Commando Archive

Wow.

Okay guys.

If the dot took into account the resists less people would complain.

If people could carry fire extinguishers to put out the fire, less people would complain.

If Master Commando raised all accuracies to same as other classes instead of last place, less would complain.

If Master Commando had defenses added to make it a feared profession to justify its costs, less would complain.

If Consumables had 100 charges, people would use them more and less would complain.

If HAR actually worked and did same damage as LLC, less would complain.

If LP was tossed into one of the trees and given its own specials, less would complain.

If skill tapes actually worked allowing for a more powerful character, less would complain.

If the melee modifier was removed we could actually stand a chance to fight, less would complain.

But the REAL ISSUE HERE IS....

None of this has been done in over three months!!!!

Well for the most part i agree that punishing the dabblers to make the profession more rewarding at the master level is not the solution. We need to fix the other skill trees in the commando profession. At the moment, I'm a 0/4/4/0 commando, mainly because i have found grenades and the heavy acid rifle to be largely useless and not worth their cost in skill points. I agree that consumables like the rocket launcher and heavy particle beam cannon are a bit pricey, which can make their use a bit prohibitive to a lot of players. I'm lucky though, because I know of a couple of relatively cheap weaponsmiths who sell these niche weapons. I recently bought 10 rocket launchers (all sliced for either speed or damage) for about 25K each, which is not bad because the going price for RL's on Ahazi isupwards of35Ka piece if I'm not mistaken, due to the vast amount of time, energy, and resources that go into making these weapons. Moving everything to the master box is not the way to go. I would definitely learn the other skill trees if they were more useful because they would be fun. I took commando so that I could become a walking engine of destruction raining fire and death upon my enemies as i stroll along the battlefield. The rocket launcher isquite fun. If you have money, that is.

I think the launcher pistol needs some special attacks and speed/accuracy modifiers, maybe even give it its own skill tree. Field tactics is a bit of a misnomer because there are really no tactics involved, it's just grenade-lobbing 101. Also, i think the "grenadeer" title needs to be changed to something a bit more approrpriate...perhaps "master pyromaniac" or "expert heat delivery specialist" or somethinglike that. As it stands, the commando profession does not have any attacks that induce state effects (ie., dizzy, bleed, stun, knockdown, etc.) aside from the skills found in the marksmanpistol and ranged weapon support trees. The field tactics tree should grant some defense modifiers like melee defense, ranged defense, and state effect defense. In addition to this, i think that adding a couple of extra little bonuses to the master box would be good. Perhaps some extra defense/speed/accuracy modifiers would do the trick.

on Scylla we pay 50k min to get RL's... and as far as I know... there is only one that will spend the time to make them.. since it is like 7 or so factory runs to make them... and the enormous amout of resourses it takes to make them!

**edit** am I hearing from my commando brothers are u stoopid. Everyone says they need more reason to be mster and theres no benefit. Are u stoopid. Dont always blame dabblers when its the profession thats broke. Seems like thats the flavor of the month. Dabbler this and Dabbler that. What about people who play this gaem who enjoy dabbling. lets just screw them out of any play style. The reason some of us play this game si because we can dabble. I dont want to be a lvl 60 druid, or a lvl 55 ranger. If u wnat to play one class and make it only beneficial if u mster that class go play EQ.

With that said ill tell u the reason to go master if ur too much of a noob to see if or just blind. If i fight a person that has uber riesist to flame u can use acid. u can also goet much more damage weapons(not dabbler fault they expensive and suck) u can use many types of thrown weapons grenades and such(not dabbler fault they suck). And who is stoopid enough to waste all those skill points to dabble in commando. I would just dabble in istoleer and kd any commando any day. i mean lest face it commandos suck at pvp. especially if u stay 48m away from ur taget.

In conclusion.

The game is fine it just needs fixing of the broken elements stop asking for all these useless changes based on ur own inability to diagnose a problem.

Kahal