Rifleman Archive

Well, currently the Rifleman profession is more-or-less a Hvy Machine Gun class, and quite far from sniper - rumors have been flying about speed nerfs, damage nerfs, whatnot this and whatever that. Instead of destroy the class as it currently stands, howabout doing simple fixes/additions to turn it into a mixture of the both, completely dependant upon how the player feels like playing it?

Confused? Well, how about we start simply at Specials. If you added "Sniperlike" specials to the sniping line, you wouldn't need to worry about destroying the rest. Adding specials like (for example) Sniper Head Shot, Sniper Heart Shot, and Sniper Knee Shot would give focused HAM moves, massive damage - and the offset would be to make the Special Move Delay so obnoxiously large as to slow even a master down to 1shot/2, 3, or even 4 seconds - but make the damage multiplier somewhere along 7x or so. That's just one small method to creating the Sniper part of Rifleman.

Honestly though, there is no reason to impose a speed-cap on the guns, realistically speaking. In RL, you can easily fire 4 rounds from a semi-automatic rifle in 4 seconds accurately (you DO have hands of stone too)...and in the SW Universe, you should be able to fire faster seeing as the weapons are energy-projectile weaponry. Energy would have no recoil, therefore no delay between shots to re-aim. Only feasible way to justify a speed cap in this sense would to attribute the delay to overheating, saying that the rifles fire super-concentrated blasts of energy as opposed to a handgun blast.

But really, when it comes down to it, if the Rifleman profession was turned into a Sniper/Support class, it would more-or-less destroy any real utility of use in PvE - why would you want to shot something that'll live through 3 shots and storm on you pretty ruthlessly? You wouldn't - not unless it was a PC, and then that's a different story.

Linse D'aja (Annoying Spy) - D'aja (Elder Jedi)

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