Guild Wars 2

Have they nerfed Blowtorch recently? I’ve been playing guardian a lot past week so I might have missed some patch. Yesterday I hopped back to my Condition Specced engi and noticed that blowtorch no longer crits for ~2k when close, but rather does 3x very low damage output. 3x 160-250. Did I just make this up or what happened?

I do realize that this is mainly for the awesome burning, especially with CDamage build, but wow, that just got hit a huge nerf bat?

Guess they thought pistols already did soooo muchh damage that they nerfed it..

/puts the sarcasm switch to off

ive never seen 2k crits with blowtorch. Must have had a high power/crit build.

I noted this while doing coated bullets experiments.

Blowtorch was always 3 hits. it clearly says that. However, normally it aggregates the damage, and tells you the total. A 2k crit, would be 3 666 damage crits. which would be something like 300-400 damage hits. Obviously, you had a high power to get that.
Blowtorch has low per hit scaling of .1075

When you take coated bullets, the UI stops giving aggregate damage. it shows each hit separately. So now you see, 300 3 times, instead of it added together.

The rest of the damage reduction is just you having less power then before.

I wouldn’t be suprised if it’s a hidden nerf. That, or they just straight up forgot to add it to the patch notes.

Casia.4281:

ive never seen 2k crits with blowtorch. Must have had a high power/crit build.

I noted this while doing coated bullets experiments.

Blowtorch was always 3 hits. it clearly says that. However, normally it aggregates the damage, and tells you the total. A 2k crit, would be 3 666 damage crits. which would be something like 300-400 damage hits. Obviously, you had a high power to get that.
Blowtorch has low per hit scaling of .1075

When you take coated bullets, the UI stops giving aggregate damage. it shows each hit separately. So now you see, 300 3 times, instead of it added together.

The rest of the damage reduction is just you having less power then before.

I haven’t changed my build at all. I’ve moved 10 points from firearm to alchemy but that’s it. Never had coated bullets traited iirc and never tried high power build, because I hate being squishy pvp-wise. C-Damage build is awesome, because you can melt down your foes with conditions while maintaining high survivability. Now I do a whopping 600 direct damage with Blowtorch, that’s same amount as one tick of the Burning applied, instead of some nice 1.5-2k crits (happened quite often with my 40+% crit build).

it’s still the same.