Flamethrower seems pretty weak against melee.
Powder Burn is a better flame ability.
This made me lol. Fs def needs and deserves better.
Initially sure, roll and repeat the stacks hurt.
Headshot powderburn is a 13s burn with the final perk. Otherwise body shot is 9 seconds.
Slap on 250 INT and Burning ring and weāre talking +60% duration.
How does an 20.80 second burn with 500+ ticks sound?
Oh i loled cause you are right.
Slap on trapper tree bonus dmg to debuffed targets + 20% trap rend and we are in business.
Edit: Wait, the rend is only 3 seconds. Nevermind.
Next ? Next is you understanding every weapon has pro/contras and better and worse builds to play against.
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Grit on every light and heavy attack is pretty much immune to stagger. And is by far the strongest attribute perk.
5 stack with FS does less damage than 1 stack of Musket burn, does less damage than 1 stack of Spear bleed, does less damage than 5 stack GS bleed, is half the time of Bow posion shot.
The Firestaff as a dot weapon is a joke. Sure it helps a bit with dmg but even in terms of DoT dmg the Firestaff is bad.
There are also bufffood for -17,5% dot dmg.
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Flamethrower is blockable with shield and does terrible stamina damage too. It also counts as a hit so it should be able to proc shirking.
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Said that as well bud not sure what your issue is.
I agree with the 300 str being pretty strong. I also wasnt complaining about the damage flamethrower does, just the ability to dodge and recast. Id be fine if they upd the dmg gave it a slow while in it but made it go on cd if you stop casting.
Pretty sure it gets crit dmg to the back as well. Know Iāve been straight melted by it, though im not a staff user.
As for shirking, i will have to test to see if that works but i dont think it does.
Dude. It doesnāt get back crits, it does proc shirking, and it can in fact be blocked for very little stamina damage. Maybe form an opinion only after understanding the mechanics of a skill? 
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Guess ive never noticed it proc shirking, can be blocked with a shield which i dont have and dont use so i wouldnāt know that. I assumed back crits cause after ive turned and given my back to a throw i was insta dropped before i could get out. Granted i assume folks build it differently in 3s. Still dont like the ability to recast it lol. I dont know everything about the game and learn some of it from things like this.
And i will test the shirking piece.
Also, i tried to look up other posts on the topic prior to opening this one, didnt see them then but finding a few that definitely agree the ability to infinitely roll and reuse is pretty broken and they more eloquently say why.
Either way the issue is not the damage it does its just all the combos of light armor with shirking procs for when they dodge and that all getting added to no cd when they exit the roll.
Iāll take my snarky remark back then, you obv did put in some research after all. 
While I generally agree that FT is a bit on the OP side, it does have a weakness: Right after starting, thereās a window of roughly 1 sec where the FT canāt dodge cancel yet. Try to line up staggers/roots so they hit in that timeframe
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Oh yeah jts pretty simple my issue, people like you Who choose to open a post about how bad u felt when a flamethrower user killed you. This is a mmorpg not a groupal therapy.
Thanks for the info, lol had no clue about that either.