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I decided to go with the Master Commando / Master Smuggler combo. I finished Master Commando today and wanted to share a bit of happiness with my fellow smugglers.

Our root special is probably the most powerful thing we have right now. The commando weapons all have some form of area attack built into them and after grinding the whole profession tree I've found that the Acid Stream Launcher is the way to go for your area root attacks.

Two reasons: Its extreme range is 65 meters, farther than all of our pistols and as good as the best rifle. Second, its cone size is huge, easily 15 to 20 meters wide at its extreme range.

I've been doing group missions and generally spamming concussion shot with the ASL sweeping back and forth across the battlefield. Effectively as long as I keep my distance and watch my action I can keep pretty much everything rooted all the time, even against large groups. A bit of action regen spice or food would make it pretty easy I would expect. I keep my renegade and a laser rifle ready for those occasions when you don't want to aggro everything in sight.

Oh and the last cool thing about the ASL... only requires Commando 0003 to use, good for dabbling if you've got that MS/MBH or MP going already.

Edit: Forgot to mention that the ASL also applies a blind to anything in the cone. Nice bonus.

Message Edited by WedgeStarkiller on 05-03-2005 12:13 AM

the Acid Streamer looks like a green fungus cannon

The particle beam one is...eh

but teh Lightning cannon i like!

Yeah the effects arnt all that great and you have to watch it at close range. Within about 20m or so you actually risk blinding yourself. The lightning cannon is definately far better. higher DPS (at least as a master commando). it does a fire dot, it's a cone effect, AND it has an 'emp' effect on vehciles. (basically it slows the vehicle down which is nice if your shooting at some one running off on a bike in pvp)

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Kesslan wrote:
Yeah the effects arnt all that great and you have to watch it at close range. Within about 20m or so you actually risk blinding yourself. The lightning cannon is definately far better. higher DPS (at least as a master commando). it does a fire dot, it's a cone effect, AND it has an 'emp' effect on vehciles. (basically it slows the vehicle down which is nice if your shooting at some one running off on a bike in pvp)

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DrakeLi wrote:

are you talking about 0300 not 0003, 0003 is HAR, oh on another note is Low Bow any good for commando and is a good substitue with underhand shot??

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nerfherder321 wrote:

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DrakeLi wrote:

are you talking about 0300 not 0003, 0003 is HAR, oh on another note is Low Bow any good for commando and is a good substitue with underhand shot??

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hmm underhand shot is better i think

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Just because LB is broken right now, it doesn't knock down.

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DrakeLi wrote:

are you talking about 0300 not 0003, 0003 is HAR, oh on another note is Low Bow any good for commando and is a good substitue with underhand shot??

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0001 is the HAR, at 0003 you get the ASL. The line is called acid weapons or something similar.

Something to note though guys is that as far as I can tell there is no splash back issue with the ASL. I capped commando xp at 1.2mil with it last night after getting master and never once got blinded no matter how close something got. Also except for the rocket launcher none of the commando weapons have a 65m range so even though the lightening gun is more interting its limited by its range and resulting smaller cone effect.

I haven't really tried low blow with any of the weapons yet since everyone says it don't work. I would imagine though if it was a knockdown it would get the area benefit same as root. The commando rocket launcher (0100 cert) has a built in knockdown and will almost always connect on the first hit. It has a small area effect around 6m but it is cool to score a knockdown and a root in one shot. Makes you feel kind of bad for the target. Almost.

Yes, my MWS alt on Radiant is sooooo busy making those.

Violet Vette, Radiant
MS/MSW/Pistoleer/Reb Pilot

Squiders, Radiant
MWS/MM/MA

Yeah... try the Rocket Launcher next... just started playing with it, but you get the AoE and a KD. Now, if Low Blow would KD, you wouldn't need it, but it makes a nice addition until then.