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How do YOU use flamecone? Do you target the left most, right most, center... what do you do? I'm not finding much luck hitting more than 1 or 2 targets per burst.

I've found that aiming in the center of the group gives the best results.

Yesterday I was passing a group of brackasets fighting some purbols on doth (about 6 total). They were all very tightly packed and I couldn't pass that up. I ran over, got in good position and did flamecone1 on them (not master yet). I managed to land on all 6 of them. It was beautiful. Total dmg for the shot was aroung 15k+ spread among the 5 or 6 of them. This might be commonplace for some of you but it was dang nice to see. Not to mention the fact that I made about 20k xp in under a minute =Þ

Also if your surrounded circle straff to make targets stack up on each other if they are in melee range. Takes some timing but it works.

Aasch Housewares

"Groovy."

I take it that the bug where if you kill something with the first shot of flamecone1 you dont get exp has been fixxed? I noticed it caused the secondary targets to bleed AND get the firedot.... -shrugs-

what I usually do with npcs is kite them behind me and get them into a good close pack then unload on them, twice great on laviasqualls.

thank you for your replies.. I really only use cone if I need to hit multiple targets and am not really concerned with the xp, for one reason or another.

Actualy the issue is that Flame Cone 1 does actual damage only to what you target when you fire.

It ads a burn ot every hting in the area of the shot.

So you get exp for your first target but not for any of the burning ones unless you hit the all later one at a time...

Aasch Housewares

"Groovy."

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Aasch wrote:

Actualy the issue is that Flame Cone 1 does actual damage only to what you target when you fire.

It ads a burn ot every hting in the area of the shot.

So you get exp for your first target but not for any of the burning ones unless you hit the all later one at a time...

Aasch Housewares

"Groovy."

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Actually it will hit things for damage other than the target. If I get lucky when running my faction missions covert the Rebs will all be gathered up having a little pow-wow... I've gotten multiple bug hits on camps, nearly shat myself when I hit 3 mobs for 14K+. That bug has to be dealt with and soon. I don't care about XP anymore so its not about it being easy XP, its just frellin wrong.

Hydrargyrum

Kauri

Master Commando

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Aasch wrote:

Actualy the issue is that Flame Cone 1 does actual damage only to what you target when you fire.

It ads a burn ot every hting in the area of the shot.

So you get exp for your first target but not for any of the burning ones unless you hit the all later one at a time...

Aasch Housewares

"Groovy."

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Ya but when i use it on a group of mobs. only on 1 of them and the rest get burned to death i get xp from them too.

From what I understand your saying you don't get xp from the burned ones.?

OK here is hte problem...

In the combat spam...you target one Dune lizzy with 2 others all clumped up nice and close...

You see the ham go donw on the first one...see the burn set in...and you receive a message that says...

"You hit a dune lizzard with a fountain of fire for 5889 damage."

"You hit a dune lizzard with a fountain of fire for 4756 damage."

"You hit a dune lizzard with a fountain of fire for 6423 damage."

Now this looks like you hit them all but...if you change targets quickly before the DoT sets in you will find that only the Dune Lizzard you atrget the first tiem actualy took the damage. THe othes have burns on them... and it tells you you hit them...but your initial damage actauly never took at all.

I experimented with this for 2 hours today discovered it was true. And even better Acid rifle does the same thing only it doesn't even bother with the DoT.

hehe and before posting this I just went one more time and tried it on some dune banthas... it is 100% true.

Aasch Housewares

"Good...bad...I'm the one with the gun."

And yes I used it on some storm troopers and didn't get exp for the burned ones =)...I hit like 7 of them...not kidding. Got Exp for one becuase they incaped me boefroe i could get damage on all the others. That was when I first figured it out...if you get ot hit htem again and you get some damage on themyou get exp...otherwise nothing.

Is a great way ot get unarmed exp thought...FLamecone... equip knuckler.. hit everything once... it is almost a pittyto draw it to every ones attention since I have been using it to get some TKA trees up there.

I have tried it on both low and high lvl mobs...I find that you notice it much more on the low lvl ones...Rills really shouldn't take 5k damage and live but that is exactly what happens...the DoT gets them about 4 seconds later but still. It struck me as just plain worng.

And it makes Acidcone completly useless.

Aasch Housewares

"Groovy."

Well then I must be really lucky cause the numbers I'm talking about caused the mobs to drop dead. I've coned for damage. It doesn't happen often but it does happen. I'll try to get a screenie next time I hit a group for damage, but trust me it will damage them. I've also done this in PvP, cone incapped a crowd. Not everyone mind you but I got spammed with 3 or 4 "You incapacitated XXXX" as I shot.

Hydrargyrum

Kauri

Master Commando

hehe OK I am gonna go try this again in game and see if i was wrong...i don't think i was though...

Yep... hit 3 banthas...hit peace right after ward... got 930 exp for the first bantha that died... no exp for the others...

Go try it and see if I am wrong.

Aasch Housewares

"Groovy."

i go hunting with my PA and on tantooine we had a large number of razorbacks in front of us.... tlak about Xp galore, seeing as how my only boxes were flame thrower I&II i had to have some, so we had our CH send in a tank and i went up to the group of now swarming razorbacks, cone them from 4 meters to be sure i ahd the ones on the other end of the tank and got the burn on all, but only the one i "shot at" took damage right away, had -1423 or whatever on all of them but only one took the damage, it would be nice if they all took some damage right away and then burned to death.