Blunderbuss/history

April 15, 2025

• Blunderbuss: 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.

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

Game link

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0.5½  

6

8

6

 

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

October 08, 2024

• Blunderbuss: Increased the minimum power coefficient from 0.87 to 1.1 in PvP only.

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

Game link

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0.5½  

6

8

6

 

Blunderbuss

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

 Maximum Damage: 742 (1.76)^?

 Maximum Damage: 553 (1.31)^?

 Minimum Damage: 464 (1.10)^?

 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

March 19, 2024

• Blunderbuss: Reduced the cooldown from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP only.

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

Game link

“

0.5½  

6

8

6

 

Blunderbuss

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

 Maximum Damage: 742 (1.76)^?

 Maximum Damage: 553 (1.31)^?

 Minimum Damage: 464 (1.10)^?

 Minimum Damage: 367 (0.87)^?

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

June 28, 2022

• Blunderbuss: 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.

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

Game link

“

0.5½  

6

8

 

Blunderbuss

Fire several shards of shrapnel that inflict more damage the closer you are to foes.

 Maximum Damage: 742 (1.76)^?

 Maximum Damage: 553 (1.31)^?

 Minimum Damage: 464 (1.10)^?

 Minimum Damage: 367 (0.87)^?

₃ Maximum Bleeding (9s): 594 Damage

₃ Minimum Bleeding (3s): 198 Damage

 Might (8s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power

 Might (5s): 30 Condition Damage, 30 Power

 Number of Targets: 5

 Boon Radius: 360

 Range: 900

— In-game description

February 25, 2020

• Blunderbuss: (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.

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

Game link

“

0.5½  

9

12

 

Blunderbuss

Fire several shards of shrapnel that inflict more damage the closer you are to foes.

 Maximum Damage: 742 (1.76)^?

 Maximum Damage: 553 (1.31)^?

 Minimum Damage: 464 (1.10)^?

 Minimum Damage: 211 (0.5)^?

₃ Maximum Bleeding (9s): 594 Damage

₃ Minimum Bleeding (3s): 198 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 900

— In-game description

July 16, 2019

• Blunderbuss: This skill now respects line of sight.

April 23, 2019

• Blunderbuss: 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.

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

Game link

“

0.5½  9  

Blunderbuss

Fire several shards of shrapnel that inflict more damage the closer you are to foes.

 Maximum Damage: 742 (1.76)^?

 Minimum Damage: 464 (1.10)^?

₃ Maximum Bleeding (9s): 594 Damage

₃ Minimum Bleeding (3s): 198 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 900

— In-game description

May 08, 2018

• Blunderbuss: Reduced the recharge of this skill from 10 seconds to 9 seconds

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

Game link

“

0.5½  9  

Blunderbuss

Fire a cloud of shrapnel that causes more damage the closer you are to foes.

 Damage within 0-250 Range: 742 (1.76)^?

 Damage within 250-400 Range: 650 (1.54)^?

 Damage within 400-550 Range: 557 (1.32)^?

 Damage within 550-700 Range: 464 (1.1)^?

₄ Bleeding within 0-250 Range (7s): 616 Damage

₃ Bleeding within 250-400 Range (7s): 462 Damage

₂ Bleeding within 400-550 Range (7s): 308 Damage

 Bleeding within 550-700 Range (7s): 154 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 700

— In-game description

December 12, 2017

• Blunderbuss: Reduced the bleeding stacks inflicted at each tier by 1. Increased the duration of bleeding from 5 seconds to 7 seconds at all tiers.

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

Game link

“

0.5½  10  

Blunderbuss

Fire a cloud of shrapnel that causes more damage the closer you are to foes.

 Damage within 0-250 Range: 742 (1.76)^?

 Damage within 250-400 Range: 650 (1.54)^?

 Damage within 400-550 Range: 557 (1.32)^?

 Damage within 550-700 Range: 464 (1.1)^?

₄ Bleeding within 0-250 Range (7s): 616 Damage

₃ Bleeding within 250-400 Range (7s): 462 Damage

₂ Bleeding within 400-550 Range (7s): 308 Damage

 Bleeding within 550-700 Range (7s): 154 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 700

— In-game description

February 22, 2017

• Blunderbuss: 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.

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

Game link

“

0.5½  10  

Blunderbuss

Fire a cloud of shrapnel that causes more damage the closer you are to foes.

 Damage within 0-250 Range: 742 (1.76)^?

 Damage within 250-400 Range: 650 (1.54)^?

 Damage within 400-550 Range: 557 (1.32)^?

 Damage within 550-700 Range: 464 (1.1)^?

₅ Bleeding within 0-250 Range (5s): 550 Damage

₄ Bleeding within 250-400 Range (5s): 440 Damage

₃ Bleeding within 400-550 Range (5s): 330 Damage

₂ Bleeding within 550-700 Range (5s): 220 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 700

— In-game description

December 13, 2016

• Blunderbuss: The damage of this ability has been increased by 10% at all range thresholds in PvP only.

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

Game link

“

0.5½  10  

Blunderbuss

Fire a cloud of shrapnel that causes more damage the closer you are to foes.

 Damage within 0-250 Range: 675 (1.6)^?

 Damage within 0-250 Range: 742 (1.76)^?

 Damage within 250-400 Range: 591 (1.4)^?

 Damage within 250-400 Range: 650 (1.54)^?

 Damage within 400-550 Range: 506 (1.2)^?

 Damage within 400-550 Range: 557 (1.32)^?

 Damage within 550-700 Range: 422 (1.0)^?

 Damage within 550-700 Range: 464 (1.1)^?

₄ Bleeding within 0-250 Range (4s): 352 Damage

₃ Bleeding within 250-400 Range (4s): 264 Damage

₂ Bleeding within 400-550 Range (4s): 176 Damage

 Bleeding within 550-700 Range (4s): 88 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 700

— In-game description

July 28, 2015

• Blunderbuss: Increased the range to 700.

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

Game link

“

0.5½  10  

Blunderbuss

Fire a cloud of shrapnel that causes more damage the closer you are to foes.

 Damage within 0-250 Range: 675 (1.6)^?

 Damage within 250-400 Range: 591 (1.4)^?

 Damage within 400-550 Range: 506 (1.2)^?

 Damage within 550-700 Range: 422 (1.0)^?

₄ Bleeding within 0-250 Range (4s): 352 Damage

₃ Bleeding within 250-400 Range (4s): 264 Damage

₂ Bleeding within 400-550 Range (4s): 176 Damage

 Bleeding within 550-700 Range (4s): 88 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 700

— In-game description

April 15, 2014

• Blunderbuss: Added a skill fact for distance scaling.

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

Game link

“

0.5½  10  

Blunderbuss

Fire a cloud of shrapnel that causes more damage the closer you are to foes.

 Damage within 0-200 Range: 654 (1.6)^?

 Damage within 200-300 Range: 572 (1.4)^?

 Damage within 300-400 Range: 490 (1.2)^?

 Damage within 400-500 Range: 409 (1.0)^?

₄ Bleeding within 0-200 Range (4s): 352 Damage

₃ Bleeding within 200-300 Range (4s): 264 Damage

₂ Bleeding within 300-400 Range (4s): 176 Damage

 Bleeding within 400-500 Range (4s): 88 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Range: 500

— In-game description

December 10, 2013

• Blunderbuss: Increased the range of this skill from 400 to 500 (700 when traited with Rifled Barrels).

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

Game link

“

0.5½  10  

Blunderbuss

Fire a cloud of shrapnel that causes more damage the closer you are to foes.

 Damage at 200 distance: 618 (1.600)^?

 Damage at 400 distance: 386 (1.000)^?

₄ Bleeding at 200 distance (4s): 352 Damage

 Bleeding at 400 distance (4s): 88 Damage

 Range: 500

— In-game description

Original version

Blunderbuss

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

 

“

0.5½  10  

Blunderbuss

Fire a cloud of shrapnel that causes more damage the closer you are to foes.

 Damage at 100 distance: 618 (1.600)^?

 Damage at 400 distance: 386 (1.000)^?

₄ Bleeding at 100 distance (4s): 352 Damage

 Bleeding at 400 distance (4s): 88 Damage

 Range: 400

— In-game description