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can anyone help me with something here, i'm looking at getting a beam cannon and i wondered if any of you guy's out there could tell what i should be looking for as a resonable cannon both for price and spec's. Also what is this so many shot's about? is it that you can only use it so many times?

HPBCs are a consumable weapon. In other words, you buy one and it has a set number of shots you can make, just like grenades, or food for that matter. When you go to use it,the best way is to place it on your hotbar and just press it when you want to fire. When you fire, the number of uses will drop 1. Typical number of uses I have seen range from 21 - 32. Typical damage is somewhere around 1xxx - 3xxx. They can have more or less shots along with higher and lower damage based upon the components used by the weaponcrafter. Typical cost on my server is 1000 credits per shot. Some of the higher damage HPBC's cost a little more per shot.

Also of note with any of the consumable heavy weapons is that until you have the HW tree at box 4, or are master, they are very inaccurate, and remain moderately inaccurate at HW 4. For a new commando, they are not a very good choice for killing PvE mobs unless you have an incredible amount of credits to burn.

Once you reach HW 4, they can become a valuable tool to help defeat some of the tougher mobs, but it can still be quite expensive.

Also, once you start to use them effectively, they become addictive. Banging away at a mob at 48m for 5000+ damage (they are AP3), is pretty darn fun, and the animation is pretty cool too.