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Lasers arent thatgood but when your battling someone withhigh dmg mitigation T21s are best from what ive tried, if you still want the extra speed and theyre wearing armor go for the Jawa. Usually when i go for PVP, i get a fullset of buffs from a master doc, then eat two Glucose's and one breath of heaven, that puts your focus well over 1k. Which in turn takes away frommy action instead ofmy mind . Oh yah and equilbrium is one of the best things ive got going for me also

as posted elsewhere, damage mit 3 really takes a bite out of laser rifles. before it was put in, laser was my pvp gun of choice (with jawas for composite wearers), because mine topped 800 max damage w/powerup, and i could get 1 hit incaps remarkably often.

now that the damage mit is there, i use a t21. the tighter range make it less affected by damage mit, and the armor piercing makes up for some of the lower max damage in regards to a laser.

this is all dependant on assuming your opponent has ranged damage mit 3. Unfortunately, most of the people I pvp against do, so I adjust my attacks accordingly. If you were really on the ball, and knew your target was a TKM/Fencer, a hotkey switch to laser would probably be in order.

oh, i've also noticed more and more people getting 6 stat buffed and going into pvp with full composite on. for those, the jawa rocks. you'll amaze/sicken them by how fast you can take them out through their armor.

VERY nice advice, I completely forgot about my zabrak racial bonuses to stats and such, and don't do tons of PvP so hadn't really had the time to experiment with damage mitigation differences. I use a Jawa for comp as well, but rarely do I run into PvPers with it on my server (Naritus). I use custome made BoH and Ryschake and can get my focus to about 1800, but havent tried Gluc yet, I will now.

As usual the advice has be great

Thanks all

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Look into getting a better T21, don't know about your server ut on flurry you can get 390+ damage T21's unsliced, unpowered up, my good gun tops 695 powered up. To get that damage you need to get it built with a stock, which increases HAM, but withmusician buffs, muon, BoH, and ryshcate you could spam a 200 mind cost gun for a good long time

Also I recomend ryshcate over glucose for "supprise" encounters or self buffed PvE, its basically BoH in a food that you can eat twice, combined with a BoH can give you 1300 extra strength, quickness, and focus (or there abouts). Glucose pate is great if you have doc buffs tho due to the extra mind it gives.

Hey guys/gals, i've been a master rifleman for a couple months now (we rock) and i've taken lots of advice from all of you (thanks :smileywink but now im a bit confused. I notice that most of you are using laser rifles and dislike T21's for PvP and such. Now I use a T21 exclusively and have a couple decent lasers. Now mind you I don't use kryat weapons and don't do tons of PvP but I can take down friggin' crowds when I do. (My personal best is waiting in a city for /citywarn to kick in with 4 folks waiting and I took them all down, one of which was a smuggler/master TKA, again this was in large part to the advice I've recieved from you all) Now here are my approximate gun states. I usually buy 10 T21's have them sliced for damage and toss the rest.

T21 170 - 430 Speed 5.1 HAM 40,50,73

Laser 32 - 670 Speed 6.2 HAM 50, 60, 80

Now I know these arn't the best, and I make my own 32% Pups which are already included in the stats but here's my point/question, Im getting almost exactly the same damage output per second with both rifles. Where am I messing up? I now have access to a WS friend and we're planning on making some T21s fully loaded with insane HAM and damage (but who cares I never fight without food anyway so I never even see a the results of HAM cost above maybe 2 per shot) but still I could use a little help from ya Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks Everybody