Flash Shell/history

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February 23, 2021

  • Flash Shell: Reduced blindness duration from 5 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only. Increased cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
Flash Shell.png

Flash Shell

Ground-targeted  
Profession
Engineer icon small.png Engineer (skill list)
Kit
Elite Mortar Kit.png Elite Mortar Kit
 
Weapon slot 4
Game link
0.5½ Activation time  
20 Recharge time
30 Recharge time
 
Flash Shell

Launch a phosphorous mortar round that burns brightly at impact point.

Damage.png Damage: 355 (1.0)?
Damage.png Damage: 178 (0.5)?
Blinded.png Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Blinded.png Blindness (2s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 5
Duration.png Duration: 5 seconds
Interval.png Interval: 1 second
Radius.png Radius: 240
Explosion.png Explosion
Combo.png Combo Field: Light
Range.png Range: 1,500

— In-game description

April 28, 2020

  • Flash Shell: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.5 in PvP only.
Flash Shell.png

Flash Shell

Ground-targeted  
Profession
Engineer icon small.png Engineer (skill list)
Kit
Elite Mortar Kit.png Elite Mortar Kit
 
Weapon slot 4
Game link
0.5½ Activation time  
20 Recharge time
30 Recharge time
 
Flash Shell

Launch a phosphorous mortar round that burns brightly at impact point.

Damage.png Damage: 355 (1.0)?
Damage.png Damage: 178 (0.5)?
Blinded.png Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Blinded.png Blindness (2s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 5
Duration.png Duration: 5 seconds
Interval.png Interval: 1 second
Radius.png Radius: 240
Explosion.png Explosion
Combo.png Combo Field: Light
Range.png Range: 1,500

— In-game description

May 08, 2018

  • Elite Mortar Kit: The base damage and cooldowns of all Mortar Kit attacks are no longer split between game modes and will now use the higher 25–33% damage increase with lower cooldowns in all modes.
Flash Shell.png

Flash Shell

Ground-targeted  
Profession
Engineer icon small.png Engineer (skill list)
Kit
Elite Mortar Kit.png Elite Mortar Kit
 
Weapon slot 4
Game link
0.5½ Activation time  20 Recharge time  
Flash Shell

Launch a phosphorous mortar round that burns brightly at impact point.

Damage.png Damage: 355 (1.0)?
Blinded.png Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 5
Duration.png Duration: 5 seconds
Interval.png Interval: 1 second
Radius.png Radius: 240
Explosion.png Explosion
Combo.png Combo Field: Light
Range.png Range: 1,500

— In-game description

March 27, 2018

  • Flash Shell: Increased damage by 33% in PvP and WvW. Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW.
Flash Shell.png

Flash Shell

Ground-targeted  
Profession
Engineer icon small.png Engineer (skill list)
Kit
Elite Mortar Kit.png Elite Mortar Kit
 
Weapon slot 4
Game link
0.5½ Activation time  
25 Recharge time
20 Recharge time
 
Flash Shell

Launch a phosphorous mortar round that burns brightly at impact point.

Damage.png Damage: 266 (0.75)?
Damage.png Damage: 355 (1.0)?
Blinded.png Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 5
Duration.png Duration: 5 seconds
Interval.png Interval: 1 second
Radius.png Radius: 240
Explosion.png Explosion
Combo.png Combo Field: Light
Range.png Range: 1,500

— In-game description

August 08, 2017

  • Flash Shell: Increased field duration from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.
Flash Shell.png

Flash Shell

Ground-targeted  
Profession
Engineer icon small.png Engineer (skill list)
Kit
Elite Mortar Kit.png Elite Mortar Kit
 
Weapon slot 4
Game link
0.5½ Activation time  25 Recharge time  
Flash Shell

Launch a phosphorous mortar round that burns brightly at impact point.

Damage.png Damage: 266 (0.75)?
Blinded.png Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 5
Duration.png Duration: 5 seconds
Interval.png Interval: 1 second
Radius.png Radius: 240
Explosion.png Explosion
Combo.png Combo Field: Light
Range.png Range: 1,500

— In-game description

February 22, 2017

Flash Shell.png

Flash Shell

Ground-targeted  
Profession
Engineer icon small.png Engineer (skill list)
Kit
Elite Mortar Kit.png Elite Mortar Kit
 
Weapon slot 4
Game link
0.5½ Activation time  25 Recharge time  
Flash Shell

Launch a phosphorous mortar round that burns brightly at impact point.

Damage.png Damage: 266 (0.75)?
Blinded.png Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 5
Duration.png Duration: 4 seconds
Interval.png Interval: 1 second
Radius.png Radius: 240
Explosion.png Explosion
Combo.png Combo Field: Light
Range.png Range: 1,500

— In-game description

September 29, 2015

July 28, 2015

  • Mortar KitFlash Shell: Fixed an issue that caused this skill to pulse every 2 seconds instead of every second.

Original version

Flash Shell.png

Flash Shell

Ground-targeted  
Profession
Engineer icon small.png Engineer (skill list)
Kit
Elite Mortar Kit.png Elite Mortar Kit
 
Weapon slot 4
Game link
0.5½ Activation time  25 Recharge time  
Flash Shell

Launch a phosphorous mortar round that burns brightly at impact point.

Damage.png Damage: 266 (0.75)?
Blinded.png Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 5
Duration.png Duration: 4 seconds
Interval.png Interval: 1 second
Radius.png Radius: 240
Combo.png Combo Field: Light
Range.png Range: 1,500

— In-game description