Rifleman Archive
Thread: What tree to get?
Lazeh wrote:
Well, I kind of just want something to use vs people who just run, scared of my flamer and tka skills
My Jawa rifle doesn't do much of damage now, and its slow aswell.. So I was thinking, 'get some rifleman skills to improve etc'..
Apparantly, thats not the way to do it
So, what would be your suggestion of a ranged proffesion, when I can only afford one tree?
If you have TK and Commando skills, that gives you close and medium close range attacks. Thus, you are looking for rifle primarily to deal with people you cannot reach or reach accuratly when they run. Rifle is a good choice for that, but as the previous poster said, you will find that rifles are slow until Master. Most do not recommend relying on rifle in PvP until Master level. Since you are using it as a backup, you are not so much relying on it as using it for support, and that is a different matter.
The key for you will be speed. Therefore, I would go up the Rifle Special Abilities line as fars as I can (all combat XP, though). That is where the speed comes from. One added benefit is that it will give you extra melee defense, too. You also get both Flurryshot specials from this line. Flurryshot1 does dizzy and Flurryshot2 does dizzy and is area effect.
Accuracy will come from the Sniping line, as will Snipershot (Sniping IV) for a ranged DB, and Headshot3 (3x damage mind attack). The most damaging shot without out Master will be Flushingshot2 (4x damage modifier, random pool). It is also area attack. This is obtained at Countersniping III. Go up this line if you want accuracy and if you want to get Snipershot. I would not go for it because of Headshot3 because Headshot2 will be a better choice for you to use (faster and much lower HAM costs, with only a slight reduction in damage).
Right now, speed is your biggest enemy. Get weapons with speed slices and speed powerups. Since you are never going to really threaten the speed cap unless you go all the way to Master Rifleman, you will need to stay with this strategy. Get the best rifles you can, then get them speed sliced and drop a Speed/Mind Reduction powerup on it. Then use the rifle to deal with people at range only when they are trying to get away from you or you are trying to get away from them.
Or the Accurary and sniping tree?
hmmm... could you make things a bit more clear?
Or does all this depends on what skill tapes etc I can afford?
The thing I'm planning to do is (pvp style):
Firstly I'm going to bring out my flamer, and give my enemy a nice lasting burn DOT, then I'm going to switch to tka (assuming I'm in range) and Dizzy+KD, if I have time, lol.
Then I'll run away, when my enemy is knocked down, and use mind shots from far away with my jawa ion / or some other really nice rifle gun ( suggestions? )
How does this look? What tree would be nice for this?
Thanks for answers
Lazeh wrote:
So you are suggesting speed + melee tree?
Or the Accurary and sniping tree?
hmmm... could you make things a bit more clear?
Or does all this depends on what skill tapes etc I can afford?
The thing I'm planning to do is (pvp style):
Firstly I'm going to bring out my flamer, and give my enemy a nice lasting burn DOT, then I'm going to switch to tka (assuming I'm in range) and Dizzy+KD, if I have time, lol.
Then I'll run away, when my enemy is knocked down, and use mind shots from far away with my jawa ion / or some other really nice rifle gun ( suggestions? )
How does this look? What tree would be nice for this?
Thanks for answers