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Since you attack outside of their alert range you can pick your enemies off. You only need to fight one at a time. You can take a shot then go into peace if they manage to survive. It is also nice to have a tanker pet, incase the enemy does get too close

the way to master...I prefer to designate rifleman as a thinkers profession, tactician (when hunting solo)

oh hmm?...sorry just speaking my mind

mind... well im glad to see you got any left.

First of all, with the current AI, you can only take three shots from outside alert range before they know where you shoot from-- Even if you peace, unless you use Conceal Shot *and* it succeeds, so that particular point is in error. If this doesn't happen for you, you're either killing things quicker than that, or something's wrong with your or my copy of the game.

If something rushes you, and you're petless, you're most likely dead. Having pets tank for your rifle is *not* soloing. I'm sorry, but it's not.

If you run out of mind (like you always do, unless you're careful), you no longer get to use those lovely specials, and you're most likely dead.

Rifles are most accurate, usually, around the 60m mark. Most mobs like to wonder when you start shooting, even if they don't see you. A few meters to one side or the other of optimal potentially ruins a shot. if you're using Conceal shot, you've probably just been spotted. See above.

If you PvP without someone to hide behind, you are most likely very dead. Riflemen are fire support, and built more for PvE and large-group PvP. Know your role.

rifleman is a good soloist profession, admittedly. The same can be said of Pistoleer, due to speed, specials, and the large availability of high-quality guns. Smuggler is a good soloist, due to bleed and feign and other good specials. Commando is a good soloist prof, due to high damage yeilds. BH is a good soloist, due to the fact they're designed for killing people one-on-one. TKMs are great soloists, due to tankability, speed, and respectable damage output(as anyone in the Weapons Development Lab on Naboo on Kettemoor can attest to). My question to you, given all this, then, is this:

What's your point?

It seems to me, it's just one of many professions that do a great job of killing things once you get up there a ways. Are you proposing that all elite professions get nerfed, perchance?

as master its a great solo profession. i don't use concealshot much anymore (drains my mine too much). try flushing shot till you get agro'd. if you are over 50m away 97% of the time you'll just draw one creature. start kiting. if they start to get close say 30m start firing supression fire (range support 4 in marksman). that'll pause them for a few sec till you can get further away.

i'm on dath alot, enraged rancors are my favorite target (if there are at least 2 of them). concealshot each of them once, they usually agro each other. then either alternate shooting at the both of them. or firearea attacks. if you get agro's by just one at the start. eat, drink, and spice like now lol. burst run. use your highest damage t21 start spamming HSs and supression fire.

i also got 2 enraged kimos doing this (i'd like to think it was skill, but it was luck and alot of mind bleeds). but this can be done by any combat profession if they bleed them right.

yes i am a MCH but it gets boring, send pet to attack lair, spam SS2 at whatever pops out. it seems like more and more my pets stay stored because i like the risk of dieing (which i do from time to time). i'm also trying to quit my drinking and drug habits (i get dead alot more by not spicing though) so i can only use a few specials. i'll spam concealshot if i see a baby i want and its right in mommy's pocket.

i know that most other elite combat professions can do the same things. just talk to someone that knows how to play thier profession and they'll give you examples of how to do this. overall rifleman is a profession that actully works, where others are still broken. its well rounded and the specials are killer(to both parties fighting lol).

Wabit

MCH/MRifle/MMark/Scout 4/1/4/1

Glad you chose this post...so you don't agree that I should be able to kill a master riflemen at POINT BLANK range? My kd/dizzy has failed and am sol for 30 seconds taking massive damage while this guy never misses me...You don't think that's unfair to meleers? I mean I had the skill to get to point blank range only to lose to a guy holding a rifle (that by the way was sticking 2 feet through my head)...okay, you guys keep on being meglomaniacs, I don't care anymore.

WOW! how old are you?? 4?If your kd/dizzy isn't working don't go crying NERF on our boards.Try talking to the devs about fixing your profession first.And as for this rifleman killing 100 people a day... lol that's rediculous... and even if this is true, just because there's an "uber" rifleman on your server doesn't mean all rifleman are 1337.

If your mad because someone is owning you, maybe you should stick to PvE

First of all I dont like supression fire to much because if they are so close you have to use it, its only a matter of luck that you would hit something. Also by solo I ment "without the help of other players" so having a pet still counts as solo in that sence. Also as best I only ment best out of rifle, pistol, carbine.

I also was only speaking of hunting. Quest can rarely be soloed, and in PvP its a pretty good bet your dead.

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tmgleader wrote:

I also was only speaking of hunting. Quest can rarely be soloed, and in PvP its a pretty good bet your dead.

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I do not understand this...

Quests can rarely be soloed?

PvP=dead?

What's up with this thread anyway?

Are you even a Rifleman?

i would say i find Pistoleer better then riflemens at solo.

Not been master rifleman yet but im on my way up there.

When i was pistoleer i could take on almost enything giving that i had the right set of armor on, And most of this was that i could spam out much more specials then i can as an rifleman. As i could heal up the special dmg and if i got low on mind before the target was dead i used moun gold. + the knockdown if got that in i could shot 3 shots at a lying target hitting for 3k+ dmg every shot.

So by my experince pistoleer are better to solo with, but then again im comparing myself now almost halfway to master in rifles and when i was an Master pistoleer

Theoretically, anything is solo-able by a rifleman. Just spam conceal shot till they die. Use Muon / BoH / Ormacheck or Musician Buffs and you'll be fine. It takes me roughly 40-50 minutes to solo a Night Sister Elder, it's not glamourous but it gets the job done, too bad i havent gotten loot off any of them yet

Seijuro Hiko - Master Rifleman / Master TKA

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