Aim-Assisted Rocket

Critical hits launch a missile at your target. After enough missiles have been fired, an orbital strike is called instead. This trait has a minimum range. — In-game description

Aim-Assisted Rocket

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Specialization

Explosives (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

External links

API

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Critical hits launch a missile at your target. After enough missiles have been fired, an orbital strike is called instead. This trait has a minimum range.

  Range Threshold: 450

  Missiles Until Orbital Strike: 4

— In-game description

Trait skill

Skill			Description
Aim-Assisted Rocket (PvE)			Fire a seeking rocket at your foe.
Aim-Assisted Rocket (WvW, PvP)			Fire a seeking rocket at your foe.

Related traits

 Explosives

•  Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
•  Explosive Powder — Improves damage from explosions. Turrets explode and knock back foes when destroyed.
•  Shrapnel — Explosions have a chance to cripple and cause bleeding on hit.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Rockets are now only fired on critical hits. Rocket recharge reduced from 10 seconds to 3 seconds. Rockets now require the engineer to be at least 450 distance from the target to fire. Every fifth rocket instead calls an Orbital Strike.
March 27, 2018	Reduced damage by 50% in PvP and WvW.
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.
August 25, 2015	The rocket fired by this trait can now activate the effects of the trait Shrapnel.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Aim-Assisted Rocket has been added to the game.