Blunderbuss

Fire several shards of shrapnel that inflict more damage the closer you are to foes. — In-game description

Blunderbuss

0.5½  

9

12

 

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

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Fire several shards of shrapnel that inflict more damage the closer you are to foes.

  Maximum Damage: 742 (1.76)^?

  Maximum Damage: 553 (1.31)^?

  Minimum Damage: 464 (1.10)^?

  Minimum Damage: 211 (0.5)^?

 ₃ Maximum Bleeding (9s): 594 Damage

 ₃ Minimum Bleeding (3s): 198 Damage

  Number of Targets: 5

  Range: 900

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

Firearms

• Serrated Steel — Bleeding you inflict gains increased duration.

Scrapper

• Impact Savant — A percentage of the strike damage you deal is converted into barrier. Your vitality is reduced.

Notes

• This skill fires in a cone pattern.
• The skill is not affected by anti-projectile skills and traits.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced minimum power coefficient from 1.1 to 0.5. Reduced maximum power coefficient from 1.76 to 1.31. Increased cooldown from 9 seconds to 12 seconds.
July 16, 2019	This skill now respects line of sight.
April 23, 2019	Rather than inflicting between 1 and 4 stacks of bleeding for 7 seconds based on range, this skill now inflicts 3 stacks of bleeding with a duration of between 3 and 9 seconds based on range. This skill has been reworked to scale damage dynamically based on distance rather than at various tiers so that closer is always better, not just when the engineer crosses a particular range threshold. The range of this skill has been increased from 700 to 900.
May 08, 2018	Reduced the recharge of this skill from 10 seconds to 9 seconds
December 12, 2017	Reduced bleeding stacks from 2 – 5 to 1 – 4, based on range (reverts previous change). Increased bleeding duration from 5 seconds to 7 seconds.
February 22, 2017	This skill has been unsplit from PvP and will now deal the higher (10%) damage values in all areas of the game. Increased bleeding stacks from 1 – 4 to 2 – 5, based on range. Increased bleeding duration from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.
December 13, 2016	The damage of this ability has been increased by 10% at all range thresholds in PvP only.
July 28, 2015	Increased the range to 700.
April 15, 2014	Added a skill fact for distance scaling.
December 10, 2013	Increased the range of this skill from 400 to 500 (700 when traited with Rifled Barrels).
August 28, 2012	Game release: Blunderbuss has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A blunderbuss is a type of firearm similar to a shotgun.