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Jhyson-Bria

Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:53 am

Lonermonkey wrote:

Thank you for this Thread - I was wondering the same thing!! I just finished TKA and was clearing a couple thousand more per kill than as a commando! I used Dant to grind before and had a blast - now I'm getting a little bored with grinding commando. I have a FT, AR and LP. LP is the most fun because it is fast. I got a 1.8 speed from WyldFyre and love it, despite the low damage vs. the FT.

I am Commando 1/1/2/0 and I'm missing a lot with my FT and my damage spread is huge (flame single does 2500-5800 damage) and its really slow. Am I just spoiled with TKM? I thought it would be a ton of fun doing commando, but I am not enjoying it that much. It is actually seeming tedious. I tried solo on Dant and I am having trouble with 8k credit missions with my FT (buffed wearing partial comp). So I tried grouping with 2 others. But my exp dropped from 2500 per kill to about 250 per kill!! I must be doing something wrong here.

Finally, what are the dynamics of flamecone1? It only seems to hit more than one guy once out of every 20 attacks for me. It used to do more - perhaps I'm doing the wrong missions. Does it have actually a cone affect area, like xx degrees left and right of the target? Or does it work like other area attacks that hit more or less everything nearby?

Thanks

Suc of TGC

TKM

Commando 1/1/2/0

Cone's area of effect seems to be a about a 30 degree arc centered on your target, and extends about 16m. BUT it seems to be really hit or miss with the "are they in arc calaculation".

Squygxicus

Sat Jul 31, 2004 3:46 pm

#15

Im doing mostly the mount thing. I run War Gronda missions out of Coronet and shoot anything that moves while grouped with my mount to the mission and coming back from the missions. Great great fun with the Flamer as you are one shotting most things and getting fun XP (at least compared with shooting them with anything else). Crazed Durnis are good for 400 XP, Vynock 293, etc. You wont get there real real fast but its heck a lot of fun!

Avasa_

Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:20 pm

#16

I mastered commando in prolly 7 hours total took me not even a full day of playing to do it... I went to the squill cave on tat and had a pikeman friend run thru the whole cave and draw A LOT of squills onto him then i used flame cone one over and over again to put fire dots on all the squills. They all died fairly quickly and my tanking friend didnt die once. luckily i have bh pistols when i started so i used bh skills with my launcher pistol until i could get flame cone. This is a very good tactic to use and I recommend it to anyone grinding commando. I got 3x the xp as i did on dant doing quenker and janta missions over and over again. Remember that you need flame CONE to use this tactic effectively.

Hope this helps,

Avasa

Master Commando/ TKA 2/4/4/4 / smuggler 0/0/1/0

Kolpo

Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:53 am

#17

A suggestion for grinding with flame thrower: get yourself some snow cake, good snow cake can easily increase your accuracy with 40 meaning you hit more, you kill faster and thus get exp faster. Snow cake is rather expensive but if you have the money is it a very usefull

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