Firearms

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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	Serrated Steel		Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Bleeding you inflict gains increased duration.
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	8	Gain fury when you inflict bleeding on an enemy. Fury gives an increased critical-strike chance.
Major Master	Juggernaut		Gain might while wielding a flamethrower. Might applied to you gains increased duration. Napalm grants you stability and a fire aura.
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	Modified Ammunition		Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.
Major Grandmaster	Heavy Metal		Your critical-strike chance and critical damage are increased against foes that are below the health threshold.
Major Grandmaster	Sharpshooter		Bleeding you inflict scales off of your power instead of your condition damage.
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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