Commando Archive

Okay... Tonight I thought I'd participate in a little PvP in Theed for the first time after armor decay was gone. I had recently started working on BH, keeping my flame 4 tree. Since my crappy scatter wasn't doing any real damage, I switched to my trusty 35% damage sliced flamethrower. I couldn't tell if everyone there was a defense stacker or I was just missing them. Turned out to be neither. While lying on the ground incapacitated, I took a look at my combat window. I had hit every one of my targets. The damage was pitiful. I watched as the unbuffed, wounded, novice rifleman (NOT WEARING ANY ARMOR)who had just killed me, popped a couple of stim B's and lived with only MINOR wounds. I was shocked. I kept trying to use my flamethrower through the roundtrips to the cloning center. I used to be a top PvP'er with some nice groups I fought with many times.

I began this fight with 1k faction points and ended up with -44... I know you're probably thinking I'm just a terrible fighter or have crappy armor (89% all), but this is just not the case. The fact is we can NOT do enough damage per second to even begin to compete with other professions. Even rifleman, which are supposed to be the slow, high damage profession were slaughtering me, firing 5 head shots before I could get a hit in on them.

I got sick of it... I didn't know what to do seeing as how I thought of my FT as the ultimate PvP weapon. Then, I realized the option I haven't considered. My LLC. I took a look at the stats. Nothings pecial. Max damage of around 990. Nothing to compete with my 1500 flamethower. I had enough heavy weapons XP to get through LLC 3 already, with my best attack being Lighting Single 1. I doubted I'd even get a single kill with it, but it was worth a shot.

A few minutes later, I had almost gained ALL of my faction points back. I had been slaughtering the people that had been laughing at me before. I am now finishing up getting enough xp for my last box of LLC and leaving my once loved Commando profession. This is insane. I check these forums very often, and put up with the people coming and and screaming to nerf our profession. Well, looks like they have been checking up on us, and instead of at least fixing the skill mods on the HAR (seems like it would take all of 10 minutes), they nerf us to hell. I understand your impatience from your replay JustG, but we are beginning to grow impatient. I thank you for your response, and I admire your work with everything you put up with. However, TH's reply struck a chord with me. We're not broken he said. I challenge Thunderheart to create a Master Commando profession and see how useful Grenades, Heavy Weapons, the Launcher Pistol, and the Heavy Acid Rifle are, then come back and tell us we're not broken.

Anyway, my advice to you all, is if you're not enjoying Commando anymore, keep master marksman, grind through scout (took me about a day), and spend your most likely maxed 900k heavy weapns XP on the LLC line. It has light AP, less delay, and does waaaay more DPS. Plus the other trees aren't that bad . Once the devs run another Astromech scan on professions and see the Commando numbers dropping like flies, they might do something about it. Until then, I'm leaving these forums as a disappoined ex-commando. My plan is to max out on heavy weapons xp using the LLC, and if they ever do anything to fix us, I'll jump right back in and have enough xp to get back into the game. If not, I'll just enjoy electrocuting people to death . Good luck to you that are sticking with commando, and I want to let you know, I admire your persistance. I, frankly, have run out. Good luck to everyone, and don't lose hope.