Fragmentation Shot

Fire a shot that bleeds the impacted target and then shatters, dealing damage to nearby enemies. — In-game description

Fragmentation Shot

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand pistol

Game link

API

5827

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0.5½  

Fragmentation Shot

Fire a shot that bleeds the impacted target and then shatters, dealing damage to nearby enemies.

 Damage: 147 (0.4)^?

 Damage: 98 (0.266)^?

 Bleeding (6s): 132 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 120

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)

 Range: 900

— 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

• Chemical Rounds — Gain condition damage. Your pistol skills gain increased condition duration.
• Sanguine Array — Gain might when you inflict bleeding on a foe.
• Hematic Focus — You have increased chance to critically strike against bleeding foes.
• Serrated Steel — Bleeding you inflict gains increased duration.
• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.

Notes

• Attack speed is about 1.33 attacks per second, or 0.66 seconds per attack.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	Reduced aftercast duration by 25%.
July 07, 2020	Increased the bleed duration inflicted from 5 seconds to 6 seconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.4 to 0.266.
October 02, 2018	Increased the duration of bleeding inflicted by this skill from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.
February 22, 2017	Bleeding duration has been increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
April 19, 2016	The damage of this skill has been increased by 14%.
September 29, 2015	Increased bleeding duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
July 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to deal more damage when traited with Rifled Barrels.
April 15, 2014	Renamed this skill from Explosive Shot to Fragmentation Shot to clarify that this skill is not affected by traits that enhance explosions.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Explosive Shot has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The skill tooltip description used to state that it will bleed foes caught in the explosion. This used to be the case in a pre-release build of the game but it was removed; the tooltip description remained as a reflection of its previous mechanic for some time thereafter.
• This skill was renamed from Explosive Shot on 15 April, 2014.