Commando Archive

I am a recent respec MCommando. I have played since launch and have always wondered what it was like to be a commando. So I finally decided to respec to Commando with my last respec and I dropped my rifleman skills to pick up the mastery. The damage isn't near as high as it was with rifleman, but I am still having a lot of fun playing the profession. Whereas Rifleman was fun because of the high damage it did, Commando is fun because of the chaos it creates in combat. Being a Smuggler as well, chaos is something I enjoy bringing to the battlefield. Last Saturday there was a huge faction battle on my server in Bestine and Anchorhead. It was my first chance to really test my skills in a large pvp conflict and it went very well. My MCommando/MSmuggler skills really shined in this battle and when a similarly templated imperial joined the battle on the other side I noticed its effect on our side immediately. Now I don't think I alone could have turned the battle one way or the other, but I was able affect the fighting enough to help out my comrades in their bid to turn the tide. We didn't succeed all the time, we lost 2 of the 3 battles that took place but we won the hardest fought of the three when the odds were more even. Overall my groupmates and I were very very impressed with the effectiveness of the template in this setting, though I do think it is lacking in the damage department. Significantly in the effectiveness of grenades. I bewildered by why an attack that requires a consumable crafted item deals so little damage, aggros anything and everything within visible range (even though it doesn't seem to damage anything and everything that it aggros), and has probably the longest cool-down timer of any attack in the game. Perhaps the cool down time is needed to soil your armor, get incapped from the aggro, heal yourself, and have a smoke before reattempting something as crazy as using an attack you spend an entire skill tree to perfect. Hopefully the elemental damage fixes will help address some of the low damage issues we're having, but I still think the profession is fun to play. In a galaxy of lightsabers and rifles, I love being the crazy wookiee with the flamer.