Commando Archive

Ok...haven't seen a report in our forum regarding how Commando's and Mounts go well together so I thought I would post my thoughts from last night.

A friend gave me a Carrion Spat (which are rumored to be the fastest)...all I can say is...GET ONE!

Movement is fast and easy...although they take wide turns...Gallop lasts at least twice as long as Burst run and refreshes in about 2 minutes...You can attack can't use specials while walking normally on a mount...and at a gallop you can't attack at all...but the way I used mine last night was killing small things from my mount...then when I got close to big things, dismounting about 150m away, telling the mount to stay...killing the big critter/critters...then climbing back on and off I go...simple!!! and if I accidently ran into the middle of an aggro'd mob (like a mauler pack)...I would run about 200m ahead of them (you can outrun them easy), dismount, and pick them off one by one as they caught up to me...

Hills are weird...no problem with terraign negotiation...you move pretty fast up the hill...the only negative is that when you go straight up a hill, the mount tends to zig zag a bit (can make you a bit motion sick watching)...but you get use to it...and if you go up at a slight angle it doesn't happen at all...

I am using my Spat with no CH skills at all...he is currently CL7 but may not be full grown so not sure what will happen when the big CH nerf comes...but I think he's on the non-CH mount list...

So my verdict...get one and get rid of those scouting skills...free up the points for elsewhere...the only reason to keep novice scout is for camps (to call your pets), but with so many player cities and such popping up, I've found that you can call a pet by just standing in or near the doorway of a house...so who needs a pet...I even called him out at the Pirate Bunker last night...so who needs camps...don't miss them...

Haven't tried any other mount yet, but on the TC forum the Spats are considered the fastest and easiest to manuver, followed closely by Kaadu's...

Anyone else have thoughts to share?

yea, when i was testing mounts on TC while doing that decay report a while ago the spat seemed to be the best..

and i see they didn't fix that slope thing..that was hella annoying, especially a vertical slope downwards..your mount keeps leveling off and going up!

I like it, but still think its bunk to have to make camp to call your mount. If they would let you have a mount AND a mount out, that would rock!

I have to agree... I had previously dropped from Env 4 to no scout and although I got used to the running uphill without any terrain negotiation, the mounts are awesome. Pretty much the same speed on slopes as anyone who does not have master scout or higher. Also, for us commandos not being able to do specials is pretty much no biggie except on tough creatures or PvP. Go do a faction mission on a mount and with our upped ranged defense, I was able to run around and kill the Reb generals and surface marshals without ever using my special and barely getting hit to boot. If I didn't have TEF, I will admit to dismounting and running up and /flamesingle2 the highest reb at the bases though.

I have a giant spat, they rock. Just a little tip, devs will fix this soon I suppose, you can still mask scent if you want to. Very simple, mask scent before mounting and you will retain it when you mount up. This is the best thing to have because I dont have to worry, for the most part, about being attacked by red mobs at all. Of course its all dependent on whether you have mask scent.

Now all they have to fix is me warping back 30m every 15 secs, then I'll be happy camper.

I have a kaadu and raced a spat and they both seem to be the same speed. The other run about the same but gallop is slower on the larger one from what I've seen.

While hunting last night on dath with a CH he would send his pet in and I would ride up shooting with my LP then I would hop off switched to flame set it on fire back on mount and I was off in case it changed it's target. Then once I got some distance I would get off and hit stopping shot or HPBC.

Another tip for some who may not have thought about it...

make a macro as follows:

/dismount;

/tellpet stay; (or what ever you have stay set as)

This makes for a great way to get quick into battle when you see something you want to fight...I was using it all last night...