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  1. I'm usually off on Tuesday. This week I'm off on Wednesday and Thursday. Of course the maintenance window moves to follow me.
  2. Cavell

    lol hatred

    If you reckon that someone out there both mains a Sin and has been getting smacked around by Vanguards lately - and has compromising info hacked from the cloud regarding Musco - then it all starts to make sense.
  3. If anything, it doesn't go far enough. There are still some abilities that make use of the rifle; if their goal is to have the Vanguard's blaster be largely akin to a Sage's lightsaber, they've got some work to do.
  4. Just curious how leveling up a VG/PT compares to, oh, say, a 'Mando or a Merc. I went Commando with my Trooper, but that big dumb assault cannon's starting to get to me and I'm thinking of shelving him for a Vanguard. Trouble is...it's been the crazy-easiest leveling experience I've had in this game. Stuff just melts. And the thought of chasing **** around in melee range again, having just capped off my Jug, is depressing.
  5. Surprised you guys have as high an opinion of Mercs in PVP as you do. Wish you would've gone into that a bit.
  6. I suppose that's something to consider, that people might have complained in the other direction if the Trooper's final grade. But it's not like you wind up as a general; major ain't exactly comparable to a Darth or a Jedi Master. But it's definitely Bioware being terribad at writing the military. Mass Effect was horrible for it, too. Technology advances, but we've pretty well got rank organization and forms of address sorted out, they've pretty well been sorted out for a while now, and there's not much of a change likely if we become space-people.
  7. He was a Ranger. The Delta ground commander was airborne for the entire battle in the C2 helicopter. Rangers are part of the special operations community, certainly. They have the same squad/platoon/company/battalion/regiment organization, and accompanying leadership, as a standard infantry regiment, though. Yup. Bioware's just horrible at writing the military. Like, so horrible I think your average person would have to actively try to get it that wrong. Incomprehensible, fluid rank structures, NCOs being addressed as "sir" - by officers - squad support weapons being used as the standard arms for battalion-level officers, etc. Even granting it's the space military of the future, it's just wretched. They do it poorly here, they do it poorly with Mass Effect, I'm sure they'll do it poorly with the next remotely military-oriented game they make.
  8. A Special Forces ODA is led by a Captain (O-3). SEAL platoons are generally led by Lieutenants (O-3). There were zero Delta officers on the ground during the "Black Hawk Down" Battle of Mogadishu. In the special operations community, the overwhelming majority of door-kickers are enlisted, not officers. A more realistic Trooper story would've had you going from Sergeant to Master Sergeant or something. Major (O-4) would be a likely rank for the commander of an entire special operations company, not one individual squad. Of course, we sort of blew the doors off military realism when officers started lugging around guns that belong in a weapons platoon.
  9. So, this is probably a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway: I've heard vague claims that Vanguard/Powertech range has been increased, or has the ability to be increased, to the point where one discipline at least can get off its rotation outside the 10 meter range. Any truth to that? I really need to level up a Trooper, but I've always found the "I have a rifle, so I'm going to stand three feet from you while you hit me with a laser sword" aspect of the Vanguard to be pretty dumb.
  10. I have to agree. I've been trying to decide on Commando vs. Vanguard for a couple days now - it's the last class I need to level up for the legacy class buff - and seeing YouTube videos of Boltstorm in action pushed me into Vanguard without looking back. It looks like magic, not blaster fire.
  11. I was actually curious about that myself, because my Trooper's been sitting at level 10 for about five days now while I try to decide on an AC. Most of the raid videos I see on YouTube involving Troopers are of Commando DPS, which makes me think that's the way to go, but I'm not wild about the assault cannon. So I reckon on Vanguard, but then remember how undesirable melee DPS is in end-game raiding, and wind up not making a decision at all and just PVPing on my Jug.
  12. Look, not every company has the time or resources to QA their work.
  13. I've seen other threads on this topic where people claim to have parsed only 5% to 10% behind an assault cannon user while using a blaster rifle, but that was pre-3.0. I'm not familiar enough with Merc/'Mando disciplines to know if that would still be the case. However, I've resolved to level up a Trooper - it's one of the few stories I haven't done - and I just can't get on board with the assault cannon, so I'm strongly considering using a blaster rifle for solo leveling, and swapping to an AC for group/PVP stuff. If I was kitted out with purple mods from 10 to 50, how viable would that be?
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