Blast Gyro

Well. Unleash a blast gyro to begin a countdown to a tremendous blast. — In-game description

Blast Gyro

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Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Specialization

Scrapper

Slot

Utility

Tool belt

  Bypass Coating

Type

Well

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Well. Unleash a blast gyro to begin a countdown to a tremendous blast.

  Damage: 931 (3.5)^?

  Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 ₂ Might (8s): 60 Condition Damage, 60 Power

 ₂ Might (6s): 60 Condition Damage, 60 Power

  Might (12s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power

  Stun: 3 seconds

  Stun: 2 seconds

  Pulses: 4

  Blast Delay: 3 seconds

  Radius: 240

  Explosion

  Unblockable

  Combo Finisher: Blast

  Combo Field: Fire

  Defiance Break: 300

  Defiance Break: 200

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Short Fuse — Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
• Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
• Explosive Temper — Explosions grant stacking ferocity when they hit.
• Shrapnel — Explosions have a chance to cripple and cause bleeding on hit.
• Big Boomer — Deal increased strike damage to foes with a lower health percentage than you. Hitting with an Explosion heals you over a few seconds.

Firearms

• Juggernaut — Gain might and stability while wielding a flamethrower. Might applied to you gains increased duration.

Alchemy

• Compounding Chemicals — Heal yourself when you grant yourself a boon. Gain increased concentration.

Tools

• Lock On — Striking a stealthed foe triggers Invisible Analysis. Disabling a foe triggers Controlled Analysis. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Scrapper

• Gyroscopic Acceleration — Well abilities have an increased area of effect and grant superspeed to nearby allies on their first pulse. Your function gyro also grants superspeed to allies when cast.
• System Shocker — Disabling a foe grants you barrier. Your function gyro dazes foes when cast. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Expert Examination — Stunning or dazing a foe applies vulnerability and weakness to them.
• Applied Force — Gain stability when you gain might at or above the threshold. Might grants bonus power.

Notes

• Throughout the Blast Delay, the Blast Gyro is also a Fire Combo Field.
• This skill is a rare example of a self-contained combo. The skill provides a blast finisher and a fire field at once, giving you a fire blasting combo that provides AoE might to you and allies near you.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 14, 2023	Adjusted might from 2 stacks for 6 seconds to 1 stack for 12 seconds in PvP only.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Now stuns enemies for 3 seconds instead of knocking them back. Damage multiplier increased from 2.65 to 3.5. (Undocumented) Now stuns enemies for 2 seconds instead of knocking them back in WvW and PvP.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: This skill is now considered an Explosion for the purposes of the Explosives trait line. (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 2.25 to 0.01. Reduced might duration from 8 seconds to 6 seconds. Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.
April 23, 2019	Gyros can now be used underwater.
March 26, 2019	Fixed a bug that prevented Shocking Speed from granting superspeed on the final tick of Blast Gyro.
March 05, 2019	This skill has been reworked and renamed Blast Gyro. The gyro now creates a fire field that follows the engineer while it pulses might to nearby allies every second during its countdown to a significant explosion.
August 28, 2018	This skill now scales its damage with the engineer's attributes.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Blast Gyro has been added to the game.