Attempt to buff commando's part 3.14159

[Pavel]

My only infantry character is a Commando at the moment as I only have 300k and i'm saving up for RG. If i'm not in a Normal Server I feel completely useless as I do not have a good enough shield and shielding and I will be overwhelmed if I charge. I have used my two handed sword to kill bots through the cades but I once had a deployable shield placed behind me before to push me into the range of the bots swords so I died because I was 'blocking the ranged'. I saw in your video that the guy was wearing some good armour, but a lot of commando's including myself do not have such good armour, mine is mostly from the marketplace. So I die in a couple of hits on a Hard Server, this would help me to face off multiple bots with my bad armour because of the slow regen.

Agreed.. I find people too easily put up cades and just sit behind them shooting AI. Cades need to be used as a funnel for the AI. Not as a barrier to stop them completely.. They should have their health nerfed so it is required to have a shielder taking most of the damage from a wave, whilst having slashers assisting the shielder by reducing the amount of incoming damage and archers thinning out the horde as they come.

Cades are mostly placed with a shieldergap if there is a RG with good shields on the server. I know from my own past (RG was the first hero I had) that it's a pain to save money up to finally get a good shield, such as Aegis. My tip here: Once you reached hero, you should focus on a shield above armor/weapons. If you try to shield rag or the later hard waves, such as entranced berserkers with a weak shield, you will die. As it should be your main aim to survive, cading up does make sense here. To help your team you can grab medboxes or an xbow (with the xbow you deal the same damage as any xbow-class, you just reload slower) to help your team. Or if there is a Zwei bringing in decent shields, just ask for it. He will gladly pass it on to you (mostly) as this allows him slashing. But once you shield, don't run out unless actually nessecary as the most annoying thing is a dead RG if noone else is dead and a tome has to be used for you. If that happens frequently players will prefer cading up again before they let you shield. As RG you should play save and not rush like a headless-chicken.

Julia, I think what Darnocslew meant is that while what you said about RG and cades is supposed to be happening, what usually happens is cades are used to completely block off the nords which in turn makes RG (and infantry in general) obsolete - I'd say 2 in every 3 runs I do end up this way. Perhaps developers should consider setting a limit to the amount of cades players can bring in (in a similar manner to tomes) as, as I said, often there are so many cades in the game it kills the point of using infantry - and YES I know beating Thor in this manner is not easy but I have seen him die to this simple "strategy" plenty of times.