Rocket Boots (underwater)

Gadget. Fly forward, removing movement-impairing conditions and damaging foes with your rocket exhaust. Movement-impairing conditions include cripple, chill, and immobilize. — In-game description

Rocket Boots

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Tool belt

  Rocket Kick

Type

Gadget

Game link

API

50438, 50441

This skill is the underwater replacement for: Rocket Boots

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Rocket Boots

Gadget. Fly forward, removing movement-impairing conditions and damaging foes with your rocket exhaust.
Movement-impairing conditions include cripple, chill, and immobilize.

 Damage: 332 (1.25)^?

 Damage: 133 (0.5)^?

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

 Number of Targets: 5

 Maximum Count: 2

 Count Recharge: 20 seconds

 Radius: 120

 Rocket Distance: 900

 Combo Finisher: Blast

— In-game description

Related traits

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

• Gadgeteer — Gadget skills are more powerful.

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

• Unlike with Rocket Boots, the Engineer only receives the effects of combo fields blasted at the start of the propelling, and the effects are gained instantly.
  • Combo fields encountered during the propelling will not be blasted.
• This skill's blast finisher makes a notably effective escape with Smoke Bomb and Smoke Screen to grant area stealth.
• Conditions are removed at the start of the jump.
• This skill has a separate recharge from Rocket Boots.

Bugs:

• The Count Recharge of this skill is not affected by the Gadgeteer trait at all, even though the tooltip shows updated values.
• This skill has a separate recharge when used with Gadgeteer, allowing the Engineer to use Rocket Boots four times in a row by changing the trait after use.
• This skill has a separate recharge from the terrestrial version, allowing the Engineer to use Rocket Boots underwater twice in a row even if the skill is already on cooldown on land. This does not apply in the reverse, and the cooldown of this skill will still apply to the terrestrial version.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 09, 2021	Fixed an issue that prevented the underwater version of this skill from granting Superspeed when traited with Gadgeteer.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.25 to 0.5.
May 08, 2018	This skill can now be used underwater. Its tooltips and description have been updated to reflect this change.

Trivia

• Rocket Boots was disabled for underwater use on the September 17, 2012 game update because it could launch players into the sky. An underwater version of Rocket Boots that fixed this behavior was added on May 8, 2018.