Flamethrower

It's solidly meh.

It only works ok when maxed, and most kits have much much better alternatives.

The Flamer in this game should be ashamed of itself.

You had me at "a lot of points"

I think there's a real imbalance between powers in this game. We only have 3 ability slots, and there's little reason to use abilities like flamethrower, which only primes, over abilities like incinerate, overload, or energy drain that can both prime and detonate.

I really like flamethrower, visually and functionally, but its in a bad spot compared to other options.

i like flamethrower, and it fits fairly well into my playstyle. most of the time when i'm playing kromerc, i'm running around trying to find things to kill, and the less time i spend with each enemy the better.

everything i come across gets a flak cannon to the face. anything that's not shielded also gets a flamethrower to the face (never the full duration, just a 1-2 second burst to set them on fire). most enemies i come across end up with both DOTs ticking on them, and nothing short of a boss survives. and while they may not die as quickly as if i had stayed to continue firing, at the end i was able to kill that enemy after only spending 1-2 seconds of effort (flak + flame then move on). half the time, enemies will die when i am halfway across the map looking for my next target.

plus i also take blinding heat, which i think gives either assist or support points.

How are they mis-using it?

Not firing it from cloak?

Right... Cuz the recon visor is so awesome and great...

It's really not.

Unreliable enough for me to skip on Kromerc and go rank 3 on T.Agent.

Just like you said.. too late to put enemies on fire and sometimes even miss enemy entirely for no reason.

it  might have something to do with me using flame thrower against sharpshooters in the past... and the power does just about nothing against shield... lol

As far as I am concerned, Flamethrower classes do not need extra help dealing with Armored enemies because they already got flak & visor.


Flamethrower being useless against shielded enemy is why that power is big no to me. 

I was looking into a KrogEngy build and thinking the exact same thing. Incinerate was superior to Fthrower in every way: initial damage, burning damage, longer range. Why on earth would I choose Fthrower on a build designed to kill things quickly to keep Rage active?