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For WvW, i love using flamethrower and absolutely cannot stand the travel time on the grenades on the grenade kit for anything except taking siege near a defensible wall out. I have been using a mostly knights flamethrower/hgh build for about a month now and i have had a lot of success with using it for tagging and damage in small groups and large groups.
Like others have said, the flamethrower brings a lot of utility and the damage is not really the worst it could be. I use the same build with the same gear in PvE for the occasional fractal or dungeon and i have never gotten any complaints about what i use. I mainly stay in the flamethrower but switch to rifle for the immobilize and extra damage when my flamethrower 2 has a few seconds until i can use it again.
There are a few circumstances outside of WvW where the flamethrower hitting through objects can be useful, but its not really a major point since it rarely ever makes a big difference (or at least one that i have noticed).