Mortar Shot

This article is about the engineer skill. For the special action skill, see Mortar Shot (turtle).

Launch an explosive round from your mortar, damaging foes in the target area. — In-game description

Mortar Shot

 

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Kit

  Elite Mortar Kit

Game link

API

30371

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0.5½  

Mortar Shot

Launch an explosive round from your mortar, damaging foes in the target area.

 Damage: 355 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 302 (0.85)^?

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

 Explosion

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 1,500

— In-game description

Related traits

 Explosives

•  Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
•  Shrapnel — Explosions have a chance to cripple and cause bleeding on hit.

Notes

• Attack rate is one shot per 0.8 seconds, or 1.25 attacks per second.
• Damaging or debilitating combo effects are applied to each enemy Mortar Shot passes through.
• Regeneration or Cleansing combo effects are applied in a 240 radius around the first enemy Mortar Shot comes into contact with.
• This skill cannot be auto-cast due to its ground target nature, despite being the first skill of the kit. See ground targeting for more details.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 28, 2020	Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.85 in PvP only.
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.
March 27, 2018	Increased damage by 25% in PvP and WvW.
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.
September 29, 2015	Added a radius skill fact. Mortar Kit: Updated the skill facts to display initial damage. This kit's skills are now affected by the Explosive Powder trait.
June 24, 2015	Reduced the damage by 28%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Mortar Shot has been added to the game.