Rifleman Archive

Hi I'm writing this just to help out those rifleman that haven't reached master yet. Basically I got all of my exp off hunting MALE snorbals on lok. Soloing a snorbal one by one was too insanely slow for me and I might as well go to Dantooine and kill pickets or dantari tribesmen there since it takes as much time to kill them for 5kexp than it does to kill a snorbal for 4.3k exp (grouped with droid). The key here is that male snorbals baf which is what we want here. You absolutely need a spraystick if you want to maximize rifle exp. First find a group of male snorbals. This is what takes the longest for me because there are times where I could spend an entire night looking for them. Anyways if you do find a spot, target one of them (I personally like to get the elder first since he has a bit more ham bar like 1 or 2kish more i think). Ms1 and ms2 with a laser rifle that's sliced for dmg and with a 30% powerup first and if you feel gutsy you can shove a headshot 3/2 in there. Then get up (prefferably you should make a macro that makes you stand up and equip the spraystick immediately) and peace then keep tabbing till you target the snorbal closest to you.

I used to use warning shot then shoot a regular shot so that the snorbal doesn't run away too far and you maintain aggro. After this you should tab to the next one and lay another warning shot and regular shot. Keep repeating this and eventually the snorbals will start running as slow as jaxes before the fix. Now is the time you can switch back to your laser rifle and do the ms1 ms2 stack on the snorbals that have slowed down. They should die in a minute or two and they will eventually run at you again but you can just repeat the same method to get them to slow down. I have taken up to five snorbals at a time with this method and since I use a huge area to kite them I can return to the same spawn point and find a fresh batch of snorbals. This slowdown bug with warning shot could be a bug so I stopped using this method once suppression fire got fixed.

The suppression fire method is better in my opinion because you don't need that much room to kite the snorbals as one you hit them with 1-3 supp fires the snorbals just sit there for a good 10-20seconds. More than enough time to stack ms1 and 2 and can easily handle up to 5 and maybe even more snorbals with a good spraystick.

You should use stimpacks with both these methods because your action bar will be drained. I also highly suggest maxing out all mind stats because the extra mind regen and high mind bar means less downtime/more firepower for pve purposes. You can always migrate back to a pvp base stats but I still find maxing out mind for pvp works very well too since the laser rifle destroys my mind bar.

Last note: That teleport bs thing they do for mobs that get stuck sux so it is good to try and kite the snorbals away from obstacles. YOU WILL DIE, but the exp is so worth it that dying can be seen merely as a means of transportation. Snorbals hit very very hard and it's rare that I don't get incapped in one or two hits. Don't take male snorbals on if there are too many reds on the map cuz you'll aggro everthing on to you.
There are probably a few things i'm forgetting but I hope this info is helpful for you aspiring riflemen out there. And just to let you know, master rifleman is so worth it even though I have never seen a t21 in my life (friggin ahazi stoneage bs).