Rifleman Archive

Hiya, just made master rifleman last night so decided to test it while farming for disks. Been killing rag tags and such. Anyways,when I encounter a group of them and use Strafe Shot 2, I get the spam that I hit four different mobs for 2000+ each. Well, these mobs only have about 200 HAM so should all drop. However, only the mob that I was targeting dies, the rest seem to not be affected.

Is strafe shot 2 working for you guys?

This is an annoying AoE bug that hardly gets mention. If your openning salvo is an AoE attack, the mobs who are not targeted, but still hit, will take on the effect (dizzy, posture change, etc.) but not the damage. Your second, third,... will work though.

Well, any idea if this is the case with pvp also?

AoE works like this:

You will hit anything around the target when you use them. They will say to themsleves "oh , I been shot, but I don't know where from." They won't take any "splash" damage while they continue to do the "oh, i been shot" for 2 or 3 more times.

However, if/when you AGGRO them you will do the damage and not just hit them with "phantom damage" and possible negative status effect.

Basically, you need stuff to be aggro on you to do the splash damage to them.

To hit an untargetted mob inside the cone with damage you need to be on the mobs aggro list.. very messed up since the secondary effect such as the stun in flushing shot 2 will aggro all mobs initially inside the cone, but not damage anything but the targetted one.. so you can get yourself killed by AE's.

They basically need to be in combat for AEs to work. So generally in PvP, usually most people are in combat, so it works most the time.