Acid Bomb

Elixir. Leap backward, spraying an acidic elixir on the ground that damages nearby foes. — In-game description

Acid Bomb

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Kit

  Elixir Gun

Type

Elixir

Movement

Retreat

Game link

API

5936

“

0.25¼  12  

Acid Bomb

Elixir. Leap backward, spraying an acidic elixir on the ground that damages nearby foes.

 Damage: 302 (0.85)^?

 Damage: 249 (0.7)^?

 Initial Damage: 480 (1.35)^?

 Initial Damage: 355 (1.0)^?

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Radius: 180

 Distance: 550

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Related traits

Alchemy

• Compounding Chemicals — Heal yourself when you grant yourself a boon. Remove a condition from yourself when you use an elixir skill. Gain increased concentration.
• HGH — Elixirs gain increased durations, and grant might.
• Chain Reactivity — Gain barrier when you successfully finish a combo field with a leap or a blast. Every third successful finish grants you might and a larger barrier that is shared with allies.

Scrapper

• Kinetic Accelerators — Grant boons to nearby allies when you successfully combo a field with a blast, leap, or whirl finisher. Your function gyro is now a blast finisher. Whirl finishers can only trigger this trait once per interval.

Notes

• Very useful against melee foes, especially ones who have been hit by Glob Shot or another crippling attack, which forces them to stay in the puddle longer and receive more damage.
• Acid Bomb will hit a total of 6 times, 7 when traited with HGH.
• The leap backwards can be cancelled by pressing the swap weapon button. Note that this must be done after the leap has begun, as doing it earlier will also cancel the acid bomb itself.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 24, 2026	Reduced the damage coefficient per hit from 0.85 to 0.7 in WvW only.
April 15, 2025	Reduced the initial power coefficient from 1.35 to 1.0 in WvW only.
February 11, 2025	This skill now does increased damage on the first pulse.
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
September 29, 2015	Fixed a bug that allowed this skill's movement distance to be affected by movement-speed increases and decreases. Fixed a bug that prevented HGH from properly functioning with this skill and granting might to nearby allies.
April 15, 2014	Added a skill fact for jump distance: 550. Removed a duplicate strike damage skill fact.
February 26, 2013	This ability is now a blast finisher at the start of the ability.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Acid Bomb has been added to the game.