Capture Line

Cast out a towline and drag your foe toward you. — In-game description

Capture Line

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Harpoon gun

Game link

API

50380

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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0.25¼  12  

Capture Line

Cast out a towline and drag your foe toward you.

 Damage: 147 (0.4)^?

₂ Bleeding (10s): 440 Damage

 Pull Distance: 600

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Defiance Break: 150

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• 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.

Firearms

• Serrated Steel — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Bleeding you inflict gains increased duration.
• Sanguine Array — Gain might when you inflict bleeding on a foe.
• Hematic Focus — Gain fury when you inflict bleeding on an enemy. Fury gives an increased critical-strike chance.
• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.

Inventions

• Bunker Down — Create a proximity mine at your target's location and a med kit at your location when you disable an enemy.

Alchemy

• Equal and Opposite Reaction — Gain quickness and stability when you disable an enemy.

Tools

• Lock On — Striking a stealthed foe triggers Invisible Analysis. Disabling a foe triggers Controlled Analysis. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Scrapper

• System Shocker — Disabling a foe grants barrier to nearby allies. Your function gyro dazes foes when cast. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Amalgam

• Mercurial Tendencies — Disabling an enemy reduces the cooldown of Evolve.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
May 08, 2018	This skill has been reworked and renamed Capture Line. Capture Line has a 12-second cooldown and inflicts bleeding while it pulls a target toward the player.
December 12, 2017	Number of bleed stacks reduced from 3 to 2. Duration of bleed increased from 6 to 10 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Movement-speed adjustments no longer affect the intended travel distance.
December 14, 2012	This skill now causes three stacks of bleed for six seconds.
November 15, 2012	This skill is now a projectile combo finisher.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Retreating Grapple has been added to the game.