Guild Wars 2

I made this one topic about grenades, and most people said that grenades were epic (i agree), but my main weapon for my build is gonna be flamethrower. Im lvl 16, almost 17, and I cannot wait to get my flamethrower (can someone clarify if I can get flamethrower at lvl 20, and if not what lvl), but I am hearing that flamethrower is really bad…. I hope thats not true, but if this many people are saying it, its kinda disheartening.
So, is flamethrower REALLY bad, pretty bad, good, or great? Discuss!

Well, it really dpends on your playstyle. In my opinion, flamethrower Sucks until you have all the flamethrower-ish traits….. but once you have those, flamethrower can be godly.

so, its really a matter of choice. Also, you can get it pre-20… just gather a ton of skill points, especially the other races starting zones, and you could have had flamethrower for a bit now…. i think i got it around lvl 15 or 16, but regretted it… i wished i had picked something else… but, theirs always more skill points to be spent….

so, to answer your final question, its All of the above!

Dang :/
And mine says i need to unlock a slot or something (i have 2 already, and the third was on lvl 20 so i assumed i needed to wait to lvl 20 o.O’’)
And you regretted it huh? So its only great for high levels… ok.
Thanks for the heads up

I find it to be clunky.
Keep in mind that the flame graphic of number 1 is a lie, the actual hit cone of the flame thrower is always where you are facing the camera. So make sure your camera is facing the target you want to burn even if your flame it self is shooting off to the side.

Your number 2 skills does minor damage unless you can get it to burst on the target where it does nice damage, saddly your only ever going to get it to happen on ranged enemys or as an opening attack on melee npcs. If you cast it too soon after doing the air burst it wont work. Not sure why.

Your air burst skill knocks targets out of range of your number1 skill and that will cancel the auto attack, so make sure you restart it after a burst.

Your napalm skills, aka wall of fire, doesnt really have any use other than making a combo field for allies.

Then lastly your number 5 skill, vent smoke or what ever its called has a short range so make sure they are up close to you, and its just applys 1 blindness then its done. Not really sure the point.
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But despite all that crud, it is fun to burn things, and it gives a large aoe making it great for events that have swarms of enemys.

for 1v1 npc fights, I like to use nets, (rifle, net turet and/or its toolbelt) to keep the enemy in place while I roast them, also makes it posable to hit them with your number 2 power.

The flamethrower looks really cool. The flamethrower is very fun to use….at first. But when the honeymoon is over and you fiddle around with other tools an engineer has, you realize that flamethrower comes up short in the damage department. Even without coated bullets, the pistols are significantly more damaging to multiple targets and massively more damaging to a single target, not to mention having longer range and they don’t take up a utility skill slot. When you do get coated bullets the usefulness of flamethrower drops from bad to worse. Oh and pistols proc sigils and flamethrower doesn’t.

I used flamethrower for a few levels early on, and enemies died quickly enough that it was bearable. So if you want to experience flamethrower, the time to do it early on in the levels, because towards the later levels the mobs have a lot more HP and I promise you will get sick of blasting them dozens of times to kill them.

Once I got juggernaut at level 60, I tried flamethrower again. Permanent 6-8 stacks of might, how could that not work, right? And 200 free toughness, good gravy that has to be so strong! Since I’m tanky, I will just gather up a group of mobs and AoE them down and power level! Sadly this did not work at all with flamethrower because the damage is too low, but it did work somewhat with dual pistols. At the same time you have access to juggernaut, you also get access to coated bullets. Spec for coated bullets and then whatever source of tankiness you want and you can run a functional gather mobs —> AoE build.

I love the flamethrower!

If you use it as more of a defensive build, you will have way more fun with it. If specced right you can get ~11 stacks of might 100% of the time (and up to 25 stacks if you do an elixir spamming build). Currently I have 1v1’d a thief, guardian, and mesmer in Spvp and been able to win. Also killed the thief twice in one round of health as a guardian who was watching us duel got him up.

If you like something in guild wars that isnt popular, you just have to find a way to make it work for you. The game is still fairly new and luckily there are tons of factors for creating a build! (gear, sigils, runes, traits, slot skills, food, etc.)

Hope that helps, its a hard weapon to work with but it IS doable.

I tried the flamethrower, and it isn’t as bad as I heard! But it isn’t that good too >.<. I need to stay still for #1 to hit fully, which is kinda boring. But using #2 as an opener, blasting away, and maybe airblasting far away just for fun. Against bosses I’m assuming the wall of fire would be a nice idea for the burns and stuff. #5 is kinda… meh.. against lower class mobs its not so good, but against bosses it must be good sometimes. But if I DO completely trait it, it must be really good thanks guys.

3/5 of the flamethrowers skills need to be fixed/reworked

But with alot of precision you can let flame jet run and stack a ton of bleed and vulnerability.

When playing Engy, keep in mind that he IS a Team Fortress 2 character, not Guildwars 2 character.
To be successful with the Flamethrower Kit, you must first lose your gender identity. Possibly carry a purse too.
Then you have to learn to laugh like a maniac. If you have a programmable keyboard or something, be sure to bind a “mmfff ffff phhh mmmphh” on it.

Next, you have to learn about terrain. Flamethrower has a good bit of utility, but it does have pretty low damage.. unless the enemy stays in the flame wall for the duration—then it’s outright the highest damage kit.
Here’s a trick that I picked up from Ragnarok Online—vertical wall. Cast the wall to your side (take into account that the wall will still be set perpendicular from you at the time of your cast finishing, not when you start casting, so take your movement into account). This will create a long line that the opponent must run through to get to you.
Once they do that, blow them out ONTO the flame (you can pick the direction to blow the enemy). If you’re a good TF2 player, do consider a PUFF AND STING, using the technique outlined by XelNigma above. Then blind them the next time they’re up in your face. Rinse, repeat.
Feel free to use your toolbelt/turrets/kits for more CC.

Lastly, pray that ANet will eventually release a Pyrovision Goggle for you. Or any gas mask will suffice, really.

HUDDA! HUDDA HUH!! (only reason i like my flamthrower) but srsly its a difficult tool to use, just have to get used to it.

The best luck I’ve found with flamethrowers in PvE at least, is juggling enemies with the rifle and the flamethrower. If you time your cooldowns well, you can net, knockback, switch to flamethrower, napalm, knockback, switch to rifle, jump shot, net, knockback…

It’s tedious and only really works 1v1, but I’ve all but soloed a few random champion mobs doing it, and take very little damage.

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Dang :/
And mine says i need to unlock a slot or something (i have 2 already, and the third was on lvl 20 so i assumed i needed to wait to lvl 20 o.O’’)
And you regretted it huh? So its only great for high levels… ok.
Thanks for the heads up

A utility slot can use any utility skill. You unlock the next tier of skills by spending skillpoints in the previous tier (which you can get from the skill challenges around the world, rather than just leveling). The extra slots are unlocked by level progression, but that’s just having more utilities selected at once.