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Hello all!

I'm a WS - not a commando - and I have the components for either 100 proton grenades, or split those up and I can make quite a few rocket launchers.

I'm just trying to guage people's perceptions on RL's.

How many of you use them? Of those who have, how much did you pay for yours and if you can recall, what type of damage did they do and how much did they cost you in credits, along with the number of charges they contained?

If people like them but find the cost prohibitive, I've got an idea on prices that I think will be lower than others, possibly making them more feasible to the average commando.

I appreciate any feedback.

I love them. The 10m Radius is awesome.

But I dont buy or sell them, I make them myself and use them myself.

I love the heavy weapons support tree (heavy lightning cannon, heavy acid cannon, heavy particle beam, and rocket launcher). People haven't quite seen the use for these weapons yet I think. You use them like a grenade, and they do about the same amount of damage as flamesingle2 does, only you don't have to be at 16m or less to do it.
I use mine mainly because they're fun. They are expensive to purchase and take a toll on your HAM, but they're overall high damage long range weapons that every commando should use when that **edit** bounty hunter is eyeshotting you from 60m. Imagine the look on his face when you oneshot him from 60m with a rocketlauncher. Rocketlaunchers will be very popular once the change goes in making AT-ST vulnerable to blast (which is already being tested at the Test Center).


-Vralin

Best weapon in the commando arsenal, Mine cost me 50k and I'll spend days saveing up for a crate of them. Pain in the ass to make and a pain in the ass to afford but I'll be damned if I enter combat without one! Best long range heavy weapon (the only one really, the rest are med-short range), everything about it rocks. Even the tiny details of you putting your flamethrower down, pulling out the rocket launcher, and sending a tiny rocket with trailing smoke winding its way towards the target (they even got the corkscrew style of dumbfire rockets down, kickass!) and explodeing on impact. I had a set of 42 when I first bought it, now I got about 16 left I think. I burned through that many in less then a day I just loved them, NPCs PCs pets random mobs no one was safe from my random fancy.

However grenades suck, any grenades, protons are best used in RLs.

So you put RLs into a hotbutton like you do a grenade? Do you do that for Particles too?

Yup, I put my particle beam, lightning cannon, and rocket launcher in my hotbar under slots F9, F10, and Shift+F9 (launcher pistol is F11 and flamethrower is F12). You just hit the key. It's really cool because you actually get down on one knee, set your weapon on the ground, and reach behind your back and pull out the rocket launcher. After firing it you throw it back into your backpack. It's an _awesome_ animation. God I love commando. Even if they get nerfed I will still love them.


-Vralin

Yeah. I love my RL... if only they weren't SO expensive.

Great - if any of you are on Radiant, I plan on offering RL's for 30-35k. Let's see how many times I need to test before I get a good schematic. I know someone already wants 5 of them, so there will be about 10-15 available shortly.

I use the RL and the HPC. Love them both. I can get RL for 30k on Tarq, but most people here sell them for closer to 50k.

Bobbi Sox

i used em before i ran out (29k for 29 charges)

pretty good, but not worth for the money in my opinion

i suggest everyone use hvy particle beam cannons, hvy ap, not quite as damaging BUT takes less ham and is MUCH more economical - i get em for 10k, and im more destructive than when i used RL's

whats the point of an RL if your only going to use it sparingly? with HPBCs you can use it more freely on tons of armoured targets

oh forgot: only when blast vulnerability comes into play will RL's be nice

however, 2 HPBCs damaged an at-st almost as much as two RL's in one battle i was in, so frankly i dont see how much it matters unless the armoured target is vulnerable to energy (really vulnerable too)

rocket launchers are awsome.. id like them to cost a little less that what i bought them for(40k) but i still buy them once in a while.. they do lots of damage to pretty much everything.. i havent tried out proton grenades yet though.. when i tried to get master commando the trainer got bugged and would let me learn har4 which is all i need for master

Used it once at novice havent really had the money or patience to seek out a more permanent supply on eclipse yet.