Commando Archive

This has to be the first time I can recall that a game forum is more entertaining than the game! I have been trying unsuccessfully to leave the board a bit to go badge hunting but I keep coming back. I don't want to get left in the dust lol.

Yep, check out:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=rifleman&message.id=21664&view=by_date_ascending&page=3

It's interesting, I've only gone in game long enough to speak with some of the long standing master commandos on Bria, guys who (with the exception of Theededge) don't come to the boards.

What I'm hearing pretty much across the board (only one exception. Hiya Dossrad) is that these guys plan to quit if this penalty sticks. Not quit commando, but quit the game. I've seen a few threads in the general discussion where people have said these changes will result in the newcomer commandos all dropping the profession and leaving it to the hardcore early adopters. What I'm actually hearing in-game is the exact opposite.

What's worrying me is that even if this is something that's to be changed, it may be months before it happens. I was a master armorsmith til the first big patch, when armor smiths gained the ability to color their armor.... but only if they had the domestic arts line and right on up to master tailor. Within a week (second week of august this was) the devs told us this was an error and that we would get the customization skills within armorsmith. That only just happened two days ago, two months later.

This doesn't fill me with confidence. All of us who have been commandos since the beginning have had to suffer a few months of being broken already. How many will be willing to suck it up a second time?

Well....I for one am here for the haul. At the moment we can still get the job done with a bit of CH (sucks relying on another profession but hey...we're used to that by now). After the incoming CH nerf....I'll bounce to TK...and after they take that away I'm sure we'll find yet another crutch. True ....the crutch is only needed for tough mobs/missions/quests....but it takes more than lazy Devs to get rid of most of us. As to the dabblers.......losing them is the only good thing about the latest patch.