Commando Archive

Is there anyway to get heavy weapon xp?

Flamethrowers are pretty much your only option. However the bugs with these weapons make it very hard. So effectively NO there is no way to make HW XP quickly or effectively.

You will get 1 point of combat xp using a flamethrower if the mob is white or lower in difficulty. There are few exceptions to this.

Basically you have to have friends to mooch off of and who will be sympathetic.

Or commit genocide against thousands of crazed durni's on Corellia... They are the best option, easy to kite, have about 400 HAM, and give 321 hvy weaps xp each.

Which is pretty **edit** boring to have to kill a thousand of one type of mob to get a new skill. You can either wait for the fixes and launcher pistol giving heavy weaps xp, or you can try to drive yourself insane for a few skills before then.

I kill Snorbol on lok for hw xp atm. Takes about 4-5 minutes per and they drop about 3k xp not to mention 300-400 scout xp if you want to gain ch. Consider about 10-15 adults come out of each nest and you get the picture. Boring as hell yes and if you need to ask me how I'm killing them with the gimpy flamer I suggest you take a look back at your master marksman skills. Warning shot does wonders especially when spammed. I also picked up novice pistoleer for healthshot2......it really helps xp'n with the flamer.

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Which is pretty **edit** boring to have to kill a thousand of one type of mob to get a new skill. You can either wait for the fixes and launcher pistol giving heavy weaps xp, or you can try to drive yourself insane for a few skills before then.

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s_ripper has a point. If you have a good launcher pistol and you intend to be a commando/pistoleer now would be a good time to get some last minute pistol xp with it. Currently I have a LP that is superior to even the best FWG5 I've seen. If you are lucky enough to have one of these bad boys, you may want to bust up some higher level mobs on Lok or Dathomir for big pistol xp while you can.

I'm on the Radiant server and we are missing the class 3 fuel for flamers so I'm using a heavy acid rifle that does 15 points damage maxed and only gives about 3 or 4 points of HW exp at the most...

I now have a little over 49,000 in HW exp, would this be stupid or commando dedication

Never have I once ever seen HW exp go over 4, people laugh when they see me killing gnorts to which takes about 5 to 8 minutes each LOL

So just think... that 300+ HW exp sounds pretty darn good now doesn’t it?

(Don’t misunderstand me, I'm not one to say anything bad just saying things could be worse)

Lan bleed them man!!
I use to have the same problem with just the gimped broken cert rifle. Here's how you do it on noober mobs.

Have two weapons on your hotbar a really crappy cdef pistol and acid rifle as well make sure you have healthshot1 in there (from marksmen skills).

Target gnort/chuba whatever hit it with healthshot then swap your acid rifle on asap and before you hit it again with the pistol. Tag it once with the acid rifle then move to the next gnort whatever repeat. They should be doing minimal damage to you while they bleed to death and you'll get full hw xp. It's faster to have a bunch going at once knawing on your heels while bleeding hw xp for you........if they get overwhelming just whip out the knuckles.

Heh this should be much better than battleing a single gnort for 8min

So the bleed damage does not soak up the kill exp with pistol exp?

Oh man... Wish I would have tried this weeks ago *chuckles*

Thats it! I'm changing my title from Commando to Non-thinking Grunt!

Thanks for the tip

do yu only get ne xp heavy weapon point for using the flamethrower?