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i recently found a cool fast way to get the heavy weapons experience we so dearly need to master commando but you have to get to flame 4 first to use this technique.

the secret is Tortur Lair missions from the imp outpost on talus. if you take them to the SE, S, or SW its a flat landscape and the are usually within 1k meters of the outpost (minimal travel time), with flame 4 you can take down a tortur bull with 2-3 hits then a flame single 2 special (fast takedown time). now heres the kicker,

XP per lair

meager torturs(609 heavy xp per) x 3

Torturs(1883 heavy xp per) x 3

Tortur Bull (2670 heavy xp per) X 3

Nest (2893 heavy xp per) x 1

for a grand total of 18409 heavy weapons xp per nest (25 nests = 450000 xp)

Now this all depends on soloing with some stim B's in your pocket to heal when the bulls hit you, but using this method i picked up 500k heavyweapons xp in about 3-4 hours where it was taking me days previously

Well i hope this can help someone out there and if you have tidbits of your own please post them here to help our commando brethren come through the ranks.

Faroah (shadowfire)

Squill cave on Tatooine was where I got my last few bits of xp. Going through there with a small group (and later, with only one other person), I netted anywhere from 2500 to 3100 per squill. My first partial trip through the cave netted me over 100k heavy weapons xp, total, with a small group. I came back later with only one friend, and the results were the same (except that we went all the way through).

yeah or you can just clear out static dungeons, oh man, the exp...

I did torturs from the Imp base on talus like your talking about. You dont need stim B's, just 70% kinetic resist ubese armor and you should be fine, and that was with the damage mod so now it should be cake walk. Heck, I'd even say you can start doing it from the beginning once you get flame single 1 and do ok if you got a FT that has been crafted for max accuracy and speed sliced to about a 3. It really isnt hard at all not that the mod is gone unless they changed something. I did notice they are paying 6k for the missions where it was 4300.

I prefer Pickets on dant. They give you 2900-3100 xp per picket. Usually ther are about 9-10 pickets (Includes baby's). So 9 pickets - 2 baby's that 7 pickets. 7x3000=21000!!!! Plus you get around 3k for the lair. These arent the easiest missions, but i have been racking up the heavy weapons xp really fast doing these. Plus you get about 9.5k credits for each mission.

fambaa or bolle bols all day for heavy weapon or creature handling. i get 3500 HW,423 combat ,and 500 CH xp grouped with my cowardly gurreck. run north of theed and there should be spawns of both. may take some time to find them.

for beginners i would stick with sharpauts or kaadus though.

I've found staying on Lok fighting gurks gets me great exp almost 20k for all the gurks and lair. With 9200 credits per mission. I got my first level in commando in like 2 hours.

Caruu

Master Pistoleer, Some 70+ Ubese, and Moun Gold and just about anything on Dantooine is game at 2500-3000 xp each.

I did all my leveling on Dantooine also and used mainly Voritor Missions (3K per if you have 2-3 people in group) and it didn't take too long. Each Voritor lair has 6 Voritors (3K each) and the lair is3K so you get about 21K per mission.

I was going in groups of 2-3 people so I could get about 120K per trip to the Mission Terminals. And we attacked any static spawns on the way to and from. On Saturday afternoon when I was finishing up, I racked up about 400K Heavy Weapon XP in a couple hours because we found a site that had static spawns of Voritors, Bols and Pikets popping up every 2-3 minutes.

what about for us wookiees that cant get armor?

I like the picket longhorns for the early days of commando since they are vulnerable to blast... you can use the lag pistol and they go down reletively quick.

As far as being a wookie... it's doable, I've done it without my armor but that's as a TKM too. Unfortunately, CH isn't big on the defense bonuses .

--Diamant