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Today I got to have my first encounter with one of the new flamethrowers. I was hanging out in Anchorhead healing when three or four imperials stormed into town. One of them was a master commando with a big ass flamethrower. I went out to meet the opposition, as did about 10-15 other rebels. I got some licks in on a few of them. They got some on me. It was all good. Then the flamethrower guy got a hold of me. I made the mistake of taking a neutron pixie to try to hang with the guy. I am a carbineed maurader/master medic, and I lasted for a while by running, healing, and trying to shoot from range. Flameboy was wearing composite though, and not much I had was getting through. I am also a wookie, so I can't wear any armour. After about a minute or so, I had been incapped and healed a couple of times and was burning like a wookie torch. I ran to a camp outside of town where a doc was going to heal my wounds (I didn't have any good wound meds) but the DoT cought up to me and I died.

Then I spawned at the clone. And died. Then the pixie wore off. Then I spawned. Then I incapped. The incap timer went to 0. Still laying on the floor. Now my health is at -100 and my wounds are at 1999. My character is stuck there until a CSR comes and fixes me. I am the wookier welcome mat the the Anchorhead cloning center.

I don't know if commandos are overpowered or not. I will say that a master commando can beat the crap out of a near master carbineer wookier without much of a scratch. And the DoT/wounds of that flamethrower are friggin ridiculous. I think it's cool to have a class that can put out some serious pain on big ticket mobs. I think the ability to do 2k worth of wounds in a minute is silly.

-Morlokk the Wookie Welcome Mat (come pay me a visit sometime in Anchorhead on Radiant)

You're on Radiant right? I remember.

*raiseshand*

Guilty, that was me heh

-Spar

oh man, that welcome mat line was funny.

Roakee- AotOR - Eclipse

As a master carbineer, you have an assortment of tools you can use to keep a commando out of the 15-20m range required for him to hit you with a flame cone. If you run right at a commando, your going to get flame single 1-2 or flame cone 1-2 in the face...just need to play keep away abit better

i believe he plays on bloodfin, that thing happened when i was there too and i with some friends torched out those imps

wow thats one messed up bug, thats really got to be fixed.

Might I suggest a shield generator at least for PvP?

Wookies can wear them.

Shield gens are a waste of money unless you can make them yourself.

They break WAY too fast..and because how fast they degrade is based on how much damage they are negating..i wouldnt second guess that one flame single could take out a Shield Gen 1....other shield gens would break soon after.

Hell my ARMOR is down 500 con just PVPing in 2 days with little dinky people hitting me for 50 damage..let alone somebody hitting you for 900-1.4k...that would just annilate armor. And it does..my crappy Ubese shirt i use for various things when i dont want my good armor ruined lost about 800 con just fighting in PVE

I have an update on this in case it ever happens to someone else. I was stuck in the cloning center for over 9 hours. I paged a CSR and it got read, but no one came. (I was logged out for a good chunk of that time sleeping.) After I logged back in, I amused myself by sending tells to people as the cloned and welcoming them back. I tried to get several of them to heal me, but wounds can't be healed in cloning facilities - even with droids. We finally figured out that someone could drag my body outside the cloning center where dorids could then be used to help people heal my 1999 health wounds. The first wound that was healed healed for 1000. After that, they healed normally until I was whole again. I then went to the cantina and got drunk on Jawa beer to celebrate my return to the living.

What do commandos think? It seems a bit obvious to me that the flamethrower in particular (at least that one) is way overpowered for PvP. Does tweaking need to be done before you guys become the tagert of a wholesale nerf? I think so, but that is just the voice of a lone cooked wookie. (The smell of 20 lbs of burnt wookie fur is quite awful, BTW.)

I was wearinga MKI shield gen that I paid 15k for. It had 20% and 10% down the board and about 2200 max condition. I had done some fighting before so I don't know exactly what it's condition was before the fight, but it was at 0 shortly after it began. Shield gens are nice, but 15k for a few seconds of use in that kind of fight is not doable for me. I still like buying the less expensive ones for certain uses like non-commando PvP or special fights.

Seems like a bug. i don't think that is working like intended hence the 1999 wounds when you don't have 2000 health.

Hope a dev sees this.

But to ruin a commandos day stay far out, bleed him and run away. /burstrun if needed. Don't ever wait for him to get into close range.

Just remember, flame throwers still have a range of 60 or so, but you can't do any of your specials unless you are 16m closer.

I just got commando last night, so I'm not sure how it works in PVP...

Janas
Novice Commando