Smoke Bomb (engineer skill)

This article is about the engineer skill. For the thief skill, see Smoke Bomb (thief skill).

Set a timed charge that creates a cloud of smoke, blinding nearby foes. — In-game description

Smoke Bomb

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Kit

  Bomb Kit

Game link

API

5824

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0.5½  20  

Smoke Bomb

Set a timed charge that creates a cloud of smoke, blinding nearby foes.

 Blindness (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Pulses: 3

 Fuse Time: 1 second

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Interval: 2 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Explosion

 Combo Field: Smoke

— 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.

Notes

• Effective both for assisting in finishing off downed classes with disabling skills, and escape tactics by following it up with Jump Shot, Detonate Healing Turret or proper timing with Big Ol' Bomb.
• The skill applies blind every 2 seconds for a total of 3 pulses

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Reduced recharge from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.
August 28, 2018	This skill now counts as an explosion when used with related traits.
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. Skills that do not hit the enemy, such as Smoke Bomb and Magnetic Bomb, are no longer considered explosions for combat clarity reasons.
April 19, 2016	Bomb Kit: Fixed a bug that caused the explosions of this skill to behave oddly and not occur where the bomb was originally laid.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Bomb Kit: Fixed an effect issue so that placed bombs are now slightly offset in order to better match their animations.
August 25, 2015	Bombs: Increased the radius of bomb skills with a radius of 180 to 240. This change includes bombs created by the traits Evasive Powder Keg and Autodefense Bomb Dispenser.
July 28, 2015	Fixed an issue that caused this skill to detonate at the player location rather than the bomb location.
July 07, 2015	Fixed the skill facts to display the proper pulse interval.
April 15, 2014	Added a skill fact for number of pulses.
May 28, 2013	No longer deletes the bomb if the player jumps at the wrong time.
December 03, 2012	Cleaned up skill facts.
November 15, 2012	This skill's radius has been reduced to 180 from 240 when traited. Smoke Bomb is now active for 4 seconds, pulsing every 2. This change also affects the Autodefense Bomb Dispenser trait.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Smoke Bomb has been added to the game.