in the hands of a Commando, a flame thrower is very good, it also has the added bonus of not being blockable, which is just as well because the things have ridiculously short range, but used with all the other heavy weapons, acid throwers etc, you should be able to get 3 or 4 pretty good dots going on the mob/player/jedi, etc and setting fire to a jedi has a certain amount of .. well i just think its fun.. what better reason can there be :D