Rifleman Archive

For a long time, I had planned on MRM, MCH, and the rest of the points in Scout/Ranger. I really enjoyed CH, but it isn't as useful now as it was when I was leveling up Rifleman. And, as you said, it is very time consuming. I think I will always keep MRM, but I am dropping CH skills as I progress in Ranger.

My current outlook is to master Ranger and begin working on the FS branches. As the SP limit will not allow me to maintain both Master Rifleman, Master Ranger, and allot 24 points to the FS skills, I will hold onto Master Ranger until I need to free up points for FS. Eventually, I'll end up with a template like this:

Master Rifleman
Master Scout
Ranger 4440 (4442)
Marksman 4000 (4003)
24 Blocks of FS skills.

This will leave me with 9 points that I can either use to bump Ranger up to 4442 or Marksman up to 4003. Since I'm going to spend a significant amount of time as a Master Ranger, I will have a good idea at that time whether I want to drop trapping in favor of the +4 Ranged Def and +2 Melee Def the Marksman line would bring.

If I wasn't so interested in unlocking the second character via the FS route, I would choose Master Rifleman, Master Ranger, and probably CH 3-0-0-0.

The template I have chosen is probably pretty poor for PvP, but I am strictly PvE, so here is why I like it:

Rifleman:
Solo almost anything in the game
I don't *need* doc buffs to have fun - the right combination of Chef foods does just fine most of the time.
Don't get hit that often - rarely have to replace armor
If an enemy tries running away, he only dies tired.

Ranger:
Camp kits are nice to heal up wounds in the field - don't have to travel all over the galaxy trying to find a medical facility with non-afk tumbler healing medics.
Terrain negotiation in general is great (from Scout), but the prone negotiation (crawl speed) from Ranger is a wonderful thing to have as a Rifleman.
Harvesting can bring in loads of cash when the right spawns hit.
Tracking beats the heck out of mission terminals for harvesting and is also nice on Dathomir to find those NS/SMG hags.
For FS grinding, you get Scout XP for harvesting and mask scent as well as the weapon/combat XP for killing thus making the FS grind go by a bit quicker.

Master Rifleman, Master Doctor, and the Ranged Support Line of Marksman. Rest of points for my one FS tree.

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Sitheris0169 wrote:

I don't PVP so i'm not really looking for the uberist of the uber templates

Thanks for replies though

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Well, the most FUN I had with Rifleman is as a Master Rifles/Master Ranger; that's mostly a pve build, though. My other favorite was Rifles/CM, whicha good combo for pve or pvp -- especially group pvp.

Granted, I haven't tried all that much with rifles, so there might be something better;but those are the two I've had the most fun with. OTOH, even thoughI don't likedabbling in two+ elitecombat professions, those Swords/Rifles builds are veryeffective (at least from what I've seen).

But I'm stickin' with the Ranger.