Static Shot

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Static Shot

12  

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand pistol

 

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Discharge a lightning shot that bounces between multiple foes, blinding and confusing them.

  Damage: 147 (0.4)^?

  Damage: 110 (0.3)^?

  Blindness (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 ₃ Confusion (5s): 150 Damage, 149 Damage to Players on Skill Use, 287 Damage to Non-Players on Skill Use

  Number of Bounces: 4

  Range: 900

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

 Firearms

•  Chemical Rounds — Your pistol skills have increased condition duration.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per hit from 0.4 to 0.3.
October 02, 2018	Increased the duration of confusion inflicted by this skill from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.
April 19, 2016	Confusion duration has been increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds. The number of confusion stacks has been increased from 2 to 3. The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
January 26, 2016	Fixed a bug that prevented the correct number of confusion stacks from displaying when the Chemical Rounds trait was equipped.
April 30, 2013	Changed the maximum targets skill fact to number of bounces to better indicate its actual effect.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Static Shot has been added to the game.