Flamethrower

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This article is about the engineer weapon. For other uses, see Flamethrower (disambiguation).

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Arm yourself with a flamethrower that replaces your weapon skills.

— In-game description

[edit] Description and skills

Flamethrower replaces the engineer's standard weapon skills with five different skills, focusing on heavy damage, short range and area effects.^[1]

Skill	Recharge	Description
Flame Jet		Spray fire in a cone pattern while on the move.
Flame Blast	6	Fire a napalm ball that rolls through foes and explodes.
Air Blast	12	Push back foes and projectiles with a hot air blast.
Napalm	20	Burn foes with a wall of napalm in front of you.
Backdraft	20	Pull foes to you in a fiery backdraft.

[edit] Related Traits

Firearms

• Fireforged Trigger - Flamethrower and Elixir Gun skills have 20% shorter recharge
• Juggernaut - While you are wielding a flamethrower you move slower but gain stability and toughness
• Napalm Specialist - 25% chance to cause a 1 second burn on critical hits with the flamethrower

Alchemy

• Deadly Mixture - Deal extra damage with a flamethrower or Elixir Gun

[edit] Trivia

• The flamethrower and its associated skills like Air Blast bear a large similarity to the Pyro in Team Fortress 2. ^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Total Halibut's Hyper WTF is Guild Wars 2 PvP? with Izzy Cartwright, 6:00 mark, Youtube