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I want a ranged skill to help my tka during pvp, and I only would have enough skill points for a tree of either pistoleer or carbineer. I'm trying to choose between trickshot(b/c of stopping shot) and I think it's assaulter(for chargeshot1) I know chargeshot1 is suppose to knock down an appontent from a range but how good will stopping shot do? It doesn't say it's a ranged kd, but it says it can possibly kill your apponent. I know carbineer has somewhat bad ham cost and that may not be too good with tka but not sure. Can anyone that has tka and pistoleer or carbineer with the following skills help me out? And if there's a better skill under either profession I would like to know. I simply want a type of way to help stop some kitting, and a ranged kd should help alot.

Ekryth Skyrunner

I also thought about going up the dirty fighting tree(rogue) but not sure. Anyone? thanks

Ekryth Skyrunner

id do pistol, but thats cuz my char on chilastra is a bh and i love pistols haha. Pistols dont rape your HAM as much as carbs either

Mate in the beginning i thought the same way!

Let me take some ranged to take down the enemY! Now i really dont care so much, now when im close to master marksman!

Rilfes, carbines and pistoleers are all cool! Pistols is the easy way out, and its easy! Good speed and acuracy also! Allot of diffrent guns which also gives some pretty cool visualy diffrent weapons!

Carbines - are cool to IMO! They reminds me of machine guns who fires laser! The DXR6 is cool:-)

If you just want a ranged class for PVP - Then let me tell u something mate! Do what u wanna do..... Cause upgrades for classes are comming to melee and nerfs are comming to marksman... And the other way around! Do what u wanna do cause u wanna do it - not because its the best!

I guss thats just my opinion though! Ever thought about mixing your TKA with another melee skill? Maybe CH? Fighting alongside two grauls is a good combo

If you are looking for a ranged solution to kiting then go with carbine. Get charge shot 1 and use a dh17 snubnose. Just spam charge shot 1 and move in while they are knocked down. At the moment there is no timer on the knockdown from chargeshot 1 so you can spam it to keep them down till you get to them.

I'm TKM and almost master Carbine. Pistol is probably the better choice until they fix our specials. I hear a few pistol specials are broken... I know a few carbine specials are working. Eventually they'll be medium-damage, medium-speed, medium-range. Right now they have serious potential, but unarmored, using a top-end gun my specials are costing between 1/8th and 1/10th of my HAM per use. They are not doing an equivalent amount of damage to an opponent, and the state-changes are not frequent or reliable. Bleeds are nice, but pistols and rifles have bleeds. Pistols do less damage per hit, but more hits per round. Carbines can be up to medium armor piercing (good for higher level mobs), but the improvement scale on the models is all screwed up. Our 'best' carbine (which you gat at novice) is light AP only, moderate damage. Our laser carbines are medium AP, lower minimum damage, higher max.

Chargeshot will no doubt be fixed in the near future, but for now it does make a great excuse to close with your opponent. Charge, kd him, fly in and dizzy him, sometimes you live! Much fun.

-FL

pistol stances gives:

2 more KD attacks

pistol speed

melee defense... yes, this stacks...

rifle can give ranged defense, which also stacks.

unfortunately, carbine offers no ranged/melee def bonusses, to my knowledge.

If you're only going to take one tree in pistoleer or carbineer, I'd reccomend pistols.. otherwise unless you take the +carbine speed tree w/carbines, you'll shoot pretty slow. Pistols really don't have that problem because you can pretty easily get pistols that are at or below the speed cap. I'd reccomend the tree with stopping shot, as that tree also has some neat defensive bonuses (defense vs. KD, stun, dizzy, etc) - and those bonuses are getting doubled with the next patch I believe. Dirty fighting is also a great choice.. lastditch and lowblow are both really nice.

I'm really looking for the best way to knock an apponent down in pvp, but I'm also trying to find which tree(either from- pistoleer, carbineer or smuggler) would also have the best all around skills. So, if one profession has a ranged kd followed by other good shots that would help kitting I may want that more than just a profession with only a ranged kd and no other helpful shots. But still thinking on it..

Ekryth Skyrunner