Controlled Analysis

Analyze a disabled foe, applying vulnerability. — In-game description

Controlled Analysis

Profession

Engineer (trait skill list)

Trait

 Lock On

Type

Tool belt

Game link

API

45709

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25  

Controlled Analysis

Analyze a disabled foe, applying vulnerability.

 Fury (5s): +20% Critical Chance

 Fury (20.5½s): +20% Critical Chance

₁₀ Vulnerability (8s): +10% Incoming Damage, +10% Incoming Condition Damage

₅ Vulnerability (6s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

 Revealed (6s): You cannot stealth

 Revealed (4s): You cannot stealth

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Shaped Charge — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.

Firearms

• No Scope — Critical hits on foes within the range threshold have a chance to grant fury. Fury grants you ferocity.
• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.

Inventions

• Soothing Detonation — Heal nearby allies when using a tool belt skill.

Alchemy

• Compounding Chemicals — Heal yourself when you grant yourself a boon. Remove a condition from yourself when you use an elixir skill. Gain increased concentration.

Tools

• Optimized Activation — Using tool belt skills grants vigor.
• Static Discharge — Discharge a bolt of lightning whenever you use a tool belt skill.
• Mechanized Deployment — Your tool belt skills gain reduced recharge. Tool belt skills remove conditions. Engage Photon Forge cannot activate this trait.
• 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.
• Kinetic Battery — Gain Kinetic Charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum, charges gain a burst of speed.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 21, 2024	Reduced the revealed duration when striking a stealthed target from 6 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only. Reduced the revealed duration when disabling a target from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Lock On:Reduced fury duration from 5 seconds to 2.5 seconds. Adjusted vulnerability from 10 stacks for 8 seconds to 5 stacks for 6 seconds.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Lock On: Added functionality. This trait will now also analyze foes that you disable. Disable analyze and stealth analyze are two separate skills with individual recharges.

See also

•   Invisible Analysis — triggers when revealing a stealthed foe.