Personal Battering Ram

Gadget. Launch a target foe with a concealed ram head. — In-game description

Personal Battering Ram

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Tool belt

  Launch Personal Battering Ram

Type

Gadget

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

5811, 29991

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Personal Battering Ram

Gadget. Launch a target foe with a concealed ram head.

 Damage: 332 (1.25)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Launch: 450

 Launch: 0

 Maximum Count: 2

 Count Recharge: 20 seconds

 Defiance Break: 232

 Range: 130

— In-game description

Related traits

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

• 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.
• Gadgeteer — Gadget skills are more powerful.

Scrapper

• System Shocker — Disabling a foe grants barrier to nearby allies. Your function gyro dazes foes when cast. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Reduced the launch distance from 450 to 0 in PvP only. Reduced the ammunition recharge from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP only.
June 27, 2023	Reduced ammunition recharge from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
October 13, 2020	Increased ammo recharge from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Slowed down the animation so the strike occurs at 0.6 seconds (up from 0.3 seconds). (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.25 to 0.01. Reduced ammo recharge from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill now uses the ammo system. Ammo count has been set to 2, with a 25-second count recharge. There is a 5-second recharge between each use.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the recharge to 25 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Personal Battering Ram has been added to the game.

Trivia

Original icon

• Reference to the movie Goonies where the character Data uses a concealed, spring-powered boxing glove as a weapon (the original icon during early development for this skill was a boxing glove).
• The engineer has an extremely low chance of shouting "surprise!" when using this skill.