The only times I actively pursue Compression Pistols is for my TAC Melee builds.
"Sweeping Strikes" spam to land Expose effects.
"Lunge" for the killer Exploit follow up.
Go back to "Sweeping Strikes" spam.
Another Expose effect? Fire Compression Pistol's Secondary "Exploit" bolt.
The CD between Lunge and short CD of the secondary bolt of a Compression Pistol works well together. I always have a powerful, reliable Exploit attack for the many Expose effects.
Outside this very specific application, I prefer rifles.
My Romulan always has the Repeater on hand to use. I bought it when it was on the Dil store before they redid the crafting. Others is usually the compression pistol, wide beam, and dual. Since I RP, I use the pistols at times in interior type fights. Since rifles "would" be less effective inside stuff.
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My Romulan always has the Repeater on hand to use. I bought it when it was on the Dil store before they redid the crafting. Others is usually the compression pistol, wide beam, and dual. Since I RP, I use the pistols at times in interior type fights. Since rifles "would" be less effective inside stuff.
I use everything, but my favourite is not necesscarily the type, but the kdf fleet elite dual pistols as they make any character look like a supreme badass - plus they synergise well into my melee gorns build, letting him pistol spam from afar (hopefully causing an expose), sprint (to get command 25% melee bonus) before launching a lunge to drop him into CQB range, hopefully with a nice fat 1000+ damage crit floating over the targets shattered skull
If my Tac uses a pistol it's the Plasmatic Biomatter Needle pistol, which is a rapid fire repeater.
But really, who uses a pistol? The range is too short.
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i do not use pistols on any of my toons with exception to the winter event, but since the pistols in that event are event only, obviously do not count in general. i almost always use rifles.
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I prefer rifles as well. I'll carry pistols inside as they look better when I'm not in uniform, but rifles are my primary weapons. Either split beam or high density.
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Don't personally use pistols nowadays. I have lobi Iconian staves on most of my chars but usually and in general prefer sniper rifles. When I started out playing many moons ago I did love and I've used pistols exclusively, though.
I primarily use rifles, but the repeater pistol has a spot on my away team.
Also often use the elachi pistol. Noting like a stasis field or Frictionless Particle Grenade with that secondary fire mode.
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There is only one decent pistol in the game and its the romulan repeater mission reward one. The rest are garbage and useless.
I've repeated that mission several times to get the pistol with a different combination of modifiers. My favorite so far is [CRTD]x2 [RUN]. If I get a [CRTD]x3, I'm upgrading that bad boy to Mk XIV.
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"Sweeping Strikes" spam to land Expose effects.
"Lunge" for the killer Exploit follow up.
Go back to "Sweeping Strikes" spam.
Another Expose effect? Fire Compression Pistol's Secondary "Exploit" bolt.
The CD between Lunge and short CD of the secondary bolt of a Compression Pistol works well together. I always have a powerful, reliable Exploit attack for the many Expose effects.
Outside this very specific application, I prefer rifles.
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Dual pistols
Knew i forgot something...
But I do like to also use the Repeater pistols on some of my Romulan characters as well.
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But really, who uses a pistol? The range is too short.
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Also often use the elachi pistol. Noting like a stasis field or Frictionless Particle Grenade with that secondary fire mode.
I've repeated
I also pick up nanite disruptor beam pistols for my Rom toons. I enjoy seeing them with something that looks canon.
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