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. — In-game description

Kinetic Accelerators

Specialization

Scrapper (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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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.

 Quickness (3s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Fury (6s): +20% Critical Chance

₃ Might (10s): 90 Condition Damage, 90 Power

₂ Might (5s): 60 Condition Damage, 60 Power

₃ Might (8s): 90 Condition Damage, 90 Power

 Gain Concentration Based on a Percentage of Power: 13%

 Gain Concentration Based on a Percentage of Power: 10%

 Interval: 3 seconds

 Radius: 360

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Glue Shot — Pistol
•   Radiant Arc — Sword
•   Magnetic Inversion — Shield
•   Jump Shot — Rifle
•   Essence of Animated Sand — Short bow
•   Essence of Borrowed Time — Short bow
•   Conduit Surge — Spear
•   Devastator — Spear
•   Timed Charge — Harpoon gun
•   Electro-whirl — Hammer
•   Rocket Charge — Hammer

Bundle skills that are improved by this trait

•   Infusion Bomb — Med Kit
•   Galvanic Bomb — Bomb Kit
•   Big Ol' Bomb — Bomb Kit
•   Acid Bomb — Elixir Gun
•   Flame Blast — Flamethrower

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Detonate Healing Turret

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Rocket Boots — Gadget
•   Rocket Boots — Gadget
•   Throw Mine — Gadget
•   Detonate
•   Deploy Mine — Gadget
•   Detonate Flame Turret
•   Detonate Harpoon Turret
•   Detonate Net Turret
•   Detonate Rifle Turret
•   Detonate Rocket Turret
•   Detonate Rocket Turret
•   Thump
•   Detonate Thumper Turret
•   Blast Gyro — Well
•   Shredder Gyro — Well

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Supply Crate — Turret
•   Detonate Supply Crate Turrets
•   Supply Crate — Turret
•   Detonate Supply Crate Turrets

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Orbital Strike — Tool belt
•   Rumble — Tool belt
•   Function Gyro — Tool belt

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Orbital Command Strike — Aim-Assisted Rocket

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Firearms

• Hematic Focus — Gain fury when you inflict bleeding on an enemy. Fury gives an increased critical-strike chance.
• Juggernaut — Gain might while wielding a flamethrower. Might applied to you gains increased duration. Napalm grants you stability and a fire aura.
• No Scope — Critical hits on foes within the range threshold have a chance to grant fury. Fury grants you ferocity.

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.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Alchemy

• Blast Zone — Create a blast finisher at your location when you use a healing skill's associated tool belt skill.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 02, 2026	This trait no longer erroneously modifies daze and stun skill facts.
April 15, 2025	Reduced the might stacks from 3 to 2 in WvW only.
February 11, 2025	This trait now triggers when performing whirl finishers in addition to its previous effect. Whirl finishers cannot trigger this trait more than once every 3 seconds. This trait no longer grants fury in WvW. Reduced the might duration from 8 seconds to 5 seconds in WvW only.
October 08, 2024	This trait now applies might in addition to quickness in PvE only.
June 27, 2023	This trait has been reworked. Apply boons to nearby allies when you successfully combo with a blast or leap finisher. Your function gyro is now a blast finisher. Increased the power-to-concentration conversion from 10% to 13% in PvE only.
March 14, 2023	Adjusted might from 2 stacks for 8 seconds to 1 stack for 15 seconds in PvP only.
October 04, 2022	This trait no longer grants quickness in PvP and WvW. Instead, it grants might and fury.
March 29, 2022	Reduced quickness duration from 2.5 seconds to 1.5 seconds in WvW only.
August 17, 2021	This trait now additionally increases your concentration by 10% of your power.
May 25, 2021	Increased duration of applied quickness from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds in all game modes.
May 11, 2021	Kinetic Stabilizers has been reworked and renamed. It is now Kinetic Accelerators. When you grant superspeed to a target, also grant quickness (2 seconds).
July 16, 2019	This trait is no longer triggered by Function Gyro. Instead it increases the duration of stuns and daze effects by 25%. It also grants stability and superspeed when disabling a foe.
December 11, 2018	This trait has been renamed Kinetic Stabilizers. This trait grants 5 seconds of stability (3 seconds in PvP) and 3 seconds of superspeed upon disabling an enemy or activating Function Gyro. It also deals 10% bonus damage when the engineer has stability.
May 22, 2018	Fixed a bug that prevented scrappers from gaining stability when using a function gyro in an instanced PvP mode.
July 26, 2016	The stability granted by this trait has been reduced from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only.
April 20, 2016	Fixed an issue that prevented this trait from working correctly.
February 23, 2016	Updated skill facts to remove stability from gyro self-destruct skills.
January 26, 2016	Stabilization Core: This trait has been merged into Final Salvo.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Final Salvo has been added to the game.