Prime Light Beam

Exceed. Charge up and fire an explosive beam of light in front of you. When activated above the heat threshold, this attack leaves behind a burning holographic field. — In-game description

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Prime Light Beam

 

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Specialization

Holosmith

Slot

Elite

Type

Exceed

Training cost

25 Hero points

Game link

API

42009

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10.25¼  

60

60

40

 

Prime Light Beam

Exceed. Charge up and fire an explosive beam of light in front of you. When activated above the heat threshold, this attack leaves behind a burning holographic field.

 Damage: 798 (3.0)^?

 Damage: 266 (1.0)^?

 Field Damage: 133 (0.5)^?

 Heat Threshold: 50

 Field Burning (3s): 393 Damage

 Launch: 240

 Number of Targets: 5

 Number of Targets: 3

 Field Pulses: 10

 Field Duration: 10 seconds

 Explosion

 Defiance Break: 232

 Range: 1,200

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Short Fuse — Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
• Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
• Explosive Temper — Explosions grant stacking ferocity when they hit.
• 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.
• Incendiary Powder — Burning you inflict lasts longer, and your critical hits inflict burning.

Inventions

• Bunker Down — Create a proximity mine at your target's location and a med kit at your location when you disable an enemy.

Tools

• Power Wrench — Reduce the recharge of your elite skill when you dodge.
• 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.

Holosmith

• Enhanced Capacity Storage Unit — Increases maximum heat capacity. While above 100% heat, periodically gain might. Some skills and traits gain additional heat tiers.

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Notes

• With the trait Enhanced Capacity Storage Unit when above 100% heat this skill has an additional 20% damage and additional 50% burning duration in PvE, while in PvP and WvW it has additional 10% damage and additional 10% burning duration.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Reduced the field's number of targets from 5 to 3 in WvW only.
April 16, 2024	Fixed an issue that caused this skill to strike 10 targets instead of the intended 5.
June 27, 2023	Fixed an issue that caused burning from this skill to be applied multiple times per pulse to larger enemies.
November 29, 2022	This skill now gains additional field strike damage and burning duration when used above 100% heat, in addition to its previous effects.
October 04, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 0.01 to 1.0 in PvP and WvW.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 3.0 to 0.01. Reduced cooldown from 60 seconds to 40 seconds.
May 14, 2019	The recharge time for this skill is now 60 seconds in all game modes.
August 28, 2018	The cooldown of this skill has been split between game modes. It has been increased from 60 seconds to 75 seconds in PvP only.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Prime Light Beam has been added to the game.

Trivia

• This skill's name and effects are direct references to the Prime Light Beam skill used by Scarlet Briar's Prime Hologram, encountered as part of the group event Defeat Scarlet's Prime Hologram before the defenses activate during the Battle for Lion's Arch release of Living World Season 1.