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I have enough skilll points to get 1-4 in one of the commando trees. Im thinking the Flamethrower tree, or the heavy weapons tree. Any advice?

Both have advantages. But, I would go with the flame thrower unless you do alot of PvP or have a base profession like rifle, doctor, squad leader or CH where you are not going to be up close and personal with the stuff you are fighting. If you do, the heavy weapons might be a fun option. The FT is not really the great pvp weapon everyone thinks it is. This will become apparent when the revenge TEF goes away.

Actually, the FT is quite popular with CH's. But, the rest is still good

do all flame attacks cause burns?

flamethrower is awesome in MOST situations lol even better without the revenge tef IMHO. Because now there won't be so many people coming after me after they've been DBd. Tactics/HARare pretty useless right now. HW tree is cool, IF you have the cash to burn 1-2k per shot and your server can currently make rocket launchers.

And yes, all flame specials cause a burn DOT, and they all stack.

Heavy support weapons. It would stray from the typical 0-0-4-0 commandos that almost everyone has gone. As well as you would be able to take them all out with ease, as long as you stayed out of the 16m range.


You can fire hpbc's every 2 seconds and hit for over 800dmg in PvP ( melee multiplier does apply vs rifles/carbines ) at 48m with pin point accuracy. Rocket launchers at 64m every 5-6 seconds with similar dmg.


At least for PvP it's the choice I'd make, PvE, ya..... typical flame thrower.

Doesn't heavy support weapons have limit ammo?

Yes, it does, but it's well worth the money and packs a very large punch with much less downtime then a special from har/ft.


In PvP I'd much rather stand at 48m or 64m and fire off hpbc's or rl's at people then get in 16m range and fire off my FT and have the high possiblity to miss and wait for 9 seconds.

However, all the HW tree weapons are VERY expensive to use, and at lvl4 I still miss ALOT with them...you basically have to be stationary, your target stationary, and be at the exact ideal range. I haven't even seen a single player-made rocket launcher on lowca because of the resources. Sure, if you've got tons of money to burn, the HW is a great tree (I have it for special circumstances and for when At-STs become blast vuln) but for daily use I don't see why anyone would use anything other than the flame thrower