Galvanic Bomb

Set an explosive that electrocutes nearby foes, dazing them. — In-game description

Galvanic Bomb

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Kit

  Bomb Kit

Game link

API

5822

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0.5½  16  

Galvanic Bomb

Set an explosive that electrocutes nearby foes, dazing them.

 Damage: 888 (2.5)^?

 Damage: 497 (1.4)^?

 Damage: 604 (1.7)^?

₆ Confusion (8s): 528 Damage, 297 Damage on Skill Use

 Daze: 1 second

 Number of Targets: 5

 Fuse Time: 1 second

 Radius: 240

 Explosion

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Defiance Break: 100

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Short Fuse — Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
• Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
• 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

• Equal and Opposite Reaction — Gain quickness and stability when you disable an enemy.
• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.

Alchemy

• Chain Reactivity — Gain barrier when you successfully finish a combo field with a leap or a blast. Every third successful finish grants a larger barrier and might.

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.
• Kinetic Accelerators — 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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	This skill has been reworked and renamed Galvanic Bomb. Set an explosive that electrocutes enemies, dazing them.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Reduced recharge from 20 seconds to 16 seconds.
July 10, 2018	Increased the stacks of confusion inflicted by this skill from 5 stacks to 6 stacks in PvE. Increased the stacks of confusion inflicted by this skill from 6 stacks to 7 stacks in other game modes. Increased the cooldown of this skill from 18 seconds to 20 seconds.
February 07, 2018	Fixed a bug that caused confusion to be inflicted for a longer duration than intended.
February 06, 2018	This skill has been split between game modes, inflicting 6 stacks for 3 seconds in PvP and WvW, and 5 stacks for 8 seconds in PvE.
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.
October 18, 2016	Confusion duration has been increased from 5 seconds to 8 seconds. The physical damage of this ability has been increased by 20%.
April 19, 2016	Bomb Kit: Fixed a bug that caused the explosions of this skill to behave oddly and not occur where the bomb was originally laid.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Bomb Kit: Fixed an effect issue so that placed bombs are now slightly offset in order to better match their animations.
August 25, 2015	Bombs: Increased the radius of bomb skills with a radius of 180 to 240. This change includes bombs created by the traits Evasive Powder Keg and Autodefense Bomb Dispenser.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Concussion Bomb has been added to the game.