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Maybe this has been brought up before...sorry if it has...and maybe my idea has already been implemented (although I have never heard it mentioned)...I admit I never use my Heavy Acid Rifle.

During this whole fun patch issues I've had a lot of time offline to do some thinking about our profession and the seemingly uselessness of the Heavy Acid Rifle...If it wasn't for the fact I want to be a Master Commando, why even bother getting any of the HAR tree?

Our other weapons seem to serve a purpose, whether small or big...Flame Thrower is easily the most used thanks to the burn...Heavy Launcher Pistol because it's good for beginners, does blast damage (hello AT-STs), and uses Pistol Specials...and even Grenades (when they work) do nice ranged damage...But what about the Acid Rifle...yes...some creatures are vunerable to Acid, but still the Flame specials do more damage thanks to the DOT...

Since the Launcher Pistol uses Pistol Specials, why not make the Heavy Acid Rifle use RIFLE SPECIALS...I think that would make it very useful, especially strategicly...sure it may create more dablers, but it would give us a good ranged weapon (besides our Rocket Launchers, etc. that only fire once)....

Yes this might create more dabblers, but so what...what the heck do we all do with our extra skill points...WE DABBLE in other professions...When I finally hit commando master, I will have at least 2 other Novice or higher skills in other elite professions...that makes me a Dabbler I guess...

So I believe something that would really make our Profession worthwhileand give us more of a reason to fill more beyond just the Flame tree is to make HARs use Rifle Specials!!!! it is a Rifle after all isn't it...

Any thoughts, suggestions, flames?

This would be kind of nice i guess. The only problem i see is that we would fall into the same trap we did with the launcher pistol. That was, Why the hell is a commando weapon using pistoleer skills. You would have master rifleman picking up novice commando so they could do insane damage using headshot3 with the acid rifle from 64 meters under cover. You would have a novice commando/rifleman better at using the weapon than a master commando. Really nice thought but unfortuanately would open up way too many problems i think.

Inoch,

The master trando Commando

I think they should scrap the whole HAR tree and make a heavy blaster tree. It would be like a big ass laser rifle or somrthing to that effect.