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Just wonder if anyone makes these because on my server is hard to find someone making these pistols!

Striker Pistol, SR Combat Pistol, Republic Blaster and Power5 Pistol

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Thanks for reading!

out of all of those weapons only the striker has moderately acceptable stats of 140max damage and 2.4 speed. The Republic Blaster would be great if it didnt reduce damage to 5 points everytime you use it due to a certification bug. The SR Combat has a max range of just 48m, its horribly innacurate (it took its queue from the dx2), and its speed is 3.4 (can anyone say CDEF?). It takes quite a bit of work to make the SR Combat useful (30% speed slice and a damage powerup). Power5 is 'ok' but when you compare it to the scout blaster that has much lower hams and better accuracy at pointblank and ranged (if scoped), your better off spamming specials with the scout blaster.

These are the biggest reasons why you wont find them on our vendors. Its not because we dont want to make them, its that the vast majority of the combat class is aware of this also and therefore only want the hot items. Im a 4-4-3-3 pistoleer myself and tend to carry one of every kind of damage type loaded on my hotbar. I carry the following

Scout Blaster - for energy damage where i can spam specials like mad, even nicer w/ a krayt tissue

DX2 - AP1 Acid damage, used when least resistance is acid and/or I need armor piercing

Striker Pistol - with a nym feeder drop and a good slice the stats on this can get near scout blasters and is our only source of kinetic and therefore your only defense against Night Sisters.

FWG5 - my workhorse weapon, mine currently had a +30 tissue and a +20 feeder and a 30% damage slice. I use this weapon anywhere I can as long as it has no high amount of heat resistances.

Tangler Pistol - I hate this weapon, 3.6 speed 100pts max damage (/puke). You need a powerup and a very high slice to even consider using it. After those, however, you will have a situational gun useful against 1 or 2 creatures and useful in PvP against advanced composite.

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EEMAN wrote:

Im a 4-4-3-3 pistoleer myself and tend to carry one of every kind of damage type loaded on my hotbar. I carry the following

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I know this is off-topic, but get Fan Shot 4th box, 3rd branch. You will love it

How's the BodyShot3 by the way? I bet you get some massive bleed stacking going on, right?

only problem with bodyshot3 is its terribly slow and tends to eat my action much faster than spamming double tap. I usually start w/ bodyshot 3 and then spam a macro that is bodyshot2 and bodyshot1 stacked. Pointblankarea2 is nice also

Striker:

20-20 damage -1.05 speed advanced projectile barrel

0-38 damage -.57 speed Advanced Projectile feed

Final stats 58-125 damage 2.1 speed

SR Combat pistol:

8-8 damage-.87 speed blaster barrel

18-37 damage -.36 speed Advanced blaster power handler

Final stats 73-148 damage 3.1 speed

Power5:

8-8 damage -.87 speed blaster barrel

18-37 damage -.36 speed Advanced blaster power handler

Final stats 65-170 damage 2.6 speed

Republic blaster would own all... too bad it's a toss out

Doesnt the sr-combat pistol have light ap ???

sr combat misses a ton tho. An easy experiment is go see how fast you can kill a diseased vrelt with a DX2, now do the same with the SR Combat, surprisingly it takes many more shots to kill the stupid thing with the SR Combat. I chose this creature not because of any special resistances but because they are fairly easy to slay and 6-7 shots for a single vrelt is pretty pathetic.

For my pistoleer char i keep a SR with me and actualy use it some cause of the AP1 with energy. With my Bh this gun is actualy good cause itnegates those 80%acid helms people haev on when buffed up hardcore and with a medic friend standing there to heal Health and actoin

as a BH I would think your best counter for a high resistant composite helmet would be a Jawa ION rifle. It is AP1 and 120-210 stun damage. With mindshot you can almost rob his mind pool since the AP1 vs AR1 negate eachother and and the most stun resistance ive ever seen was 10%.

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Ciirybeccaskyr wrote:

For my pistoleer char i keep a SR with me and actualy use it some cause of the AP1 with energy. With my Bh this gun is actualy good cause itnegates those 80%acid helms people haev on when buffed up hardcore and with a medic friend standing there to heal Health and actoin

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An 80% acid helm will probably also have 60%+ energy so the SR will be just as useless as the scatter. Also it only has 48 max range so you'll get kited all over the place and die unless you switch weapons.

Jawa ion rifle is nice for anti-composite but rifles suck until you get the rifleman speed bonus tree.

Well when i was using my nice krayt scatter i was getting my but kicked but with the srcombat we where spliting the duels with me usualy incaping him and then hitting the dirt with this dang poisons but this was in ancorhead so the range mods didnt come into play