Cannon
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This article is about the World vs World siege weapon. For other uses, see Cannon (disambiguation).
Cannon
- Location
- World versus World
- Type
- Siege weapon
- Interact
- Yes
- Destructible
- Yes
Cannons are defensive siege weapons. Cannon attacks can hit up to 50 targets. Max impact range 3750.
Skills[edit]
# | Skill | Description | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Fire | 3 | Fire an exploding cannon ball at the target location. | |
1 | Improved Shot | 3 | Fire an exploding cannonball at the target location. Removes boons. (Replaces Fire for players with rank 1 in Cannon Mastery) | |
1 | Disheartening Shot | 3 | Fire an exploding cannonball. Increases damage and removes boons (Replaces Fire for players with at least rank 2 in Cannon Mastery) | |
1 | Devastating Shot | 3 | Fire an exploding cannonball at the target location. Improves damage, increases impact radius removes boons (Replaces Fire for players with at least rank 4 in Cannon Mastery) | |
2 | Fire Grapeshot | 10 | Fire grapeshot to bleed foes. | |
2 | Improved Grapeshot | 10 | Fire grapeshot to bleed foes. Increases damage. (Replaces Fire Grapeshot for players with rank 2 in Cannon Mastery) | |
2 | Piercing Grapeshot | 10 | Fire grapeshot to bleed foes. Increases damage and condition damage (Replaces Fire Grapeshot for players with rank 3 in Cannon Mastery) | |
2 | Shredding Grapeshot | 10 | Fire grapeshot to bleed foes. Increases radius, damage, and condition damage (Replaces Fire Grapeshot for players with at least rank 4 in Cannon Mastery) | |
3 | Ice Shot | 20 | Fire an ice grenade to freeze foes at the target point. | |
3 | Improved Ice Shot | 20 | Fire an ice shell to freeze foes at the target point. Increases damage. (Replaces Ice Shot for players with at least rank 2 in Cannon Mastery) | |
3 | Debilitating Ice Shot | 20 | Fire an ice shell to freeze foes at the target point. Increases damage and radius. (Replaces Ice Shot for players with rank 4 in Cannon Mastery) | |
3 | Bone-shattering Ice Shot | 20 | Fire an ice shell to freeze foes at the target point. Increases duration and radius damage. (Replaces Ice Shot for players with rank 5 in Cannon Mastery) |
Related world abilities[edit]
Upgrade | Rank | Ability | Cost |
---|---|---|---|
Cannon Mastery Total Cost: 60 Improve cannon use |
1 | Basic fire removes boons | 3 |
2 | Increases cannon damage by 27% | 7 | |
3 | Grapeshot does more bleed damage | 10 | |
4 | Increases all blast radii | 15 | |
5 | Increases chill duration | 25 |
- Rank 1 enhances basic fire such that each shot removes one boon.
- Rank 2 increases cannon damage by 22% although the description says 27%.
- Rank 3 doubles the Bleeding stacks on Grapeshot, 10 Bleeding (10s) instead of 5 Bleeding (10s).
- Rank 4 increases the radius of canon skills by 11% (from 360 to 400).
- Rank 5 doubles the Chilled duration from Ice Shot from 2 to 4 seconds.
- See also: Siege weapon#Related world abilities
Variants[edit]
Cannons[edit]
Regular Cannons are located inside towers, keeps and Stonemist Castle once the structure reaches the first objective upgrade tier.
Master Cannons[edit]
Master Cannon are located at the five Ruins of Power. They do twice as much damage as regular cannons. It requires exactly 10 supply to build, so it can be built by one player. Others are able to help build it.