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From what i've been hearing its supposedly blast damage..... hrmm, anyone see this as a semi nerf for swordsman? Are we going to be getting a stun sword in this dungeon to balance it out? Every patch seems to keep showing rifleman love..... what about us ? =[

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DarkMab wrote:

i thought the new rifle was the dx and it does acid dmg

but i have heard they are getting a blast dmg and kinetic dmg weapons, i dont know if they are live yet

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The DXR6 is in the geonosian (and you can have as much schematic as you wish, you just have to camp for components).
The corvette bring the berserker rifle (I've heard elec for this one...blast seems horrible, for for us and commando).
In publish 7 there was also a lithanium (sp?) rifle quest. It looks like a tusken rifle and does kinetic damages (certif if broken right now).

Couldn't be blast damage. Thats like making turrets void since everyone and their mom is a rifleman.

Gah, even electric damage is too much. Its not like they can already deal good dmg with stun, energy, acid, and now kinetic. I bet every other combat profession would love to have GOOD weapons with AP...stupid riflelove.

give us dot-weapons please.

I will start out with my power hammer and as soon as they run whip out the blast dmg rifle, muhahahahaa!

the "berserker rifle is blast damage" rumour is just that-- a complete rumour.

i haven't seen one substantiated account of it being blast or electric.

also, we have stun, cold, acid, and energy weapons-- the sg82 really sucks, though, and nothing that i know of has poor cold resist and high energy, etc.

note: I didn't put kinetic up there because the lithanium rifle has no cert, and there's been no statement that it will ever get one. the tusken king rifle has existed for a while as a kinetic rifle w/no cert, and no one's talking about that one either.

Finally, I have seen statements from DEV's indicating they will NOT change the original tusken back to kinetic, out of desire to protect melee'ers value in PvE. therefore, i'm skeptical the lithanium will ever be certified.

So, bottom line-- we have acid, stun, and energy weapons that are useful. a good mix, and i'm opposed to getting any more damage types.

fyi: a pistoleer has access to acid, stun, heat, and energy.

ps. rifleman/swordsman here-- i'm not trolling. just sticking up for my other prof.

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BlasterForHire wrote:
fyi: a pistoleer has access to acid, stun, heat, and energy.

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BlasterForHire wrote:
the "berserker rifle is blast damage" rumour is just that-- a complete rumour.

i haven't seen one substantiated account of it being blast or electric.

also, we have stun, cold, acid, and energy weapons-- the sg82 really sucks, though, and nothing that i know of has poor cold resist and high energy, etc.

note: I didn't put kinetic up there because the lithanium rifle has no cert, and there's been no statement that it will ever get one. the tusken king rifle has existed for a while as a kinetic rifle w/no cert, and no one's talking about that one either.

Finally, I have seen statements from DEV's indicating they will NOT change the original tusken back to kinetic, out of desire to protect melee'ers value in PvE. therefore, i'm skeptical the lithanium will ever be certified.

So, bottom line-- we have acid, stun, and energy weapons that are useful. a good mix, and i'm opposed to getting any more damage types.

fyi: a pistoleer has access to acid, stun, heat, and energy.

ps. rifleman/swordsman here-- i'm not trolling. just sticking up for my other prof.

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I know its a rumor, just hoping its not a valid one and I know your not trolling =P

As far as the difference between pistoleer having those damage types is the fact we dont do nearly the amount of damage that a rifleman does with the same damage types, also as far as pistoleers doing stun, its not AP1 like a Jawa is plus we have to jump through hoops to get a even HALFWAY decent one and even more just to get a schematic =[

well, note that i said "useful".

i didn't count the striker as useful, as it has a pretty pathetic damage range. but, you're right-- you could use it on a nightsister (if you were really, really patient.)