About Guns

[Kendrel]

There are only 2 scenes in the game in which I use guns.

1. In the grout mansion, after it explodes.
2. Against Sheriff's first and second form. This is the easiest boss in all the game.

No experience needed, I end up with a Range 4 feat.

From there, I am able to beat all the game just using melee weapons and fists. And claws.

If I wanted to make a ranged weapons Vampire (which i already tried and sucked at it) what's your recommendation?

[Octarine]

Take Malkavian or Toreador and level up Auspex. Just don't pick the Ninja history...
Also, be nice to Mercurio so you can buy the better guns later in the game.

I don't know if it really pays off. Earlier quest are probably ok but Hallowbrook and LaCroix Tower are full of vampire and I guess you'll run out of ammo pretty quickly when only using firearms.

[Tenser]

I only played Toreador and Malk so far and I always went ranged in the end, with book useage and after I finished maximizing melee.

Its especially useful:

1. Against LaCroix. Get the big sniper riffle and ranged 10 (with the adv fan patch, you can get your last book in this level). You can hide behind the protection, get out, shoot him for insane damage into the head, then go back to hiding + reload (you might have to abort the automatic reload first to be able to move, otherwise Bach will shoot back and that hurts. A lot). IIRC you need 3 or 4 successful hits and you wont have a scratch on you afterwards.

2. Against Ming. Emptying the machine guns on her with Celerity 5 + Presence 5 + Auspex 5 = pure joy.

These are two of the hardest battles in the game and they turn downright trivial with ranged.

Its also useful at other places, of course, but for these two its especially crazy how well it works.

[Kendrel]

Yeah, by the looks of it, Toreador is the best choice for ranged, Celerity would work wonders. Just remembering the pain in the butt Bishop Vick is with his shotgun.