Rocket Boots

Gadget. Fly forward, removing movement-impairing conditions and damaging foes with your rocket exhaust. Movement-impairing conditions include cripple, chill, and immobilize. — In-game description

Rocket Boots

 

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Tool belt

  Rocket Kick

Type

Gadget

Movement

Leap

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

5910, 29522

This skill has an underwater replacement: Rocket Boots (underwater)

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Rocket Boots

Gadget. Fly forward, removing movement-impairing conditions and damaging foes with your rocket exhaust.
Movement-impairing conditions include cripple, chill, and immobilize.

 Damage: 332 (1.25)^?

 Damage: 133 (0.5)^?

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

 Number of Targets: 5

 Maximum Count: 2

 Count Recharge: 16 seconds

 Radius: 120

 Rocket Distance: 900

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

•  Gadgeteer — Gadget skills are more powerful.

Notes

• The blast finisher will interact with combo fields the player is standing in or rocketing through when this skill is activated, but the effects of the combo happen after landing, in the landing area. Only one field can be trigged per cast.
• This skill's blast finisher makes a notably effective escape with Smoke Bomb and Smoke Screen to grant area stealth.
• Conditions are removed at the start of the jump.
• The start of the skill triggers a jump that allows the player to leap over terrain and objects. This also activates certain on-jump items and effects.
• This skill has a separate recharge from Rocket Boots (underwater).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Reduced ammunition recharge from 20 seconds to 16 seconds.
March 09, 2021	Fixed an issue that prevented the underwater version of this skill from granting Superspeed when traited with Gadgeteer.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.25 to 0.5.
May 08, 2018	This skill can now be used underwater. Its tooltips and description have been updated to reflect this change.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill now uses the ammo system. Ammo count has been set to 2, with a 20-second count recharge. There is a 2-second recharge between each use.
October 18, 2016	The initial damage of this ability has been increased by 25%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Movement-speed adjustments no longer affect the intended travel distance.
June 25, 2013	This trait now shoots the player forward and doesn't inhibit the player. Reduced the cooldown to 20 seconds. This trait is no longer a stun breaker.
September 17, 2012	This skill is no longer usable underwater. This is a temporary change until we can figure out why players can launch themselves into the sky using this skill.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Rocket Boots has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Rocket Boots was disabled for underwater use on the September 17, 2012 game update because it could launch players into the sky. An underwater version of Rocket Boots that fixed this behavior was added on May 8, 2018.