OK, i just hit lvl 68 laser sniper, chipping optimizer suggest i need roughly 300 ped tt rifle to hit commando, all other contributing skills are high enough due to cross skilling too much over the years ( also sold out rifle skills a few years ago so id be at commando if not for that mistake… )
So, 300 ped tt rifle, how much ped does that translate to in terms of cycling?
Seems like you get roughly 1% of what you cycle spread across the various skills effecting the profession in question. You could probably cycle 1000 PED fast and then check your gain in just Rifle to determine roughly how much skills per ped you gain.
Assuming that the 1% is spread across the board in fractions that are equal to the skills effect on the profession, I would guesstimate you’d need to cycle about 76,900 PED. If I were to guesstimate out of my recent tracking of skill (where the sample size is teeny tiny) the outcome would be 101,000.
So I am going to go ahead and say that you’ll need about 80-120k cycled to reach that.
Edit: 80-120k to reach the 300 PED in rifle, you will get the unlock earlier as you will progress in the other skills as well.
2 levels took around 50k cycle and that was with a few strategic mission grinds and that was also with skill pills. If you straight grind, then I would wager .1 lvl per 2500 cycle.
Let’s see. I’m 68.5 lvl laser sniper, I cycle about 2k ped a day (5-6 hours every day with LC-100 + imp 105). 67 → 68 took me 50 days (5.03-23.4), so it makes about 100k for a level. So I expect another 200-220k until 70 lvl.
Just looked at my logs.
When I got Commando in BLP Rifle, going from lvl 68.033 to 70 required 61484.04 PED to be cycled.
Note however that in that period I decayed my HG twice as much as rifle, so probably sticking just to rifle would requite a bit lower amount to cycle (but it would take me longer time-wise as my HG did 2.5 times dps than rifle).
Edit:
just looked closer, during this period I also got some mission rewards that contributed significantly:
I just finished my feffox iron stage 4 and the reward was 46.98 TT of rifle skill. Can’t remember but I think the stage 5 also had rifle for a reward. Might consider those if you haven’t already completed them.