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A long long time ago I was a commando and I came back to it to Master it. I notice that when I kill a creature with TKM skills I get 4k with the flamer I get 3k. I chceked the faq and didint see mention of xp factors, is there something I can do to raise the xp per kill?

thanks for any responses

Don't know but when I am using my handed sword I get the same on the big stuff, but less on small stuff, like meatlumps

Is there an unarmed bonus then thats effecting it? I seem to cap flamethrowe rxp at 3k or so, while unarmed i can get to 5k?

any one ?

I noticed the xp variance this morning. Went out hunting with a buddy of mine who is a Master CH and has some pistoleer and is doing Smuggler for his holocron thing, and we were killing Gaping Spider Hunters. I got 2958-3099 and he would generally get around 5k, with our pets if the other one wouldn't fire any shots... Seems to make the pistoleer proffession faster to advance in kill ratio. Of course, I still kill things 10x faster than him.

the biggest factor for commando xp is that we don't get any xp for DOT's...so as a TKA you're doing pure damage no bleeds, no burns, no poison...all the damage you're doing is going straight into your xp after the kill..

with commando burns, you only get xp for the physical damage deal.... if target have 100 resist fire, like oh say ancient rancor when you flame2, flame1, flamecone you're not damaging him but the burns will stick, and since burns ignores resist the burns will do full damage

... now if all you did was put burns on the ancient rancor (using him as an example from now on)then you will get no xp since you didn't do any physical damage to him (remember he's got 100 resist heat) so if your burns kill him you won't get any xp...only way for you to get max xp is to out damage your burn (very hard to do) so even if you do kill an ancient rancor (sucks right?)....

but if you do do some damage to the ancient rancor will a launcher pistol, even if all you did was shot him once than you get about 3k xp...on the other hand if you do pure damage to the ancient rancor (good luck and hope you have a good pet) you'll get the full 5k xp cap

I think HanDual hit it correctly.

Something that helps is to have a pet or droid grouped with you. They don't need to attack anything, but you get more xp for your kills.

i know that haun duel was incorrect. there is some sort of parabola that is a restraint for each weapon. so you can kill a kamurith and get 2k less xp then a pistoleer whose restraint is lower. remember kammuriths have no armor therefore if you used no burns then you still get 3k xp (i have tried it.) there is a cap but i cant imagine why.

Well, you don't get xp from pure bleeds but all you have to do is cause 1 physical damage and the damage caused by the bleeds goes toward whatever weapon you used to cause the damage. There's a drawback though as the bleed damage adds xp to whichever weapon does the most physical damage so if your hunting in a group and bleed a target make sure you deal the most physical damage or you get screwed.

i killed a bunch of nightsister elders which have 100% fire resists, i was not getting any heavy weapons xp for it but i got 2k ch xp and 5k combat xp for each one i killed...

I noticed that with TKA i get 1 xp for a durni, and 113 xp with my flamethrower...