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Why don't commado's get any special attacks at novice? Surely we can't be expected to use every weapon available to us at novice without any special moves?

Also, I notice that we don't get any special moves in our heavy weapons line at all. Never. These weapons had better be devastaing because attacks without specials are pretty useless.

aye, thats what we as commandos ar etryting to figure out at this point, but its dificult given that our weapons can only be made by masters and the materials to make them are very very rare.

The special attacks are more trouble than they are worth anyway.

Flame single give your target a fire DOT but it doesn't last very long at all. It also requires that you get within 20 meters of your target and if you are aware of the 3.0x damage modifier for melee against you, you don't want to be within 20 meters of any target.

Secondly, the cone attack is an area attack that also must be done within 20 meters. I don't know why anyone would want to aggro all of the mobs within 20 meters of them. That's death from even womprats who will all charge and do 3x damage to you with their hits.

We told the devs for months in beta our weapons were doing nothing and the resources could not be found. What did they say to us for months? /ignore commandos Another great SoE game!

"We told the devs for months in beta our weapons were doing nothing ..."

Ok, ok, I heard you the first five times. Can you please stop cutting and pasting this exact post on EVERY SINGLE thread in this message board? It's really getting tiring.

/rant off

ok, I just got the ability to command my pet to use his first special attack... I have a bio-engineered slice hound that has two special attacks, knockdown, and dizzy strike. But no matter how many times I order it to use it's knockdown attack, it just doesn't knock anything down.

Why is this? Do the special attacks not work?

I have seen it use dizzystrike on it's own once in while, but it is very rare.

I have NEVER got knockdown to work, and do not know of anyone else who has either. Dizzy will work if you tell pet to follow target first and then use the special.

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Biltil wrote:
I have NEVER got knockdown to work, and do not know of anyone else who has either. Dizzy will work if you tell pet to follow target first and then use the special.

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ok, so knockdown doesn't work then... are there any other specials that don't work? Would be nice to know for the next time I order a BE pet.

they do work. the special commands are bugged and don't work though. the animal will still do the moves when it **edit** well feels like it.

Yep, another one of those zillion things that are described as a skill in someone's profession and just don't work.

But hey, you can color your speeder in exciting new shades, so that's okay, huh?

pet specials work when the pet is in melee range. to use it in PVP use the follow other command. when the pet is in melee range tell it to use the specials you want. whether they land or not is up to fate.

you cant tell a pet to use a special and then run up to a target and use it. the command tells it to use the special right then not wait and run up then use it. so a lot of people think they dont work.

its the same as if you had a target at 100 meters and tried to use a special. nothing happens till your in range to use it. same with the pet it has to be in its range.

Thanks, but I am sure that I saw some kind of Macro that makes it more effective. I am not sure that I have ever had one of my pets administer their special moves on enemies (not PvP).