Guild Wars 2

Badly looking for an uncontested EU server

The food nerf was expected, let’s be honest here. 2-3k healing per second was over the top.
The kit refinement nerf makes no sense in my opinion. Why do they even want us to be versatile at this rate?

Flamethrower buffs were nice. The flame blast change is a massive improvement and the channel got some much needed damage.

Not a great patch, not a terrible patch PvE wise. Can’t say too much about spvp.

I average around 5k with flame jet and 6k with flame blast in fractals 30.
Pic is the build I use.

I think lifesteal on crit is still worth it. With backpack regen it amounts to about 445 healing a second.

Oh, I’m well aware of grenade kit and bomb kit being far better alternatives.
But flamethrower isn’t unplayable any more, which is a start.

I prefer bombs over grenades personally to stack everyone with might, slight healing and tons of combo fields.

But I know people love the flamethrower and wish it wasn’t so horrible, so there you have it.

The january patch brought some great things to both the engineer and elementalist. While I was enjoying a fairly decent bombs build, I took some time experimentating with the flamethrower since the new january patch, as I enjoyed the flamethrower while leveling.

Strengths:
Cone based autoattack
Conditions just by autoattacking
Barrage based autoattack
Decent utility, combo fields and AaE blind, projectile reflect if you feel courageous

Cons:
Short range
Hard to target structures

Easily the best part about the flamethrower is the mix of an AoE barrage like attack. This allows you to procc things like sigil of might, omnom berry ghosts and skale venom like crazy.

Flame blast doesn’t seem too special either, but once you find the perfect range to both autoattack and flame blast your target damage will be rather impressive, and all of it is AoE too! And with the right sigils and consumables you get a constant stream of might and healing, while pumping out bleeds, burns, vulnerability.

The problem the flamethrower had were that the numbers were rather poor and the hitmarking was bad, but that seems mostly fixed now with the massive buff to all sorts of bundles now with the january patch.

I made a simple picture for a guide, but I welcome you to experiment with it. I took away 10 points personally and put them in tools for speedy kits.

I’d love to hear everyone else’s thoughts on the flamethrower at 80. I’m having a blast so far.

All will serve the inquest in time.