Function Gyro (tool belt skill)

This article is about the tool belt skill. For the trait, see Function Gyro.

Create a lightning field at the specified point. Then summon gyros to finish foes and revive allies within the field. The recharge of this skill is increased for each gyro created beyond the first. Interrupted gyros are destroyed. — In-game description

Function Gyro

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Specialization

Scrapper

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Tool belt

Game link

API

56920, 56921

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Function Gyro

Create a lightning field at the specified point. Then summon gyros to finish foes and revive allies within the field. The recharge of this skill is increased for each gyro created beyond the first.
Interrupted gyros are destroyed.

 Recharge increase per gyro: 50%

 Damage: 266 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 133 (0.5)^?

 Number of Targets: 3

 Number of Allied Targets: 3

 Field Duration: 5 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Combo Field: Lightning

 Range: 600

— In-game description

A Function Gyro and a Medic Gyro.

Combat abilities of the summoned gyro

Abilities

• Revives allies or finishes off foes on your behalf.

Effects

 Fuel Remaining

Mechanics

• This skill summons up to 6 gyros to revive up to 3 downed allies and finish up to 3 downed foes in the targeted area. If no downed ally or foe is found in the targeted area, no gyro will be summoned, but the skill will still be cast, creating the lighting field, and triggering any related trait in use.
  • Each gyro created beyond the first is one summon and is independent of the others. If the scrapper summons 2 gyros and one of them is destroyed, the other won't necessarily get destroyed.
• Like all revives and all finishers, the gyro can only revive downed allies, not dead ones. Unlike most revive skills, this skill cannot be used to revive fully dead NPCs.
• The summoned gyro has a limited life span of roughly 10 seconds, indicated by the  Fuel Remaining effect.
  • The gyro will be destroyed prematurely if:
    • Its target revives or fully dies.
    • Is affected by crowd control and does not have  Stability to negate it.
    • Damage depletes its health.
• Gyros use the same finisher skin as the scrapper that summons them.
• No gyro will be summoned if it is the damage of this skill that puts the enemy in downed state.
• When this skill is ready, a small orange gyro hovers around the Engineer.
• When the Gyroscopic Acceleration trait is used, this skill provides superspeed to 5 allied players from the trait despite the fact its tooltip doesn't reflect this. The effects of function gyro itself are still limited by its 3 allied and 3 enemy target cap.

Bug:

Oftentimes, a gyro may fail to be destroyed after reviving an ally or finishing a foe, potentially following its target around for its full fuel duration. If the target falls again into downed state, the gyro will not attempt to revive/finish them again.

Related traits

Inventions

• Soothing Detonation — Heal nearby allies when using a tool belt skill.

Tools

• Optimized Activation — Using tool belt skills grants vigor.
• Static Discharge — Discharge a bolt of lightning whenever you use a tool belt skill.
• Mechanized Deployment — Your tool belt skills gain reduced recharge. Tool belt skills remove conditions. Engage Photon Forge cannot activate this trait.
• Kinetic Battery — Gain Kinetic Charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum, charges gain a burst of speed.

Scrapper

• Function Gyro — You gain access to the function gyro, which replaces your tool belt skill 5. Gain access to Gyro skills.
• Gyroscopic Acceleration — Well abilities have an increased area of effect and grant superspeed to nearby allies on their first pulse. Your function gyro also grants superspeed to allies when cast.
• System Shocker — Disabling a foe grants barrier to nearby allies. Your function gyro dazes foes when cast. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Mass Momentum — Gain might while you have stability. Your Function Gyro applies stability to allies when cast.
• Ex Machina — Function gyro has additional charges, no longer has a recharge penalty, and grants barrier to nearby allies.
• Kinetic Accelerators — Grant boons to nearby allies when you successfully combo a field with a blast or leap finisher. Your function gyro is now a blast finisher.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 18, 2023	Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.5 in PvP only.
March 30, 2022	Fixed a bug in which this skill would grant more superspeed than intended with Gyroscopic Acceleration in WvW.
October 01, 2019	Increased damage by 100%. Increased land radius to 240 and underwater radius to 360. Added clarification to skill description to clarify that function gyros are destroyed when their skill is interrupted. Reduced recharge from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
July 16, 2019	Function Gyro has been added to the game and replaced Function Gyro (trait skill).