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Thread: My personal rifle... critique?
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Message Edited by Anakroid on 09-09-2005 12:16 AM
Here's the Trando rifle I put together for my alt. A little bit higher min damage than yours, Rivvers, but not much. I was hoping to get to 400 estimated DPS, but I ended up falling a hair short. I think I could do it, though, if I get some more power cells and try again with a better Trando barrel.
Overstar Industries Pulse-Wave Rifle
Very nice rifle... have made a few similar recently.
Only thing I'd say... and this is something I pass on to anyone who buys similar from me... I wouldn't have speed sliced it.
Trando
I use this rifle with my Bounty Hunter alt and, even with Doc buffs, an SAC pup and food I still run out of action. The speed slice looks great on the stats (very high DPS) but for practical reasons a Critical hit slice is nicer 
Message Edited by Jeremiaya on 09-09-2005 10:07 AM
Jeremiaya wrote:
Very nice rifle... have made a few similar recently.
Only thing I'd say... and this is something I pass on to anyone who buys similar from me... I wouldn't have speed sliced it.
Trando
I use this rifle with my Bounty Hunter alt and, even with Doc buffs, an SAC pup and food I still run out of action. The speed slice looks great on the stats (very high DPS) but for practical reasons a Critical hit slice is nicer
Message Edited by Jeremiaya on 09-09-2005 10:07 AM
Yeah, I thought about going with critical hit slices instead of speed slices, but as far as I'm aware, critical hit slices are still bugged and they only actually increase your damage if the critical hit occurs while you were using a special that normally has the potential for a critical, such as Advanced Critical Shot. Now, granted, if you're a BH, that's going to be your main damage special, and you'll be using it a lot, but even then its debatable weather or not its worth it, depending on what combination of specials you use, namely on how often you use Advanced Critical compared to your other specials.
Oh, and Shug, yeah my rifle above was made with a pre-CU stock that still had the damage mods on it.
Message Edited by Imaridril on 09-09-2005 12:20 PM
No, critical hit slices are working fine. With 5% crit hit slice I'm getting 3 or 4 critical hits on each BH mark. Once I actually got 4 in a row... only2 of the 4 were using the BH Critical Hit special
Imaridril wrote:
Jeremiaya wrote:
Very nice rifle... have made a few similar recently.
Only thing I'd say... and this is something I pass on to anyone who buys similar from me... I wouldn't have speed sliced it.
Trando
I use this rifle with my Bounty Hunter alt and, even with Doc buffs, an SAC pup and food I still run out of action. The speed slice looks great on the stats (very high DPS) but for practical reasons a Critical hit slice is nicer
Message Edited by Jeremiaya on 09-09-2005 10:07 AM
Yeah, I thought about going with critical hit slices instead of speed slices, but as far as I'm aware, critical hit slices are still bugged and they only actually increase your damage if the critical hit occurs while you were using a special that normally has the potential for a critical, such as Advanced Critical Shot. Now, granted, if you're a BH, that's going to be your main damage special, and you'll be using it a lot, but even then its debatable weather or not its worth it, depending on what combination of specials you use, namely on how often you use Advanced Critical compared to your other specials.
Oh, and Shug, yeah my rifle above was made with a pre-CU stock that still had the damage mods on it.
Message Edited by Imaridril on 09-09-2005 12:20 PM
Jeremiaya wrote:
No, critical hit slices are working fine. With 5% crit hit slice I'm getting 3 or 4 critical hits on each BH mark. Once I actually got 4 in a row... only2 of the 4 were using the BH Critical Hit special
Imaridril wrote:
Jeremiaya wrote:
Very nice rifle... have made a few similar recently.
Only thing I'd say... and this is something I pass on to anyone who buys similar from me... I wouldn't have speed sliced it.
Trando
I use this rifle with my Bounty Hunter alt and, even with Doc buffs, an SAC pup and food I still run out of action. The speed slice looks great on the stats (very high DPS) but for practical reasons a Critical hit slice is nicer
Message Edited by Jeremiaya on 09-09-2005 10:07 AM
Yeah, I thought about going with critical hit slices instead of speed slices, but as far as I'm aware, critical hit slices are still bugged and they only actually increase your damage if the critical hit occurs while you were using a special that normally has the potential for a critical, such as Advanced Critical Shot. Now, granted, if you're a BH, that's going to be your main damage special, and you'll be using it a lot, but even then its debatable weather or not its worth it, depending on what combination of specials you use, namely on how often you use Advanced Critical compared to your other specials.
Oh, and Shug, yeah my rifle above was made with a pre-CU stock that still had the damage mods on it.
Message Edited by Imaridril on 09-09-2005 12:20 PM
Well, unless it was fixed recently, the *Critical Hit* text would appear above your target, however you wouldn't actually do any extra damage unless the special you were using had a setting for ciriticals. Thus unless you were using Advanced Critical, the critical hit didn't do anything. Bascially, it was theorized that it works like this... All specials have two stats related to Criticals. The first stat is the frequency, and the second is how much damage a critical does. On most specials, except for ones like Advanced Critical, both of those numbers are zero. Critical hit slices will raise the frequency number, but since the critical damage number for most specials is still zero, raising the frequency doesn't really do anything for you.