Jump Shot

Blast the ground, damaging nearby foes and leaping to your target. — In-game description

Jump Shot

 

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

6005, 5817

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Jump Shot

Blast the ground, damaging nearby foes and leaping to your target.

 Leap Damage: 127 (0.3)^?

 Leap Damage: 42 (0.1)^?

 Landing Damage: 1,012 (2.4)^?

 Landing Damage: 734 (1.74)^?

₃ Vulnerability (7s): +3% Incoming Damage, +3% Incoming Condition Damage

₃ Vulnerability (6s): +3% Incoming Damage, +3% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Explosion

 Evade: 0.5½ seconds

 Combo Finisher: Leap

 Range: 800

— 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.
• Shaped Charge — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.
• 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

• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.

Notes

• The leap and landing effects both inflict 3 stacks of vulnerability to every enemy hit, for a total of 6 stacks.
• Unlike many other ground-target movement abilities, this ability actually "jumps" the player, meaning there is no need for ground between the beginning position and the end position. This can aid greatly in jump puzzles, allowing difficult parts to be skipped over, and lets the engineer reach places no other profession can reach. It should be noted that the jump path is highly sensitive to height differences, and has difficulty when moving from low ground to high ground, especially over short distances.
• Jump Shot offers no protection from fall damage when moving from high ground to low ground.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 18 seconds to 16 seconds in PvP only.
November 28, 2023	This skill will now evade for 0.5 seconds at the start of the animation.
August 25, 2022	Fixed an issue that caused this skill to allow jumps to be significantly higher than intended.
August 02, 2022	Fixed a bug that caused Jump Shot to sometimes deal less damage than expected.
June 30, 2022	Range has been reduced from 900 to 800.
June 28, 2022	Maximum range increased from 800 to 900. The launch blast is now an Explosion. Animation updated for more bounce. Reduced cooldown from 20 seconds to 18 seconds in PvP and WvW.
May 26, 2020	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to do inconsistent damage based on height difference.
April 28, 2020	This skill no longer ignores the immobile condition.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced initial leap power coefficient from 0.3 to 0.1. Reduced landing power coefficient from 2.4 to 1.74. Reduced vulnerability duration from 7 seconds to 6 seconds. Increased cooldown from 18 seconds to 20 seconds.
August 27, 2019	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from applying its listed vulnerability stacks.
April 23, 2019	This skill now animates more smoothly when used to reach a lower elevation.
May 08, 2018	Reduced the recharge of this skill from 20 seconds to 18 seconds.
December 13, 2016	The damage of the initial jump has been reduced by 56%. The damage of the landing has been increased by 28%.
July 28, 2015	Increased the range to 800.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Movement-speed adjustments no longer affect the intended travel distance.
September 09, 2014	Updated the skill facts to display the correct amount of damage with the Rifled Barrels and Rifle Mod traits equipped.
December 10, 2013	Increased the radius of the initial damage from 120 to 240 to match the land radius. Updated the radius fact.
August 20, 2013	Fixed a bug that caused the vulnerability applied by this skill to be unblockable.
June 27, 2013	Fixed a bug with the animation when the Rifled Barrels trait is equipped.
June 25, 2013	Increased the radius of the second attack from 120 units to 240 units. Decreased the aftercast on this skill so that other skills can chain off of it more easily. Cleaned up the movement on this skill so that it will more accurately move to the target location.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Jump Shot has been added to the game.

See also

•   Jump Shot (Cruelty-free Rifle)
•   Jump Shot (Ghost Destructor Rifle)
•   Jump Shot (Hunger Royale)
•   Jump Shot (Klagg)
•   Jump Shot (Snowball Mayhem)