A.E.D.

This article is about the skill. For the effect, see A.E.D. (effect).

Gadget. Activate your A.E.D., enabling the system to heal you after a brief period of time. If you take lethal damage while A.E.D. is active, it ends and heals you for a large amount and removes conditions. — In-game description

A.E.D.

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Slot

Healing

Tool belt

  Static Shock

Type

Gadget

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

21659, 30881

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0.75¾  24  

A.E.D.

Gadget. Activate your A.E.D., enabling the system to heal you after a brief period of time. If you take lethal damage while A.E.D. is active, it ends and heals you for a large amount and removes conditions.

 Healing when lethal damage taken: 12,280 (1.72)^?

 Healing: 4,344 (0.6)^?

 A.E.D. (5s): Heals when the timer expires. If lethal damage is taken, the damage is negated, you are healed for a large amount, and conditions are removed.

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Grenadier — Increase the throw velocity and blast radius of grenades. Using a healing skill casts Lesser Grenade Barrage.

Inventions

• Cleansing Synergy — Using a heal skill triggers a cleansing pulse around you.
• Reconstruction Enclosure — Grant protection to nearby allies when you use a heal skill.

Alchemy

• Health Insurance — Increase your incoming healing effectiveness. Gain increased healing to others while using a med kit.
• Transmute — Drink a Lesser Elixir C when you use a healing skill.

Tools

• Reactive Lenses — Activate Lesser Utility Goggles when using a healing skill.
• Gadgeteer — Gadget skills are more powerful.

Scrapper

• Speed of Synergy — Using a heal skill grants superspeed in a radius around you. Using a healing skill's associated tool-belt skill grants you personal superspeed.

Notes

• Does not work with falling damage.
• Will not save you from the Jellyfish Beast's consume.

Anomaly:

Does not prevent Finishing Blow from finishing off the Engineer when hit at low enough health.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 24 seconds.
March 09, 2021	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill's Superspeed skill fact from the trait Speed of Synergy from displaying when the Gadgeteer trait was also active.
February 02, 2021	Fixed a bug that prevented the Gadgeteer traited version of this skill from triggering the Speed of Synergy trait.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill now removes confusion in addition to its previous removals.
July 26, 2016	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 40 seconds to 30 seconds.
September 09, 2014	In addition to healing, this skill now removes all damaging conditions if the engineer would take a lethal blow.
April 15, 2014	Reduced the cast time from 1 second to .75 seconds.
December 10, 2013	A.E.D. has been added to the game.

Trivia

• An automated external defibrillator (AED) is a medical device used to diagnose and treat cardiac arrhythmias.