Detonate (engineer skill)

Detonate your mine to damage foes and remove a boon from them. — In-game description

Detonate

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Parent skill

  Throw Mine

Slot

Utility

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

6162

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Detonate

Detonate your mine to damage foes and remove a boon from them.

 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

 Explosion

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Defiance Break: 200

 Defiance Break: 150

— 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.

Inventions

• Bunker Down — Create a proximity mine at your target's location and a med kit at your location when you disable an enemy.

Alchemy

• Equal and Opposite Reaction — Gain quickness and stability when you disable an enemy.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.

Amalgam

• Mercurial Tendencies — Disabling an enemy reduces the cooldown of Evolve.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
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.
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 damage has been increased by 20%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Detonate has been added to the game.