Commando Archive
Thread: I've noticed something today
The other key thing I'd like to mention is that DPS is overrated. This might sound like heracy, but it's true. Higher modded DPS comes from increased weapon speed. This is kind of a no brainer, but bear with me. Because of the increased speed, you will find yourself out of stamina very fast (happened to me a lot as a master carbineer), wheras if you're slower, you'll find your action will drop a lot slower, and you'll be able to sustain automated, high-damage special fire on an opponent for far longer (since I'm willing to bet most folks won't turn auto-attack and purposely slow themselves down).
There are some times when high DPS is really all that matters, but it's not as supreme as some might think.
I'm personally inclined to favor higher base damage over higher speed/DPS, since this means I can make each hit count a lot more. In the case of the plasma FT and HLBC, this means that we'll have a very highly damaging gun available once elemental damage is fixed (even without AE), albeit one that's slower. If we can get high to full AE damage as well our weapons will definately be a power to be reckoned with, especially in group PvP.
I might add, now that I'm back to Master Commando I finally got a chance to test out my Plasma FT for the first time since the CU went live, and I was fairly impressed.
I can end fights with almost completely full action and 80% life against other level 80 critters easy (partially since I can get 2-3 free shots in with my DC-15 using conceal shot). It's not the fastest gun in the world, but with an action cost of 122, that's not a bad thing. 
Reported DPS on it is 401 or so, but I (it seems anyways) am outdamaging myself when I was a carbineer, since I can hit harder without using up as much action over time.
Something wierd though. I have rifleman 0200, Master Bounty Hunter, and Master Commando.
My rifle accuracy (modified)is somehow 220 while my heavy weapons accuracy (modified) is 215. What the heck? 
This means if I were to master rifles instead of commando I'd have insanely high accuracy compared to how you could get the value as a commando. Something seems odd here, and it might have to do withmarksman speed skills maybe? We might want to try and lobby for a bit more accuracy within the profession (or within the ranged support tree) since it looks like we'll always be at an accuracy disadvantage to other ranged professions - unless this is an intended part of our 'utility'?
Could this be the result of rifles benefiting from 'general ranged accuracy' where heavy weapons do not? Before people get upset, I'm not positive that this is the case, but it appears that heavy weapons are a totally seperate class from ranged and melee.
Raptor2k1 wrote:
My rifle accuracy (modified)is somehow 220 while my heavy weapons accuracy (modified) is 215. What the heck?
dlc3007 wrote:
Could this be the result of rifles benefiting from 'general ranged accuracy' where heavy weapons do not? Before people get upset, I'm not positive that this is the case, but it appears that heavy weapons are a totally seperate class from ranged and melee.
Raptor2k1 wrote:
My rifle accuracy (modified)is somehow 220 while my heavy weapons accuracy (modified) is 215. What the heck?
dlc3007 wrote:
Could this be the result of rifles benefiting from 'general ranged accuracy' where heavy weapons do not? Before people get upset, I'm not positive that this is the case, but it appears that heavy weapons are a totally seperate class from ranged and melee.
Raptor2k1 wrote:
My rifle accuracy (modified)is somehow 220 while my heavy weapons accuracy (modified) is 215. What the heck?
