Explosive Rockets

Overcharge your turret to fire explosive rockets. — In-game description

Explosive Rockets

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Parent skill

  Rocket Turret

Slot

Utility

Game link

API

5913

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Explosive Rockets

Overcharge your turret to fire explosive rockets.

 Damage: 1,747 (2.75)^?

 Damage: 6 (0.01)^?

 Knockdown: 2 seconds

 Number of Targets: 1

 Rate of Fire: 4 seconds

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Radius: 360

 Attack Range: 1,000

 Explosion

 Defiance Break: 200

— 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.

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.

Amalgam

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

Notes

• The knockdown is 3s, not 2s as stated in the tooltip.
• This skill causes 300 Defiance bar damage.
• The target limit is 5, not 1 as stated in the tooltip (therefore the radius of 360).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Reduced overcharge power coefficient from 2.75 to 0.01.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Increased damage by 10%.
May 16, 2017	Turrets no longer need to be overcharged. Summoning a turret will automatically overcharge it once. Detonate Turret: This skill has been moved off of the Tool Belt skill. It is now the flip skill for the associated turret.
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.
September 09, 2014	Increased the velocity of this attack by 50%. This missile now tracks targets.
July 01, 2014	Added a number of targets skill fact (1). Updated the radius skill fact to correctly display 360.
June 03, 2014	Added a number of targets skill fact (1). Updated the radius skill fact to correctly display 360.
April 15, 2014	Updated the duration skill fact to correctly display 4 seconds.
November 26, 2013	This skill now functions with Rifled Turret Barrels, increasing its range from 1000 to 1500.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Explosive Rockets has been added to the game.

Trivia

• As of the September 2014 Feature Pack the rockets now track targets and move 50% faster than before.