Commando Archive

Well,

Last night was my first time using a flamethrower. It does nice damage, 800-1200..not bad....WHEN IT HITS THE TARGET!!!.

I went on a rebel raid last night and couldn't hit a single target with that piece of junk. I was owning more with my launcher pistol then I was with my flamethrower. After this I started to wonder, "why are people complaining about this weapon" sure it has an uncurable DOT however as long as your opponent is moving, the flamethrower will never make contact, meaning I will die(like I did many times last night trying to use this thing) and my opponent will be victorious. I guess as you go up in level this gun becomes more accurate however right now its about as useless as the T21.

I guess what I am trying to say is, too all the whinners that complain and scream nerf about commando's being over powered...try playing one. You will notice that you die alot more as a Commando then you do as anything else. Commando DOES NOT need to be nerfed, it needs to be left alone.

It doesnt need to be nerfed... the fact that our weapons use the melee multiplier is the only balance issue...

It missesa lot, true, but if you say its a piece of junk, you must be earlier in the flame tree. It becomes good around Flame 3.

And no, you don't die more as a commando than anything else.......try a rifleman to see if you like dying.....

When you get flame single 1 it gets alittle better not much. You need to be within 20 less meters. Usually at 17 it works. And thats if they dont move out of range waiting it to go off. Also the recharge rate sucks. But once you get flame 4 it isnt as bad. But as again if your pvping, the few seconds are killings. Only thing I can tell ya that will help is get chased into a tight spot turn around and fire.

Zel dieing and sucide is different. Commandos dies and rifleman is sucide. And yes you die alot more times even with flame 4. All they need to do is get out of range of our specials then heal. Not to hard unless you speicalize in a different weapon. Rifleman commit sucide everytime they shoot.

a little tip.... have a macro that goes /kneel/aim/whateverflameattack this is priceless

Personnally we do miss alot with our Flamethrower but when i hit ..oooohh baby ! I am looking forward to get my my teir 4 for the FT. Anyways .. back to the topic i dont think commandos should be nerf because it is true we a damge profession but there is a downside to this awesome capability....we miss quite often.

Well I will see how effective it is at higher levels but right now I like my launcher pistol.