Gunslinger

• DakkonX9 wrote on 2014-03-25 22:27
  Ok thank you all i have right now started ranking musical knowledge and its at 9 atm
• Jake wrote on 2014-03-25 22:32

  Quote from Friggerton;1209801:

  My lvl 3xx giant crits ~2k with water cannon and an unupgraded fomor water cylinder.
  
  My main elf char (lvl 12xx) crits for around 5k on a magnum with an ele 2 bow and a fox enchant set.

  
  
  Did you quote the right person? Not sure why you are telling me this to be honest
• Friggerton wrote on 2014-03-26 00:46

  Quote from Jake;1209815:

  Did you quote the right person? Not sure why you are telling me this to be honest

  
  
  Fixed, thanks.
• Paradise wrote on 2014-03-26 13:16

  Quote from Jake;1209734:

  I love guns, I have 500 combined str and int and with step 6 dowras I can get full raid contribution very easily (All my gunner skills besides dual gun master are rF or rN). It depends what you want to use them for. I sure as hell wouldn't use them at the moment in shadow missions and NPC and stuff.
  
  The point of this post is: They can be pretty useful even with bad stats/ranks. I wouldn't be able to do this with say..a bow at such low stats.

  
  
  being a regular gunner (i'm more an alch lately) having almost capped str/int (missing 30-ish on both maybe?) from skills,
  i can tell you, that you need a HIGH DAMAGE to make gunner useful, if you don't kill your enemies in 1-2 shooting rush, you will have trouble (YAY FOR GETTING ALL THE AGGRO! ) .....
• Jake wrote on 2014-03-26 14:08

  Quote from Paradise;1210051:

  being a regular gunner (i'm more an alch lately) having almost capped str/int (missing 30-ish on both maybe?) from skills,
  i can tell you, that you need a HIGH DAMAGE to make gunner useful, if you don't kill your enemies in 1-2 shooting rush, you will have trouble (YAY FOR GETTING ALL THE AGGRO! ) .....

  
  
  Sounds like a huge problem only if you solo everything (or don't have AoE pets to compliment the skills). I personally have access to both an array of AoE pets and friends to back me up if things go sour. Not that I have any intentions of using gunner outside of raids with my low stats compared to what I can do with my bow for the time being, but yeah. Also if I did have a multi aggro problem I could just use auto weapon swap to switch to bow and crash shot pretty quick. Of course, things like everything I mentioned in my post, just like yours, depend on your individual character development (including equips) and access to certain resources.
  
  being a near end-game archer I can tell you for sure that the use of my archery at raids is horrid, and guns even with low stats are far superior (of course my enchants come in to play for my use of gun. It is true in some cases that this is not the case for everyone)
• Kenero wrote on 2014-03-26 14:28

  Quote from Paradise;1210051:

  being a regular gunner (i'm more an alch lately) having almost capped str/int (missing 30-ish on both maybe?) from skills,
  i can tell you, that you need a HIGH DAMAGE to make gunner useful, if you don't kill your enemies in 1-2 shooting rush, you will have trouble (YAY FOR GETTING ALL THE AGGRO! ) .....

  
  
  At least the mission you regularly do like SM or MA can rarely scratch you nowadays.
  
  Personally they barely eat me since I use heavy armor and if things get bad, mana shield reforge gloves lv.19.
  
  And with instrument-less lullaby helps mitigate it a lot.
  
  However point is, like everyone says, go build up str and int first if you intend to be a gunner.