It'd be about as fun as trying to make a swimming pool work on a slope.

Give them a week and they'll be making a thread claiming that they were lied to about Commando DPS class too.

Would you not use Plasma at least till you hit lvl 20 and get Gut, so that you have something that procs the DoT, enabling you to use High Impact Bolt? If you're using Ion and aren't Level 20 yet, the only way you can proc a High Impact Bolt is via your stun in PvP, as your explosive round doesnt knock enemy players down. You can use Ion in PvE of course, as then you can knock enemies down with Explosive Round, and use that to proc a High Impact Bolt shot, but you're still screwed vs the Elite enemies, as they don't suffer knockdown. Therefore, am I right in thinking, use Plasma Cell till 20, where you can get Gut and use Ion Cell?

There's not really a whole lot of point in going the shield spec at least until you're high level, it doesn't do a whole lot for you in terms of damage mitigation unless your gear is high level and decently statted, iirc.

Ah look, its the man himself! Keep up the good work Taugrim, its well appreciated!

Taugrim is doing videos on Trooper Vanguard tactics Build at the minute, he's well spoken, polite and explains things in a fair bit of detail, maybe try giving him a shout if hes streaming on Twitch at the minute. http://taugrim.com/

Why bother? Its not as if there's a shortage of people to group up with, you get the quests done doubly quick, and the rewards are the same. Sure, you could do it, but given the way the game throws credits and EXP at you for completing quests, its not exactly an efficient use of your time.

As I said in another thread, from a PvP perspective: You're just like a wee normal soldier going up against lighting shooting, glow-stick wielding magicians, and you get to smack them in the face with the butt of your rifle and show them how a real man fights. Its doubly amusing if they've made their Sith character look like a drag queen, in bad makeup, on halloween. How could you not want to do this?

Happily, I don't suffer from these issues, and only really have a mid-range PC these days.

Re-roll Republic and the problem sorts itself out.

Be nice if they give your class a shorter cooldown on the stunbreaker then other classes, like 30 seconds or so. I tried playing Maurader myself, but it does less damage than my BH, I have to be in Melee range to do any damage whatsoever, and a ranged class juking from side to side and kiting will be able to mitigate a decent portion of that damage, simply due to "you are not facing your target". I saw no real reason to play it over BH other than hitting things with glowsticks is kinda funky, so I'll stick with BH till theres some changes. Although, if its any consolation, in the looking good while killing stakes, Two lightsabers is definitely better than my wee blaster pistol.

Welcome to EvE Online!

Just stay with at least 1 other ally. They wont jump you then. If you're wandering around alone, I can guarantee you someone is about to stab you in the face.

Unfortunately, I'm EU, so rolling on a US West Server isnt ideal.

Yeah, but they've two guns, so individually the numbers seem smaller, even if they're the same amount, therefore people don't think they're as powerful.