Rifleman Archive

Oh, Ive had it. For quite a while the Devs have been handing us the same line of garbage whenever we bitch about low damage or crummy accuracy. "You can do unhealable damage!" Even though 1/2 the time it doesnt apply to what we are asking, thats still the mantra. And thats fine. I accept that we have a benifit which has some kind of value.

However... who the hell thought Eyeshot was a good idea, and what were they drinking at the time??? I know its an old rant but bear with me. I DONT mind that another class can damage mind. Its supposed to be our speciality, not our monopoly. But I am INCREADILBY **edit**ING SICK of this! I resent having a 1.7 speed spraystick and having to trade 1 50 damage headshot2 for every 2 350 damage eyeshots!!! The last BH I fought spent most of the battle dizzy and on his ass, and when he finally got up healed himself and hit me for 1050 mind damage in 4 seconds!!!

Again, this is not a 'remove eyeshot' rant, its a HAVE IT MAKE SOME GOD **edit** SENSE rant. BH get a nice mind damage shot, fine. But it needs to fit with the rest of the mind damage shots, as in a nice long delay and heafty HAM costs. This rapid fire 300 mind damage minor cost garbage needs to stop.

Slayzer/Laramee

And I am saying at Master you can beat BH's using eye shot on a regular basis. Our best attack is not Headshot 3, it is Strafe Shot 2, a non mind attack.

Easy solution to your problem, make Master Rifleman. It has been said countless times if you are PvP'n as a Novice Rifleman you will get rolled.

I suppose I shouldnt say this but...

Anyone who thinks that PvP should be stifled because youcompletely suck at ituntil you COMPLETELY master your weapon tree needs to shut the hell up.

Im sure PvP is fine for all 5 of you masters out there, but guess what! Most of us arent masters! GO FIGURE!

Slayzer/Laramee

Oh by the way...

I PvP quitea lot. I am generally pretty successful and useful. Between well timed use of flurry/mind2/supression I make people's lives pretty unhappy during PvP. Mostly because I act as what I basicly am, a support class. That was never in question.

The entirety of the rant was directed at Eyeshot. Miminal HAM costs Very High damage and Rapid Fire to mind damage was the target. Not PvPing. Try to grasp that concept before posting.

Slayzer/Laramee

His problem isn't that he can't fire as fast (I'm sure he knows masters with a tape can fire 1 per second) his problem is that a BH doesn't have to endure the super high HAM cost per shot. I think anywas... heh.

Yes thats it! Thank you!

Like I said.. I dont mind that someone else is doing mind damage. I dont really mind the speed (well too much anyway), and I dont mind high damage. What I mind is both of those combined with next to nothing on the price they pay to use that ability.

Slayzer/Laramee

i think the bottom line is that a profession specifically designed to do a certain thing well (ie. mind damage), should be the best in the game at doing that. BHs can kill us most of the time in PvP, fine that probably never change everybody and thier mother is a BH and they will bitch to high heaven if the devs so much as touch thier precious precious class, but being beaten by what your profession is supposed to be the best at? now something there just isnt right. whats next? the BHs get a hand to hand skill thats better than the TKA's, thats pretty much how eyeshot works now against riflemen. and yes i do know master riflemen kickass, but you shouldn't have to be a master to compete with non-masters.

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Sariin wrote:

whats next? the BHs get a hand to hand skill thats better than the TKA's,

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Heh, read some of the TKA storys about being pistol whipped to death in melee from a pistoleer.