Rifleman Archive

Any thoughts on which would best serve a master rifleman? It would take the same number of skill points assuming I took ranged support either way, which leaves nothing left over for scout. I can't imagine not having novice scout with exploration I. If anyone has any first handfirst hand knowledgewith either of these it would be appreciated.

master CM, get those AoE mind disease that do over 1k hits on each person every few secs. doesnt even require LoS right now

/sarcasm

Actually it's 400-500 damage every 10-15 seconds, but going that route would mean spending the majority of my play time running between harvesters and factories and doing missions to pay for all of that. I'm not sure if I want to do that, but since I've never played either profession, doctor or CM, I'd like to hear from someone that has (coupled with rifleman, which is why I'm at this board).

I've fallin to the darkside, I'm doing BH(carbine)/Rifleman

Master rifleman, marksman, and 10,000 survival xp from scout.

Will use cheapo knockdown on mobs I can't just blow away.

CH is ideal if you want to have a "tank" but really having a tank without having a doctor around to heal it is useless. Even if it is a gurreck. I will just get my cowardly gurreck, and drop all my CH skills (was 3/1/3/3/, now am 3/1/2/3 ...) stupid nerfs.

PS. T21 fixin = no need to be anything else!

And I just realized that said CM , not CH.. well, I'd vote for doctor. You have rez, so with group you're absolutely wonderful... but rifleman doctor / cm seems kind of silly, carbine or pistol/doc would be much more "mainstream", but either way I say doctor.

well combat medic would make you more usefull overall, in the field (that IS the entire intent behind CM) and you'd have the added bonus of being able to supplement your mind damage.

(pluss the +10 movement bonus at master CM doesn't hurt either)

the main advantage I would see to doc is stat buffage.

Doctor

Mainreason : Buffs

Also, one shot wound heals, massive stim heals and, of course, revive.

Doctor at master level can buff every (non mind) stat 2300+. Makes a nice little buffer in PVP and PVE.

The worst part about doctor is the crafting, but that just takes a few hours of grinding. And you do have to do harvester runs. For that, I suggest the following : Use only advanced resources and gather them one at a time. Put 6 or 7 harvesters on a good advanced resource (aim for HIGH overall quality and then high potential energy if possible) and let them mine it till you have 20 or 30k of them each. Once you have that done, uproot the things and you don't have to worry for a while about them.

A factory helps, and you will need one if you want to make anything above C (stims, woundpacks, buffs). You will also need a personal crafting station, either a house based one or a droid based one. I prefer my house because my factory is right out the front door, and the house lets you store items (very important - you will have ALOT to store).

You will also either need scout skillsor a friend or three who is a scout. Herbivoire meat and Avian meat are needed for some higher meds (youcould just not make them, but you will want to).

If you use a pet or have friends who use them, the ability to heal that pet with E class stims is very nice. E stims can heal above 2500 each (more if you make them well, my resources that I used for the ones I have now were low quality).

Combat Medic is a great class as well, but you already have a damage ability (rifleman), and doctor gives more healing capability than CM in my opinion.

Combat Medic:

Main reason Ranged heals. If you're going rifle you want to stay outta melee combat. Why sit there holding the rifle when you have a mob 5m away from you beating on your friend you're trying to heal. You might as well go pistol and have a lesser damage mod. You cantoss all your heals and poisonsfrom about 45 m at master even higher depending on experimentation. Which is about the ideal range on most rifles.

Buffs don't help against mind incap... and if you're doing your job as a medic they should never need the extra health and action because 1 heal will put them at full.

Why bother doing wounds, you can heal yourself fast enough with a well made wound pack b, or you can buy C's from another doctor. It's great if you want to sit in the med center all day and heal people, but as you're a rifle man you plan to be out in the field.

Only good points really left in doctor are the experimentation points, which I hope they do something to change.... and revive, which is pretty cool, esp after they put in corpses again. Buffs are nice, but you can't buff mind and that's where everyone is gonna attack in pvp.

ranger/rifleman is fun - then you get to complain about 2 classes if you are in a bad mood.