Commando Archive

To whom it may concern,

I am going to describe a short section of a fight that happened in Bestine. I am a rebel commando and we were raiding Bestine. While participating in the skirmish I realized my limitations of range. Using this to my advantage I ran into the banking area. More then 5 Bounty Hunters came running around the corners at different times. I used flamesingle2 and dropped each one along with many other characters that came around those corners. I started receiving tells on how I (or commandos rather) should be nerfed. I normally don’t respond to this but on this occasion I did. I only commented on playing the ranges and playing my class to its full effectiveness. One BH understood what I was saying and climbed a hill that was just behind the banking area. From his vantage point he was able to shoot me with eyeshot several times and I was only able to hit him 2 times with my normal shot before I went down.

Looking at this why would we want to change or nerf the class? I would say that the classes are working perfectly wouldn’t you? With such a heavy weapon in my control I can not imagine why anyone would want to get into its effective range. I don’t run into melee range and stand still against a Heavy Swordsman because I know he will hit my mind for over 1k in damage.

I want the commando to change. As is not 1 single weapon in the proffession doesn't have a quirk. Now I understand that all of these weapons are unique compared to others, but thats little excuse really.

Changes that will deffinately take place is that our flamethrowers will be changed from melee to ranged weapons. This will tamper with the damages a little bit, but you will barely notice a diffrence (except against riflemen, you'll do 1/3rd damage less, because right now you do 3x damage to them) The har will actually become usefull, the LP MIGHT get some changes to it to allow commandos to actually use the weapon themselves without side proffessions. And the commando will soon start to form itself into a viable usefull proffession to master (as apposed to sayyyyyyyyyyyyyy master brawler......)

People cant seem to get over the fact commandos can one shot kill with a well aimed shot at close distance....

It also doesnt seem to be public knowledge that our heavy damage specials are 16m range limited. If they did know, they would stay 20m away at all times... instead they just stand and shoot at you as you run towards them with a flamethrower in your hands.. and then proceed to complain as they get shot down in one shot.

Were not that powerful really... im maybe up at around 50% win ratio on my fights... its not that much different from other proffessions if plaid well. Theres so many tactics and ways to kill a person and avoid being killed.

I find that I normally end up at the cloning facility more than they do when it comes down to it. But I can sure take their pets out before I go down (maybe that's their gripe /shrug).

I am at a lost for words... I went to the SWG discussion for the first time today and it is filled with sooo much miss-information that it kills me to think that any of the Devs would read or accept any post in there. But dumbly I reposted this letter a little bit better written. If you all would comment on it so it stays towards the top and hopefully someone will read it. I titledit "A commando perspective".

Someone actually claims that novice commando one-shotted him.... ::sigh:: This is in a post that is stickied, it is the one about how the devs dont like BHs. He actually says in the post something like I could not get close to him he just kept one shotting me. This is the logic I am talking about.

It's a vicious cycle hehe. I killed a fellow rebel today.

Why? cause he was a novice BH and ran into the cantina and eyeshotted a guy to death who was imperial and entirely minding his own business working up some healing xp on the dancers. So I dueled a fellow rebel, and cooked him with flamesingle 2, see, his eyeshot really didnt help too much with the comp helm I had on hehe.

He proceeded to send me a bunch of tells about how he heard we were getting nerfed and how the devs were gonna remove the flamethrower altogether and how we were gonna be left with nothin but the LP.

Of course our poor young friend hadn't even read the posts where Holo has said he's moving eyeshot to become a MASTER Bh ability, he was thoroughly disappointed and seriously misinformed. And I imagine he'll cry when they take his eyeshot away hehe.

There is a lot of misinformation, the most we can hope for is that the correspondent is well- informed, and that the devs get a vague hold of what the real truth of the matter is. Most of the people complaining are PvP'ers, I rarely PvP, I don't like getting spammed with tells calling me all sorts of offensive stuff hehe. I think that perhaps toning down the DoT effect might be in order, that is making itbeaffected by resistances etc,and obviously the range/melee thing. Most of what people want nerfed are not actually nerfs, but bugs/exploits that need to be fixed.

People see something kicking their ass and just assume it needs to be nerfed... a wise man once said "Assumption is the mother of all f**kups"

I am a novice commnado and i fought a novice bh, it was a close fight, but I died.

Now if I had been a master, that would have been a different story.

If these morons think they can take a master, and wonder why they get a one-shot kill...they need to shut the hell up.

Nerfing never fixes anything.