[Multiplatform] Borderlands - Shootan and Lootan

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Hopefully they'll buff it up a little bit with a patch. Right now I hardly ever use him and can't figure out why I should bother. Then again, many of the perks for the hunter seem mediocre at best.

I'm kinda tempted to just start over as one of the other classes since the sniper rifle seems to be only moderately decent, and his only skill that's actually useful for the sniper rifle that other classes don't have is Focus, which reduces sway. The skills I'm most looking forward to is Relentless, but a "few seconds" seems to only be about five seconds, which means you need to be a kickass sniper to nail one, find another one, and nail him in the head for it to be worthwhile.

I think he's one of those classes that could do well in multiplayer, but trying to do it solo is a bit frustrating.

Focus isn't too bad and can be pretty useful, but when you get Calibur up all the way, it can be pretty useful. Trespass in his sniper tree though is really nice. Picking off an enemy from far away without even dealing with the shield first is useful as you can drop enemies way faster.

I use hunter solo, mainly because I can never find a good online match that doesn't lag me out within the first minute of playing, and I haven't really had too much of a problem. I actually get really good damage with my guy though. Though I think my weapons are fairly decent so that may be why. I have an orange sniper rifle that has about 240 - 250ish attack (+3 Fire on it too ) , a non-scoped sniper rifle with about 230 attack, and then a revolver with with about the same attack. I commonly switch my 4th weapon slot with +Shock/Acid/Explosion weapons that I usually leave sitting in my inventory until I need them.

I've also found that Transfusion grenades are my favorite grenades by far.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The rain type is nice, but it's stuck in a relatively small area. So despite it's high damage, you really need to be accurate for it to be useful. I used my Explosive Longbow grenades for a while, mainly because I could open an assault from super long distance with it, and then just waste everyone else with my sniper rifle before they got to me. What I like about the transfusion in that I can just throw it, and it will hunt down the enemies that it's damaging, so I don't need to worry about aiming too much. Plus, it can be a real life saver if my health gets low by being caught in the fray. I will admit that I also am very fond of the Proximity grenades as well. Throw them somewhere, then pull an enemy and have them run through them all. They get blown up before they can even get close enough for their guns to be accurate.

I only have one Hyperion gun right now, and it does like 24 damage. I keep it around because it's so accurate and it's an automatic, so even though it's got low damage, I can chain 10 crits in a row and still drop the enemy pretty quickly.

I'm also still only on my first playthrough >_> I'm only level 26 right now, and I just did the first two missions for Crazy Earl. The " Kill bandits and other things " one and the " get c-bomb, use them to blow shit up " one.

I've very fond of my Volcano Sniper Rifle, because if there's a group of enemies near each other, I can shoot the ground in between them all, and it will usually set them all on fire and drop the whole group in a matter of seconds.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I have that sniper rifle too. I just beat the game about 30 minutes ago ( I know, I'm slow ) and that rifle was still my main gun at the time I completed the final mission.

Probably going to start a second play through tomorrow, or just try out another character other than my hunter. I was thinking about Lilith, because in all the online games I've played in now, I've yet to see one of her >_>

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Hey Bigblah, if you can host a match or get a hold of me and tell me what server to connect to, I can give you my Volcanic Sniper if you want it. It's a pretty good gun, but I'm willing to part with it now that I have a few more snipers that can hold me over until I pick up another +4 elemental damage sniper.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I dunno about them, but Zoom Rate and Crit Damage % are crucial to know for me... Ammo Regen... While it's nice, I hardly ever notice it.. Then again, the only gun I have that eats ammo ( That I use regularly of course ) is my x3 explosive SMG, and I only use that from time to time, so usually I'm only down about 400 ammo and just restock each time I get to a new munitions vendor.

I was speaking idiomatically.