Prime Light Beam
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Prime Light Beam
- Profession
- Engineer (skill list)
- Specialization
- Holosmith
- Slot
- Elite
- Type
- Exceed
- Training cost
- 25 Hero points
- Game link
- API
- 42009
“Exceed. Charge up and fire an explosive beam of light in front of you. When activated above the heat threshold, this attack leaves behind a burning holographic field.
Damage: 798 (3.0)? Damage: 266 (1.0)?- Field Damage: 133 (0.5)?
- Heat Threshold: 50
- Field Burning (3s): 393 Damage
- Launch: 240
- : 10
Field Pulses- Field Duration: 10 seconds
- Explosion
- Defiance Break: 232
- Range: 1,200
- Unblockable
— In-game description
Related traits[edit]
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.
- Incendiary Powder — Burning you inflict lasts longer, and your critical hits inflict burning.
Inventions
- Bunker Down — Create a proximity mine at your target's location and a med kit at your location when you disable an enemy.
Tools
- Power Wrench — Reduce the recharge of your elite skill when you dodge.
- Lock On — Striking a stealthed foe triggers Invisible Analysis. Disabling a foe triggers Controlled Analysis. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
Holosmith
- Enhanced Capacity Storage Unit — Increases maximum heat capacity. While above 100% heat, periodically gain might. Some skills and traits gain additional heat tiers.
Gallery[edit]
Notes[edit]
- With the trait Enhanced Capacity Storage Unit when above 100% heat this skill has an additional 20% damage and additional 50% burning duration in PvE, while in PvP and WvW it has additional 10% damage and additional 10% burning duration.
Version history[edit]
For a detailed skill history, see here.
Patch | Changes |
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August 20, 2024 | Janthir Wilds release:
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April 16, 2024 |
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June 27, 2023 |
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November 29, 2022 |
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October 04, 2022 |
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February 28, 2022 | End of Dragons release:
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February 25, 2020 | Competitive content update:
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May 14, 2019 |
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August 28, 2018 |
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September 22, 2017 | Path of Fire release:
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Trivia[edit]
- This skill's name and effects are direct references to the Prime Light Beam skill used by Scarlet Briar's Prime Hologram, encountered as part of the group event Defeat Scarlet's Prime Hologram before the defenses activate during the Battle for Lion's Arch release of Living World Season 1.