Fire Bomb

This article is about an engineer skill. For the consumable, see Fire Bomb (Consumable).

Set an explosive that burns nearby foes. — In-game description

Fire Bomb

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Kit

  Bomb Kit

Damage type

Fire

Game link

API

5823

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0.5½  8  

Fire Bomb

Set an explosive that burns nearby foes.

 Damage: 89 (0.25)^?

₂ Initial Burning (5s): 1,310 Damage

 Pulse Burning (2s): 262 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Pulses: 4

 Fuse Time: 1 second

 Duration: 3 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Explosion

 Combo Field: Fire

— 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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	This skill now inflicts increased burning on the first pulse. Total burning amount is unchanged.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Reduced recharge from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Increased damage by 14%.
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.
October 18, 2016	The physical damage of this ability has been increased by 10% per tick.
July 26, 2016	The burning duration of this skill has been increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
April 19, 2016	Bomb Kit: Fixed a bug that caused the explosions of this skill to behave oddly and not occur where the bomb was originally laid.
November 17, 2015	Reduced the visual noise on the effects associated with this skill.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Bomb Kit: Fixed an effect issue so that placed bombs are now slightly offset in order to better match their animations.
August 25, 2015	Bombs: Increased the radius of bomb skills with a radius of 180 to 240. This change includes bombs created by the traits Evasive Powder Keg and Autodefense Bomb Dispenser.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Increased the burning duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
April 15, 2014	Added a skill fact for number of pulses.
October 15, 2013	Increased the base radius from 120 to 180. Increased the radius to 240 when traited with Forceful Explosives.
May 28, 2013	No longer deletes the bomb if the player jumps at the wrong time.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Fire Bomb has been added to the game.