yay I'm a heavy gunner
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:20 pm
or whatever the title was when I got 100 2 handed ranged last night. Between running back to town every 40 kills/hour, and being accused of exploiting for shooting while running by someone who should really know better... it was a "fun" night getting those last couple levels in before 100.
But hey... instead of doing ~193 damage every 1.5s for a mere 4 mats per minute (2 resin, 1 oil, 1 bark)... I can now do ~208 damage every 1.5s for the same cheap cheap cheap cost of 4 mats per minute.... and it's only a tiny 125-200 credit action per shot once you throw decent accuracy and hitrate stanzas in!.
Soloing ranged fight is almost as much "fun" as asking your group "hey guys, mind if i have all the ammo clips/bullet/explosive mats to make 10-15 minutes or so more ammo."[/i] or asking every half hour to an hour "Hey guys, who wants to pull for a bit... I need to run back to town to stock up on more ammo, deathport back out here, and snake my way back through the mobs to you guys again since I'm out of ammo". I must say, that it's right up there with burning through three full packers of ammo mats in a couple days of playing.
I'm being silly though... I mean, someone at nevrax saw the pathetic damage, silly amounts of mats that ranged uses, and stupidly low amount of time they could spend in the field on a full inventory of ammo... along with the little "oops" where they forgot to boost the speed of ranged weapons like melee during beta when they removed the hitrate bricks originally. So they decided to fix it by giving us the same old +hitrate bricks that were removed for being too expensive, and an amazing sixteen shots more for every clip!
But hey... instead of doing ~193 damage every 1.5s for a mere 4 mats per minute (2 resin, 1 oil, 1 bark)... I can now do ~208 damage every 1.5s for the same cheap cheap cheap cost of 4 mats per minute.... and it's only a tiny 125-200 credit action per shot once you throw decent accuracy and hitrate stanzas in!.
Soloing ranged fight is almost as much "fun" as asking your group "hey guys, mind if i have all the ammo clips/bullet/explosive mats to make 10-15 minutes or so more ammo."[/i] or asking every half hour to an hour "Hey guys, who wants to pull for a bit... I need to run back to town to stock up on more ammo, deathport back out here, and snake my way back through the mobs to you guys again since I'm out of ammo". I must say, that it's right up there with burning through three full packers of ammo mats in a couple days of playing.
I'm being silly though... I mean, someone at nevrax saw the pathetic damage, silly amounts of mats that ranged uses, and stupidly low amount of time they could spend in the field on a full inventory of ammo... along with the little "oops" where they forgot to boost the speed of ranged weapons like melee during beta when they removed the hitrate bricks originally. So they decided to fix it by giving us the same old +hitrate bricks that were removed for being too expensive, and an amazing sixteen shots more for every clip!