Mine Field

Plant five mines around yourself. — In-game description

Mine Field

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Parent skill

  Throw Mine

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Tool belt

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

6164

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Mine Field

Plant five mines around yourself.

 Damage per Mine: 205 (0.77)^?

 Damage per Mine: 133 (0.5)^?

 Cripple (20.5½s): -50% Movement Speed

 Number of Targets: 5

 Explosion Radius: 180

 Explosion

 Range: 360

— 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

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

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

• The mines remain in place if another skill is equipped.
• The mines last for 60 seconds, and then disappear.
• Unlike the mine from Throw Mine, the Mine fields' mines are visible.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 04, 2022	This skill no longer removes boons. Instead, it cripples enemies that it strikes.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per mine from 0.77 to 0.5.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Increased damage by 10%.
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.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Recharge reduced from 20 seconds to 17 seconds.
April 15, 2014	Added a vulnerability skill fact when the player has the Steel-Packed Powder trait. Fixed a bug that prevented trait points in the Tools line from lowering the cooldown of this skill. Added a skill fact to indicate boon removal.
October 15, 2013	Increased the base explosion radius from 120 to 180.
May 31, 2013	Mines will now detonate properly when enemies run over them.
May 28, 2013	Throw Mine and Mine Fields: Certain friendly NPCs no longer detonate mines.
October 22, 2012	This skill's recharge has been reduced to 20 seconds.
September 17, 2012	This skill is no longer a blast finisher.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Mine Field has been added to the game.