Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170714130723/@comment-27447621-20170731041659

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Eh, a flare gun isn't the most accurate of shots. Look how big the explosions are that come from Roman's cane. It doesn't need to be pinpoint, just 'good enough' and the explosion will do the rest. Also true.

I just like my weapons to give characters options. Most of my weapons have channeled Dust to some capacity at least, had a strictly-firearm form and had a Close-combat mode. If the character ran out of rounds, they could use Dust for a while longer afterwards. However, I sometimes want my characters to be too prepared. Heck, when I was just starting out with character design, before I started learning from the Threads, I had a character who wore a peice of flint around her neck for literally NO OTHER REASON than the fact that the team would be camping out frequently on missions later and no one on the team regularly used Fire Dust.

So overall I think the weapon could do very well without it (Weiss has gotten along without it pretty well, for example), it's just a matter of "It'd be nice".