I'm going to start a movement to squash this baseless and ignorant rumor right now. The rumor being that Commandos become "gimped" if they use blaster rifles. This assumption was made by someone who didn't test it out themselves. I just now got an orange blaster rifle, replaced the mods in it with the ones I had in my cannon, and began questing/running heroics with it. There was NO difference whatsoever, I was doing just as good with the rifle as I did the cannon with the same exact mods. People will try to tell you that there are skills that can only be used with the BFG, which is true, but what they don't tell you is that they have never gone through and checked to see which skills you absolutely needed. I went from using an autocannon, to a blaster rifle, and only had to swap out one skill due to the inability to fire with a rifle, that skill was charged bolts (replaced with full auto). And I will have noone telling me that I didn't have enough skills to know yet, because I have all the skills that I need to be an effective commando already(gunnery or heals). The modding system in this game, and the very SMALL amount of unusable skills(with a rifle) allows for a commando to be perfectly effective with a blaster rifle. Anyone that hates on you for this, just keep smiling at the awesome clone rifle you are packing while being a viable commando at the same time.