Launch Wall

Exceed. Launch your photon wall forward, causing the wall to explode when it strikes a foe, inflicting conditions on nearby enemies. When fired above the heat threshold, launch additional walls. — In-game description

Launch Wall

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Specialization

Holosmith

Slot

Utility

Tool belt

  Particle Accelerator

Type

Exceed

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

40533

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0.5½  0.5½  

Launch Wall

Exceed. Launch your photon wall forward, causing the wall to explode when it strikes a foe, inflicting conditions on nearby enemies. When fired above the heat threshold, launch additional walls.

 Damage: 399 (1.5)^?

 Damage: 133 (0.5)^?

 Heat Threshold: 50

₃ Vulnerability (5s): +3% Incoming Damage, +3% Incoming Condition Damage

 Additional Walls: 2

 Number of Targets: 5

 Blocks Missiles

 Radius: 180

 Explosion

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Short Fuse — Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
• Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
• Aim-Assisted Rocket — 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.
• Explosive Temper — Explosions grant stacking ferocity when they hit.
• Shaped Charge — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.
• Shrapnel — Explosions have a chance to cripple and cause bleeding on 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.

Firearms

• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.

Notes

• With the trait Enhanced Capacity Storage Unit equipped and above 100% heat, this skill gains 35% additional damage in PvE, or 10% additional damage in PvP and WvW.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Reduced the 100% heat damage bonus from 50% to 35% in PvE only.
March 19, 2024	Increased the damage increase when above 100% heat from 10% to 50% in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per wall from 1.5 to 0.5.
April 23, 2019	Skills that destroy missiles will now block missiles instead.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Launch Wall has been added to the game.