Blowtorch

Unleash flames from your pistol to burn foes. Deals more damage the closer you are. — In-game description

Blowtorch

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Off hand pistol

Game link

API

5831

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0.5½  

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Blowtorch

Unleash flames from your pistol to burn foes. Deals more damage the closer you are.

 Maximum Damage: 734 (2.0)^?

 Maximum Damage: 367 (1.0)^?

 Minimum Damage: 367 (1.0)^?

 Minimum Damage: 121 (0.33)^?

₃ Maximum Burning (40.5½s): 1,769 Damage

₂ Maximum Burning (12s): 3,144 Damage

₃ Minimum Burning (3s): 1,179 Damage

₂ Minimum Burning (6s): 1,572 Damage

 Number of Targets: 3

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Firearms

• Chemical Rounds — Gain condition damage. Your pistol skills gain increased condition duration.
• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.
• Incendiary Powder — Burning you inflict lasts longer, and your critical hits inflict burning.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the maximum burning duration from 6 seconds to 4.5 seconds in PvE only.
January 30, 2024	Fixed an issue that caused this skill to inflict more burning than intended.
November 28, 2023	Increased the minimum power coefficient from 0.33 to 1.0 in PvE only. Increased the maximum power coefficient from 1.0 to 2.0 in PvE only.
September 26, 2023	Reduced burning stacks from 4 to 3 in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Adjusted minimum burning from 4 stacks for 3 seconds to 2 stacks for 6 seconds. Adjusted maximum burning from 4 stacks for 6 seconds to 2 stacks for 12 seconds. Increased cooldown from 12 seconds to 15 seconds.
July 16, 2019	This skill now applies 4 stacks of burning that scales dynamically between 3 and 6 seconds based on distance from the target. This skill now scales damage dynamically based on distance rather than using distance thresholds.
October 03, 2018	Fixed a bug that could cause this skill to inflict more burning at very close range than intended.
October 02, 2018	Increased the duration of burning inflicted by this skill from 5 seconds to 6 seconds.
February 22, 2017	The number of burning applications that this skill applies has been increased from 1/2/3 to 2/3/4.
April 19, 2016	The recharge time of this skill has been reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Burning has been increased to 3, 2, or 1 stack of burning (5 seconds) based on range (200, 400, or 600 respectively).
September 09, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused the untraited version of this skill to hit twice.
July 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to be unaffected by the Rifled Barrels trait.
May 20, 2014	This skill now lists the maximum number of targets that it hits.
April 15, 2014	Added a skill fact for distance scaling.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the aftercast from .65 seconds to .4 seconds.
March 26, 2013	No longer displays "miss" on attacks that connect at medium and far distances.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Blowtorch has been added to the game.