Guild Wars 2

I’m really stoked for the new balance changes coming for the flamethrower. This was my first go-to kit when I was leveling but I dropped it in favor of bombs since there is so much power and versatility in that kit. I came back to FT because it’s great against other engineers that run toolkit and it has great mobile utility. Not so much vs. decap. I just never used it for the #1 channel since it was too weak. Now our traits to buff flamethrower will make it competitive and not just bring it up to par.

What’s really got me excited though is the napalm field. A few people are calling it a liability because of retaliation, but what’s neat is that It will now be able to proc on-hit and on-crit sigils while you kite, guard, finish within the field, etc. You can now roast other engineers’ turrets, get damage on environmental weapons and doors, and tank within the field that can now crit along with acid bomb, toolkit chains, etc. Now I can leave a thumper turret and a flame field at a keep door in foefire and go back to guard far point while it gets knocked down. And let’s say you have strength runes and run celestial or berserker. If you can lay this down after CCing someone against a wall, they are going to have a bad time. Add a couple weapon skill CCs, an air blast, and supply crate and your opponent is going down. It being as much of a risk as a flame channel for retal damage is fine with me.

I don’t know if juggernaut trait will be worth it after this patch. I mean I build enough might during fights with enhanced performance, sigil of strength and blasts within flame fields from FT and Bomb Kit, and honestly I swap kits too much to gain it’s effects.

The blast finish is a welcome though not necessary to flame blast, vent will still be awesome as well. Unfortunately Air blast got a nerf, but honestly it’s necessary for it to have a tell so that it can be evaded on sight for the sake of counterplay. I didn’t want to spam the subforum with new topics, but I felt like these changes deserved a light shined on them. Thanks for reading.