Throw Mine

This article is about the Engineer skill. For the bundle skill, see Throw Mine (Old Mine).

Gadget. Throw out a remote-controlled land mine that damages, knocks back [sic], and removes a boon from nearby foes. — In-game description

Throw Mine

   

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Tool belt

  Mine Field

Type

Gadget

Sequence

 → 

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

6161, 30337

This skill has an underwater replacement: Deploy Mine

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0.5½  

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Throw Mine

Gadget. Throw out a remote-controlled land mine that damages, knocks back [sic], and removes a boon from nearby foes.

 Damage: 798 (3.0)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Boons Removed: 3

 Boons Removed: 1

 Stun: 2 seconds

 Stun: 10.5½ seconds

 Number of Targets: 5

 Explosion Radius: 240

 Proximity Radius: 120

 Explosion

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Defiance Break: 200

 Defiance Break: 150

 Range: 900

 Unblockable

— 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.
• 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.

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.

Notes

• The skill goes on cooldown once the mine is placed, allowing for consecutive mine placements if the previous one is detonated as the skill recharges.
• With Gadgeteer, the player can place another set of mines if one of the mines from the previous pair is detonated, allowing for several mines to be active at once.
• As with all ground targeted skills that explode in contact with an enemy such as traps or marks, the mine(s) will not automatically explode if placed under a friendly character that later becomes an enemy. The enemy would have to move outside of the radius, then go back inside, for the mine(s) to explode. Alternatively, the engineer can just detonate the mine(s) manually.
• The mine(s) is proximity-triggered, but the engineer may also manually Detonate it.
• The proximity radius is significantly shorter than the blast radius.
• On land, Throw Mine is a ground-targeted skill. Underwater, Deploy Mine appears directly in front of the player.
• The mine(s) last for 60 seconds, and then disappears.
• The projectile itself is also Unblockable.
• If this skill is used outside of combat and then replaced by another utility skill, the mine(s) will remain in place.
• If thrown directly on an enemy, the mine detonation may not automatically trigger.
• Only the detonation counts as a Blast Finisher; so this skill will only trigger combo fields once.

Anomalies:

• The game update of August 23 stated that Throw Mine would "cause  Knockdown with a duration of 2 seconds in PvE and 1 second in PvP and WvW". However, Throw Mine  Stuns for 2 seconds in PvE and 1.5 seconds in PvP and WvW.
• The tooltip has not been updated and still reflects the old functionality.

Trivia

• Prior to Beta Weekend Event 3, this skill once existed as a Mine Kit instead.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 24 seconds in PvP and WvW. (undocumented) reduced cooldown from 15 seconds to 12 seconds in PvE.
May 02, 2023	Updated the skill description to clarify that the second mine produced by this skill when the Gadgeteer trait is equipped will only drop after the first one has landed.
October 04, 2022	Reduced number of boons removed from 2 to 1 in WvW only.
August 23, 2022	(All game modes) The animation aftercast before another skill may be used has been reduced by 0.5 seconds. The mine will now detonate immediately if there is an enemy target in proximity when the mine lands. Now causes knockdown instead of knockback, with a duration of 2 seconds in PvE and 1 second in PvP and WvW. (PvE only) Damage multiplier increased from 2 to 3. Boons removed from targets increased from 1 to 3.
June 28, 2022	Reduced number of boons removed from 3 to 2 in WvW only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
March 23, 2021	Increased cooldown from 15 seconds to 30 seconds in WvW only.
October 13, 2020	Increased cooldown from 15 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 2.0 to 0.01. Increased boons removed from 1 to 3.
May 08, 2018	The damage of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the higher 11% damage increase in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Increased the damage by 11% in PvP and WvW.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Added a missing skill fact for the number of boons removed. Increased damage by 20%.
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.
April 19, 2016	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 18 seconds to 15 seconds. The damage has been increased by 20%.
January 27, 2015	The proximity trigger for this skill has been increased from 60 to 120. Additionally, the explosion radius has been increased from 180 to 240.
April 15, 2014	Added a vulnerability skill fact when the player has the Steel-Packed Powder trait. Updated the size of the ground-targeting reticle to match the size of the explosion.
May 28, 2013	Throw Mine and Mine Fields: Certain friendly NPCs no longer detonate mines.
March 26, 2013	Correctly turns off the Detonate skill if the mine times out.
October 22, 2012	This skill is now unblockable when it detonates.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Throw Mine has been added to the game.