Rifle Burst

Deliver a quick burst of fire that pierces targets, followed by an explosive grenade. — In-game description

Animation

Rifle Burst

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

Sequence

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Game link

API

6003

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0.5½  

Rifle Burst

Deliver a quick burst of fire that pierces targets, followed by an explosive grenade.

 Damage: 190 (0.45)^?

 Damage: 70 (0.165)^?

 Number of Targets: 5

 Pierces

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• 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.

Notes

• Attack rate is one sequence per ~1.13 seconds, or ~0.88 attacks per second.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 29, 2022	This skill now fires one piercing projectile before the grenade instead of two. Increased piercing projectile power coefficient from 0.3 to 0.4 in PvE only. Grenade power coefficient increased from 0.4 to 0.6 in PvE only. Increased skill animation speed; total animation duration remains the same as previous version in PvE only.
August 02, 2022	Adjusted total animation duration down to 1 second from approximately 1.2 seconds. (Undocumented) Casting time reduced from 1 second to 0.75 seconds.
June 30, 2022	(Undocumented) Increased cast time from 0.75 to 1 second. Fixed an issue with the recoil animation only playing once.
June 28, 2022	Rifle Burst has been added to the game and replaced Hip Shot. Hip Shot has been replaced with Rifle Burst. Rifle Burst delivers a quick burst of fire that pierces targets, followed by an explosive grenade. Total damage coefficient increased from 0.65 to 1.0 in PvE only.

Gallery

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  Skill animation (open to play).