Booby Trap

Set off an explosive booby trap, launching nearby foes with a powerful blast. — In-game description

Booby Trap

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Slot

Downed

Game link

API

5963

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Booby Trap

Set off an explosive booby trap, launching nearby foes with a powerful blast.

 Damage: 585 (2.2)^?

 Launch: 480

 Number of Targets: 5

 Explosion

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Defiance Break: 232

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Short Fuse — Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
• Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
• Explosive Temper — Explosions grant stacking ferocity when they hit.
• Big Boomer — Deal increased strike damage to foes with a lower health percentage than you. Hitting with an Explosion heals you over a few seconds.

Inventions

• Bunker Down — Create a proximity mine at your target's location and a med kit at your location when you disable an enemy.

Tools

• Lock On — Striking a stealthed foe triggers Invisible Analysis. Disabling a foe triggers Controlled Analysis. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Scrapper

• 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.

Notes

• There's an extremely low chance for the engineer to shout "Three, two, one!" when casting this skill. The booby trap will still detonate as normal, even before the engineer finishes saying this line.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Increased damage by 10%.
February 22, 2017	Skills that count as explosions for the traits Steel-Packed Powder, Explosive Powder, and Shrapnel are now marked with a skill fact.
May 20, 2014	This skill now functions with the Steel-Packed Powder and Shrapnel traits.
April 15, 2014	Updated the damage skill fact to scale with the Always Prepared trait.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Booby Trap has been added to the game.