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Grenades are the equivalent of Firecrackers.

Sure, they SOMETIMES land states or DOTs.

But Grenades are supposed to be for Damage, and Damage isn't what grenades can't even decently do.

Then there's the timers.

To be honest, don't waste the SPs just to get 4000 Commando.

For damage, they pretty much suck. 1k damage looks nice until you can only do it every 7 seconds or so. If you're ducking behind walls continuously maybe that's not so bad but if you miss time it not only do you not throw the grenade, the timer kicks in as if you did.

That being said, I'm going through about 15-25 imperial detonators per night pvping. Nothing says love like KDing a hoard of charging jedi and letting your high powered gunners cut them down. I'd rather have a stack of stims or even a fishing rod then a stack of most any other grenade though.

With out a doubt, as weapons, grenades are far and away the best door stops in SWG.

I need only two words, rather than the whole sentences and whatnot you guys had to use to produce an answer:

Grenades suck.


Buuut since im the correspondent, that wouldn't be right. Grenades, right now:

Come (still) in small 5 stacks

Hard to craft/time consuming - hence pricey

Only do significant damage when you equip a weapon (if not, you shall sucketh more)

Cruddy state effects (ie snare = 3 seconds)

Cruddy timers (ie cyroban, that produces the snare = 18-25 second throw timer

They aggro everything and everything's mother in an angry hissy fit that will be ye doom in PvE

Might be decent in PvP...the Imperial Detonator for KD, but for damage? Dont bother, best you could get normal grenades would be around 1.1k damage so you're better off using normal weapons. You can power-up them, and enhance the glop grenade...but expensive, time consuming, and for little result

Edity: PvP, not PvE

Message Edited by StarNick on 09-14-2005 07:55 PM

cry me a river starnick. i ues nades in pvp and they work great.

*whaps self* wrong thread

And btw...forgot: Grenade AoE seems to start at your feet rather than where your grenade hits.

And cyrom - note I said decent in PvP...Imperial Detonators can be fairly potent with the Radius size and KD effect.

Message Edited by StarNick on 09-14-2005 10:27 PM

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StarNick wrote:
And btw...forgot: Grenade AoE seems to start at your feet rather than where your grenade hits.

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Oddly enough, I have never really noticed this. It could just be that people are actually closer then my computer is displaying them though.