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Ok, I recently got up to novice commando and have gotten up to flame1. Now my question to all you veteran commandos is: How do I succeed with a commando? I try using my flamethrower and come up short with everything, either I completely miss my target over and over, and they end up rushing me and doing a ton of melee damage, or if I get lucky and hit with flamesingle1 they kill me before they die. How does one make money as a commando? How does one successfully kill anything?

You need to use your launcher pistol. It has higher accuracy until you gain more XP for higher flamethrower XP. I suggest you check out the FAQ stickied to the very top. Wonderful info in it. Good luck (I'm not a commando but I helped my friend become one)

Personally I did not use my FT until I was at the Flame 3 block and almost exclusively used my LP until then. However there are some good things to try: Get a mission for non-aggro mobs and just run up within special range and /flamesingle1 them then run away while switching to your LP. Once your special cooldown is over, I usually used covering fire or warning shot to get the mob off me. Covering shot should give you enough time to get a safe distance to plink away with the LP, while warning shot is kinda iffy. The other popular option is to get a pet, send it in on the first mob and then /flamesingle it while it is occupied.

I used Flamer almost exclusively all throughout the profession.
sure.. I missed a lot in the beginning... but, well.. I had a somewhat speedy flamer, so it wasn't THAT much of a problem.

... and since I hunted pretty low-level npcs, one hit was all it took.

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deathsavatar wrote:
Ok, I recently got up to novice commando and have gotten up to flame1. Now my question to all you veteran commandos is: How do I succeed with a commando? I try using my flamethrower and come up short with everything, either I completely miss my target over and over, and they end up rushing me and doing a ton of melee damage, or if I get lucky and hit with flamesingle1 they kill me before they die. How does one make money as a commando? How does one successfully kill anything?

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Initially you should use the launcher pistol. It really helped me to be novice pistoleer before I went commando. I had a macro that queued up the two health bleeds.

If you do not have a non-ch tank pet (ie rock beetle or something similar) you probably should get one. My tactic (got me to flame4 in around 5 days of casual play) is this:

1. send in the beetle
2. switch to launcher pistol and queue up both health bleeds
3. switch to flamethrower and get within 6m of my pet (i am master medic)
4. kneel and alternate between healing the pet and blasting the creature with flamer (use overchargeshot2 if you dont mind the extra damage on your flamethrower)

Obviously this wont work for everyone because it assumes you went novice pistoleer (WHY NOT?!) and have some healing skills invested. I happened to be a converted pistoleer/doctor to master medic/commando so this tactic worked well for me. Once you hit flame1, everything comes a bit faster. Once you get there I highly recommend going to Datooine and getting Bol missions. Most Bol have heat vulnerability and (depending on the type of Bol) are around 3,000 XP. A Bol lair will give you nine bol total. Three right when you get there, and two more sets after you beat on the lair a bit. The lair itself usually is worth around 3,000 XP as well. So you are looking at around 30K HW XP per bol mission. These pay from 5,000 to 10,000 credits as well.

After I got to flame one my XP gain started to accelerate considerably. Once I got flame2, I managed to get enough skill to hit flame4 in just under two days (maybe 12 hours of play time). This may be fast, it may be slow (i'm not really a power gamer in my mind) compared to some commandos, but compared to how quickly I was getting XP as pistoleer, it was fast in my mind.

LP til box 3 of flame. Anything else i.e., to ch or not to ch is up to you. But you must use the LP.

Bol herd missions are easily found at the Miner Outpost on Dant, and normal payout for them is 8300-8500. I have gotten 700k of HW xp from bols in the last two days. Logged off last night just needing 50k more till flame IV.