New balanced weapon: flarebomb cannon

Hey, guys, I got an idea. We all know we generally combine weapons as fire(incendiary) and ice(freeze) combos. Well, consider the excannon. It's useful, but really, burn damage perks on that beast would help a lot of players--if there was a weapon that could set multiple enemies in a local area on fire.

FLAREBOMB CANNON
This cannon fires cannonballs filled with napalm on enemies, causing fires to spread in local areas.

As in, it behaves like a firebomb, splashing multiple enemies, but with the mechanic of an excannon. It would pair real nice with excannons and almost any other cannon. Also, it would be balanced by:
1. Range : Less than blast cannon
2. Cooldown: .1 second higher than excannon
Also, the splashed fire damage will vary, and the radius will be small. This weapon could be a great skillshot tool imo.
Anybody gonna do some artwork?
@Epekka ?

 

Not in that manner. The firing mechanism and behaviour will not belong to a mortar, but a cannon. Grenades at the very end of the Isak tree may have that much capability, but the weapon I'm suggesting has 0% direct damage, 100% burn damage, unlike grenades.

 

I do. Firebombs are not very useful to speeders or as such. Also, can you tell me what is wrong with the idea? Even the excannon is basically a 2 slot beefed up cannon, but has CONSIDERABLY less radius than a standard mortar. So isn't mortar enough?

 

Well, i actually named it a napalm cannon because firebomb cannon sounded bad. It's not a napalm generator, sorry. It's like excannon, but instead, deals 0 direct, 100% burn damage. Its like a firebomb with a small AoE.

EDIT: And guys, if y'all vote no, please give reasoning. @Miku Da Yo 39 , i seriously appreciate your feedback. Lets talk about it.

 

Y tho? There's only four in all. And one of them has a chance thing, the other is actually an area control and direct damage tool. There are actually only two genuine fire weapons, fb and fg. Also, frost by itself may look unique, but carronades also use slowdown, just like frost. Weapons also treat carro slowdown as the same status effect as frost. Stun is already OP and doesnt need any more weapons inflicting it.

 

That's actually a good idea. Currently, only rockets cluster like that. But still, I don't see why we cannot have a point type incendiary doing area damage.

 

There could be a lot of applications for defenders especially. Think about it. Fire a napalm cannon shot at a group, follow it up with a big excannon shot. Makes a nasty combo, doesnt it? Because of the utility. Basically, this combo will be of use when you rock those burn damage perks on the excannon. It's a situational weapon, I agree. But I think it's a valid one.
EDIT: Oh, and also, for speeders using the bc+fg combo, it would be of great use to replace that fg with the nc. Speeders do end up in groups of enemies sometimes, and this would help them do more damage.
Fixers can use it as area control as well. If a teammate/teammates had an excannon, the fixer could fire an nc into a group, then call an excannon shot at the center.

 

@BITTERSTEEL sorry to call you, but what do you think about this idea?

 

No, it's an explosive cannon which causes burns like a flaregun.