Commando Archive

Hi all,

pay no attention to my sig at the bottom. Kor'Rok is my main character. But having experienced the changes in the game recently, namely the awesome AT-STs I decided to level up a new character on a different server. After reading Raph's smug comments about commando on the UGO site I decided it was commando time for me.

So, I understand the route for commando, it's laid out in the skill tree. I would like some general information and opinions on the profession from you guys. Here's some things I'd like to know:

-What's great about Commandos? What are you looking forward to?

-What skill line in the commando tree would a new commando take first to be really effective in PVP?

-At what level in the commando tree do you get Flamethrower and Rocket Launcher certification?

-What's broken/gated about the commando profession? I'm not talking about xp sink, but what really causes progression hangups with this profession?

-What is the thing that annoys you most about this class?

I guess those are my preliminary questions, I've been researching all morning on this but I really want your opinions here. I would like to have a nice foot to put forward.

-What's great about Commandos? What are you looking forward to?

Watching the smile fade away from the guy who just sends in his At St then hides as all his FP points go up in a great ball of flames .

-What skill line in the commando tree would a new commando take first to be really effective in PVP?

Ummm I would have to say none because commando's are worthless in PvP with are 15 second delay on are 20% accuracy moves. Just wipe the thought of PvP out of your mind cause its not gonna happen.

-At what level in the commando tree do you get Flamethrower and Rocket Launcher certification?

Novice hard to find both of these and depending on your server impossible.

-What's broken/gated about the commando profession? I'm not talking about xp sink, but what really causes progression hangups with this profession?

Being unable to find weapons which really dosent matter all that much because getting exp with any thing but the launcher pistol is like pulling teeth and jamming them into your eye.

-What is the thing that annoys you most about this class?

Not haveing any thing good to say about it pains me the most because I love the idea that the devs have hinted to us of how effective commando's can be. Though in day to day reallity its hard to know you could be half way up the pistoleer tree (like everybody else) or still be working on the bottom rung of commando.

But stick with itand sport that Novice Commando tag with pride (you will be seeing it for awhile) grab your self a launcher pistol andkeep plugging away a fix has to be coming.......it has to be.................

Disregard such negative posts. A fix is in the works.

If you want to do commando. Do so. Get a launcher pistol and have at it.

Suggestions - go Zabrak. Equalize is the single most useful skill of all the races. None can compare. Also if you choose to go Imp the faction penalties are not huge.

PvP has yet to be determined as we are awaiting fixes to our guns.

I can tell you our AOE when fixed looks to be much fun.

Thought the Commando class seems to be getting some changes, we do not know the scale or implementation, so all we have is speculation.

To answer your questions:

1) Nothing is currently great about Commandos.
2) Novice Pistoleers with CDEFS own Master Commandos in PvP.
3) Flamethrower is Novice. I don't know RL offhand, but just check the skill tree in game.
4) There is little that doesn't seem to be broken/gated on Live servers. The only unbroken thing is the Launcher pistol, and you'll usee that as well at Master as you will at Novice. Most suffer from excessive resource restrictions (changing), weak damage (changing), and confusing range modifiers (changing). Additionally, most weapons require a Master Weaponsmith to make, which was an early Gate, but went away as servers matured.
5) I can't answer that. On Radiant, no Commando weapons exist (except maybe a dozen HAR's for which the resources were long ago exhausted). So, truthfully, I am not a real Commando.

-What's great about Commandos? What are you looking forward to?

I think the coolest thing about commando, and i think others will agree with me is that, we can create a veritable smoke screen! I'm talking about a HUGE WALL OF SMOKE! Although I do actually think it's pretty cool. It could be toned down a bit due to the fact it's getting hard to find any melee people that i can go fighting with.

-What skill line in the commando tree would a new commando take first to be really effective in PVP?

Take any other than whats in the commando tree. Or take field tactices cause its fun to kill yourself with grenades.

-At what level in the commando tree do you get Flamethrower and Rocket Launcher certification?

These are both Novice level, but you will not be able to hit ANYTHING until level 3, maybe a bit at level 2.

-What's broken/gated about the commando profession? I'm not talking about xp sink, but what really causes progression hangups with this profession?

I'm not even going to answer this one. Go read the forums there guy...

-What is the thing that annoys you most about this class?

We suck. School girls can kick my butt. All I can do is run and cry.

I hope nobody took my post as a commando bash I love playing commando nothing is funner then blasting a LP and haveing people think its the end of the world.

However am not going to pretend that are class is up to par with other elite branches. In the future am sure it will be another story but as of right nowI think my post is accurate.