Flamethrower

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This article is about the engineer weapon kit skill. For the bundle, see Flamethrower (bundle). For the consumable, see Flame Thrower.

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Flamethrower

Engineering Kit. Arm yourself with a flamethrower that replaces your weapon skills.

— In-game description

Flamethrower replaces the engineer's standard weapon skills with five different skills, focusing on light damage, short range and area effects.^[1]

Skills[edit]

#	Skill			Description
1	Flame Jet	20.25¼		Spray fire in a cone pattern while moving, burning foes on the final attack. Deals 10% bonus damage to burning targets.
2	Flame Blast	0.5½	6	Fire a napalm ball that explodes on impact.
3	Air Blast	0.5½	15	Push back foes and projectiles with a hot-air blast, burning foes that are already on fire.
4	Stoke the Flames	0.5½	20	Overcharge your flamethrower with a fuel injection, releasing a burst of flames around you as you grant yourself boons.
5	Napalm	20.25¼	25	Immolate enemies in front of you with a cone of intense fire.

Juggernaut — Gain might while wielding a flamethrower. Might applied to you gains increased duration. Napalm grants you stability and a fire aura.

Streamlined Kits — Equipping an Engineering Kit creates an attack or spell and grants you swiftness.

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	Incendiary Ammo has been removed from the game, replaced on the toolbelt by Smoke Vent. Smoke Vent has been moved to the toolbelt slot. Stoke the Flames has been added to the game. This is a new skill in flamethrower's fourth slot. Napalm has been moved to fifth slot
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Weapon Kits and Device Kits are now referred to as Engineering kits to reflect that their classifications are functionally the same.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All kit backpacks were removed and replaced with a weapon that your character holds to distinguish the kit you are currently using.
December 14, 2012	Engineer kits now inherit the bonuses from currently equipped weapon sigils.
November 15, 2012	All kits can be stowed in the air now.
September 14, 2012	Disabled the "stowing" auto-attack to prevent players from getting stuck holding these kits: Bomb Kit, Elixir Gun, Flamethrower, Grenade Kit, Med Kit, and Tool Kit.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Flamethrower has been added to the game.

The flamethrower was one of the last tools included in the engineer's repertoire, opening the door for inclusion of the Elixir Gun as well.