Rifleman Archive

Hi everyone. I have a question for the experts. I am in a very unique situation, as I am building rifleman and smuggler together. Currently, I am a 2-0-0-2 rifleman and have not built any smuggler yet. I had a significant amount of combat XP when I started rifleman (hince the x-x-x-2).

What I am wondering is just how much of a speed boost does a (x-x-x-4) rifleman get? My reason for asking is I am considering building all of my pistol xp for smuggler, and then using the combat XP from the pistol build to boost my rifle speed. Then after caping the speed, finishing out rifleman. This made since to me since smugglers don't use combat xp, and I need to build it anyways.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Novice to x/x/x/4 is +45 Speed if viewing the tree. Add another +5 with Master Maksman.

in short for every +10 is a 1 second boost in speed, so with 4.5 that 5.8 becomes 1.3, your specials will probably drop to around 2-3 seconds.

the spd mod is a percent reduction in spd. so if you are firing a 4.1 spd gun useing a 3x delay shot you would multiply the spd (4.1) times the delay (3) and divide by 1 -your spd mod 50% at your build so with these numbers you are firing every 6.15 sec or if you are xxx4 you would be firing every 3.69 sec which is (4.1*3)/(1-.7)

that delay is longerthan any of our non-master delaysjust to keep from using the 2x mod that your best shot has to give a better example

Thanks for the response klawlegna. What I am looking for more so than the actual + 45-50, is how it will affect my rate of fire. Say I am using a Laser Rifle with a speed of 5.8. What kind of delay am I looking at when throwing mindshot 3's and such?

spend it on xxx4 spending it else where if your going to master rifle is a waste of effort since it will slow your gains down greatly. the difference between xxx2 and xxx4 is large almost as large as the difference between master and xxx4. so doing what you originally planned by doing the pistol portion of smuggler first and banking the combat XP into rifle is very smart way to do it. it will GREATLY speed up your trip to master rifle when you finish smuggler pistol

I agree with Barb. Also you should go to countersnipe 3 before going any further up the sniping tree. Leave concealment for last.

A qualitative response instead of numeric... It freaking rocks!!! Go 0004 as fast as you can. No questions ask, do not pass Go!, nor collect $200. Just do it.

Thanks to everyone for the responses. I will go ahead and finish out my smuggler pistol XP firstthen =)