Rifleman Archive

you'll hear alot of different ways to do this but personally instead of going up and down on the skill tree, I went from left to right. Whenever i finished a line I would start on the next row with concealment then sniping then counter-sniping and when the rifle specials xp caught up I would train that. Concealshot, headshot2 and 3, and mindshot3 are the specials to use.

Want a real trick?

Get conceal shot as your first skill...then go nuts...cause it wont matter what you shoot at (short of a Krayt or an ATST) You hit em, they don't aggro...this in conjunction with mask scent (scout) or camouflage (ranger) makes you nigh unbeatable against critters and NPC's...i had 1 skill in Rifleman and i was soloing FSNPC's, Rancors, Grauls, Kimogilas...you name it, i've even killed a few pre patch ATST's (6) and a few pre patch krayts (7)....so you can imagine what kind of xp your gonna get when you head out to Dathomir and solo a bunch of unsuspecting Rancors or Nightsisters...Just be careful, if you miss, your toast. So use Aim shot + Conceal...and before you do that drop a muon and some bespin port, or some breath of heaven...thats how i mastered Rifleman in 4 days...no joke

As far as anything else after that...it's all relative to what you want to accomplish as a rifleman.

If you plan on doing a lot of PVP..get the first and 3rd trees for the abilities and the mods...the concealment tree is only good for PVE, and the 4th tree is good for group hunts when it comes down to it...i mean, Dizzying 5+ NPC's at the same time with flurry 2 is great.

But my suggestion is to get conceal shot 1...then ride the wave of xp