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This is the best **edit** idea Ive heard for commandos in a LONG TIME. Dev's how about it?? An instant decrease in the amount of HAM armor takes from us?

I could live with that. Some sort of wookie armor that is only available for the commando class.

If we do this I don't think we would require a natural armor of 1. To further this make the wookie armor not as good as the standar commando armor.. but obviously the HAM costs would be less.

Good idea. Maybe have it where anybody can wear commando armor (wookie, and non) but have massive HAM costs. In effect making it unusable. And her eis a good idea. Let's sit back and take a look at what a typical commando does.. and think of what a commando's armor should be good at defense-wise. I would have to say BLAST and ENERGY.

What do you guys think?

On the flip side...

Allow wookies access to the same armor (just the commando one).. but make the HAM costs greater to compensate for the wookie stat mods.

When you take the commando class you might want to sacrifice versatility (stat bonuses) for plain no-nonsense defense.

I like the way this is going - the idea of some sort of wookie-specific armour for commando is a decent idea, and the discussion of ultra-high ham stuff for them makes sense too, as then only the commandos would have the reduction of HAMs to make them liveable for any long period of time. The addition to this is the possibility for other high-HAM armour that would be basically unusable for other classes, but Commando's could get away with it due to their HAM reductions.

This + Heavy weapons would make Commandos a liveable and distinct class, and they'd still remain relatively out of the loop of people min-maxing for two reasons :

You'd only max out the HAM reduction at master, as there should be a tree for the progression of this skill - so its not a minor investment

Secondly, Commando does require several pre-reqs to get into, so its not the cheapest of classes that way either..