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Thread: Goodbye Master Commando!
I do like the power, but it seems not good enough to take down a Dark trooper faster than those pesky Bounty Hunters 
So, If you can't beat em...Join em!
I was wondering if anyone else felt this way about Commando vs Bounty Hunter?
I think Commando is the more powerful, but BH might be better suited for speed and damage to NPC charaters.
So long Fellow Masters - I will miss you guys... /cry on your shoulders (and Yes - Commandos are sensitive)
Drakoid
Former: Master Creature Handler, Master Commando, Master Scout
hey,
speaiking as an ex master commando, just a hint about holohunting-- the flame dot does not count as loot damage, so even if you hit a darkstormy for 3k initial and 10k sot damage, another who hits it for 3001 damage will get loot permission. Stop flamesingling and flameconing.. you'll do more damage.....
but it still won't be enough, i came to realize. We're just too slow when it comes to the holohunt stealkill loot game. Sorry...
But there is hope! Stay Master commando....And add Master TKA to it!
THe Master TKA's do by far the most damage per second, i think, more than the bh, even, with some awesome knockdown/dizzy effect at high levels. A Master TKA got me my furst holo, and now when i go to the base, master TKA's are stealing my kills left and right...
Use this information wisely... TKA is the best class for DarkJedi Holohunting... now that you know, go out there and steal some kills!
Just Kidding.
Actually, go out there and be that awesome guy helping others out and getting holocrons for those whining master commandoes who have all but given up the hope for a holocron (like Nebula did for me!)
Oberon
Former MasterCommando, HoloRanger
uh.. no, its more like bounty hunters have their3 weapontrees WORKING while commandos only have 1 working.
want to take down dark troopers quick?
TKA 2/0/4/4 + master combat medic + marksman 3/0/0/4 (cm prereq)+ master medic (CM prereq)+unarmed4 (tka prereq)
And you get:
A character that can make good money selling stims (master medic), that in combat, has the ability to use a laser rifle, mindshot1, headshot2, can poison and disease mind and heal himself via CM skills, can attack mind via tkasi, can get rid of poisons and diseases AND power boost himself via tkasi, and gets +50 terrain neg from master CM.
the perfect, mobile damage dealer, that can kill at melee or from range at fire & forget, can heal ALL ham bars, attack ALL ham bars and to boot has access to a very decent ranged weapon (laser rifle).
its insanity in a package.
I'm almost a master TKA (4|4|3|4)...the other night I took out an entire cave of apparenly badass critters...I didn't think much of it, combining a nice flame dot with some serious unarmed damage...But someone came into the cave, saw me taking on swarms of NPC's all over me with little to no damage done to my HAM...they actually accused me of using some unknown exploit and said they were going to report me...that it had to be impossible for me to take on so many with barely a scratch...
This is why I love the Master Commando/Master TKA combination...Fire Dot + Unamred Toughness + High Melee/Ranged Defenses + Knockdown/Dizzy + A Mind Hit = Almost any target down...
I haven't tried Holocron harvesting yet or Force Sensitive NPC's for that matter...but I am going to once I hit TKM...Should be interesting...I'm just worried that this combo will eventually get nerf'd because it does produce a seriously nice Tank Character.
And I haven't missed my Scouting Abilities (thanks to a mount for terraign negotiation)...The only drawback is PvP...doesn't help with ranged kiters...but that effects Commando's alone as well...another reason to push for Ranged Mitigation for Commandos I guess...
in dathomir a group of 5 (1 ch with 2 grauls, another ch with a GSP and what looked like a pistoleer or smuggler and a a BH) were hunting and they started to kill the nest next to mine (about 50m away).
I was soloing nocous kams. Im MTKA, commando 1/4/4/3, smuggler 0/1/3/0 at the moment.
They wanted me to join them but i told them i was soloing because i needed the money. Seeing my 'expert commando' title they said I couldnt do it (apparently one of them had been commando before). So they started attacking their nest and i attacked mine...
by the time they were in their second pull i had already killed off my nest. And just in time because they got themselves a 6 kams spawning on top of them (the gsp kept hitting nest the whole time hehehe). when one of them cried out 'help' and saw 2 of them with aggros in, I jumped in.
targetted the kam attacking the pistoleer and lobbed an HPBC at it... that got its attention and ran to me with half its life gone, whipped out my fwg5 began spamming low blow at the other kams (with the first kam chasing me), KD'd 2 of the remaining 3 with low blow+panic shot (keeps them KD for 10 secs), reached the 3rd kam and kd'd it with tka, turned around, Kd'd the one chasing, ran behind it (so the 2 melee kd'd kams were in front of me) , flame cone1, that brought both of them to 3/4ths health ham and fire dotted them.
ran to the 2 that i had kd'd with pistol and took them down with tka punches, by the time i turned around to take care of the kams i had flamed, they were almost dead.. i even killed one of them with an automatic counter attack.
the grauls kept hitting the other 2 kams.. and this group was by this time, able to handle them.
ran to 40m away, armoroff macro, /meditate , recovered my half-gone ham bar and all wounds healed up.
meditate, however, did not wipe the smug smile off my face. 
Most people fear Rancors.
I find a nest of them and can't run fast enough to solo them
Not to sound like a boasting ass.....
Found some Kimogolia's yesterday. 2 entire nests of them.
Solo'ed....... and I don't mean soloed with pets or ATST's.. I mean Me vs 3 Kimo's.
Well okay my kaddu mount tried to help, but he didn't appear to be dealing much dmg while laying on the ground .
Basically, land flame dots all around, then unequip weapons and just tank the kimos as a TKA. Wait for them to die.. reapply flame dots as needed
While letting the DOTS do they're work, I'd try and debuff the kimos in between.
I am my own Graul Mauler
One other tidbit of advantage to the tka / commando.
Knockdown+flamesingle2 = normal flamesingle2 dmg x 2.5 I can get around 10 - 12k dmg hits on things with my flamethrowerIf they are knocked down.
In pvp this equals instant death. Even after the 75% reduction your still talking a 1k - 2k dmg hit with a DOT. Your opponents not have a chance with this.
Solo'ed a few nests of Gurks too.... They were collectively tougher than the kimos.... but even having had 6 of them on me at times I still won.
For the record I fear droideka's more than I do kimos now. The plain and simple truth is the Droids won't go melee and instead used ranged shots, to which I have no huge unarmed toughenss mods to protect me. It also doesn't help thatflamedots dont stick on them too well.
Kimo's were only doing 100 - 200dmg on me per hit, with the composite armor I had, I was getting hit for only 30 - 50 points at a time. With a flamethrower equipped though that dmg range jumps up to somewhere around 700 - 1000dmg...