it counts as a skill right?

anyway...

as a pistol guy and having only 2.1k in handgun im looking to up my HP a little quicker ... currently at 98 (and really want to get to 100) what is the recomended way to up HP the quickest without chipping in.


also ive noticed that over at wiki it sayes that reaching 1k in rifle/handgun earns HP since my natural skill is handgun if i was to eat a ~1k rifle chip would i get the HP (currently at ~500)??


also i would like to state that due to the short range of pistols more increase of HP should occur its only fair considering the munching i take.

Well if you were going to chip I would say chip courage. Your first courage chip of about 12.50 PED TT will give you about 5 HP or so.

Now if you want quick hitpoints pick up 3 1x0's and break all three of them 5x each once a day. Thats right burn 15 1x0's a day and within two to three weeks you will gain 3-4 hitponts. Close combat skills courage faster and therefor raises hitpoints faster.

so the standard answer of melee is the best....hmmmm

Melee weapons will also incrase your strenght faster, and will also in turn raise your HP faster than most other methods... I have a similar problem where i have major in rifle skills but also dabble in a little melee weapons for hte nice STR.

Also i believe that you gain the small % of HP as your skills increase although you wont actually see it until it reaches a multiple of 1. Meaning you dont actually need to get your rifle skill to 1000 to get the .5 hp from the 500 skill you allready have. You allready have the .5hp you just wont see it in your skill table until it reaches a multiple of 1.

just in the beginning. I would not stick with it mostly because after a while you don't gainmuch HP with it. Just skill it until it starts to heavily slow down. Your agility and evade will go up quickly too.

so your saying work up 1k or so in melee...any difference in long/short/crush/fist in relation to HP????

Admittedly i havent tried them all but the 1x0 is efficient enough for HP training, and i really havent looked into how well the other forms of melee combat work for that purpose

Addz Wrote:Also i believe that you gain the small % of HP as your skills increase although you wont actually see it until it reaches a multiple of 1. Meaning you dont actually need to get your rifle skill to 1000 to get the .5 hp from the 500 skill you allready have. You allready have the .5hp you just wont see it in your skill table until it reaches a multiple of 1.

The same thing is written in pe wiki. Right here: http://www.pe-wiki.info/Info.aspx?chart=Skill&id=37 . So I believe that you are right Addz.

well
i use melee as main weapon, and the melee combat skill and also bravado are HP skills skilled with it
i used rifles til 2k in rifle (hp skill) and now using handguns for finishing

so in the beginning, melee will skill HP faster
but, depending on your other skills, and long term goals you will unlock Coolness faster when you stay just with rifle at a prof standing level of 4.0
this skill can easily compensate the "normal" increase of melee
rifle and handgun users unlock coolness earlier, because their skill increase towards the prof standing is a bit faster than compareable melee prof standings

now, since you use handguns mainly, well, which one ?
you could consider to get some power fists/shortblades for finishing
so you skill other HP skills by the way but can stay with your main profession to get Coolness
depending on how much dam your pistols do max, you can consider an axe too

btw, prospecting and surveying are HP skills too, so if you have the cash, you might consider mining on the way too

Kaiser Wrote:Well if you were going to chip I would say chip courage. Your first courage chip of about 12.50 PED TT will give you about 5 HP or so..

well to derail my own thread a bit.

are there any negitive effects of chipping in?


@ alice:
yu speak of coolness, im only a LVL 13 BLP pistoleer i have a loooonnnngggg way to go before i see coolness.

it costs peds
and skills are related so chipping one skill does not always have the expected effect.

If I were you to gain dirt cheap skills, chip into courage a tiny bit, and then grab a tt blade of each kind, gloves, and a club/whip and go beat some stuff down and skill all the base meele skills to about 1500

Skills you should chip for HP:

Courage
Melee Combat
Athletics
Dexterity
Combat Reflexes

Kinda in the order of skill giving the most skills (best one on top)
Unlocked skills that give HP are Serendipity, Coolness, Combat Sense and Commando.

I read in this thread someone saying Courage adds 5 HP for 12.50 ped chip.
That cannot be said, it goes per X levels.
I think Courage gives 1 HP for every 350 levels.
Melee Combat maybe 1 HP for every 500 levels.

Btw, the reason all the ppl tell you to do melee is unknown to me.
Only Melee Combat gives HP, the rest of the melee skills are irrelivant

More info on how many HP per level skill you get can be found here: http://www.pe-wiki.info/Chart.aspx?chart=Skill

Happy chipping!

bravado was wrong then, sry

well, but in melee you tend to be more in close combat, so you don't gain just melee combat, also more courage, athletics and other defence related skills
even if some are not HP relevant, so is a higher chance of evading worth some HP too in the end

Im pretty sure that your base strenght gives you HP increase as well, furthermore i found that my base HP increased rather quickly while i was using melle weapons. However because we cant chip in/out strength we dont know how many strength is needed per 1HP gain.