Explosives

This article is about the specialization. For other uses, see Explosives (disambiguation).

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"I'd duck if I were you."

Specializing in explosives improves the power of your explosion skills and grenade kit, giving them bonuses and additional enhanced effects. It allows you to make an Explosive Entrance on your enemies, adding an area effect to your first attack.

— In-game description

Explosives is a core specialization for the engineer that focuses on improving Explosions, and Explosive Entrance.

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Explosive Entrance		Your first attack when entering combat explodes, dealing damage to nearby foes. This ability refreshes after a dodge roll.
Major Adept	Grenadier		Increase the throw velocity and blast radius of grenades. Using a healing skill casts Lesser Grenade Barrage.
Major Adept	Short Fuse	3	Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
Major Adept	Glass Cannon		Strike damage dealt increases when above health threshold.
Minor Master	Steel-Packed Powder		Explosions cause vulnerability.
Major Master	Aim-Assisted Rocket	3	Missile hits launch a rocket at your target. After enough rockets have been fired, an orbital strike is called instead. This trait has an internal cooldown.
Major Master	Explosive Temper		Explosions grant stacking ferocity when they hit.
Major Master	Blast Shield		Explosive Entrance grants barrier. Gain vitality based on a percentage of your power.
Minor Grandmaster	Shaped Charge		Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.
Major Grandmaster	Flashbang		Explosive Entrance inflicts blindness when it hits. Additionally it dazes foes above the health threshold.
Major Grandmaster	Shrapnel		Explosions have a chance to cripple and cause bleeding on hit.
Major Grandmaster	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.

See also: List of engineer traits

Version history

For a detailed specialization history, see here.

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