Commando Archive

"What exactly is a commando?"

I always tell them

I get to blow **edit** up, and burn people.

most of the time the questions are more like this ...

what do you think about commando.. im thinking about goingfor master commando to be uber in pvp

i tell em that they should go for BH if they want to be uber in PvP

i tell em that if the want to Commando they should forget about everything Commando would mean in RL, that commando could also be named as Flamethrower trooper or if they ever fix our other weapons as heavy weapons guy

I always tell them that I'm not really a Commando, "I'm just a guy with a job to do, but if that job requires me to set large amounts of animals and people on fire... then I stock up on Napalm."

-Tych Malkere

(Kauri Galaxy)

I have been asked a few times about this. this is what i usually tell them " Commandos are a support hybrid profession dealing with heavy weapons...in PvP we do ok at best pending on eachs knowledge of the other professions. In PvE thats where we shine mostly..we are banes to AT-ST and other"uber" mobs. If i had to way it out on a scale 1 to 10 we commandos are about 8. "

I usually tell each person that we have some negative side to being a damage dealer...like we miss alot and long delays from special. thats about it .

Actually, I just say I'm not a commando, I'm a Grenadeer Ordinance Manufacturer. That way they know I can't spell and have explosives... *chuckles*

Kidding, kidding... Seriously tho... I tell people Commando means that I spent two weeks punching lairs for unarmed exp I'll never use again. Commando means most of our weapons are broken, require workarounds to use (prone on grenades comes to mind, so does the entire problem of having the only non-armor piercing acid gun in the game), and IF you find a weaponsmith who'll invest the ludicrous number of resources to making our weapons they'll ask 35-50k credits on guns that have 32 or fewer shots. I tell them that the difference between a Commando and a Bounty Hunter is that we miss more often buta BH still doesmore damage in a shorter time, if we spam our specials we'll essentially shoot once every 10 seconds and be outdamaged by the geeker spamming eyeshot, and for some reason everything big I've seen resists heat/blast more than electricity. I casually mention that doing the 'oooohbah' damage of 5000+ flame2's pretty much means that whatever you're fighting suddenly decides that you *need* to be sent back to the cloning center.

And then I say... it's still worth it, because being a Commando takes patience, guts, and nothing beats the feeling of a flame cone that actually hitsa tightly-packed group of (insertmobname here). Cajun Blackened Dewback burgers, anyone?

Lynch, Commando of Flurry -2143 with a bullet

"Hey, could you tell me - what does Commando do?" (OK, this is an exaggeration - I have yet to be asked this question with such a high degree of literacy)

"Well,two mainthings come to mind... First, we're the weilders of the Flamethrower, which means I get to burn the pants off things repeatedly. Additionally, we're the weilders of the quite nifty Heavy Support Weapons tree, which means we get to pay usurious prices for 32-or-fewer-shot-weapons that have the potential to do utterly insane damage, except that we miss constantly and chances are the mob we shoot is protected against every damage type we have on us. Second, we sit around on the forums a lot and whine for the devs to finish the job they started and fix our other2 trees to be even somewhat beneficial, as opposed to the crap they are now."