Homing Torpedo

Fire a shot that homes in on your foe and detonates an area around them. — In-game description

Homing Torpedo

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Harpoon gun

Game link

API

6148

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This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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Homing Torpedo

Fire a shot that homes in on your foe and detonates an area around them.

 Damage: 367 (1.0)^?

 Burning (1s): 131 Damage

 Number of Targets: 3

 Radius: 180

 Explosion

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Short Fuse — Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
• Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
• 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.
• 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.

Notes

• Actual attack speed is approximately 1.52 seconds per attack.
• As its name suggests, this skill's projectile is homing, meaning that it will track its target for a certain amount of time.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	Animation time reduced from 1.5 seconds to 1 second. Damage multiplier increased from 0.84 to 1.0. Applies 1 second of burning. This is now an explosion.
May 08, 2018	This skill no longer pierces targets. Its damage has been increased by 40%, and the speed of the fired missile has been increased by 33%.
September 09, 2014	Updated the damage on the skill fact to correctly scale with the Rifle Mod trait.
April 15, 2014	Added a radius skill fact.
October 15, 2013	This skill will no longer fail to strike larger wurm creatures.
December 14, 2012	This skill is now a small projectile finisher with the rifled barrels trait equipped.
November 15, 2012	This skill is now a small projectile combo finisher.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Homing Torpedo has been added to the game.