Point damage and area damage weapons and training talents

Lot of players like me feel confused when we reach level 27 or 28 or talent training when we have to choose between area or point damage. There is no official guide on which weapons are covered under area damage and which are under point damage. Main issues are faced with flare gun, carronade, explosive. Can some one elaborate on this in detail, missile launcher, grenade, torpedo. Because torpedo and explosive deal damage in area when on target whereas mortar deal when in radius.

 

In general, any weapon which can damage multiple targets, has an area of effect (AOE), will benefit from area damage training perks.

Point damage weapons will, at a given time, damage only 1 target no matter how close the targets are to each other. The first one to connect with the projectile receives damage.

You can use these 2 factors to decide if a given weapon is an area damage or point damage. For carro, I'm not sure.

Mortars, grenade, torps and missiles all have an area of damage marked by the target that is displayed on the landing area or the splash that is displayed after detonation. The only exception here is EC which can be blocked by waves but still has a certain radius in which it does damage if the projectile hits an unfriend or a ship. Also if you look at weapon details, AOE weapons will have a radius which points that it effects an area rather than at any point.

Also weapons with damage over duration will benefit from all weapon damage training only.

PS: Any corrections are welcome.

 

Still uncertainty about carronade and flare gun. Aslo if I hit burning ship with explosive I don't deal damage to nearby ship. This is somewhat in between area damage weapons and point range weapons and may be unfair for explosive canon.

 

Flare gun will benefit from all weapon damage training. I can confirm it if point damage actually adds any damage at all. I have a captain training coming up today.
If you look at EC and compare the radius to other AOE weapons, its too small to actually hit multiple targets unless they are extremely close to each other (literally overlapping) or hugging the walls.

Edit: for carro, I'm not sure. I have never used it so I guess I'll be no help there. Sorry.

 

Sometimes carronade deal damage to 2 target if they were so so close to each others ,but just because it has more than 1 projectile with a spread angel ,so a projectile can hit a player and another one hit another player ,so i don't think it is AOE weapon

But missiles launcher also has more than 1 projectile but its projectile explode and can hit a near player with only splash damage so missiles launcher is an AOE weapon

 

For incendiary weapons, fire bomb and napalm are considered area damage, because they have a radius. Flare gun is not considered to be either point damage or area damage.