Blast finisher

This article is about the blast finisher. For the Skyscale's skill, see Blast.

A blast finisher is a skill that can create a combo effect by interacting with a combo field. All blast combos create area effects with a range of 360.

Combo effects by field

Field	Effect	Notes
Dark	Area Dark Aura	Dark Aura (3s): Surrounded by a dark aura that reduces incoming condition damage and causes torment each time you are struck (1-second cooldown per attacker).
Ethereal	Area Chaos Aura	Chaos Aura (3s): Give yourself random boons and your foe random conditions whenever you are struck.
Fire	Area Might	3 Might (20s): 90 Condition Damage, 90 Power
Ice	Area Frost Aura	Frost Aura (3s): Chill foes that strike you (only once per second for each attacker); incoming damage is reduced by 10%.
Light	Area Cleanse Condition	Conditions Removed: 1
Lightning	Area Swiftness	Swiftness (10s): +33% Movement Speed
Poison	Area Weakness	Weakness (5s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)
Smoke	Area Stealth	Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.
Water	Area Healing	Healing: 1,320 (0.2)?

Related skills

Weapon skills that cause blast finishers

•   Glacial Blow — Hammer
•   Holy Strike — Staff
•   Mighty Blow — Hammer
•   Purifying Blast — Trident
•   Shield of Wrath — Focus
•   Abyssal Raze — Spear (on land)
•   Drop the Hammer — Hammer
•   Echoing Eruption — Mace
•   Phase Smash — Hammer
•   Renewing Wave — Staff
•   Arcing Arrow — Longbow
•   Call of Valor — Warhorn
•   Charge — Warhorn
•   Maiming Spear — Spear (on land)
•   Blaze Breaker — Torch
•   Devastator — Spear (on land)
•   Essence of Animated Sand — Short bow
•   Essence of Borrowed Time — Short bow
•   Glue Shot — Pistol
•   Magnetic Inversion — Shield
•   Timed Charge — Harpoon gun
•   Call of the Wild — Warhorn
•   Oaken Cudgel — Mace
•   Ancestral Grace — Staff
•   Thump — Hammer
•   Unleashed Thump — Hammer
•   Cluster Bomb — Short bow
•   Cunning Salvo — Axe
•   Malicious Cunning Salvo — Axe
•   Shadow Sap — Scepter
•   Blazing Barrage — Spear (on land), when attuned to fire
•   Churning Earth — Dagger, when attuned to earth
•   Comet — Focus, when attuned to water
•   Convergence — Dagger, when attuned to air
•   Dragon's Tooth — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Earthquake — Dagger, when attuned to earth
•   Eruption — Staff, when attuned to earth
•   Frozen Burst — Dagger, when attuned to water
•   Ice Spike — Staff, when attuned to water
•   Magnetic Wave — Focus, when attuned to earth
•   Phoenix — Scepter, when attuned to fire
•   Searing Salvo — Pistol, when attuned to fire
•   Transmute Earth — Staff, when attuned to earth
•   Twister — Spear (on land), when attuned to air
•   Sand Squall — Warhorn, when attuned to earth
•   Tidal Surge — Warhorn, when attuned to water
•   Earthen Vortex — Sword, when attuned to earth
•   Fiery Impact — Spear (on land), when attuned to fire and earth
•   Katabatic Wind — Dagger, when attuned to air and water
•   Plasma Burst — Dagger, when attuned to fire and air
•   Soothing Burst — Spear (on land), when attuned to water and earth
•   Ground Pound — Hammer, when attuned to earth
•   Molten End — Hammer, when attuned to fire
•   Shock Blast — Hammer, when attuned to air
•   Abstraction — Rifle
•   Mental Collapse — Spear (on land)
•   The Prestige — Torch
•   Frozen Abyss — Trident
•   Putrid Mark — Staff

Bundle skills that cause blast finishers

•   Chapter 2: Igniting Burst — Tome of Justice
•   Acid Bomb — Elixir Gun
•   Big Ol' Bomb — Bomb Kit
•   Flame Blast — Flamethrower
•   Galvanic Bomb — Bomb Kit
•   Infusion Bomb — Med Kit
•   Explosive Lava Axe — Conjured Flame
•   Explosive Lava Axe — Slag Axe
•   Thunderclap — Lightning Hammer

Transform skills that cause blast finishers

•   Dazzling Hammer — Enter Radiant Forge
•   Seismic Leap — Rampage
•   Holographic Shockwave — Engage Photon Forge
•   Lunar Impact — Celestial Avatar
•   Lunar Impact — Celestial Avatar
•   Grasping Shadows — Enter Shadow Shroud
•   Mind Shock — Enter Shadow Shroud

Healing skills that cause blast finishers

•   Detonate Healing Turret —
•   Coolant Blast — Exceed
•   Arcane Brilliance — Arcane

Utility skills that cause blast finishers

•   Hammer of Wisdom — Spirit Weapon
•   Repose — Physical
•   Banner of Discipline — Banner
•   Banner of Strength — Banner
•   Stomp — Physical
•   Deploy Mine — Gadget
•   Detonate —
•   Detonate Flame Turret —
•   Detonate Harpoon Turret —
•   Detonate Net Turret —
•   Detonate Rifle Turret —
•   Detonate Rocket Turret —
•   Detonate Rocket Turret —
•   Detonate Thumper Turret —
•   Rocket Boots — Gadget
•   Rocket Boots — Gadget
•   Throw Mine — Gadget
•   Thump —
•   Blast Gyro — Well
•   Solid State — Stance
•   Cold Snap — Spirit
•   Quake — Spirit
•   Blinding Powder — Deception
•   Arcane Wave — Arcane
•   "Aftershock!" — Shout
•   Necrotic Traversal —
•   Putrid Explosion —

Elite skills that cause blast finishers

•   Energy Expulsion — Legendary Centaur Stance
•   Battle Standard — Banner
•   Detonate Supply Crate Turrets —
•   Detonate Supply Crate Turrets —
•   Supply Crate — Turret
•   Supply Crate — Turret

Profession mechanic skills that cause blast finishers

•   Release Potential: Monk —
•   Earthshaker — Burst, Hammer
•   Harrier's Toss — Burst, Spear
•   Rupturing Smash — Primal Burst, Hammer
•   Orbital Strike — Tool belt, Elite Mortar Kit
•   Rumble — Tool belt, Thumper Turret
•   Offensive Protocol: Demolish — Morph
•   Tail Swipe —
•   Rending Vines —
•   Overload Earth — Overload, when attuned to earth
•   Seismic Impact — Familiar

Pet skills that cause blast finishers

•   Tail Swipe — Drake

Related traits

Traits that cause blast finishers

• Blast Zone (Alchemy) — Create a blast finisher at your location when you use a healing skill's associated tool belt skill.
• Photonic Blasting Module (Holosmith) — Overheat now blasts damage to nearby foes and no longer deals its initial damage to you. The tool belt recharge penalty for Overheat is reduced. Heat can only be lost after overheating. Damage over time from Overheat is still applied.

Trait skills that cause blast finishers

•   Orbital Command Strike (Aim-Assisted Rocket) — Call down energy from the sky to blast an area.
•   Lesser Call of the Wild (Clarion Bond) — Weaken nearby enemies. Grant fury, might, and swiftness to yourself and nearby allies.
•   Shock Wave (Evasive Arcana, when attuned to earth) — Create a shock wave that bleeds and cripples nearby foes.

Traits that improve Blast finisher

• Chain Reactivity (Alchemy) — 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.
• Kinetic Accelerators (Scrapper) — 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.

Related equipment

• Relic of Bloodstone — Gain Bloodstone Volatility when you successfully combo a field with a blast finisher. Blasting at the stack threshold triggers an explosion, granting increased damage.
• Relic of Karakosa — Heal other nearby allies when you successfully combo a field with a blast finisher.
• Relic of the Mists Tide — Cleanse a condition from yourself when you successfully combo a field with a leap or blast finisher.
• Relic of the Steamshrieker — Burn nearby enemies when you successfully combo a water field with a blast or leap finisher.

Notes

• Many skills with an activation time will notify that there is a combo at any point during the activation time if a field is available, but no effect is granted until the skill finishes activating.
• Some Blast Finisher skills have different points where they interact with a Combo Field vs activate their Combo effect, eg. Comet.

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Combos

Fields

Dark • Ethereal • Fire • Ice • Light • Lightning • Poison • Smoke • Water

Finishers

Blast • Leap • Projectile • Whirl