Overheat

This article is about Holosmith's mechanic. For Underground Facility Fractal mechanic, see Superheated.

Reaching the heat maximum results in a self-damaging explosion. Photon Forge is disabled until all heat is lost. Other tool belt skill cooldowns are increased. — In-game description

Overheat

Profession

Engineer (trait skill list)

Specialization

Holosmith

Trait

 Photon Projector

Game link

API

43937

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Overheat

Reaching the heat maximum results in a self-damaging explosion. Photon Forge is disabled until all heat is lost. Other tool belt skill cooldowns are increased.

 Base Health Damage: 3981

 Base Health Damage over Time: 796

 Increased Tool Belt Recharge: 15 seconds

 Duration: 20.5½ seconds

 Interval: 0.5½ seconds

— In-game description

Related traits

Holosmith

• Photon Projector — Photon Forge replaces your tool belt skill 5. Gain access to Exceed skills.
• Photonic Blasting Module — Overheat now blasts damage to nearby foes and no longer deals its initial damage to you. The tool belt recharge penalty for Overheat is reduced. Heat can only be lost after overheating. Damage over time from Overheat is still applied.

Notes

• This skill is part of the Holosmith specialization mechanic and is activated through the minor adept trait Photon Projector.
• Overheating applies the  Overheat effect to the player's bar.
• The damage and damage over time occur after a short delay when reaching maximum heat.
• After taking damage, it will cause all your tool belt skills to go on a 15 second cooldown. 5 seconds with Photonic Blasting Module.
• It will take 15.5 seconds to fully cool down when overheated. 20.5 seconds if using Enhanced Capacity Storage Unit.
• Summoning a mount will remove the  Overheat effect.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Instead of disabling all tool belt skills until all heat is lost, this skill now adds 15 seconds to the recharge of tool belt skills other than Photon Forge. Photon Forge remains disabled until all heat is lost.
July 16, 2019	Overloading [sic] now disables all toolbelt skills for its duration.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Overheat has been added to the game.