Blunderbuss

Fire several shards of shrapnel that inflict more damage the closer you are to foes. You and nearby allies gain might. — In-game description

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

Game link

API

6153

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Blunderbuss

Fire several shards of shrapnel that inflict more damage the closer you are to foes. You and nearby allies gain might.

 Maximum Damage: 928 (2.2)^?

 Maximum Damage: 553 (1.31)^?

 Minimum Damage: 738 (1.75)^?

 Minimum Damage: 367 (0.87)^?

 Minimum Damage: 464 (1.1)^?

₃ Maximum Bleeding (9s): 594 Damage

₃ Minimum Bleeding (3s): 198 Damage

₅ Might (8s): 150 Condition Damage, 150 Power

₃ Might (5s): 90 Condition Damage, 90 Power

 Number of Targets: 5

 Boon Radius: 360

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Firearms

• Serrated Steel — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Bleeding you inflict gains increased duration.
• Sanguine Array — Gain might when you inflict bleeding on a foe.
• Hematic Focus — Gain fury when you inflict bleeding on an enemy. Fury gives an increased critical-strike chance.
• Juggernaut — Gain might while wielding a flamethrower. Might applied to you gains increased duration. Napalm grants you stability and a fire aura.
• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.
• Sharpshooter — Bleeding you inflict scales off of your power instead of your condition damage.

Alchemy

• Compounding Chemicals — Heal yourself when you grant yourself a boon. Remove a condition from yourself when you use an elixir skill. Gain increased concentration.

Scrapper

• Applied Force — Gain stability when you gain might at or above the threshold. Might grants bonus power.

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
April 15, 2025	Increased the minimum power coefficient from 1.1 to 1.75 and increased the maximum power coefficient from 1.76 to 2.2 in PvE only.
October 08, 2024	Increased the minimum power coefficient from 0.87 to 1.1 in PvP only.
March 19, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP only.
June 28, 2022	Moved from third to second in the Rifle sequence. Now additionally applies might to up to 5 allied targets within a range of 360. Might applied is 5 stacks for 8 seconds in PvE and 3 stacks for 5 seconds in PvP and WvW. Cooldown reduced from 9 seconds to 6 seconds in PvE and from 12 seconds to 8 seconds in PvP and WvW. Increased minimum power coefficient from 0.5 to 0.87 in PvP and WvW.
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.