Rocket Punch (Mech)

Your mech launches an explosive fist that detonates on hit, dealing defiance damage to enemies with active defiance bars. This skill is only used when you activate Skill 3 on your weapon. — In-game description

Rocket Punch

Profession

Engineer (trait skill list)

Specialization

Mechanist

Parent skill

  Rocket Fist Prototype

Trait

 Mech Fighter

Game link

API

63185

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0.5½  5  

Rocket Punch

Your mech launches an explosive fist that detonates on hit, dealing defiance damage to enemies with active defiance bars. This skill is only used when you activate Skill 3 on your weapon.

 Damage: 1,662 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 831 (0.5)^?

 Burning (5s): 655 Damage

 Bonus Defiance Damage: 1 second

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

 Explosion

 Defiance Break: 100

 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.
• 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.

Mechanist

• Mech Fighter — New combat subroutines enable your mech to use Rocket Punch when you activate Skill 3 on your equipped weapon. Your mech gains a greater percentage of your own toughness and vitality stats.

Notes

Bug:

Only does 1 damage in PvP/WvW despite the skill no longer inflicting crowd control since Game updates/2022-06-28.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 28, 2022	The mech's Rocket Punch is now triggered whenever Skill 3 is used on an equipped engineer weapon. Rocket Punch is now instant and no longer interrupts other skills the mech is performing. Rocket Punch no longer stuns and instead deals 100 defiance damage to enemies with an active defiance bar.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Rocket Punch has been added to the game.
November 30, 2021	Rocket Punch was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 4. Rocket Fist Prototype is now an Explosion. Now when you cast this skill, your Mech will cast Rocket Punch at your target. Rocket Fist Prototype and Rocket Punch now each apply 5s burning and a 0.5s stun. This is more effective for reducing enemy Defiance Bars than the previous single 1s stun.
October 26, 2021	Rocket Punch was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 3.