If I have buffs and am on the above foods, I will then have a pixie and a muon on standby in case I start to run into trouble and need one or the other.

Your going to need to use doc buffs, there is no otherway to play two diffrent professions that use Two or more diffrent pools.

Sinceyour a human this is what I would do

Set your HAM to

800-400-400 800-400-400 800-1100-500 and get a Master doctor to Buff your Strength and Quickness. This way all you lose is mind, if you get a musician to buff you, you lose nothing.

Message Edited by PyscoJuggalo on 03-08-2004 01:20 AM

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HARP00N wrote:
i would question putting your mind so high. You should put points into focus to decrease special drain. Putting points into your actual mind pool will look nice at first, but when you get hit in the mind pool or drain it from specials down to 900 or something it will be like you never put points into it at all.

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