Smoke Screen (engineer skill)

Overcharge your flame turret, releasing a smoke screen that blinds nearby foes. — In-game description

Smoke Screen

 

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Parent skill

  Flame Turret

Slot

Utility

Game link

API

5900

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Smoke Screen

Overcharge your flame turret, releasing a smoke screen that blinds nearby foes.

 Blind per Pulse (2s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 5 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Combo Field: Smoke

— In-game description

Notes

• The turret will not use this skill if there's no enemy within 500 range of it during the 5-second overcharge.
• The 2s blindness is applied 4 times in an interval of 2 seconds.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 16, 2017	Turrets no longer need to be overcharged. Summoning a turret will automatically overcharge it once. Detonate Turret: This skill has been moved off of the Tool Belt skill. It is now the flip skill for the associated turret.
November 26, 2013	This skill now functions with Rifled Turret Barrels, increasing its radius from 240 to 360.
June 27, 2013	Fixed a bug causing an infinite smoke combo field when it does not hit an enemy.
November 15, 2012	This skill's graphic has been updated to show the area of the screen. It now pulses every 2 seconds for 6 seconds instead of every second for 5 seconds. This makes it more effective against enemies using attacks at normal speeds but prevents it from being abused to shut down quick-attacking enemies completely.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Smoke Screen has been added to the game.