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am i the only one who thinks that our flamethrower should not be our primary weapon ?

am i the only one who thinks that a flamethrower should only be used in special cases ? (close combat)

am i the only one who misses a real primary weapon for us ?

will we ever get a real primary weapon ?

thats what interests me most right now ... what do you all think?

I dont have a problem with the FT as our primary weapon. It would be nice if the dev's incorporated some pistol skills to compliment our LP and not make use take up pistoleer to be effective.

I can out damage my FT w/ my LP easily minus the fire DoT which I do use as special case only
hell I can out damage my FT with an FWG5 minus once again the fire DoT

once they fix resists on the DoT you will notice it isn't you primary weapon

and well even now it is only your primary weapon if you choose it to be

I could choose to run around throwing grenades and call them my primary means of attack

does it mean its a smart thing to do? because ill tell ya right now its a blast to do, i went through 125 C22 Frag grenades yesterday (yes a whole crate, 25 of them w/ 5 charges each) but ya know its not to effective

I myself use the LP as primary, I switch to FT or HAR when grouped depending on the mob that I am fighting and now & then I do use my FT against a target primarily but its not to often.

Yeah, once they fix the DoT I'll drop the flamethrower a lot.

Right now it's to easy just to light stuff on fire, even stuff thats 100% fire resistant, and let it burn while you switch to either your Acid Rifle or LP.

O course I've seen a couple of smugglers who aren't going to like it, cause they won't be able to set stuff on fire and then do /feigndeath and wait for it to die hehe.

Gairon

Sunrunner

thats not what i ment ..

i think the Flamethrower is quitepowerfull

i just dont like the idea that a Flamethrower is the commando primary weapon ...

as sayed i would like to see the flamethrower as a close combat weapon only ...

BUT we need then a real commando primary weapon .. something that hits on longer distances... something that would reallie fit to our profession for example a assault rifle...

and grenades and all the charged weapons will never be main weapons ... much to expensive

If the accuracy on the FT was just a little better it wouldn't be a bad ranged weapon(64M) at all.

"am i the only one who thinks that our flamethrower should not be our primary weapon ?

am i the only one who thinks that a flamethrower should only be used in special cases ? (close combat)

am i the only one who misses a real primary weapon for us ?

will we ever get a real primary weapon ?


thats what interests me most right now ... what do you all think?"

I don't like the idea of my primary weapon being a blowtorch. I'd like to see the FT and HAR thrown into the same tree as special use weapons. Weapons for special situations.
It'd be nice if they threw some LP specials into tactics tree, just to have a them. And used the last tree for a true commando weapon. I know thats difficult since the class has little definition so far. But more general multiuse weapon may even give the commando class the clarity its currently missing.

The beam rifle is sitting there and noone has the cert for it. Be nice if we could have this tweaked and put on a line with the LP, both weapons having unique specials. You could then combine the fairly useless acid rifle with the FT line.

At the moment the flame thrower is my primary weapon. Mainly cause LP drops my fram rate like crazy if traget gets close. I'll switch weapons depending on targets res. though, but I couldnt imagine useing a LP when in a group even if damage was better. How long before a group starts yelling at you, Hey even I would if I'm trying (melee) target something and I cant see a thing andmy frame rate is lowered. I pull it out every once and awhile when I'm ALONE, but other then that I would do just as good without it. I love the effect of the pistol, but would love to see it toned down.... just alittle. An maybe give it armor 1 atleast....

I stick with the FT, because while I have no framerate issues with the LP, most of the people I hunt with do.

Also, even at 40-60ish meters just using normal shots with the FT I regularly hit for 1200ish, which is plenty good enough for me. But then I dont have anything from the pistoleer line, not sure how much of a difference that would make with the LP.

If you want a pistol, become a bounty hunter.

Find a flamethrower that rocks, get flame IV. Trust me, it will be your primary weapon.

Buzzy