Flame Blast/history
April 14, 2026
- Flame Blast: Reduced the burning stacks from 3 to 1 and increased the burning duration from 4 seconds to 6 seconds in PvE only.
“Fire a napalm ball that explodes on impact.
Damage: 462 (1.3)? Damage: 391 (1.1)? Explosion Burning (6s): 786 Damage 2 Explosion Burning (4s): 1,048 Damage 2 Explosion Burning (6s): 1,572 Damage- Number of Targets: 5
- Blast Radius: 240
- Pierces
- Explosion
- Combo Finisher: Blast
- Range: 600
— In-game description
November 18, 2025
- Increased the cooldown from 6 seconds to 8 seconds and reduced the power coefficient from 1.3 to 1.1 in WvW only.
“Fire a napalm ball that explodes on impact.
Damage: 462 (1.3)? Damage: 391 (1.1)? 3 Explosion Burning (4s): 1,572 Damage 2 Explosion Burning (4s): 1,048 Damage 2 Explosion Burning (6s): 1,572 Damage- Number of Targets: 5
- Blast Radius: 240
- Pierces
- Explosion
- Combo Finisher: Blast
- Range: 600
— In-game description
June 24, 2025
- Flame Blast: This skill no longer damages enemies it passes through. Increased the explosion power coefficient from 0.75 to 1.3. Increased the explosion's burning stacks from 2 to 3 in PvE only.
“Fire a napalm ball that explodes on impact.
- Damage: 462 (1.3)?
3 Explosion Burning (4s): 1,572 Damage 2 Explosion Burning (6s): 1,572 Damage- Number of Targets: 5
- Blast Radius: 240
- Pierces
- Explosion
- Combo Finisher: Blast
- Range: 600
— In-game description
February 28, 2022
- Flame Blast: Increased burning duration from 4 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP only.
“Fire a napalm ball that rolls through foes and explodes.
- Damage: 89 (0.25)?
Projectile Burning (4s): 524 Damage Projectile Burning (6s): 786 Damage 2 Explosion Burning (4s): 1,048 Damage 2 Explosion Burning (6s): 1,572 Damage- Number of Targets: 5
- Blast Radius: 240
- Pierces
- Explosion
- Combo Finisher: Blast
- Range: 600
— In-game description
July 07, 2020
- Flame Blast: Increased burning duration from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
“Fire a napalm ball that rolls through foes and explodes.
- Damage: 89 (0.25)?
- Projectile Burning (4s): 524 Damage
- 2 Explosion Burning (4s): 1,048 Damage
- Number of Targets: 5
- Blast Radius: 240
- Pierces
- Explosion
- Combo Finisher: Blast
- Range: 600
— In-game description
March 31, 2020
- Flame Blast: This skill is now considered an explosion for the purposes of traits.
“Fire a napalm ball that rolls through foes and explodes.
- Damage: 89 (0.25)?
- Projectile Burning (3s): 393 Damage
- 2 Explosion Burning (3s): 786 Damage
- Number of Targets: 5
- Blast Radius: 240
- Pierces
- Explosion
- Combo Finisher: Blast
- Range: 600
— In-game description
April 09, 2019
- Flame Blast: Updated the tooltip to reflect previous changes.
March 05, 2019
- Flame Blast: This skill now targets the ground and will explode automatically when it hits the targeted location.
February 22, 2017
- Flame Blast: Reduced the base damage of this skill by 66%.
- This skill now inflicts burning for 3 seconds.
Flame Blast
- Profession
Engineer (skill list)- Kit
- Flamethrower

- Sequence
- →
- Game link
“Fire a napalm ball that rolls through foes and explodes.
- Damage: 89 (0.25)?
- Burning (3s): 393 Damage
- Number of Targets: 5
- Range: 600
— In-game description
March 26, 2013
- Flame Blast skill:
- No longer double-detonates when the projectile expires naturally.
- Turns off Detonate after the flame blast ball is gone.
Flame Blast
- Profession
Engineer (skill list)- Kit
- Flamethrower

- Sequence
- →
- Game link
“Fire a napalm ball that rolls through foes and explodes.
- Damage: 266 (0.75)?
- Number of Targets: 5
- Range: 600
— In-game description
February 26, 2013
- Flame Blast: This ability is now able to be detonated by a secondary ability.
- Flame Blast Detonate: This new ability will detonate the napalm ball that is launched by Flame Blast.
Flame Blast
“Fire a napalm ball that rolls through foes and explodes.
- Damage: 244
- Blast damage: 569
- Blast radius: 240
- Range: 600
— In-game description
Original version
Flame Blast
“Fire a napalm ball that rolls through foes and explodes.
- Damage: 244
- Blast damage: 569
- Blast radius: 240
- Range: 600
— In-game description