Guild Wars 2

From PvP subforum:

We’ve been making some gradual changes to pistol and rifle, hoping to bring them a bit more in line with hammer.

Patch notes:

• Blunderbuss: The damage of this ability has been increased by 10% at all range thresholds in PvP only.
• Jump Shot: The damage of the initial jump has been reduced by 56%. The damage of the landing has been increased by 28%.

Was pistol changed? Why there is nothing about pistol in patch notes?

It’s not a full balance update and not all professions are being covered at this time.
Does this update substitute for a full balance update? No.
~Karl

What you quoted only means they have made changes, at the least on their side, not that it got pushed into patch. That means we should see pistol(and maybe more rifle) changes next year after season is over.

we shouldn’t have to wait till next patch to get needed changes, engi got such less care from the devs this patch compared to the others.

As some one who runs a P/P Condi Engi, I hope they DO leave Pistols alone – based on their track record of Engi changes…..

Soon.5240:

As some one who runs a P/P Condi Engi, I hope they DO leave Pistols alone – based on their track record of Engi changes…..

As a long time P/P vanilla engi (despite having HoT), I agree with this. It is currently in a good place.

Not talking about PvP, but at least for PvE I’d at least like to see changes that steer us away from being tied to bomb and/or grenade kit. Maybe making tool kit or elixir gun, or just elixirs better for condi. The only way I really see that happening though is if they end up nerfing grenade and/or bomb kit and likely killing the viability of the spec.