Commando Archive

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Latenighter wrote:
In the revamp, Commandos will be able to effectively participate in the high level dungeons (DWB).

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ive been there 4 or 5 times and weve made 3 jetpacks

Id like to see the resists on armor greatly reduced but the ap to change from all light to composite heavy with low resists, or like padded light with high resists, well like 70% max maybe make it a little more statigic to where armor then jsut all composite and hope oyu get good encumbrence slices to wear it unbuffed.

Id like to see teh new weapons for sure

Some more heavy armor peircing weapons

FIX THE HAR and fix the AA/CA

Message Edited by Nerj on 09-09-2004 07:56 AM

What I would like to see:

When you kill a commando in pvp, you lose pvp rating. Why? Because its just too easy. Like kicking a puppy.

Ok on a more serious note, I would like to see any or all of the following:

Master Commando being back at the top of the (pvm at least) damage heap. FT needs AP2, or AP1 at the least.
New weapons - a million and one posts on this subject already so I wont go into detail.
State defenses - yes please. We need KD and dizzy defense at the least, and perhaps a bit more melee and ranged defense
Knockdown defense - Some dizzy defense would be nice as well.
DoT unnerf, or change. After playing on the TC2-Ahazi pvp server last night, I was barely scratching players with my DoTs.
HAR fix or replacement, see "New Weapons".
Massive accuracy boost, all commando weapons. I should very rarely miss with a flamethrower, and never with grenade.
Moderate speed boost, all weapons. Not a lot, just a little. Maybe +25 at the maximum.
State attacks - any of the following: dizzy, KD, stun, blind. Having napalm sprayed in ones face would likely blind, KD, dizzy, and stun someone. A chance to land some random state on a successful /flamesingle2 or /flamecone2 (similar to the /fullautosingle1 attack) would be nice.
Lower mob heat resistance. Most raid type mobs in pvm have obscene heat resists, and usually medium-heavy armor on top of that. Right now Im next to useless against Nightsisters or many other mobs.
Expendable weapons change - make them easier for weaponsmiths to craft so we have a better chance of purchasing them.
Quest weapon - much like the swordsman scythe, I would like to see a quest only weapon schematic for commandos.
Grenade fix - I blow myself up too much.
Grenade fix - grenade launcher - Expendable weapon that requires one or more stacks of grenades to craft. Adds a large amount of range and speed to the grenade. Should have the same damage stats as the grenades used to craft it.
Grenade fix - accuracy. Grenades should never miss if the target isnt moving around a lot.
Unarmed IV requirement - give us some melee skills. Adapt lunge (20m posture down) from the brawler tree to commando.
Unarmed IV requirement - Pistol whip / stock slam (you hit your target with the stock of your weapon) would be nice. Dizzy or stun + high chance to KD. Single target only, no AoE as it would be too overpowering.


If none of the above make it in game, I would like to see:

Skill point reduction. The amount of skill points we spend on mastering Commando isnt worth it. Remove brawler skill requirements.

Non-profession specific:

Fix faction armor to make it competitive with composite.
Something to do with stun damage... Two or three professions rule pvp right now simple because of their damage type (fencers, rifleman, pistoleers). The stun damage professions (fencer especially) should be given higher damage non-stun weapons to compensate.

The above are just some random thoughts I came up with.

I'd like to see proper terrain negotiation; no more running up sheer cliffs.
Better Line of Sight calcs; no more shooting right through those sheer cliffs.

I think those two would help bring back an element of tactics to combat. You may as well be standing in a flat open plane no matter where you are right now.

• To see our normal weapons (Flame Thrower, Heavy Acid Rifle, Launcher Pistol)to get armor piercing. As it stands right now we are the only ranged profession that doesn't have any AP weapons for our standard weapons. And with all the high end mobs or NPC's have light to heavy armor with more than 50% resists to our weapon damage types. This tends to make us useless in group situations.


• To see Grenades made usable, with a 75-80% reduction in HAM Costs and production costs. And have the approximately the same range as Combat Medic poison and Disease packs.


• To see our Consumable Weapons (Rocket Launcher, HPBC, Acid Cannon, Lightning Cannon) Both easier to produce, and Lower HAM Costs. Production can be redone by the reloadable tube idea brought up here before.

Stuff I would think make the profession better:

• Add +50 Terrain Negoiation in the same levels as done in the Combat medic Profession.


• Get our Skill tapes working.


• Increase our range on specials, other than melee we are the only ranged profession that is limited on our specials use. Pistoleers, Carbineers, Riflemen, Smugglers and Bounty Hunters(except the LLC) can still use their specialsfrom 0-64 meters,

But I just hope the Combat Revamp delivers on its promise, and makes our profession useable and desirable to have in groups in both PvP and PvE.