Bulwark Gyro

Well. Deploy a bulwark gyro to grant you barrier and redirect damage to you from nearby allies. Your initial personal barrier scales with the number of allies near you. — In-game description

Bulwark Gyro

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Specialization

Scrapper

Slot

Utility

Tool belt

  Defense Field

Type

Well

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

30101

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Bulwark Gyro

Well. Deploy a bulwark gyro to grant you barrier and redirect damage to you from nearby allies.
Your initial personal barrier scales with the number of allies near you.

  Barrier: 2,226 (0.29)^?

  Barrier: 726 (0.07)^?

  Barrier: 508 (0.07)^?

  Watchful Eye (4s): Some of your incoming damage is shared with a nearby scrapper.

  Number of Targets: 5

  Duration: 5 seconds

  Interval: 1 second

  Radius: 240

  Combo Field: Lightning

— In-game description

Related traits

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.
• Adaptive Armor — Barriers you receive are stronger. Reduce incoming condition damage while you have barrier.

Notes

• Damage taken from conditions is unaffected.
• When an ally with Watchful Eye takes damage, approximately 35% of the damage is transferred to the scrapper.
• Transferred damage is affected by Block (i.e. the player affected by Bulwark Gyro. The scrapper can not block transferred damage).
• For each ally (other than the scrapper) within the area of effect during the initial cast, the scrapper gains an additional 723.3 barrier, unaffected by healing power.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 23, 2021	Reduced base barrier pulse from 726 to 508 in PvP only.
October 13, 2020	Increased cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
November 19, 2019	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from properly redirecting damage to the scrapper.
July 16, 2019	This skill now scales the initial personal barrier it grants with the number of allies you are redirecting damage from. The base barrier granted has been reduced to account for the higher potential initial gain. Barrier amount is no longer split by game mode as a result. Fixed a bug with an incorrect skill fact for barrier amount.
April 23, 2019	Gyros can now be used underwater.
March 28, 2019	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to grant more barrier than intended.
March 26, 2019	Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to redirect damage from inanimate objects. Reduced the barrier granted by this skill by 33% in PvP.
March 05, 2019	This skill has been reworked. The gyro now creates a lightning field that follows the engineer while it grants them barrier every second and redirects some damage from nearby allies to the engineer.
May 16, 2017	The cooldown of this skill has been increased from 20 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.
July 26, 2016	The damage reduction of this skill has been reduced from 50% to 33%.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Bulwark Gyro has been added to the game.