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I am looking for a supporting classto back up my flamethrower when it doesn't seem to be the weapon of choice. Proton grenades and particle cannonsdon't seem to be fillthat void. Especially considering the lack of accuracyand high cost they have. TKM was my original choice but I already have short ranged covered with the flamethrower and I'm without something to pierce through composite armor.The carbine would also be nice but it looks more like a single's weapon rather than a support weapon. So it seems to be either the pistol or rifle I should go for. I'm having alot of trouble deciding.

With the rifle, I get longer range which seems to be the objective here seeing as how we already have the short range covered with our flamethrower. Plus a long range deathblow is pretty cool.

The pistol on the other hand, gives great defenses and as tacwraith said in another post, use a LP with stopping shot and you'll never need another rocket launcher.

Remember, this is from a PVP BASE RAIDING PERSPECTIVE, NOT PVE.

i would think that pistoler would be the best as the higher u go into this the better your launcher pistol will be, you'll become more accurate with it and get better moves, plus you'll get alot of dodge bonuses when your holding the launcher or any other type of pistol

pistols would be best because of the launcher pistol and as for have close ranged covered who are you fighting im a tkm and ill kick a commandos tush before he can even get a shot off (im not afraid of fire)

i say neither of the 2 im on my way to mastering commando and i already have everything planned out master commando dirty fighting 4(last ditch plus a uber krayt lp =pwned) 1/1/4/0 in medic(stim ds equal great heals for when your buffed and by your self) exploration 3 and novice pistoleer(bleedshot 1 and 2 stack plus fire(which also knocks away the health))= pretty much beingable to take out the most ham you can when group fighting :-P or kill stealing :-P

Flames have always been the weapon of choice so far for me . Then again, the highest heat resist I've ever fought was 60%, with around 8-9k HAM, and it still died in maybe 4 shots.

the Ft is great on the initial attack but that delay is a killer (8sec horrible) so after ya get your DoT goin fall back to your LP and spam a few pistoleer specials, and use the pistoleer dodge line to get a lil more protection, also pistoleer will give ya another bleed DoT to use with the LP. Pistolee/commando is a template i used for a while and is a lot of fun, no clue on rifelman/commando but my gut says bad choice, could be wrong, im sure someone will say i am, anyway enjoy

unfortunately if you took rifleman/commando then most of your weapons give you 2x damage from meleers, I would seriously consider pistol as it gives you both ranged and melee attacks (includeing melee knockdown) and the dodges from it along with the commando melee deffense would mean you were virtually invulnerable (yeah even to the FOTM TKAs) I'm not afraid of tiny fists

I think they took the damage mod for melee attacks vs certain weapon types away.

The damage mod has been gone for at least 2 weeks. Why do people still bring it up on the boards? Don't read patch notes?
Also, rifleman have highest melee/ranged defense of all the marksman profs, with something around 40 melee and 55 ranged (I think..) bringing your Master Commando +25 into the mix you gain 65 melee and 80 ranged, and you block while wearing a rifle. Sounds good to me.

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NobodyHasThisHandle wrote:
The damage mod has been gone for at least 2 weeks. Why do people still bring it up on the boards? Don't read patch notes?
Also, rifleman have highest melee/ranged defense of all the marksman profs, with something around 40 melee and 55 ranged (I think..) bringing your Master Commando +25 into the mix you gain 65 melee and 80 ranged, and you block while wearing a rifle. Sounds good to me.

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Block doesn't work. You get a combat spam message saying you counter-attacked but you still take damage.

Also the defense mod stacking was suppose to have been taking out. You only get the defense base on the weapon you are wielding. So you'll only get the Rifleman bonuses if you have a rifle equiped.At least this is how it's suppose to work.

This was a hotfix last week or so. It was done to counter the "unhitable" template (think it was TKM/Fencer or some combo thereof).

Personally, I like master medic with my commando. It doesn't matter if you take a bunch of damage since I hit my heal hotkey and 10 seconds later I'm back at full health. Granted, if my mind takes alot of hits it's no good but I haven't seemed to have had a problem yet. I'm thinking of throwing in some tk skills with my remaining skill points. Should be like 2 boxes if I remember right.

oh and the only thing I use the lp for anymore is pulling group aggressive critters and npc's

check this out befor diciding

dued kills 9 atsts spaming fan shot with lp

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=pistoleer&message.id=31522&highlight=dam+out#M31522