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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2506429" data-attributes="member: 5171">Hammerhead, respectfully, how so? You may be imagining something that isn't burst fire.Any soldier with firearms proficiency can use autofire -- so he can pick up an assault rifle and unload 2d8 or 2d10 over an area. And any soldier can fire at someone with the weapon on automatic, using a lot of extra bullets but getting a normal chance to hit and do 2d8 or 2d10 -- which is gonna be more than the average handgun. So right there, your picture of "someone firing a burst of bullets at someone else" could just be that. It's gonna look a heck of a lot cooler than firing at somebody with a handgun, too, since firing at somebody with a handgun means a maximum of 12 damage, and firing at somebody with an assault rifle could get you as much as 20. No feat required. Even without burst fire, or even Advanced Firearms Proficiency, an assault rifle kicks butt. It does a lot of damage, and trying to hit Defense 14 instead of Defense 10 is, well, not that hard once you're at a level where an assault rifle is normal equipment for your character.Burst Fire simply means that you have the option of hurting your chance to hit in order to increase the damage if you do hit. It's the automatic-weapon version of Power Attack. Maybe it means that you're trying to shoot a hail of bullets at the guy's head instead of his body -- he's more likely to get his head down and duck, but man, if you do hit, all those bullets are gonna chew him up good.I could see Burst Fire requiring Dex instead of Wis, but I like the fact that they went with "Requires the ability to stay calm and cool while shooting a bunch of bullets at somebody" as  a requirement. I don't see this as any weirder than requiring Str 13 for Power Attack.(And if it strikes you as weird, strike it out. I've run a campaign where I ditched all stat requirements related to ability scores, so Power Attack, Combat Expertise, and Burst Fire could be purchased as long as you had any other requirements -- like the right BAB or Personal Firearms proficiency. It didn't break that game, and I wouldn't mind doing it again.)</blockquote>

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