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You've found the inherent weakness in the Commando profession. One its own, it's useless. You don't really get enough general range mods to cover the extra levels you've just obtained making master. It's a lot easier to pick up an elite combat profession (Pistoleer works best due to the Launcher pistol) and then get Commando. But, you should be able to work up smuggler without dropping Commando.

Grind xp in groups. Seriously. The xp is great. And once you get FD, you can lose aggro within a few attempts if you take it from the tank. Make sure your FWG5 is worth using. Most weaponsmiths are experimenting damage and speed without bothering on SAC. This is because people look at DPS instead of taking into account the speed limit their specials introduce. Make sure your FWG5 is under 85 SAC. Under 75 is optimal. Any lower, and it's gravy. Drink brandy/mando wine, and get some neutron pixie or booster blue. Stay away from Muon Gold. That's more for your dedicated docs and CMs, as it increase mind regen, but lowers action regen. Action is your bread and butter.

If the FWG5 is pretty standard (i.e. not krayted), go ahead and drop some SAC powerups on it. You'll be able to shoot longer. In a group, you technically only need to get one shot on a mob to get xp. Make sure to tag everything once, then help take down the mass of creatures. Ranged Shot is good enough. You probably won't even need the food and spice if you stick to ranged shot.

Other things to have are stimpacks suitable for your level. Once you hit 60, you should be carrying stims that can heal at LEAST 1000 points of health a shot. Once you get more smuggler (and more ranged combat skill mods) you'll find combat a bit easier.

Like I said, you did it in reverse of the way most would get commando. But, it's not worth dropping it unless you really find that it makes life intensely tough. With the current xp gain, mastering a profession in a level 80 group doesn't take very long at all.

Thanks for the info, sounds good! But 1 question, what is SAC?

SAC = special action cost or how much your green HAM bar drops everytime you use a special and the specials are those icons you click on.

Cheers up to speed now! Is there a specific pistol that most smugglers use? Or is one with a high dps/low sac the norm?

Get a DL44XT made with krayt tissue or a Featherweight FWG5 made with a gorax bone (IIRC) both can hit 940 or so damage but are very expensive. They are CL54 no class restrictions.

There are drop/PC made master smuggler only pistols;

Perfectly-Calibrated Pistol

Renegade Pistol (can also be made with krayt tissue but needs 3 so not made, more profit in making 3 DL44XT's then 1 Renegade Pistol)

okay cheers. how much does a kryated DL44 usually go for?

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TheWok wrote:


Other things to have are stimpacks suitable for your level. Once you hit 60, you should be carrying stims that can heal at LEAST 1000 points of health a shot. Once you get more smuggler (and more ranged combat skill mods) you'll find combat a bit easier.

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Make sure that you have the combat levels to use the stims - I think Stim Ds are level 60 and above

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Beyrr wrote:
Make sure that you have the combat levels to use the stims - I think Stim Ds are level 60 and above

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That's a big 10-4 on the CL 60 in regards to D's.

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LTZweigg wrote:

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Beyrr wrote:
Make sure that you have the combat levels to use the stims - I think Stim Ds are level 60 and above

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That's a big 10-4 on the CL 60 in regards to D's.

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Roger that, Rubber Duck. Looks like we got ourselves a convoy!

Sorry. Channeling the old Smuggler as "Smokey and the Bandit" thread from a few months back there again.