Commando Archive

Iveworked toward commando since day 1 and now that im Master with he new weapons we have alot of power obviously that im not used to. Imnew to PvP since b4 i couldnt beat a entertainer with some Pistoleer cause we sucked that bad.

Ihave every line of weapon for us, all with above average stats. I love running around with my flamethrower and flame single2 everything in 16m as much as everyone else does, but it seems the best PvP master commandoes are using charged weapons. I have a full set of composite with 50% or better resists and I buff myself and still seem to get one shotted by commandos using only charged weapons when alot of times because composite armor has full heat resists and AP0 i need to get at least 2 shots to kill when they hit me once even if I have the Drop on them and get killed.

Is the Heavy Particle Beam the best PvP gun cause it has AR3, or is something else recomended, i dont think they are using rocket launchers because on my server there still not as accesbile as the other guns cause of the crism ore not being around

I'm wondering the same thing.I'm kind of hoping that there isn't a "best" weapon for PvP, but thatit varies with the situation. I've been sticking with the flamethrower right now because it's working for me, but I chose commando because Ithink we will have options. I envisioned us as having a sort of toolbag of weapons, each better suited to a particular task, and I thought the strategy involved would be fun.You see a group bunched up and you lob a grenade. You see an AT-ST and you pull out your rocket launcher (and cross your fingers that it misses you). Related to what you said about armor, maybe you recognize what someone is wearing and switch to the HPBC for that target. You get the idea.

Personally, I haven't tried the HPBC yet because at 2/1/4/0 I just can't afford to miss with a weapon that costs roughly 1k per shot. Plus, when I'm able to one-shot kill the majority of players foolish enough to wander within 16m of me with my flamethrower, I'm not going to waste a charged weapon. I'm on the same server as you Gdog and I haven't had the best of luck finding any grenades higher than cryoban and I have yet to see a rocket launcher (although I did hear that a bunch were put up and sold last night, probably for a ridiculous amount of credits). So I still feel like flamethrower is the only option for me at this point in PvP. I hope it changes because I was there last night when the group of imperials you were with attacked Moenia and at one point there were at least4 of us out of about 12 overts in the area using flamethrower. It was a lot of fun, but I think it will be better when choice of weapon for a commando becomes less of a no-brainer.

what is your ingame name?, last night is what stemed my interest in this subject because i noticed both rebel master commando only used charged weapons the entire time and wanted to know what is the best to use on someone because they kicked butt last night and nver used the flamethrower once

and commando does a wide assortment of weaponry for all different situations, like u said becuase our weapons have a wide variety of damage types. If you pay attention to the resists of mobs then u use the appropriate gun ie Rockets against turrets when the blast damage patch goes through or if you see someone wearing full padded armor you break out your Acid Rifle cause it has no resits to acid, and I have some nice Proton Grenades that the max damage with a powerup are 5000 which if i ever hit something would be nice

......but in reference to my original post, most good PvP players use composite which has good heat resists and little against electricity, so is it best to use the Lightning cannon against them or the Heavy Particle Beam because its AR3

I figured at least part of it was lack of strategy on my part. I do check resists in PvE but is there a way to get a sense of that in PvP? I figured the best way was to know and recognize armor, but as a wookiee I have no experience with it. Plus, I'm new to PvP so my tactics are amateurish at best at this point. I wasn't grouped with the other rebel commandos and I didn't even notice them using the other weaponry. In game name is Accali, and yes, you killed me Wookiee burn nicely, don't they?

I guess I need to try some of the other weaponry out. I've heard so many bad things about acid rifle that I don't bother and I still miss too much with grenade to try it in PvP. But sounds like from what you're saying the weapon options are there and they work and I just need to start trying them. That and make more money, because if I was using HPBC last night I would have gone through at least 25k worth in half an hour.

lol, i guess all that fur isnt very flame retardent is it. The flamethrower is still my chose in PvE, its very effective with the specials and with flame4 is pretty accurate, the only time i ever use the HAR is if inotice a mob that has no resists to acid and alot to Heat.....so 95% of the time i use the Flamethrower, I havnt found the Lpistol to be nearly as effective as the flamethorwer although alot of people seem to use it-i personnaly only use it to for Pistol-melee defense knockdown and set up a macro to knockdown then do a Flamesingle2, seems to work pretty well, but back to my original question about PvP, can anyone enlighten me on the best charged weapon in PvP and what these guys are using the HBPC, Lightning or Rocket Launcher?

heavy particle cannon! hands down

so the HPBC is the best to use in pvp? can i get a reason why this is so and some justifcation on what makes it a better chose than the other commando weapons?

well, most commandos use the flame thrower in pvp, but flame throwers are really are only good in special range (unless you are shooting a rifleman, but that will be fixed). This is where the heavy particle cannon (HPC) comes in. The HPC has an ideal range of about 48m so you can't really be kited that much.

In a one vs one fight,i would start the fight with a flame thrower just using normal attacks for a little. The enemy would think that he is in no danger as long as he stays out of special range and he is correct if you are talking about just a flamethrower 4 commando. Then i would kneel and fire 1-2 hpc shots into him (they fire pretty fast), aiming before each shot. Chances are he is dead unless he is wearing good armor and buffed.

Everyone only knows the dangers of the flame thrower, they do not know how dangerous a commando can be at range.If you exploittheir lack of knowledge, you will have an extremely goodchance of attaining victory.