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which should i get next? which is better for soloing? i was originally going to get HS3 first but i have heard that conceal shot lets you pretty much solo anything you have patience for. then again, take cover is currently bugged for me...

Headshot 3, definately.

Conceal shot is currently living up to 10% of its potential. If you like lying prone for 10 minutes watching your charachter randomly chip away at at all 3 ham bars.. do conceal shot.

Soon we will be debating whether conceal shot should be changed to a pre-attack shot (similar to aim) that allows you to use any rifleman attack, but makes it concealed (at a cost of time and a bit more from the HAM pool).

Well I would get sniping accuracy2 first. The reason beeing you have to land a high % of your conceal shots for it to be useful. Get your accuracy up first. HS3 is to hard on the ham for the amount of dmg it does versus HS2 imo.I find conceal shot very useful and it does'nt take long to kill stuff with it if you have a good weopon. Personally I hate kiting mobs for miles it becomes very tedious.

HS3 definitely, you'll be much more satisfied that way

Hey, um, does headshot3 only work with the T21 or something? Because I tried it with my DLT20a and my E11, and it does the same damage as headshot2, takes longer to fire, and takes away more mind. I can't use a T21 because there are none on Starsider, so please tell me it works on just certain guns, or I am not doing it right.

It does more damage than Headshot2. Granted, it only does about 200-300 more damage. Not a huge increase. And i have never had a problem with the speed of it. It seems exactly the same as Headshot2.

Salomon Orange

Rifleman (Expert Sniper)

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TekDragon wrote:

Conceal shot is currently living up to 10% of its potential. If you like lying prone for 10 minutes watching your charachter randomly chip away at at all 3 ham bars.. do conceal shot.

Soon we will be debating whether conceal shot should be changed to a pre-attack shot (similar to aim) that allows you to use any rifleman attack, but makes it concealed (at a cost of time and a bit more from the HAM pool).

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Strangely enough, I *do* like lying prone for 10 minutes doing conceal shots, and I said as much in the Rifleman Petitions thread (I did seem to be in the minority though ) Right now it seems that conceal shot has a damage multiplier comparable to, but slightly less than headshot3, and I know that it uses significantly less mind pool. In solo situations it can be frustrating to have it randomly hitting all 3 pools (seems to be heavy on health like standard shots), but I can live with that. And when grouping, I finally feel like I have a shot that gives me a good supporting role. As a wookiee/rifleman with no armor and the melee damage multiplier, I feel like my role needs to be dealing damage/crowd control while keeping my butt at 50-60 meters away from the fray. Conceal shot gives me a high damage attack to the same pools as the tanks and more melee-friendly ranged folks while generally doing a great job of keeping aggros off of me.
So in general, Beamer, don't just write off conceal shot, at least one rifleman out there really likes it.