Grenade Barrage

Throw several grenades at once. — In-game description

Grenade Barrage

 

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Parent skill

  Grenade Kit

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Tool belt

Game link

API

5810

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0.5½  25  

Grenade Barrage

Throw several grenades at once.

 Damage: 160 (0.6)^?

 Damage: 106 (0.4)^?

 Damage: 89 (0.3333)^?

 Number of Grenades: 6

 Number of Targets: 5

 Explosion Radius: 120

 Explosion

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Grenadier — Increase the throw velocity and blast radius of grenades. Using a healing skill casts Lesser Grenade Barrage.
• Short Fuse — Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
• Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
• 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.
• 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.

Inventions

• Soothing Detonation — Heal nearby allies when using a tool belt skill.

Tools

• Optimized Activation — Using tool belt skills grants vigor.
• Static Discharge — Discharge a bolt of lightning whenever you use a tool belt skill.
• Mechanized Deployment — Your tool belt skills gain reduced recharge. Tool belt skills remove conditions. Engage Photon Forge cannot activate this trait.
• Kinetic Battery — Gain Kinetic Charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum, charges gain a burst of speed.

Notes

• This skill's damage is inconsistent due to the random spread of the thrown grenades. It is therefore more effectively used on nearby and/or non-moving targets.
• When activated by a player with Quip equipped, the thrown grenades will have streamer trails while in the air. With The Predator equipped, the grenades are fireballs. With HOPE equipped, the grenades are plasma bolts. With The Moot equipped, the grenades are disco balls.
• Damage value is shown without equipped weapon or kit and should not be used for power coefficient calculations.
• These grenades are the only grenades that display red circles to enemies, indicating where they will land. Furthermore, every grenade will have a circle of its own.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from triggering Relic of Fireworks.
May 02, 2023	Reduced power coefficient from 0.5 to 0.4 in WvW only.
October 04, 2022	Increased power coefficient per grenade from 0.3 to 0.3333 in PvP only.
December 01, 2020	Reduced power coefficient per grenade from 0.4 to 0.3 in PvP only.
July 07, 2020	Reduced the power coefficient per grenade from 0.5 to 0.4 in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per grenade from 0.6 to 0.5.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Increased damage by 20%.
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.
July 26, 2016	Grenade Kit: Grenade damage instances will now additively indicate the total damage dealt to a target as grenades strike them instead of displaying each grenade separately.
December 15, 2015	The engineer's Grenade Barrage will once again use legendry weapon effects.
July 07, 2015	Fixed an issue in which this skill gained unintended functionality with the Grenadier trait.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All skills in the grenade kit have had their range updated from 1200 to 900. Recharge reduced from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
October 21, 2014	Removed the duplicate Number of Targets skill fact while underwater. Added a Number of Targets skill fact to Grenade Barrage in PvP.
September 30, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to lose its Number of Targets skill fact with Grenadier slotted or when viewed underwater.
September 09, 2014	Added Number of Targets facts to the underwater and traited versions of Grenade Barrage. Fixed the listed radius of the underwater traited version to its actual radius (120).
May 20, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused the skill fact for the untraited version of this skill to display an incorrect explosion radius.
April 15, 2014	Grenade Kit: Fixed a bug that caused grenades to explode twice before being destroyed when used under water. Added a skill fact for number of grenades to all grenade skills. Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented grenades from having any effect if they directly hit certain destructible structures. Updated the description of this skill to be more accurate.
December 10, 2013	Updated the skill facts to indicate the number of grenades thrown when Grenadier is traited.
November 26, 2013	This skill now launches 7 grenades when traited with Grenadier, instead of having a 50% chance to launch 6 or 8 grenades. These grenades now display a red ring for enemies and a white ring for allies.
March 26, 2013	Grenades no longer require the player to have line of sight of the target area to throw them.
December 14, 2012	Grenade kit damage is now equal in PvP and PvE.
November 15, 2012	The projectile speed of all grenades has been increased by 10-15%. This skill's damage has been decreased by 10% in PvP only. It also now works correctly with the Explosives trait Grenadier while underwater.
October 07, 2012	Grenades now have the same cast time underwater as they do on land.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Grenade Barrage has been added to the game.