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What exactly are you looking for? required skill boxes and combat level, looted and crafted only? damage and speed caps?

The Armory

This is perhaps one of the most important portions of this entire guide, as questions about our weapons are constantly being asked in the Commando Forums. To first introduce them, is to first introduce how they function within our profession:

• All Heavy Weapons are in the Commando Profession
• All Heavy Weapons use Heavy Weapon Mods and General Ranged Mods
• All Heavy Weapons are Combat Level as well as Skill-box certified
• All Heavy Weapons function as “our specials”, and just about all of them carry some sort of innate ability.

The fact that all our weapons are skill-based certified, makes Commando very unique apart from other professions. All our weapons are considered iconic, as we do not draw on our own specials, and hence if Heavy Weapons were usable without the Profession, we wouldn’t have a need to exist. The biggest negative to this is for those of you grinding from an already established template; you are forced to use either a CL14 Launcher Pistol or CL30 Corellian Destroyer at Novice Commando, and nothing else. And Speaking about specific weapons, it is important to know thy guns!


Launcher Pistol - CL14/Novice Commando
Damage Type: Kinetic
Elemental: Heat
Innate Ability: AoE
Range: 0-45 m
Description: The The first Heavy Weapon a grinding commando can use; there are no advanced versions and it is suggested to move on as quickly as possible from this weapon.

Corellian Destroyer - CL 30/Novice Commando
Damage Type: Energy
Elemental: None
Innate Ability: None
Range: 0-55 m
Description: The Loot item that resembles the Lightning Beam Cannon. It is an ideal weapon for grinding up from Novice Commando because it has no AoE.

Heavy Acid Rifle - CL22/Acid Weapons I
Damage Type: Energy
Elemental: Acid
Innate Ability: Blind
Range: 0-45 m
Description: The first acid Heavy Weapon a Commando can use, it is non AoE which makes it helpful for grinding. Warning: If you’re within the radius of your weapon while firing on a target, you may get blinded.

Rocket Launcher - CL22/Incendiary Weapons I
Damage Type: Kinetic
Elemental: Heat
Innate Ability: Knockdown
Range: 0-64 m
Description: The most iconic weapon of Commando, no advanced versions unfortunately so it is seldom used anymore. It is non-AoE, hence also ideal for grinding.

Heavy Particle Beam Cannon - CL30/Beam Weapons II
Damage Type: Energy
Elemental: Heat
Innate Ability: Ability to shoot lined up enemies up to 64 m. (Not working currently)
Range: 0-40 m
Description: This is supposed to be a very small AoE weapon that could effectively punch a hole through anything between the Commando and the max range in a straight line. It has yet to really show AoE worth, and hence is ideal for grinding Commando.

Flamethrower - CL40/Incendiary Weapons III
Damage Type: Energy
Elemental: Heat
Innate Ability: Fire DoT, AoE
Range: 0-40 m
Description: The first version of our working horse of the profession, as well as the first Fire DoT weapon a Commando can be certified for.

Acid Stream Launcher - CL40/Acid Weapons III
Damage Type: Energy
Elemental: Acid
Innate Ability: Blind, AoE
Range: 0-64 m
Description: The last of the Acid Weapons in the profession. Warning: If you’re within the radius of your weapon while firing on a target, you may get blinded.

"The Void" Rocket Launcher - CL40/Explosives III
Damage Type: Kinetic
Elemental: None
Innate Ability: None
Range: 0-55 m
Description: Loot item from Kashyyyk. The weapon has +10 Heavy Weapons Accuracy and is our highest Kinetic damage type weapon available currently.

Lightning Beam Cannon - CL50/Beam Weapons IV
Damage Type: Energy
Elemental: Electricity
Innate Ability: Fire DoT, AoE
Range: 0-40 m
Description: Commonly used as a supplement to our Master Weapons because of the AoE, Fire DoT, and longer range.

Plasma Flamethrower - CL54/Master Commando
Damage Type: Energy
Elemental: Heat
Innate Ability: Fire DoT, AoE
Range: 0-25 m
Description: Our working horse at Master-level, very useful and potent.

Blackscale Acid Stream Launcher - CL54/Master Commando
Damage Type: Energy
Elemental: Acid
Innate Ability: Blind
Range: 0-64 m
Description: A more advanced Acid weapon for Master Commando, looted.

Proton Rifle - CL54/Master Commando
Damage Type: Energy
Elemental: None
Innate Ability: None
Range: 0-64 m
Description: Looted off of NK-Necrosis in the Myydril Caverns. This is our only long range, non-AoE, and Combat Level 54 Heavy Weapon out there. Very desirable to have. Also, the weapon has +10 Heavy Weapon Accuracy and +10 Heavy Weapon Speed built in.

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Happy?

*Edit: By the way, if anyone sees anything wrong above, let me know*

Message Edited by StarNick on 10-06-2005 05:38 PM

Range on the Blackscale ASL looks wrong. I am not in game ATM, but I could swear it's 55m.

I think you're right...changing it.

Dude, I hey the jackpot here! Or maybe you did?!

Thanx StarNick!!!

Good job on that list. I think it would be great if you could get some sort of damage range in there, or at least the damage caps. When I first became a commando it was a pain to figure out what my heaviest hitting weapons would be. Of course having the damage range listed might just depress anyone looking at the list. He's what I could find from the WS damage cap post.:

Message Edited by DeijhaVhu on 10-07-2005 07:43 AM

Maybe damage caps if we can get them, but because SAC, Damage, Elemental, and Speed really are up to that of the WS...they can flucuate way too much.

The "base" stats may also, at least in my opinion, give the wrong impression to newer folks because they might think a plasma FT with xx stats is really good, when the rest of us know that's just a basic one.

Damage caps, yes if we can get it...always better to show how far a weapon can go, rather than just show the average that many folks don't really use.

This list is going to be changed big time with information in the future, so I'll add it to the list...

I have a rocket launcher... and the radius says 6m... but it seems to not be an "area" wep at all.