Poison Gas Shell

Launch a mortar round that spreads poisonous gas in an area. — In-game description

Poison Gas Shell

 

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Kit

  Elite Mortar Kit

Game link

API

30885

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0.5½  10  

Poison Gas Shell

Launch a mortar round that spreads poisonous gas in an area.

 Damage: 355 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 178 (0.5)^?

 Poison (3s): 101 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Interval: 1 second

 Radius: 240

 Explosion

 Combo Field: Poison

 Range: 1,500

— In-game description

Related traits

 Explosives

•  Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
•  Shrapnel — Explosions have a chance to cripple and cause bleeding on hit.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 28, 2020	Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.5 in PvP only.
May 08, 2018	Elite Mortar Kit: The base damage and cooldowns of all Mortar Kit attacks are no longer split between game modes and will now use the higher 25–33% damage increase with lower cooldowns in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Increased damage by 33% in PvP and WvW. Reduced the cooldown from 12 seconds to 10 seconds in PvP and WvW.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Increased poison duration from 2.5 seconds to 3 seconds. Increased field duration from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.
February 22, 2017	Skills that count as explosions for the traits Steel-Packed Powder, Explosive Powder, and Shrapnel are now marked with a skill fact.
September 29, 2015	Mortar Kit: Updated the skill facts to display initial damage. This kit's skills are now affected by the Explosive Powder trait.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Poison Gas Shell has been added to the game.