Commando Archive

First of all if they make the launcher pistol changes as they said.. You dont NEED to go master pistoleer.. Hell I started with pistoleer as my secondary occupation anyway jsut for the defensive dodge and effect bonues. There is no real reason to master pistoleer unless you want AE knockdown. You can spend 23 points and get pistol whip and stopping shot which are the best 2most damagingmovesthat a pistoleer gets. And thats only if your not satisfied with using Health shot 1 and Body Shot 2.

As for the flamethrower, Its not nearly as bad when you get higher up, Im a Flamethrower spec IV, I may miss 5% of the time while standing up and running around, hardly ever if Im prone or kneeling. Also while prone I can let off a shot every 2 seconds. There is light at the end of the tunnel just wait to see what the devs do. If the flamethrower specials are really improved to warrant the recharge time it would be a huge step.

Grenades.. Im only a field tactics II... but if Im kneeling when I toss a nade I hardly miss also crafted glop greandes also do 525 max damage. I DO think that some grenades need status effects on them.

Give the issue time, see what happens I know SOE well enough that they have their mind set on what they want the class to be and they will change it back and forth. What I do not see is them making a commando a jack of all trades with sneak attacks and such.

Also they have the issue of armor piercing etc still not working, and Im not sure what class the flamethrower has, that also may make a huge difference. Cause when you shot with most of these high damage moves, it does not show how much the mob actually absorbs.

All in all, we dont know how we will be effected after patches, and I wish we had 2 more weapons like the launcher pistol, one for rifle, one for carbine. This way those marksman bonuses would be really useful. But jsut give it time, all the posts on restructuring the commando class completely probably will not happen becasue 80% of them want the commando to be this badass that tears apart anything without braking a sweat. This wont happen, one class cannot be way above the rest in any game.. The balance is out of whack now, but in time it will be fixed you just have to be patient.

Sorry this post is probably looks like a jumble of thoughts, but I jsut woke up and cantreally put together a well thought out post.