Commando Archive

Today, we have seen the addition of the elite skill trainers in the TC-5 gameworld. A sizeable minority have already trained in novice commando, and that number will surely grow over the course of the next few days. Hence, begun the focus thread has.

I would like your feedback in the following format and pertaining to the following points:


Experience

-Describe your experience with attaining and trying out Novice Commando in a short concise paragraph, please include weapon experience as well (likes/dislikes on newbie commando weapons)

Issues/Concerns

-Does novice commando feel "balanced" for a novice skill box? Is XP too low for us? Is damage too low or too high?

Special Abilities

-So far with the launcher pistol, how well does it work with novice (or other elite specials if you have any) specials? Does it "power-up" specials (at a newbie level of course), a small comparison between other novice elite weapons would suffice

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Novock wrote:

I don't see how people are getting there to novice that is. I am now 0/2/4/3 marksman 3/0/0/0 brawler. After I finsih pistols and unarmed I still won't have enough combat xp to get ranged 4 nevermind novice commando. With that said from a newbie point of view you can't just grind your prereq you are going to have to grind other novice trees that you may have no interest in keeping just to get to novice.

Does the massai knuckler give HW xp or are we forced to grind the pistol branch in order to use the launcher to grind atleast the first block of one of the commanod lines?

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Lots of folks were smart back when the Bug Bombs still works and got a ton of combat xp. I had enough for Novie Commando, but the weapon wipe set me back about 25k


Overall, weapons XP and Med xp leeching off one another has got to go. I don't expect to get xp from healing myself, but handicapping me by taking away weapons xp in combat when I am trying to keep my team alive is just bogus.

MOBs - I'm currently 2324 Marks/2224 Brawler/1220 Medic, Lvl 11. Attacking and killing a Lvl 10 Cupa takes about 3 minutes and I have to use /bactashot about 4 times. By the time I have killed this vile beast, I end up with 300ish healing xp, 300ish Weapons xp and 30ish combat xp.

Some mobs, of the same CLvL, however are easier to kill. For example...al lvl 10 eopie dies after about 4-5 overcharge shots. lvl 10 Cupa takes at least 10. The eopie will only hit for 65ish damage, but the cupa hits for 120+. Something wrong here. Further, the same lvl NPC mob is FAR more deadly than a creature mob. Lvl 10 jabba's enforcers heit me for 175ish a crack.

Combat XP - Ugh. It's awful. The devs need to adjust XP back upwards...not quite to the point where it was a couple of days ago, but it certainly needs a boost.

Player Character Level vs. Weapon Equipped and the XP from Critters - So...as a lvl 11 (That mostly being UAIV and Ranged Support IV) I D!CK for xp when I kill a lvl 4 critter with my shabby CDEF/D18 at pistols II. The XP gained from kills need to be based on the proficiency of the weapon you have have equipped, not your general combat level.

well.. I'm not going to be on test much... :-/

Can't do the grind and still be on live to set up a guild and take care of buisness there...

Maybe when we can train from teh frogs I'll be able to pitch in some...

Till then, light up some stormies and toast me some marshmellows

As a lvl 10 (marksman 4014 brawler 3000) I am finding it very difficult to find anything I can kill. Grouping used to work, but now, grouping with another lvl 10 or 15 player puts the group con at 20ish. Those mobs can't be "tanked" by a level 15 player. You need a dedicated healer too.
The difficulty levels/calculations and the subsiquent xp REALLY needs to be tweaked. I don't want to be able to make novice commando in a day, but a week seems reasonable and at this rate, that isn't gonna happen, especially with the server going down 3 times a day. They retooled teh classes and combat to require grouping and adjusted teh con levels to make grouping actually a hinderance to leveling your character. I just don't understand it.

Novice Commando:

Experience:

Both the LP and MK gave out around the same damage output as I was expecting for the same level weapons. Somehow the LP seems more fun than it used to be. I was quite impressed by the MK too. Switching between the too in combat was fluid and quick . I was able to Toss a few c22's during combat for that added spice, except for the 10sec delay cost. So yeh I liked the LP and MK. Damage output was around 200-230.

Issues:
I think it does feel balance as a novice skill box. As soon as I trained novice commando I felt powerful. I then took on some lvl 15 critters (Con: white on white) and I could tell I was more powerful than the novice professions than I was testing. Also I didn't feel so uber too. The level 15 critter knocked me down to half my health. So in general, I felt stronger than a novice profession, but not uber that I felt like rambo walking around shooting what ever I pleased

XP was very low from what I was expecting, maybe the devs don't want us to grind elites ery quickly while testing. It does need to increase. I was getting 1k for a (con: white on white) encounter.

Special Abilities:
Well, with the LP, I managed to test; Overcharge, Placed Shot, Aimed Shot, and Rapid Fire. Normally I was doing 200-230 damage, but when I used one of the specials above my damage output when up to 340-410 which was sweet. A comparison with a Marsmak xx44: Normal damage 70(ish) with Specials 110(ish).

The action bar didn't seem to go down very much tho, I will have to test that and see how many specials I can spam. It should be about 10 I think.


Yeh I was smart using the bug bombs and also the uber babies