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Thread: Riflemanor Commando to go with Smuggler? Advice Please.
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MTVGeneration
Sun May 15, 2005 3:40 am
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Quick question about templates so I can sort mine out once and for all!!
Before I start I just want to say that I am not a respec Smuggler but hav been a smuggler for sometime and have no plans to change anytime soon...
Right then. I'm a Master Smuggler andunsure what to do aout my template. I liked rifles and had a few from when my alt was rifleman so that was fine. I then wanted to add a bit of Bh as it has great defensive qualities but I only had enough for novice BH. I respeced to commando thinking that a flamethrower would be nice witha smuggler special but i did practically no damage in a duel and therefore wasn't too happy! I should add I had enough skill points for xx4x BH.
Just wanted to know what other people's templates were and just general advice!
Cheers!
cpz
Sun May 15, 2005 5:13 am
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<FONT color = #EEE685>I'm still toying with templates and it seems that if PvP is something you want to be involved with, you need Rifles of some sort, and If you're oging to plump for Novice Rifleman [for the Rifle specific mods and additional rifle range] you may as well pick up Sniper Shot and Conceal shot [giving you Rifleman 1200].
In my case, I also want to take Jedi down, so I also need BH 3000, but inhaving Rifles 1200 and Master Smuggler, you're lackinging ahigh damage shot [Sniper shot is awesome damage but the warm up is immense and must be performed from prone] so if you've got BH3000 for content, you may as well pick up Improved Criticial Shot to sit alongside Rifleman HeadShotgiving you BH 3300.
And so now you have 19 skill points left, you have 2 nice damage shots, you have full 64m range, you have cover and conceal shot and you have the Smuggler crowd control shot. But, alas, your numbers suck, so you need to get those defensive numbers up.
The question is how.
At the moment, I'm pushing the rest into BH, which gives me Improved Underhand and EyeShot, and this seems a nice, versatiletemplate, but leaves me stranded at a measely CL 70, which is not good enough for PvE. So I'm hoping that moving from BH 3331 to BH 3440 and losing EyeShot will bump me up to nearer CL 78 or so.
If that works, that will be my template. If not, I may have to Master BH and drop Master Smuggler - something I never wanted to do, but it seems clinging onto Smuggler for the sake of it may well prove just too costly.
If only the CL system was more forgiving on dabblers, and the best moves were moved to Master boxes instead.
That would make everything so much better.
luzahan
Sun May 15, 2005 6:25 pm
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I couldn't fined a well rounded damage profession to go with Master smuggler so my template is Master Smuggler/Master Commando/ BH 0/0/4/0. Defense is good, as far as PvP goes (if I use this toon), I plan on using my 65mrange weapon(not sure which it was, also not much damage) to group root to keep them in range long enough for our rifleman to take them out. Or root the jedi so they can't run.I also have a Master Rifleman/Master Bounty Hunter toon which is primarily for PvP.
Message Edited by luzahan on 05-15-2005 06:28 PM
Mentski
Sun May 15, 2005 7:08 pm
#4
I will continue to vouch for Master Smuggler/Rifleman as an excellent choice (with pistols 4xx4)
Noone seems to listen though.
I spent this whole evening in a pvp battle, and managed to to come out not only with very few trips to the cloner, but my rating has rocketed from1100 or soto 1421
MTVGeneration
Mon May 16, 2005 2:33 am
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Thing is I have looked on my character sheet and I have awful melee/ranged defense. Commando doesn't do anything and I have tried it several times. Rifles are good but I'd love some BH as it has some good protection but I have so little skillpoints after getting the scout skills.
I have a toon for PvP which is Swordsman/TKA and x43x pikeman i think and although i have modded clothing i have awesome defenses. I love smuggler too much to drop but i have not seen much that is viable with itat all...
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