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I'm new to commando and wanted to get your takes on skill tapes. Which skill tapes are essential to commando templates, how effective are they, and what are the caps?

Specifically, is it better to invest in Heavy Weapons Speed/Accuracy tapes or General Ranged Speed/Accuracy tapes? Is increasing accuracy signficantly helpful in PvE combat?

I currently have 4333 Commando, and recently acquired the tapes to make a +12 Heavy Weapon Speed +14 Heavy Weapon Defense +9 Heavy Weapon Accuracy set of boots. The speed increase brought my weapon's modified speed down by 0.8 points.

Heavy weapon speed is a good investment to me- Our weapons fire pretty slow as it is. I love being able to keep almost a non-stop stream of flame coming out of my PFT with the high speed as well.

pssssst... speed tapes are broke. but mebbey save for the day they get fixed.theres a food that gives +200 to ranged acc so the acc aa/ca arent too important. heavy weapons def is a good investment if you use commando wepons all the time.

Sry but mod speed doesnt work since CU so speed tapes are pretty worthless unless u want to hold them till it will be fixed one day.

This means only base weapon speed is important which can be increased by speed pups/slices.

This also meansmod dps doesnt work cause it calculates your mod speed with your weapon min max damage.

Only numbers that are correct are base speed and base dps... Im tired of explaining this again and again.

So to not stay OT only important tapes for commando are : Heavy Weapon - Accuracy / Defense and General Ranged - Accuracy / Ranged Defense. ( note the only defense value which counts while holding a ranged weapon is ranged defense. it works also vs melee attacks while melee defense only effected when holding a melee weapon also vs ranged attacks. )

This is a bug that is there since CU too btw ....

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Nakahs wrote:

Sry but mod speed doesnt work since CU so speed tapes are pretty worthless unless u want to hold them till it will be fixed one day.

This means only base weapon speed is important which can be increased by speed pups/slices.

This also meansmod dps doesnt work cause it calculates your mod speed with your weapon min max damage.

Only numbers that are correct are base speed and base dps... Im tired of explaining this again and again.

So to not stay OT only important tapes for commando are : Heavy Weapon - Accuracy / Defense and General Ranged - Accuracy / Ranged Defense. ( note the only defense value which counts while holding a ranged weapon is ranged defense. it works also vs melee attacks while melee defense only effected when holding a melee weapon also vs ranged attacks. )

This is a bug that is there since CU too btw ....

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I slice all of my own weapons. When I give a damn to test this little accusation of yours, I'll increase the descriptions on my combat logs and stick 'em up with timers to the nth degree and test before and after my skill tapes, but until then I have had people tell me there is a considerable notice with and without speed modifying attachments equipped.

iv heard that the speed tapes dont work. but when i put on my shirt with heavy wep speed +xx it gives me more dps on flammer. Dont that mean that it works?

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Leifen23 wrote:
iv heard that the speed tapes dont work. but when i put on my shirt with heavy wep speed +xx it gives me more dps on flammer. Dont that mean that it works?

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no. the mod dps changes when you examine your weapon, but nothing changes during combat. only doc/jedi speed buffs and speed p-ups do the trick