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Is there a reason that the Acid Rifle skill tree is more xp to move up in? Does it do more damage than the Flamethrower? What tree is recommended to move up in first?

Read....the....guide...

Seriously though. Heavy Weapons 1 lets you partake in the civil war battle for pulling the switches on the bases.

Flamethrower has a dot + damage for its specials and does more.

Acid Rifle just has the damage specials.

Lots of things don't have heat protection.

Lots of things don't have acid protection.

Couple of things have both.

Get the hard part over or the easy part over first. It's up to you.

There is no right answer.

Well, if you're a group fighter and one of the masses of boobs that goes to Lok Endor or wherever to scream for a group, then acid rifle is for you, reason being, people don't mind the brown stick floating accorss the sky, but the all engulfing kaboom of the flame explosion tends to get a few folks sore about ya makin all that noise, not to mention the TK's cryin out cuz you're also laggin them.

With that said, choose wisely

I should also probably wait for the patch to come out huh? Or are the damage and stats on the commando weapons gonna stay the same?

I can tell you my thinking on the issue (still working thru the trees). I'm going up heavy weapons first. Why?

1) it's the easiest

2) it gives nice bonuses to RL and certs for the other big AP guns. When ppl see you are a commando they are gonna want you to put down the boom boom on AT-ST's, turrest, etc, and this is the tree for the boom boom.

3) the future of the HAR and FT are uncertain, but the LP appears to be the weapon du jour for the foreseeable future. Why train in weps you won't be using day in and out, esp when it's not clear what line will be the best.

I myself was thinking the same thing and have decided on going through the FT tree first. I got HW1 so I could take bases and be somewhat effective with the RL, but theoretically, we'll be able to use our Launcher Pistol on AT-STs for normal damage which could be very useful when combined with DoubleTap or StoppingShot. I decided on FT just because, but I have always encouraged people to pick one skill and use that until expert as it gives you a solid weapon to rely on. I think it's more of a personal preference as of now.

Since I see so many HAR vs flamer posts, like to make the point again that 'supposedly' the HAR does more damage since its instanteous with no DOT effect. Reading the skill descrips and from an old Holocron post, this is backed up, but of course doesn't even show the light of day. We will see in the new patch if there is a difference, but if there isn't, the flamer will always be better because of the DOT...except against 100% resist heat mobs

-Maabus-

Go see and support/criticize my new HAR idea

From what I've seen both have their uses. Flamethrower outdamages the HAR but only by about 15% (just a SWAG there but fairly accurate I think) but many more things seem to have heat resistance than acid so its situational.