Rifleman Archive

You are right about the buffs and food. It really helps when fighting a buffed oppenent. (although not always nesessary if you are good and it's one on one). The jawa is typically the best in PvP, however, after your first cuple shots if you notice you aren't hurting him, switch to the T21. He will probably have an even higher resistance to energy put the raw power and AP3 of the T21 will punch through better. If you notice you still aren't damageing your target that well. You are out of luck, he prepared specifically for a battle with a rifleman. In this case you can either run or switch to the highest wound % weapon you have and start coloring in his HAM bar with black. Of course if you have other combat skills this would also be a good time to try those. No matter what you do, fight the urge to spam your shots. It will only hurt you in the end.

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diamont wrote:

Hi all J ,

First of all I apologize for my English. I cant speak them very well.

I have a quiz for the experience pvpers (be Master for many months doesn’t mean some1 is good on pvp). The purpose for this post is to learn some things I don’t know, the detail which make the difference, and maybe many others will make their own conclusions.

I have 3 –easy to find - weapons. All dmg sliced.

Jawa: 5.6 spd/ 156-283 dmg/ +16@40m –80@64m / 9.5%wounds / 47 mind cost

T21: 7.7 spd/ 221-509 dmg/ +22@50 +10@64m/ 38% wounds / 96 mind cost

DXR-6b : 5.8 speed / 207-405 dmg/ +101@54m 13@64m/ 70% wounds / 105 mind cost

I take that every pvper who respec himself goes to battle full buffed and consume brandys or sth else with mind/focus/will. Some good guilds also have entertainments for buffs.

What from ur experiance is the best weapon for pvp and after which circumstances?

My results on pvp shows very strange things in contrast of many test has been done on this forum for jawa/t21/DRX6b.

Thanks for ur replies

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Depends on your situation really..

Jawa rocks vs armoured opponents since most composite has 40 percent stun resist at best, the Jawa has fairly low ham cost as well which can help if you are unable to get entertainer buffs.

T21 is your heavy hitter, use it on anyone without a helmet on.. they'll be sorry they arent wearing one real quick even those that do have helmets on often you will find that the T21 will do equivalent damage to the Jawa due to the heavy armour piercing but the ham costs are high.

DXR-6B is nice for landing states especially with that +101 at 54 meters, use flushing and flurry shot on groups or solo people to landstun anddizzy on them which will make your life easier. Again the ham costs are very high.

The foods I mostly use when PvPing are brandy (mind)of course, ahrisa (focus), thakitillo (kd def), synthsteak (damage reduction), canape (mind secondaries), and blue milk(mind heal and better than brandy if you have entertainer buffs in alot of situations).

Ahrisa is kinda underrated, with its high duration you can stack a few while you're gettingready to PvP and let your stomach emptythen you will still have quite a bit of time left on the effect timer when your stomach has cleared. Depends how your chef has experimented it though.. mine lasts over an hour.

like to add a note about the jawa.

notice it's accuracy is terrible at range. against your FOTM TKM/Fencer/Rifle-pick 2, jawas miss ALOT.

I've taken to using a dxr6b, experimented for accuracy (+117 @ ideal) to stick a stun with flushingshot before switching to a krayt jawa for damage. macros make this efficient.

Thanks for ur replies

Well, from my experiance at pvp, i saw that jawa is not that good in pvp as is said. Further more i would said its the worst from the above (drx6b, t21). Let me explain my thoughts

Nowdays most of the good pvpers has stun helms (at least on my server), almost 100% of the good pvpers.

Blue light of jawa is very characteristic and almost everybody has a stun helmet on his toolbar to switch.

I believe on pvp when u saw some1 without buffs, 1000 mind etc is dead anyway whatever weaponu use. (As i said above i take that all good pvpers rifleman are full buffed and had good chef foods).Futhermore if u take in mind what Silverion said..is matter of seconds.

I believe the real problem on pvp for a rifleman is the stack defenders with the center of being. 80% of the pvpers has mastered at least one melle prof and maybe second or choose some range prof. What ever his combination is, he is almost cap defense (with some tapers or not).

In pure maths, jawa is the most DPS weapon (consider armor stun resist 40% and 80% for energy/acid), but in real battle i believe if far the worst.

With jawa i can hit cap defender running to me while i try to avoid him, about 3/10 hit..maybe 4/10

With t21 i can hit round 4/10 or 5/10

with drx6b its about 8/10 and some times 9/10

I saw that jawa is good to use only in round 35-45 m..after that in 55-60m the -40/-60 accurancy u take is very important.Actually never hit a capped defender with CoB on. Jawa range 35-45m is the critical cause 1 sec lag may bring u to floor from lunge 1

T21 is a very reliable weapon fighting that kind of opponents,

Drx6b misses very rare. On range 54-64 u get a bonus on accurancy starting from +100 at 54m

Personally i saw the DPS on each weapon change dramaticaly. 3/10 hit of jawa and 8/10 hits on Drx6b is about 300% damage over time and i believe that is what matters at end, the real DPS.

On the other hand, Drx6b has the most mind cost, but i believe if some1 is well prepared will not care so much.

T21 is great all around rifle, Drx6b is great for stack defenders an myy third choise is jawa. (At least on my server)

Furthermore, i'd like to add the shield generation with the new patch has become vanul to acid/blast/kinetic. So its good to take in mind the further reduction of energy/stun rifles. I believe every1 who pvp can afford 3k for an MK1 shield.

I'd like to hear to ur comments, so i can learn new tips

Thanks

Thanks for ur replies

Well, from my experiance at pvp, i saw that jawa is not that good in pvp as is said. Further more i would said its the worst from the above (drx6b, t21). Let me explain my thoughts

Nowdays most of the good pvpers has stun helms (at least on my server), almost 100% of the good pvpers.

Blue light of jawa is very characteristic and almost everybody has a stun helmet on his toolbar to switch.

I believe on pvp when u saw some1 without buffs, 1000 mind etc is dead anyway whatever weaponu use. (As i said above i take that all good pvpers rifleman are full buffed and had good chef foods).Futhermore if u take in mind what Silverion said..is matter of seconds.

I believe the real problem on pvp for a rifleman is the stack defenders with the center of being. 80% of the pvpers has mastered at least one melle prof and maybe second or choose some range prof. What ever his combination is, he is almost cap defense (with some tapers or not).

In pure maths, jawa is the most DPS weapon (consider armor stun resist 40% and 80% for energy/acid), but in real battle i believe if far the worst.

With jawa i can hit cap defender running to me while i try to avoid him, about 3/10 hit..maybe 4/10

With t21 i can hit round 4/10 or 5/10

with drx6b its about 8/10 and some times 9/10

I saw that jawa is good to use only in round 35-45 m..after that in 55-60m the -40/-60 accurancy u take is very important.Actually never hit a capped defender with CoB on. Jawa range 35-45m is the critical cause 1 sec lag may bring u to floor from lunge 1

T21 is a very reliable weapon fighting that kind of opponents,

Drx6b misses very rare. On range 54-64 u get a bonus on accurancy starting from +100 at 54m

Personally i saw the DPS on each weapon change dramaticaly. 3/10 hit of jawa and 8/10 hits on Drx6b is about 300% damage over time and i believe that is what matters at end, the real DPS.

On the other hand, Drx6b has the most mind cost, but i believe if some1 is well prepared will not care so much.

T21 is great all around rifle, Drx6b is great for stack defenders an myy third choise is jawa. (At least on my server)

Furthermore, i'd like to add the shield generation with the new patch has become vanul to acid/blast/kinetic. So its good to take in mind the further reduction of energy/stun rifles. I believe every1 who pvp can afford 3k for an MK1 shield.

I'd like to hear to ur comments, so i can learn new tips

Thanks