Scatter Mines

Fire out a spread of explosive mines at your enemy. — In-game description

Scatter Mines

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Harpoon gun

Game link

API

6147

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This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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Scatter Mines

Fire out a spread of explosive mines at your enemy.

 Damage (5x): 1,540 (4.2)^?

₂ Vulnerability (5s): +2% Incoming Damage, +2% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 120

 Explosion

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Short Fuse — Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
• Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
• Aim-Assisted Rocket — Missile hits launch a rocket at your target. After enough rockets have been fired, an orbital strike is called instead. This trait has an internal cooldown.
• Explosive Temper — Explosions grant stacking ferocity when they hit.
• Shaped Charge — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.
• 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.

Notes

• The skill fires five mines in a spread pattern, making it most effective in short range, where all mines are likely to hit the target.

Bug:

This skill cannot damage underwater wurm creatures such as Undersea Ice Wurm. Homing Torpedo suffered from the same problem until it was fixed by the October 15, 2013 game update. Unfortunately, Scatter Mines was not fixed.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Recharge reduced from 10 seconds to 6 seconds.
May 08, 2018	The number of mines fired by this skill has been increased from 3 to 5. Its damage has been redistributed across the same area of effect, dealing the same total damage if all mines strike their target. Reduced the recharge from 12 seconds to 10 seconds. The total vulnerability applied when striking with all mines has been increased from 9 stacks to 10 stacks for 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.
May 20, 2014	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from benefiting from the Shrapnel trait. Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from benefiting from the Steel-Packed Powder trait and the Forceful Explosives trait.
October 29, 2013	Added radius and damage skill facts.
May 28, 2013	Recharge is no longer impacted by the Rifled Barrels trait.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Scatter Mines has been added to the game.