Rifleman Archive

Sup all new to posten but come here offten, I am a rifleman and have been working on him Since i got the game, In a long term I wanna get master rifleman, 4-4-2-0 medic,1-1-0-0 CH, and some scout, and when i get to what i feel is far, i'm goingto mose 1 point there 1 point here bla bla.. bla bla.. no one cares LMAO

But I'm mostly posten b/c it seem's alot of people don't like the rifleman class anymore b/c of the patch, Let me think for a secound, b4 this patch, i would see a commando and just ask.. why are you doing this to yourself?, not thinking me as a rifleman have it bad, and they got a huge huge boost, and yes they messed up on it. At frist I was happy for all my freinds that where able to use such powerful wepons, And i agree it gets dull haven a lazer rifle, "Not real... i can't stand it wish they made dlt's better instead of lazer's" "i had a 134-256 dlt20 slice 4.2 i had a great time .Now i got a lazer rifle, picked it up for about 15k only got one "i was feeling lucky about my master slicer" got a nice slice and got 48-451 nothing great but but does hit, i saw a t-21 today as a matter of fact, shoot's oddly, looks pretty lame to me ":not so bad like the other dude talked about it lol:" and as a matter of fact while i was doing mission's today around my 10th or so i was out killing IMP's and looking for torton's and a IMP was killing me with a t-21 .. A NPC,, i took a look at it for a while and got hurt pretty badly, :good thing i get buffed and heal for 900+ hp,action: so i took him down and just all out ran at his body, .... and got..... nothinglol, but anyhow

I feel galaxies needs time.. just like all good online RPG's they got a huge boost, injoy it for now, i would not be suprized when they bring it down.... or even if they leave it the same.. but change the way your able to have the SKILL TO USE THE WEPON so that not just any nub can run around and kill when he is just getting started on his new tree ect, now rifleman.. you either got a lazer rifle, or a t-21,and to me my lazer gets me over 1.5k, i get over 2k sometimes, i get at -50 .. prone AIM MS1 MS2 HS2 ect, its working for me.. and i hardly miss, but then again i am prone... but befor i attack a NPC i always get behind them, alot easyer to take down.. well in my mind lol

But i hope,and think the next real patch that comes out... rifleman will be get the little push we are all wanten.... i meani don't wanna take over the world.. i'm not out to make 1 million creds,I'm a rebel .. show me a IMP i kill IMP simple and done... then once i get all the skills i want, I am going to PvP and make a new Char , If i have to change wepons...well LET'S not think about that right now

Umm in a nut shell i posted to say, chill... sucks now.. but since i got this game.. it has gotten better, ... and better and better,,, A few things have happened that that aren't that great, but post what you feel need's fixed don't scream like it can happen over night, just say, well I think this rilfe looks lame you might wanna do this or add, this.... i mean i think we can handle being real.

Just what i think at 12:45am

Neosi Ice Starsider

That you're a masochist like the rest of us non master rifleman. Oh well I just can't wait to get conceal, and HS 3 so I can do some better xp runs with less kiting, it just gets dull running the jundland wastes when I could actually be sniping.

i total agree man...this game just keeps gettin better and better

I'm afraid what we're all seeing is what I call Sonydeveffects, or EQ syndrome.

Rifleman will eventually be fixed. Make no mistake about it. But they won't be fixed anytime soon. What we're all seeing is the EXACTLY same thing that happened in EQ. At first, everything seems ok. Folks soloing, grouping killing small things..medium things. But when you start to actually fight things where higher skills/spells/attacks come into play, you notice the difference.

I hate to make the comparison, but I was a wizard in EQ. Quit about heh, well, 5 times, last time being right after SWG came out. Rifleman and Wizards are almost one and the same to me. Long range, great dmg, weak melee, and fragile. I don't think a rifleman should be as fragile...no where near as fragile as they are in this game, but so far, that's how it is. In EQ (I compare because it's a sony game), Necromancers were really powerful at the beginning. The classes basically scaled down from Necro. Necros eventually got nerfed..multiple times. Other classes got empowered..then they got nerfed..as other classes got empowered, then they got nerfed, and so on and so on...balancing and balancing and balancing..etc etc. As a wizard , it took about hmm..3 years of balancing..pretty much..to make us really where we should be.

That's how I see riflemen. Folks should post what they feel regarding our profession, but from past experience with sony, don't expect Devs to remotely understand where you're coming from. Think about it, they designed the game this way. They designed commandos how they were before the patch...then..they change it. It makes you wonder did they really put alot of thought into the profession to begin with? Riflemen are supposed to be long range dmg support...but why is the max range 64 meters on all weapons, including a rifle? It doesn't make sense. It's not just riflemen either. Melee classes, Droid engineers, Merchants,...this stuff may have all looked good on paper, but in execution, it's rather horrible.

Be prepared for the devs to re-state the role of the rifleman, to match their design and implementation limits. It may not happen for sure, but it can happen. Instead of long range support, we may be changed to a mid range, light weapons class, or some crap. I wouldn't put it past them.

And i have no idea why i wrote all this..

after hunting with some friends last night...having to chase down animals to keep them at ideal range, only to see that somehow the AP on my weapon wasn't realy having an effect, to see mobs aggro me, for some odd reason, warp me to them whlie prone, warp on top of me while prone....I just put my friend on follow, and went afk, letting them attack the missions. I just raked in the rewards (credits). I'm not going to give up rifleman, but just going to become a full time weaponsmith for the next year or 2, until they fix it, or until WoW is out.