Power Wrench/history
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
- Specialization
- Tools
- Tier
- Adept
- Type
- Major
- Game link
“Power WrenchReduce the recharge of your elite skill when you dodge.
- 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
- Specialization
- Tools
- Tier
- Adept
- Type
- Major
- Game link
“Power WrenchReduces recharge of your tool-kit skills. Reduce the recharge of your elite skill when you dodge.
Recharge Reduced: 33% Recharge Reduced: 20% Elite Recharge Reduced: 3 seconds Elite Recharge Reduced: 1 second— 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
- Specialization
- Tools
- Tier
- Adept
- Type
- Major
- Game link
“Power WrenchReduces recharge of your tool-kit skills. Reduce the recharge of your elite skill when you dodge.
- Recharge Reduced: 33%
- : 3s
Elite Recharge Reduced— In-game description
January 26, 2016
- Power Wrench: The recharge reduction of this trait has been increased from 20% to 33%.
Power Wrench
- Specialization
- Tools
- Tier
- Adept
- Type
- Major
- Game link
“Power WrenchReduces recharge and improves damage for tool kit skills. Enhances turret-repairing skills.
- Damage Increase: 10%
- Effectiveness Increased: 100%
- 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
- Specialization
- Tools
- Tier
- Adept
- Type
- Major
- Game link
“Power WrenchReduces recharge and improves damage for tool kit skills. Enhances turret-repairing skills.
- Damage Increase: 10%
- Effectiveness Increased: 100%
- 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.
Power Wrench
- Specialization
- Tools
- Tier
- Master
- Type
- Major
“Power WrenchReduces recharge and improves damage for tool kit skills. Enhances turret-repairing skills.
- Damage Increase: 10%
- Effectiveness Increased: 100%
- 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.
Power Wrench
- Specialization
- Tools
- Tier
- Master
- Type
- Major
“Power WrenchThrow Wrench and Smack skills cripple enemies. Reduces recharge on tool kit skills. Turret-repairing skills are enhanced.
- Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed
- Effectiveness Increased: 100%
- Recharge reduced: 20%
— In-game description
November 15, 2012
- Power Wrench: This trait now applies to Gear Shield and Magnet.
Power Wrench
- Specialization
- Tools
- Tier
- Master
- Type
- Major
“Power WrenchThe Throw Wrench and Smack skills cripple foes and heal turrets twice as fast. Reduces recharge on tool kit skills.
- Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed
- Recharge reduced: 20%
— In-game description
Original version
Power Wrench
- Specialization
- Tools
- Tier
- Master
- Type
- Major
“Power WrenchThe 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