Orbital Strike

Call down energy from the sky to blast an area. — In-game description

Orbital Strike

 

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Parent skill

  Elite Mortar Kit

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Tool belt

Game link

API

30599

“

0.75¾  

40

20

 

Orbital Strike

Call down energy from the sky to blast an area.

 Damage: 354 (1.33)^?

 Damage: 239 (0.9)^?

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 360

 Unblockable

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 1,500

— In-game description

Related traits

Inventions

• Soothing Detonation — Heal nearby allies when using a tool belt skill.

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.

Tools

• Optimized Activation — Using tool belt skills grants vigor.
• Static Discharge — Discharge a bolt of lightning whenever you use a tool belt skill.
• Mechanized Deployment — Your tool belt skills gain reduced recharge. Tool belt skills remove conditions. Engage Photon Forge cannot activate this trait.
• Kinetic Battery — Gain kinetic charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum, charges gain a burst of speed.
• Adrenal Implant — Endurance regeneration is increased. Reduce the recharge of your tool belt skills when you dodge.

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

• The energy blast has a delay of about 2 seconds.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 07, 2020	Reduced cooldown from 40 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW. Reduced power coefficient from 1.33 to 0.9 in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: This skill now uses a higher-detailed effect. The lower-detailed version can be viewed for allies, enemies, and PvP spectators by checking the Effect LOD option in the Graphics Options tab of the Options panel.
November 17, 2015	Adjusted the warm-up on this skill to be slightly more prominent.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Reduced the FX visual noise.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Orbital Strike has been added to the game.

See also

•   Orbital Command Strike — The trait skill triggered by Aim-Assisted Rocket.