How to 'aim' the pistols?

[Moonmun]

I have used the bow several times and I loved it. My partner even bought some skills of it and had fallen in love.

We got the chance to pick up one of the pistols and an ammo and I attempted to try it. I was able to reload and shoot using that 1 action but... How does one aim? I tried "aiming" using the same way I do with the bow and that was the right click but nothing happens.

Do I have to learn/buy a skill for it? Or am I just doing it wrong? Any help would be appreciated since I really REALLY want to use it!

I have tried googling this but I have not seen anyone having any problems with it so yeah.

[Chillum]

Pistols are more for close range, they aim with the lock on.

Pistols do way more impact. Its a nice way to start a fight, then use your melee. You can also dodge and reload. Merc skills make the pistol really shine.

Edit: My wife runs archer with a horror bow while I run merc/shaman/philo with an obsidian pistol. Blood bullet is great.

[Sotanaht]

Merc skills are much faster than reloading and all of them have nice effects. Shatter bullet will knock down most enemies, especially if used with the cannon pistol. Frost bullet does significant damage and a very strong slow, plus it has a small AOE, but very short range (maybe 3x melee). I like using Frost bullet myself to initiate, slowing the enemy and inflicting burning (obsidian pistol), plus heavy damage.

The advanced skill Blood Bullet is effectively spammable. It doesn't consume anything but mana, the "load" is an attack that heals you, the "shoot" is another attack. Not as high damage as the other two individually though.

Note that you can have multiple pre-loaded pistols, even using these skills. I keep 2 or 3 pistols loaded with frost bullets at all times, and gradually reload them when my Cool spell comes off cooldown.

[Chillum]

Originally posted by Sotanaht:

Note that you can have multiple pre-loaded pistols, even using these skills. I keep 2 or 3 pistols loaded with frost bullets at all times, and gradually reload them when my Cool spell comes off cooldown.

Yea you can do this too. Saw that video of the guy cheesing everything by just shooting it 4-5x with pre loaded pistols. To each his own. That would bore me.

[Sotanaht]

Originally posted by Chillum:

Originally posted by Sotanaht:

Note that you can have multiple pre-loaded pistols, even using these skills. I keep 2 or 3 pistols loaded with frost bullets at all times, and gradually reload them when my Cool spell comes off cooldown.

Yea you can do this too. Saw that video of the guy cheesing everything by just shooting it 4-5x with pre loaded pistols. To each his own. That would bore me.

I only use multiple pistols for REALLY tough fights. Otherwise I keep multiple so that I can have one for each fight and just reload them as the skill comes up.

[Moonmun]

OH! I had no idea that they were close range. This changes everything then! Thank you so much! I was trying to aim from afar so that would very much explain things.

Thank you for the tips too! I will make sure to look out for these merc skills!