Im 50 on my commando 3/12/25 spec and kick some serious butt. If you want to be close range (and yes they have guaranteed procs with plasma cell but its a 10m range, almost have to be on top of them) be a Vanguard. In Ilum having that 30m snare is great for runners. Spamming hammer shot itll go off very often anyways. If you get jumped by a melee use concussive force and just kite them around with plasma cell up. I have 2 knockbacks, insane crit chance atm (33% ranged 34% tech/37% if im using plasma cell) I have crazy survivability even without speccing into any heals. If im getting in trouble use the 25% dmg reduc shield, the HoT, and drop both the insant and free cast abilities, use the slow casting heal to instantly heal yourself for a good amount, then use a medkit and that usually brings me back to full. Cant tell you how many times I healed a runner with the ball getting beat on at their goal area and because I was healing them they got the goal, even with my slow heals. My High Impact Bolt does insane dmg if im using armor piercing (35% armor pierce through the cell, 30% through assault line, its free to use since it costs 1 ammo and I gain 1 ammo and refreshes often with full auto and charged bolt. The only drawback is that vanguards get some easy medals, the only 1 I get through my commando is 2.5k heal. Could get 75k heal if I tried tho. Honestly at first I wish I went vanguard but im really loving this class now.

I run a 0/12/28 spec commando and the mobility is amazing. I can be a turret if I need, but high impact, incendiary, sticky grenade, hammer shot with either armor piercing or plasma (if I need to kite) is all instant, full auto refreshed high impact almost always. I love the spec

So I'm 50 now. Maxed out crit in medic and put 1 point in reflexive shield. Since 1 point in reflexive gives yout a 50% chance to lower the cooldown on reactive by 3 seconds and it only works every 1.5s, 2 points is 100% chance but still only works every 1.5s I felt like 1 points sufficient. Atm my crit chance is 32% surge is 71%. this spec is really fun. still want to try the medic/assault hybrid but it's gonna cost me 100k atm. Gonna wait that out.

I'm hybrid gunnery/assault. Mainly use ap but switch to plasma if I need to kite someone around. With my spec high impact has 30% armor pen in assault and every attack has 35% from ap. Plus high impact is basically free with ap.

Iv played both and find that the spec I run is the best of both worlds. Enough in gunnery for the stock kb. Most in gunnery 2 in medic for quick heals. Use sticky over plastique.

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As it is sticky grenades work well for an assault hybrid.

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Your thinking of protection. Defense is easily gotten in alderaan, pretty easy in huttball. dont think you can get it in voidstar. Still tho, solo kill, killing blow, 10 and 25 kills, 75k dmg is easy to get, eventually 2.5k hit and heals is easy.

Thats my build except dont use gr, better off using charged bolt when full auto is on cooldown to try to get high impact to refresh. I alternate between ap and plasma cells. Usually stick to ap since it makes high impact free to use and hit like a truck. Constant crits for 2.8-3.5. Lot of mobility and the knockbacks are great. Gonna try a medic/assault when it's cheap again. All the assault skills I use with my current built but 12 in medic. Focus on shield, break snare, uninterrupt, no pushback quick reuse shield. Lose knock back tho

One for killing blow, one for winning a solo fight, one for getting 75k dmg, one for getting a 2.5k hit, 10 kills 25 kills 1k defense 3k defense 2.5k heal 75k heal

Thing is.. With my build anyways which is 12 in gunnery for just the knockbacks... couple in medic rest in assault. I use armor piercing mostly. high impact hits hard as hell. Refreshes alot with full auto ignores 65% armor and is free to use. I almost always top dmg and kills in wz. At 48 I'm critting high impact for over 3k. If my targets on fire most of my attacks do 9% more dmg, with armor piercing ignoring 35% even hammer shots hitting pretty hard.

Iv crit High impacts for over 3300 with the 15% extertise buff on, around 3k without it. Full auto refreshes it almost all the time. Can get some nice burst in there with Charged bolt, Stickies, high impact, incendiary and plasma grenade. I almost always get top dmg, most kills ect. Its a very versitale spec.

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Im 48 right now. This is how my spec looks. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#8000MZMIk0MZfhMrzGhM.1 I will probably take either reflexive shield or Quick thinking for my final 2 points. Im contemplating trying out a medic/assault hybrid which would look like this. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#800bfR0ozZMZfhMrzGGM.1 The Shield would be pretty interesting. You can break snare, and never be inturrupted from healing, all while regaining the ability to use it whenever you get hit. You still could do some nice dmg with the assault line.