This has been a thought bouncing around in my head for a while now. Why dont we have a rifle without a scope. could balance it by having it in between the Eye of Reach and the Pistol is now, maybe increase the range of the Eye of Reach as well to fit it in better. maybe slightly more damage than the pistol but less than the Eye of Reach as well. I like the Eye of Reach and my pistol dont get me wrong, but who wouldn't want a simple rifle or musket?
Scopeless rifle
@danish-crusader not necessarily, as you said, it just has to be the eye of reach without a scope, slower reload speed would distinguish it from the pistol.
In close quarters a pistol would still be better, reloads quicker so kills faster with its two shots, but medium range the rifle would be better, as it should be.
@elchupacabraj86 It would still be a pain to balance.
But don't misunderstand, I would LOVE a scopeless rifle. I prefer rifles.
But let's take a short rifle as the model but put it in the pistol menu.
(Yes, I know it is a picture of a Blunderbuss, but just slim out the barrel and voila(Other pictures were too large to put in for a small reference))
It would have a slightly longer reload speed than the pistol, with a longer range and maybe put it at 65 damage(10 more than the pistol).
It would cause problems in it's own menu because PvP would be broken as everyone would take a pistol and a rifle for PvP for those "shoot, swap and shoot again" quick kills.
So I stand by my suggestion to put it in the pistol menu =)
As otherwise it would just cause problems.
