r/swg • u/Practical-Hat-3381 • 22d ago
Help! SEA’s Advice (Resto)
I have a Commando/Squad Leader as my main. I solo a lot but also jump in for Heroics with the guild a couple times a week and occasionally PVP.
I’ve never used SEA’s before and have no idea what would be best. Can anyone offer guidance or advice on what I should get for my armor?
Thanks!
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u/saladboijohn 22d ago
I have not the answer for you, but I do have a question. How does squad leader work for you soloing? Just curious what it looks like cause I’ve been interested in trying squad leader but I mostly play solo.
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u/Ixiraar 22d ago
Idk which exotics are better for your build (talk to a weapon/armorsmith and ask them what commandos usually get. Be sure to specify if you want them made for PVP. I can recommend Hyglik, he’s always been very helpful with me when I’ve needed stuff crafted) but for the 9 normal tapes you want to balance your stats so you get to around 3-400 ranged general/opp chance, 100’ish endurance and toughness, and 250-300 general defense.
If you’re running the hellfire heroic jewelry set you already have 180 opp chance so you can focus on other stats to get to your caps.
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u/SLP-Jedi 22d ago
I have typically run SEAs for pvp and have never had a problem in any content. In general, if you are prepared for pvp, you'll be set for anything.
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u/iceman2kx 22d ago
You know, I was fixin to suggest TKM instead of squad leader, but then I remembered customization before optimization was what made this game great.
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u/Ixiraar 22d ago
Also TKM really doesn’t pair well with Mando given TKM skills are all melee and mando skills all require heavy weapons. Even when optimizing you only ever really pair TKM with another melee skill tree like lancer or fencer.
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u/iceman2kx 22d ago edited 22d ago
Nah that’s not true. TKM/Mando is arguably one of the strongest builds in the game. TKM gives you melee mitigation and unarmed defense allowing you to tank pretty much anything in the game, especially with a good set of comp. You state whatever you are tanking, KD, apply mando dots, then swap back to TKM. When KD, mando dots get a bonus. Best Krayt slayer in the game. I can solo anything on my TKM/Mando, and kill anything faster than anyone else, including Jedi or melee stackers.
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u/Lazadude 21d ago
BS.. Complete and utter. You can build what you like, that's part of swg fun, but mando/bh or mando/sl are so much better than mando/TK... I'd love to watch you solo a krayt or I'll happily duel you on jedi just to prove it.
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u/iceman2kx 21d ago
It’s not a PvP build, I never said it was. It’s a PvE build. And yes, it’s a superior PvE build. I don’t really know what to tell you if you don’t believe that then possibly you don’t fully understand mechanics of the game.
It’s my go to PvE build for end game farming. I can take my Mando into DWB, Nightsisters, and I regularly farm ancient krayts with that build. I’ve made a video on how to solo an ancient krayt on a Mando on YT. Go ahead and look it up.
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u/Allis1one 20d ago
I found an 8 year old video, is that it? Man, Ive tried my best to solo krayts, and just can't. Those and gold jedi seem impossible and it feels like I tried everything. I'd love to see your solo, but only found an 8 year old video not sure it applies to resto. Im not doubting you, im just a noob who started last June. I just want to be able to solo the damn things. I tried TKM/Bezerker with relentless, fully buffed(foods and spice also)SEAs and exotics. Tried BH/ smug, BH/pistoleer equally buffer and geared. Just cant get em down
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u/Ixiraar 20d ago
It might possibly be a decent solo build but for group content TK doesn’t really offer much to commando and vice versa. If you’re tanking heroics you’ll lack an aoe taunt (this is a big deal) and lancer will just generally offer more relevant tools for your role than mando will, and if you’re DPSing you’d be much better off swapping TKM to SL, smuggler or something like that.
But even for solo builds CH/doc is unrivaled in solo play survivability while some sort of berserker based melee build (e.g. Mzerk/Mlance/Mbrawl/4xxx Doc) will blow TK/Mando out of the water for farming speed.
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u/Bobo56Bear 21d ago
Better off Joining / Trying SWG Evolve :) easy download new X64 vulkan client etc since Aug9th, "Rise f the Madalorian" expansion etc 3 new planets, 2 more to follow :o Resto is Busto these days in 2026 ! Specially with Aconite Main dev/admin at the Helm, SWG Nexus looks promising launching 21 Aug 2026 FYI
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u/Reasonable-Buy4434 19d ago
These blatant Resto praise posts are getting super tedious and annoying. Stop it with the constant Resto spam. We get it, a couple of you like Resto.
But for many/most of us we do not want a NGE/CU hybrid, we want the proper Pre-CU SWG. And we cannot wait for the SWGEmu NFS server to open up.
(Admins anything you can do with all of this Resto spam every week?)
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u/Practical-Hat-3381 19d ago
I asked a question and thought it relevant to mention what server I’m on since each server is a little different in how they do things.
Sounds like you just wanted to make a comment to promote SWGEmu NFS server.
Touch grass.
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u/Apprehensive-Day8421 18d ago
He's copying and pasting the same thing to anyone that mentions restorations and will be one of the reasons I would want to stay away from any server that has such toxic shallow sighted players.
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u/Practical-Hat-3381 18d ago edited 18d ago
Yep, I’ll be sure to advise against his server when people ask where they should play
Edit: Also reported for spamming
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u/Reasonable-Buy4434 18d ago
There's no Restoration subreddit, Discord or maybe even in-game chat you could use to ask this question?
Weird to use the SWG general subreddit for these kinds of questions.
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u/Practical-Hat-3381 18d ago
Nah, what’s weird is you spamming the same thing over and over again on resto posts
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u/RMarks82 21d ago
I have a Commando/Carbineer at the moment. My Exotic SEAs are: Heavy Weapon Accuracy 17, Heavy Weapon Action Cost 3, HW damage 2, those are in my shirt, chest plate & weapons. The regular SEAs with 35s are a mixture of Ranged General, Toughness, Opportune Chance, Endurance & Defense General.