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Thread: Successful Novice Rifleman in PvP
I'm just a Novice Rifleman. No boxes filled. I play Kettemoor.
I'll often go to Theed, alone, and PvP. Here is what I do:
I use a sliced speed DLT20a with 3.8 speed and 105-177 damage (I know, it's nice, 3k!)
I keep my distance. In Theed, very few Imps expect a solo Reb to be lurking. I watch the outskirts, keep myself out of sight if I can, and look for people doing missions at first.
Usually I can take out 2-3 doing missions before a group is formed to come look for me. I can usually stalk them (I don't know how they don't notice me, I stay about 130 meters back) and take them out when they stop or start a mission.
When the general Imp population gets alerted to my presence, I make a 512m circle around to the other side of the city, while the majority of the Imp PvPers are out looking for me... in the other direction. I am then free to take out any doctors, which is good because it slows down their healing.
I can then head to the shuttleport, look for anybody taking a shuttle (Unless there are more than 2) then I head to the Cantina and catch whoever is there off guard. Then I'll usually get out of there.
Doing this, I average 6 kills a night. My best night was 11 kills and no deaths. So the myths of playing a Rifleman in PvP are so false. You just can't play a Rifleman as a straight up dueler. 
You've got to be sneaky.
(I played Darktide the PvP only server on Asheron's Call for 3 years, and the experience helps with understanding how people react)
I have used some of your tactics also to good affect.
Being in a guild that has eyes all over, I get reports of Imps leaving the mission terminals. I get a general Direction that they are heading. It is not hard to find a Rebel camp some 350 to 500m outside of town. I have been known to hid in a cluster or Gnorts, Chumbas and even in the middle of their Objective.
If they see red they assume that I am a silly beast. : )
With my T21 I can get off a bleed shot on the master and let the henchmen fire at me all they want. I just have to stay outside of their range and move through their Rebel Obj.
The funny thing is that the AI rebels head to the Imps and do my melee fighting for me and I just pick off the stronger ones.
The thing I enjoy most is to kill thier Troopers and pets. The master is still bleeding and in a state of confusion because they see their hard earned henchmen going down.
It warms my heart to send a Imp back with out his troopers. : )
The only real drawback is that the AI usually DB the master but I am ok with that.
This has worked for me even when there are 3 imps + Henchmen in the party.
Chaos is great!
I wrote:
You just can't play a Rifleman as a straight up dueler.
I said we AREN'T duelers. We've got to play with the cards we have... Using distance as our friend.
Unbelievable.
There ARE some people who use tactics instead of just crying about not owning everything.
Keep up the good work.
-- YP
this is a good idea. the only problem is finding aggro mobs near rebel objectives. maybe it's poor luck, but I have trouble doing so. any more tips?
I agree. So long as the enemy never shoots at us, we can win.
The moment a pistoleer, carbineer, smuggler, or BH sees us though.. were dead (can you spell knockdown at 64meters?).
So yeah, good work on the tactics. I use them too. Just remember, if ANY enemy points a gun at you: hit your burst run.
We do 1/5th the DPS of anyone else and our accuracy is lower than everyone elses. DONT get in a fight.
Before SilverLobo comes in here and spams about how great master rifleman is.. yeah. We know. 99.9% of us arent master rifleman. So **edit**.
Oh jesus, you admit to exploiting TEF vulnerability against mission grinders that can't possibly fight back until after you've shot them and call that "successful PVP"???
That is asinine, and you deserve to be banned, not patted on the back.
Banned for using a feature of the game? THAT's asinine.
There's not much else you can do at novice rifleman if you want to pvp, anyway.