Pistol Mastery in 18.1

[Graftmage]

Pistol Mastery fully opened to crats/MPs/Engs/Docs with perks updated (for the best damage pattern):

Quick Shot: 2896-6436 damage, 80% check
Double Shot: Health 3627-8061 damage, 80% check
Deadeye: 3189-7086 damage * 2 (double d'oh!), 80% check

[IHaveHugeNick]

There also are 2 new pistol perks in DB.

[Castaras]

That looks quite uber, actually. Woot. ^.^ Engi love at last!

[Cdogg421]

There also are 2 new pistol perks in DB.

thats for the new advy perk line lightstalker, its the same as shadowstalker but AS rather then SA.

[Ekarona]

Hmm, 3.3k AR nearing ;D

Will give bit boost for my dmg.

[-Stage-]

Wow. Gimpiest weapon perkline just became really, really good... or it will, if those changes go live.

Can crats get enough AR to use these effectively, even with 80% defcheck?

[meatybtz]

Depends on solo or team. In a team my crat can see upwards of 3400-3500 easy and thats without CSS or CC.

soo yeah.... reasonably well.

[Graftmage]

Crats can have ~2900 AR in a balanced setup.
That means that you can perk up to ~3300 def (if target has 2k evades), basically everyone but adv/MA/crat/shade/fixer.

[sultryvoltron]

Crats can have ~2900 AR in a balanced setup.
That means that you can perk up to ~3300 def (if target has 2k evades), basically everyone but adv/MA/crat/shade/fixer.

2900/.8 = 3625 perk AR

That's 325 defense more than your estimate. Doesn't really change the list of profs you gave, but might push it a tad towards perking offensive shades and advys maybe.

[-Stage-]

2900/.8 = 3625 perk AR

That's 325 defense more than your estimate. Doesn't really change the list of profs you gave, but might push it a tad towards perking offensive shades and advys maybe.

Graft factored in AAD in his estimate, which counts as 100% def regardless of defcheck.

[K1nkstaah]

So it's basically the 1he line, except more damage, except range, except 80% def check instead of 100%, except AS instead of SA, and given exclusively to classes who don't need PVP damage?

[ragerayden]

Crats can have ~2900 AR in a balanced setup.
That means that you can perk up to ~3300 def (if target has 2k evades), basically everyone but adv/MA/crat/shade/fixer.

That's ~2900, at best, in a VIABLE setup IF you are opi. There is no such thing as balanced setup for crats.

[Rimeng]

Pistol Mastery fully opened to crats/MPs/Engs/Docs with perks updated (for the best damage pattern):

Quick Shot: 2896-6436 damage, 80% check
Double Shot: Health 3627-8061 damage, 80% check
Deadeye: 3189-7086 damage * 2 (double d'oh!), 80% check

damage is awesome, go engis go!

[Graftmage]

2900/.8 = 3625 perk AR

That's 325 defense more than your estimate. Doesn't really change the list of profs you gave, but might push it a tad towards perking offensive shades and advys maybe.

noob alert!