Firearms

Specialization background.

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"Pick 'em off, one at a time."

Specializing in firearms improves your critical-hit efficiency and enhances your bleeding and burning potency. It grants various condition damage bonuses and strengthens your flamethrower.

— In-game description

Firearms is a core specialization for the engineer that focuses on conditions, condition damage and the use of pistols, and the flamethrower.

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Sharpshooter		Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding.
Major Adept	Chemical Rounds		Gain condition damage. Your pistol skills gain increased condition duration.
Major Adept	Sanguine Array		Gain might when you inflict bleeding on a foe.
Major Adept	High Caliber		You have an increased critical hit chance against foes within the range threshold.
Minor Master	Hematic Focus		You have increased chance to critically strike against bleeding foes.
Major Master	Pinpoint Distribution	10	While you are in combat, grant might to yourself and nearby allies each interval.
Major Master	Thermal Vision		Gain expertise. Increase your outgoing condition damage when you inflict burning.
Major Master	No Scope	8	Critical hits on foes within the range threshold have a chance to grant fury. Fury grants you ferocity.
Minor Grandmaster	Serrated Steel		Bleeding you inflict gains increased duration.
Major Grandmaster	Juggernaut		Gain might and stability while wielding a flamethrower. Might applied to you gains increased duration.
Major Grandmaster	Modified Ammunition		Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.
Major Grandmaster	Incendiary Powder	10	Burning you inflict lasts longer, and your critical hits inflict burning.

See also: List of engineer traits

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Engineer