Commando Archive

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If your a person that enjoys PVP...nothing, get away from it.

If you a person that enjoys PVE (such as myself) then it totally rocks. Nothing better then walking up to an animal or person that with a normal pistol/rifle/carbine etc takes several shots, walking up to 16m, kneeling and press the flamesingle2 button and watching them drop before the music ever starts.

I walk around coronet looking for animals that I would normally avoid, took out a HUGE Mottled Wrix lair the other day, by myself and unbuffed (do have 80% kinetic armor though). Took out 30 wrixes and mottled wrix (not really it was a lot of them) and the lair with the flam thrower, and never broke a sweat.

As just stated above, flamethrower does rock in PvE. The Heavy Weapons line is also pretty nice if you can find a nice Weapon Smith to provide you with rockets and Hvy Partial Beam Cannons. They are a very heavy hitting that are best used at long ranges, which offsets the flamer's short range. All in all.. commando is more of a PvE profession than PvP. That doesn't mean its not fun, despite what most people seem to think about it.

I am going to do the commando thing eventually, because of the versatility, PvE. In PvP you can use some of the commando stuff to good effect, but there are more efficient ways to kill other players, and PvP is all about what's efficient. Commandos are very, very efficient PvE killers that use different weapons and tactics to kill different things. I think that's what's good about it.

There are a number of things that are bad about it, as you will read on these threads. The lack of defenses is of critical import, as is the broken HAR tree and weapon. The defense problem can be solved by hybridizing into TK, fencer or pistoleer, but the HAR problem is complex, involving resource quality and game mechanics. First stab at a fix went in this patch, but there will be more, I feel sure.

--Yak

well, it seems Commando is a PvE profession mainly which is good for me, I don't PvP much which may be because there's always someone better. Thanks guys

Commando's don't completely "rock" in PvE. A most accurate description would be that we "rock" in PvE against lower and medium level mobs. Fact any higher level mob, and it's very likely that they have 100% heat resist... or close to it. Unfortunately, that's the only damage that we're effective with.

Unfortunately, Commando's are one-trick ponys. While rifleman seems to get new rifles every build (I'm not completely complaining since I'm an aspiring Rifleman), Commando's get left in the dust (see: lame "fix" to HAR last publish).

So what are Commandos good for? Well, we can make pretty good money running missions against heat vuln mobs. Other than that, we're pretty useless (in PvP and PvE /w high level mobs)