Gunslingers and deadly aim

[applecat144]

When looking up at firearms rules on d20psfrd you can see that firearms make touch attacks only when in a given range and when not using feats such as "deadly aim".

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"When firing an early firearm, the attack resolves against the target’s touch AC when the target is within the first range increment of the weapon, but this type of attack is not considered a touch attack for the purposes of feats and abilities such as Deadly Aim."

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However, deadly aim is more or less essential for decent damages, if an essential feat for marksmen neglect the only advantage of firearms, then why go for a firearm that has shorter range, can missfire and sink at least 11 gold instead of a crossbow that will do almost as much damages while criting more often and be much more reliable and easy to reload ? That makes no sense to me.

Also, when looking for gunslinger's guides authors are treating deadly aim as if it wasn't neglecting the touch attack. See there :

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?213035-PF-The-Gunslinger-s-Ha ndbook
http://rpgbot.net/pathfinder/characters/classes/gunslinger/

So I'm really confused. Fortunatly my GM agrees with me and will allow me to touch attack while using deadly aim, yet I'm wondering how it really is ? Is d20psfrd not up to date or is it really how it's supposed to work ?

[Wonderstell]

Are you maybe not a native English speaker?

Because this part:

"but this type of attack is not considered a touch attack for the purposes of feats and abilities such as Deadly Aim."

explicitly states that you can use Deadly Aim within the first range increment.

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You can't use Deadly Aim on Touch Attacks.

Firearm attacks within the first range increment of the weapon target the opponent's Touch AC.

But firearm attacks are not considered Touch Attacks for the purposes of feats and abilities.

Ergo, you can use Deadly Aim with your Firearm, even when making Touch Attacks.

[applecat144]

Alright, that now makes much more sense !

You're right, I'm not a native English speaker and that's probably why I misunderstood this.

Thanks for clarifying this.