Devastator

Traverse the area and unleash lighting[sic] around you, directly targeting focused foes a number of times. — In-game description

Devastator

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Sequence

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Game link

API

72974

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Devastator

Traverse the area and unleash lighting[sic] around you, directly targeting focused foes a number of times.

 Damage: 734 (2.0)^?

₃ Burning (4s): 1,572 Damage

₃ Burning (6s): 2,358 Damage

₂ Burning (6s): 1,572 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Explosion

 Evade: 1 second

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 600

— 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.
• Incendiary Powder — Burning you inflict lasts longer, and your critical hits inflict burning.

Alchemy

• 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

Anomaly:

This skill is not affected by  Quickness.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 13, 2026	Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 25 seconds and reduced the burning stacks from 3 to 2 in PvP only.
September 11, 2024	Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from going on full cooldown when interrupted.
September 10, 2024	This skill now evades.
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Devastator has been added to the game. Reduced the casting time and aftercast by 0.25 seconds. Increased the range from 450 to 600. Increased the damage coefficient from 1.75 to 2.0. Increased the burning duration from 4 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP and WvW.
June 27, 2024	Devastator was available during the Spear Beta Event.