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Adapt! Or be Darwined.
I don't believe in the Force anymore, but I do believe in Karma.

Here's the deal. I pulled the trusty ol flamethrower out of a dusty ol bag in the back room of the house, and used a /respec to give it a try. Loads of fun toasting things, so I bought a crate of proton grenades. Tons of fun chucking a grenade and blazing a high damage special on something after a root. Problem is the 125 second timer on my grenades. Thats over 2 minutes. I spent 6 years in the army, including 2 combat deployments. I can assure you I certainly never spent 2 minutes inspecting a grenade before I threw it. ( Also never played with a flamethrower, either, come to think of it).

I see the grenade timer bit is in the stickies, but I am posting here since the stickies left me a bit unclear. Is that long of a timer intentional, and if so, why does it say 10 for my refire time, or whatever that stat it when I examine my grenades. (Ive been playing since september '03, and naturally that term deserts me now when I need it.) My dueterium pyro drink says duration 52, and it lasts just about 52 seconds, and so I expect the refire rate on my grenades refers to 10 seconds, but I get a system message of roughly 125 seconds if I try to chain fire grenades.

Additionally, before I go blow a bunch of creds on more nades, does that timer only work on one type of grenade at a time, or perhaps one stack? I guess, I am really asking if there is a way around it, to gain some good burst DPS. I recall that there was a hard-cap of 8 seconds per grenade pre-cu, regardless of any other modifiers, and I thought that was rough. If that has been upped to 125 seconds, I would say I shoulda kept my mouth shut back then.

Thanks for any help.