A fresh raiding Commando AS

[Helsiera]

My current pri. damage is 666-922

Crit chance is 36%

Accuracy 100%

Crit. multiplier 63%

I went to see the Columi gear vendors to find that most bonuses are for the gunnery or medic trees. I could use some tips

Edited March 22 by Helsiera
typos

[CaptFalc]

First off you shouldn't listen to people who say an advanced class is only good for PVP or PVE, they all work in both, however it must be noted that Gunnery is probably the better option for PVE due to it's rotation and damage increase. I have recently switched from AS to Gunnery for the slight damage increase. Gunnery sounds like it's better for you, the mobility of Assault is usually the defining point for PVP players but PVE players don't care as much which is why they choose to pack a little extra damage as Gunnery.

 

In regards to gear the 'Eliminator' gear is for your damage dealing. Assault Specialists & Gunnery can both use Eliminator. I am one piece off full Rakata Eliminator gear and can safely say that If I was to switch between Assault and Gunnery I would get equivalent bonuses from my gear.

 

 

Here is the Rakata Eliminator Chestguard bonus stats for example:

'(2) Increases the critical chance of Power Shot and Tracer Missile or Charged Bolts and Grav Round by 15%

(4) Reduces the cost of Rail Shot by 8 or the cost of High Impact Bolt by 1.'

 

As Assault your Charged Bolts and High Impact Bolt get a boost, while as Gunnery your Grav Round and HIB get an increase. As you can see there isn't much difference in using the same gear on different spec's. My advice (for now atleast) would be to switch to Gunnery (as you enjoyed the big hits) and gear yourself in Eliminator, although if you enjoy your current spec then stay with that. I managed raids fine with the Assault tree.

 

Hope this helps.

Edited March 23, 2012 by CaptFalc

[Gyronamics]

I'd say DoTs are more like 1/3 of the damage from assault.

 

Incendiary Round for me is about 2000 damage over 18 seconds from the description.

 

About 46% chance to crit and about 107% crit bonus with no other class buffs = 2984 damage on average.

 

That goes up to 46% chance to crit and 137% crit bonus when it's on a target below 30% health.

 

Which comes out to about 3200 damage over 18 seconds.

 

 

By the way, yes, crit and surge does affect DoT, it's classed as a Tech attack.

Edited March 26, 2012 by Gyronamics

[BobaFaceroll]

You will still be using Charged Bolts as an Assault Commando. It does increased damage against burning targets after all, plus you get a chance to reset HIB. You won't use it quite as often as a Gunnery spec uses Grav Round, but it's still part of your regular rotation. The Eliminator set is still a good choice for your Trooper.

 

The Columi set is a good path to take for armor. You can get the pieces from hard modes or easy mode raids. The easy mode raids are honestly easier than most of the hard mode flashpoints too, so don't be afraid to raid. Do the daily quests and gather comms to buy Rakata implants and earpieces, and fill out your orange gear with armoring/mods from the daily repeatables as a stepping stone to Columi/Rakata gear.

 

Don't be afraid to give up a little crit rating for more Surge or Power either. You won't need much Surge to get over 70%, after that you can look for Power. Power increases your damage across the board...don't neglect it.

[Gyronamics]

I'm currently running an orange set with more stats than Rakata (yes its possible) but no bonuses (like a boss)

 

But what I'm actually plotting to do is use the Combat Tech set for the 4 set bonus of 8% more damage on the HiB.

 

My argument is that being able to cast HiB for nothing (Eliminator set) is worthless when most of my HiB are free anyway.

 

So what it comes down to (in my book) is 15% more chance to crit on Charged Bolts or 8% more damage on HiB.

 

I'm choosing the extra damage on HiB.

 

 

 

Frankly the Eliminator set is focused on Gunnery.

 

 

If you're Assault Commando I feel there's no great difference between Tech or Eliminator.

Edited March 26, 2012 by Gyronamics

[oaceen]

(We all know AS is almost all about Aoe DoTs)

 

i'm honestly not sure what you mean by this. the only AOE dot for commandos i know of is plasma grenade, which is not unique to AS

 

or do you mean plasma cell procs with pulse cannon/hail of bolts?