Rifleman Archive

So just wanted to know who out there becides me was acutally picking up some other sort of weapon just as often or even more than their trusty ole rifle now. As for me I think I will go with either pistoleer or commando as my new class. I am prolly going to play with my rifle on the side. As for now its somewhat OK in pvp but i almost kill myself everytime I am battling someone just because the HAM costs on my rifles really suck. Plus when I picked up my pistol for the first time in a very long time I was able to spam shots onto everything and suffer almost no damage in return. I hope a dev sees this (fat chance of that) and realizes that riflemen are the new commando class and need some luvin right about now. So for now anyway... Bye bye rifle. The court has ordered that I can see you only every other weekend.

Any other players dropping it? Temporarily anyway.

If you already havent Vlamr, max your focus and willpower, find a very nice DLT20a or two, pray they get sliced for damage, get some crates of powerup couplers that provide the +31% dmg/-15% Mind Cost, get out there and AoE those pistoleers/carbineers/BH's/Commandos. Even better for 1on1, lead with a mind2 from your laser (or T21 if you're on one of the lucky servers ), then go DLT.

If you've already tried that route, well...I understand, sometimes I miss my FWG too . Personally I could never go Commando, the guns just make too much racket for me lol.

I dropped Rifle about four days ago and have already made Pistoleer (much faster xp gain and damage increase). Like you, I'm keeping rifle as a support weapon (opening shots, mind bleeds) but my badass pistol is my primary damage dealer--the DPS, ability to chain together specials, and lack of a 2.5x melee modifier to kill me really make my pistol the weapon to use. Rifle simply isn't viable as a primary weapon unless you have the patience and time necessary to grind to Master.

Not to mention, I'm a (soon to be) Master Medic, and by switching to a weapon that uses primarily health, I have my entire maxed Mind Bar to stim myself, giving me the equivalent of 11250 point HAMs (about 15 stims before I run out of mind). I've got very quick and heavy damage potential now with no melee penalty and hardly any downtime (thanks to stims) so I'm not looking at picking up any more Rifleman skills anytime soon (maybe once they fix the profession to actually be useful to people besides Masters, I'll take another look at it).