Flash Shell

Launch a phosphorous mortar round that burns brightly at impact point. — In-game description

Flash Shell

 

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Kit

  Elite Mortar Kit

Game link

API

30121

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0.5½  

20

30

 

Flash Shell

Launch a phosphorous mortar round that burns brightly at impact point.

 Damage: 355 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 178 (0.5)^?

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Blindness (2s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Interval: 1 second

 Radius: 240

 Explosion

 Combo Field: Light

 Range: 1,500

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Short Fuse — Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
• Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
• Aim-Assisted Rocket — Missile hits launch a rocket at your target. After enough rockets have been fired, an orbital strike is called instead. This trait has an internal cooldown.
• 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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 23, 2021	Reduced blindness duration from 5 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only. Increased cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
April 28, 2020	Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.5 in PvP only.
May 08, 2018	Elite Mortar Kit: The base damage and cooldowns of all Mortar Kit attacks are no longer split between game modes and will now use the higher 25–33% damage increase with lower cooldowns in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Increased damage by 33% in PvP and WvW. Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Increased field duration from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.
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.
September 29, 2015	Mortar Kit: Updated the skill facts to display initial damage. This kit's skills are now affected by the Explosive Powder trait.
July 28, 2015	Fixed an issue that caused this skill to pulse every 2 seconds instead of every second.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Flash Shell has been added to the game.