Power Wrench/history

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June 27, 2023

  • Power Wrench: This trait no longer reduces the cooldown of tool-kit skills. Increased the elite skill recharge from 1 second to 3 seconds in PvP and WvW.
Power Wrench.png

Power Wrench

Specialization
Engineer icon small.png Tools
Tier
Adept
Type
Major
Game link
Power Wrench

Reduce the recharge of your elite skill when you dodge.

Count Recharge.png Elite Recharge Reduced: 3 seconds

— In-game description

March 09, 2021

  • Power Wrench: Fixed a bug in which this trait erroneously displayed increased damage for the Tool Kit autoattack.

February 25, 2020

  • Power Wrench: (Competitive split) Reduced cooldown reduction from 33% to 20%. Reduced elite skill recharge from 3 seconds to 1 second.
Power Wrench.png

Power Wrench

Specialization
Engineer icon small.png Tools
Tier
Adept
Type
Major
Game link
Power Wrench

Reduces recharge of your tool-kit skills. Reduce the recharge of your elite skill when you dodge.

— In-game description

October 02, 2018

  • Power Wrench: This trait no longer increases tool kit damage or turret repairs. This trait now reduces the recharge time of the engineer's elite skill by 3 seconds when they dodge, in addition to its previous 33% tool kit recharge reduction.
Power Wrench.png

Power Wrench

Specialization
Engineer icon small.png Tools
Tier
Adept
Type
Major
Game link
Power Wrench

Reduces recharge of your tool-kit skills. Reduce the recharge of your elite skill when you dodge.

Count Recharge.png Recharge Reduced: 33%
Miscellaneous effect.png Elite Recharge Reduced: 3s

— In-game description

January 26, 2016

  • Power Wrench: The recharge reduction of this trait has been increased from 20% to 33%.
Power Wrench.png

Power Wrench

Specialization
Engineer icon small.png Tools
Tier
Adept
Type
Major
Game link
Power Wrench

Reduces recharge and improves damage for tool kit skills. Enhances turret-repairing skills.

Damage.png Damage Increase: 10%
Radius.png Effectiveness Increased: 100%
Count Recharge.png Recharge Reduced: 33%

— In-game description

June 23, 2015

  • Power Wrench: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
    • This trait has been moved to the Adept tier.
Power Wrench.png

Power Wrench

Specialization
Engineer icon small.png Tools
Tier
Adept
Type
Major
Game link
Power Wrench

Reduces recharge and improves damage for tool kit skills. Enhances turret-repairing skills.

Damage.png Damage Increase: 10%
Radius.png Effectiveness Increased: 100%
Count Recharge.png Recharge Reduced: 20%

— In-game description

September 09, 2014

  • Power Wrench: This trait now increases the base damage of Tool Kit abilities by 10% instead of adding the crippled condition to wrench attacks.
    • The crippled condition for wrench attacks is now baseline for the kit.
Trait VIII.png

Power Wrench

Specialization
Engineer icon small.png Tools
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Power Wrench

Reduces recharge and improves damage for tool kit skills. Enhances turret-repairing skills.

Damage.png Damage Increase: 10%
Radius.png Effectiveness Increased: 100%
Miscellaneous effect.png Recharge reduced: 20%

— In-game description

July 01, 2014

  • Power Wrench: Added a cripple skill fact while traited with Power Wrench.

June 03, 2014

  • Throw Wrench: dded a cripple skill fact while the Power Wrench trait is equipped.
    • Appears not to have worked, identical patch note above in July.

November 26, 2013

  • Power Wrench: Updated the description and skill fact to indicate the actual functionality of this skill.
Trait VIII.png

Power Wrench

Specialization
Engineer icon small.png Tools
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Power Wrench

Throw Wrench and Smack skills cripple enemies. Reduces recharge on tool kit skills. Turret-repairing skills are enhanced.

Crippled.png Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed
Radius.png Effectiveness Increased: 100%
Miscellaneous effect.png Recharge reduced: 20%

— In-game description

November 15, 2012

  • Power Wrench: This trait now applies to Gear Shield and Magnet.
Trait VIII.png

Power Wrench

Specialization
Engineer icon small.png Tools
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Power Wrench

The Throw Wrench and Smack skills cripple foes and heal turrets twice as fast. Reduces recharge on tool kit skills.

Crippled.png Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed
Miscellaneous effect.png Recharge reduced: 20%

— In-game description

Original version

Trait VIII.png

Power Wrench

Specialization
Engineer icon small.png Tools
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Power Wrench

The Throw Wrench and Smack skills heal turrets twice as fast, and cripple foes for 5 seconds. Tool kit skills recharge 20% faster.

— In-game description