Tool belt

The tool belt is a special ability exclusive to the engineer profession which adds up to five tool belt skills to engineer's arsenal, based on the equipped slot skills (healing, utility and elite). Tool belt skills are activated by using the keys F1 – F5. Functionality for the F4 slot unlocks at level 19 (see Level rewards for all thresholds). Each of the skills equipped into the slot skills bar fills one of the tool belt skill slots with another skill, such as, e.g., the ability to toss an elixir, triggering a turret's effect around the player character, or other gadgets. Using a tool belt skill has no inherent effect on the corresponding healing or utility skills (such as triggering recharge time), and vice versa. All slot skills, including racial skills (except racial elites), have tool belt skills available to the engineer. Elite specializations replace the elite (F5) tool belt skill.

List of tool belt skills

Engineer skills

Slot	Type	Slot skill	Tool belt skill			Description
Healing	Elixir	Elixir H	Toss Elixir H	0.5½	20	Elixir. Toss Elixir H to grant protection, regeneration, and vigor to allies.
	Turret	Healing Turret	Regenerating Mist	0.25¼	18	Release a mist of healing liquid to regenerate nearby allies.
	Engineering Kit	Med Kit	Bandage Self	1	17	Bandage your wounds and heal yourself.
	Gadget	A.E.D.	Static Shock	0.75¾	20	Use your A.E.D. to stun an enemy.
Utility	Elixir	Elixir B	Toss Elixir B	0.5½	20	Elixir. Toss Elixir B at a location, granting stability and one of the following boons to allies: fury, might, or resolution.
		Elixir C	Toss Elixir C	0.5½	16	Elixir. Toss Elixir C, converting conditions into boons for allies.
		Elixir R	Toss Elixir R	0.25¼	90	Elixir. Toss Elixir R to revive allies at a location.
		Elixir S	Toss Elixir S	0.5½	45	Elixir. Toss Elixir S, granting stealth to allies in the target area.
		Elixir U	Toss Elixir U	0.5½	25	Elixir. Toss Elixir U, breaking stuns on allies and granting them superspeed.
	Gadget	Personal Battering Ram	Launch Personal Battering Ram	0.25¼	12	Shoot a ram's head in front of you, impairing any struck foes.
		Rocket Boots	Rocket Kick	0.5½	15	Use your rocket boots to do an explosive kick that burns foes.
		Throw Mine	Mine Field	1	17	Plant five mines around yourself.
		Slick Shoes	Superspeed		20	Activate your slick shoes, enabling you to move at superior speeds.
		Utility Goggles	Detection Pulse	0.5½	20	Remove stealth from enemies in a large area.
	Turret	Flame Turret	Throw Napalm	0.5½	25	Throw a ball of napalm that explodes on impact, burning foes around target location.
		Net Turret	Net Attack	0.25¼	38	Fire a net from your belt to immobilize your foe.
		Rifle Turret	Surprise Shot		8	Fire a bullet out of your belt.
		Rocket Turret	Rocket	0.5½	25	Fire a rocket out of your belt that explodes on impact.
		Thumper Turret	Rumble	0.25¼	38	Release a shock wave of inertial force to damage nearby foes.
	Engineering Kit	Bomb Kit	Big Ol' Bomb	0.5½	20	Set a timed charge with a big blast that launches nearby foes.
		Grenade Kit	Grenade Barrage	0.5½	25	Throw several grenades at once.
		Elixir Gun	Healing Mist		25	Elixir. Vent a healing mist, granting regeneration to yourself and allies.
		Flamethrower	Incendiary Ammo		20	Burn foes with your next three attacks.
		Tool Kit	Throw Wrench	0.5½	20	Throw a wrench that returns to you, striking foes each way.
Elite	Elixir	Elixir X	Toss Elixir X	0.5½	60	Elixir. Toss your Elixir X, transforming enemies at the location into moas.
	Turret	Supply Crate	Med Pack Drop	0.5½	50	Call down a supply drop of med packs into a target area.
	Engineering Kit	Elite Mortar Kit	Orbital Strike	0.75¾	40	Call down energy from the sky to blast an area.

Scrapper skills

Slot	Type	Slot skill	Tool belt skill			Description
Healing	Well	Medic Gyro	Reconstruction Field	0.5½	25	Establish a defensive field, granting protection to allies in its area.
Utility		Blast Gyro	Bypass Coating		20	Splash a hypercoating on nearby allies, granting superspeed.
		Bulwark Gyro	Defense Field		25	Project a defensive dome around yourself and grant stability to nearby allies.
		Purge Gyro	Chemical Field	0.25¼	20	Generate a poison cloud.
		Shredder Gyro	Spare Capacitor	0.5½	24	Set down a lightning capacitor to daze and damage foes near it.
Elite	Trait	Profession mechanic	Function Gyro		25	Create a lightning field at the specified point. Then summon gyros to finish foes and revive allies within the field. The recharge of this skill is increased for each gyro created beyond the first. Interrupted gyros are destroyed.

Holosmith skills

Slot	Type	Slot skill	Tool belt skill			Description
Healing	Exceed	Coolant Blast	Cauterize		30	Use a laser to burn off conditions and set yourself on fire for each condition removed. Removes additional conditions if above the heat threshold.
Utility		Spectrum Shield	Flash Spark		25	Release a blinding burst of light from your holographic emitter. While above the heat threshold, gain light aura.
		Hard Light Arena	Prismatic Singularity	0.5½	30	Collapse a ring of holograms to pull foes into a single point. The ring explodes when it fully collapses. Radius and pull distance increased while above the heat threshold.
		Laser Disk	Blade Burst		20	Fire holographic blades at foes within range. Damage increased while over the heat threshold.
		Photon Wall	Particle Accelerator		8	Fire a crippling bolt of light at your target. Allies the bolt passes through are granted swiftness. Projectile velocity and damage increased while above the heat threshold.
Elite	Trait	Profession mechanic	Engage Photon Forge		1	Activate your Photon Forge, gaining access to new skills. Generate heat while Photon Forge is active. Take damage if you overheat. Disables use of kits for a short duration.
		Photon Projector	Deactivate Photon Forge		6	Cancel Photon Forge and begin cooling after a delay. Cooling effectiveness increases over time.
			Holoforge Overheated			Unable to reactivate until cooled.

Asura skills

Slot	Type	Slot skill	Tool belt skill			Description
Utility	Racial	Pain Inverter	Pain Transference	10.25¼	45	Send out a bolt that steals a boon from your foe and gives them one condition from you.
		Radiation Field	Vent Radiation		45	Vent radioactive gas to poison nearby foes.
		Technobabble	Confusing Speech		45	Confuse nearby foes with complex calculations.

Charr skills

Slot	Type	Slot skill	Tool belt skill			Description
Utility	Racial	Battle Roar	Invigorating Roar		50	Let out an inspiring roar, removing weakness and vulnerability from allies and granting vigor.
		Shrapnel Mine	Booby Trap		45	Place an explosive charge on yourself that is triggered by a melee attack.
		Hidden Pistol	Hidden Pistols	10.75¾	30	Draw both hidden pistols and unload a volley of bullets on your foe.

Human skills

Slot	Type	Slot skill	Tool belt skill			Description
Healing	Racial	Prayer to Dwayna	Blessing of Dwayna	0.75¾	40	Beseech Dwayna to restore health and grant regeneration to allies at target location.
Utility		Prayer to Kormir	Blessing of Kormir	0.75¾	30	Beseech Kormir to remove one condition from your allies at the target location.
		Prayer to Lyssa	Blessing of Lyssa	0.75¾	35	Pray to Lyssa, granting a random boon to allies and a random condition to foes at target location.

Norn skills

Slot	Type	Slot skill	Tool belt skill			Description
Utility	Racial	Call Wurm	Eat Wurm Egg	1	30	Eat a wurm's egg to gain vigor and regeneration.
		Call Owl	Eat Owl Egg	1	30	Eat an owl's egg to gain swiftnesss[sic] and regeneration.

Sylvari skills

Slot	Type	Slot skill	Tool belt skill			Description
Healing	Racial	Healing Seed	Leafy Bandage	1	40	Use natural bandages to heal yourself and remove bleeding, burning, and poison.
Utility		Grasping Vines	Vine Shield	10.5½	45	Block incoming attacks.
		Seed Turret	Throw Vine	0.5½	45	Throw a vine and trip your foe.

Related traits

Trait skills that have the type tool belt

•   Controlled Analysis (Lock On) — Analyze a disabled foe, applying vulnerability.
•   Invisible Analysis (Lock On) — Analyze a stealthed foe, applying vulnerability.

Traits that improve tool belt skills

• Soothing Detonation (Inventions) — Heal nearby allies when using a tool belt skill.
• Optimized Activation (Tools) — Using tool belt skills grants vigor.
• Static Discharge (Tools) — Discharge a bolt of lightning whenever you use a tool belt skill.
• Mechanized Deployment (Tools) — Your tool belt skills gain reduced recharge. Tool belt skills remove conditions. Engage Photon Forge cannot activate this trait.
• Kinetic Battery (Tools) — Gain Kinetic Charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum, charges gain a burst of speed.

Notes

• Unlike kits, tool belt skills use the mainhand weapon's strength to calculate damage.
• Tool belt 5 appears in the profession mechanic slot 5 if no elite specialization is equipped, or if no minor adept for an elite specialization is trained.
• Tool belt 1-5 is completely replaced by Mechanist elite specialization's Jade Mech CJ-1 and mech command skills, as long as the minor adept for Mechanist is trained.

Trivia

• The inspiration for the idea of tool belt skills came from 1980's movie The Goonies character Data.

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