Bulwark Gyro
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— In-game description
Version history
For a detailed skill history, see here.
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Changes
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| February 11, 2025
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- Reduced the initial base barrier from 1,140 to 740, the pulsing base barrier from 560 to 410, and the pulsing barrier's healing-power multiplier from 0.25 to 0.1 in WvW only.
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| April 16, 2024
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- (Competitive split) Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in WvW only. Reduced the base initial barrier from 1,620 to 1,140 and the base pulsing barrier from 810 to 560 in WvW only. Reduced the initial barrier healing power coefficient from 0.8 to 0.5 and the pulse barrier healing power coefficient from 0.4 to 0.25 in WvW only.
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| January 30, 2024
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- This skill no longer redirects damage from nearby allies to the user, and it now grants barrier to nearby allies upon activation and on each pulse.
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| February 23, 2021
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- Reduced base barrier pulse from 726 to 508 in PvP only.
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| October 13, 2020
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- Increased cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
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| November 19, 2019
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- Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from properly redirecting damage to the scrapper.
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| July 16, 2019
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- This skill now scales the initial personal barrier it grants with the number of allies you are redirecting damage from.
- The base barrier granted has been reduced to account for the higher potential initial gain.
- Barrier amount is no longer split by game mode as a result.
- Fixed a bug with an incorrect skill fact for barrier amount.
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| April 23, 2019
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- Gyros can now be used underwater.
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| March 28, 2019
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- Fixed a bug that caused this skill to grant more barrier than intended.
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| March 26, 2019
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- Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to redirect damage from inanimate objects. Reduced the barrier granted by this skill by 33% in PvP.
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| March 05, 2019
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- This skill has been reworked. The gyro now creates a lightning field that follows the engineer while it grants them barrier every second and redirects some damage from nearby allies to the engineer.
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| May 16, 2017
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- The cooldown of this skill has been increased from 20 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.
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| July 26, 2016
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- The damage reduction of this skill has been reduced from 50% to 33%.
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| October 23, 2015
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Heart of Thorns release:
- Bulwark Gyro has been added to the game.
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Engineer (skill list)
Scrapper
Number of Targets: 5
Duration: 3 seconds
Interval: 1 second
Radius: 240
Combo Field: Lightning
Scrapper
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.
