Flamethrower

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

Engineering Kit. Arm yourself with a flamethrower that replaces your weapon skills. — In-game description

Flamethrower

 

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Tool belt

  Incendiary Ammo

Type

Engineering Kit

Sequence

 → 

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

5927

Gallery
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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.

Skills

#	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 rolls through foes and explodes.
3	Air Blast	0.5½	15	Push back foes and projectiles with a hot-air blast, burning foes that are already on fire.
4	Napalm		25	Burn foes with a wall of napalm at the target location.
5	Smoke Vent		15	Vent smoke from your flamethrower, blinding nearby foes.

Related traits

Firearms

• Juggernaut — Gain might and stability while wielding a flamethrower. Might applied to you gains increased duration.

Alchemy

• Backpack Regenerator — Recover health every second when using an Engineering Kit.

Tools

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

Gallery

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  Appearance.

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  Backpack of the Flamethrower before the June 23, 2015 game update.

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  Concept art.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
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.

Trivia

• 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.