Glass Cannon

Strike damage dealt increases when above health threshold. — In-game description

Glass Cannon

Specialization

Explosives (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Glass Cannon

Strike damage dealt increases when above health threshold.

 Damage Increase: 7%

 Damage Increase: 10%

 Damage Increase: 5%

 Health Threshold: 75%

— In-game description

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the damage increase from 10% to 7% in PvE only.
January 13, 2026	Reduced the damage increase from 10% to 5% in WvW only.
May 11, 2021	Increased strike-damage bonus from 7% to 10%. Text on many damage-increasing profession traits, runes, and sigils has been clarified to indicate whether they increase outgoing strike damage, condition damage, or all damage, as appropriate.
July 30, 2019	Increased the damage bonus from 5% to 7%.
March 28, 2017	Fixed a skill-fact bug that used base character health instead of the engineer’s maximum health.
February 22, 2017	The threshold for damage increase has been reduced from 90% to 75%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Glass Cannon has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The term Glass Cannon is infrequently used to describe an imbalanced character with heavy damage output but low survivability.