It is outright ridiculous how the changes of 1.2 and further patches brought on against the commando, and even if BW hits it even harder I still have no intentions of not playing with my commando. The reason I bought and still play this game is because of that class, and the hope BW will eventually work on these changes is fine enough for me. My only other wish is that BW would allow trading or mailing of commendations, at least between legacy characters.

That is rather normal. I have a level 50 commando and when the legacy series came out I wanted to get all 4 class buffs by completing chapter 2 for each base class. So far I have finished the Jedi Knight and Jedi Consular chapter 2, and because I have absolutely no interesting in the classes I wanted to get through them as fast as possible. So I only did the main story line + every single side quest offered along the way. By doing this I was always below level from Tatooine and on. It is very annoying but with patience and skill I was still able to navigate the game and complete chapter 2 (with minimal deaths). I am now working on my smuggler but I have more interest in playing this class so I intend to complete the bonus series at the end of each planet, and to no surprise I am at the level of the next planet. With continued effort I will begin to over level the next planet I will head to.

When 3 commandos lose to one mara, it is clear that those commandos just plain out suck. That or the mara has full WH gear and the commandos don not have any expertise or strong gear.

As Thorsmork said, your best bet is to go through the Outlaws Den. Ever since BW made merc comms worthless you will not find anyone out there unless a couple guilds want to go at it.

However the concern still stands, do others benefit from your stacked debuff? If it does it is easily understandable that multiple 5 stacks of the debuff would not combine so one gunnery commando would be necessary, otherwise the bosses armor would drop so low it would be cake walk. You add on top of that mobility has a tendency to add to your ability to survive longer, or at the very least keep your health up so healers have more time to focus on tanks, melee dps and other healers. I don't know about you guys but the idea of constantly switching my skill tree to match what I am about to do, wasting my time and credits on a regular basis just tires me. I bet actually doing it would piss me off.

The tool tip for accuracy states that over anything over 100% reduces the targets defense. So one would assume it is referring to the defense rate (as it is the only stat which uses the word defense) which, as it has always been, lowers the rate at which someone can dodge, parry, block attacks.

Fun tid bit, there used to be a Colonel title for the trooper when completing the final chapter. I'm guessing BW decided to be rid of it (for reasons I cannot comprehend). I wasn't very active at the time but I am pretty sure it happened with the 1.2 patch