User:Balefire/Puppeteer

This article is about the elite specialization for engineer. For the article about warband members, see Scrapper (warband).

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Engineers who travel through the rebellious Blood Legion's homelands in the northeast of Tyria find that preparation and defense is the best offense against throngs of enemy soldiers. Using maces as makeshift workshop hammers, they learn the ways of the tinkerer to fine tune their abilities and prepare traps for unsuspecting foes. They bring a a defensive yet variable style of short range play to the engineer.

— Scrapper release notes

Tinkerer is an elite specialization for the engineer that focuses on utilizing variable traps and mace skills to suit any possible situation.

List of Puppeteer skills

Profession mechanic

Puppeteers are specialized mesmers who can permanently keep up special marionette illusions during battle, and gain alternate shatter skills. The marionette copies of your attack skills, and disables your shatter skills for a brief period if it would be destroyed. Marionette skills are randomly cast by either you or your puppet, further confusing foes.

Skill			Description
Summon Marionette	½	10	Summon a persistent marionette that disables shatter skills whenever it would be destroyed.
Illusionary Shift	½	20	Switch places with your marionette, shattering other illusions and confusing foes.
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Illusionary Fade	1	30	Destroy all your clones and phantasm. You and you marionette gain stealth for each one shattered.

Main-hand only

	Skill	Type			Description
Dagger
1	Mirror		½	-	Throw your mace in a circle so it returns to you, making foes vulnerable.
	Slash		½	-	Slash your foes.
	Cleave		¾	-	Cleave your foes, applying bleed and vulnerability.
2	Bomb-Bat		½	7	Bat a small bomb at the targeted area, leaving a lingering fire field.
3	Mirror Evasion		¾	12	Discharge electricity through the ground towards the targeted region, generating a charged region. Foes struck by electricity are tormented.

Healing

Skill	Type				Description
Armed Cureall	Trap		½	15	Arm a trap that heals allies and slowing foes when it triggers.
Vial Smash	Toolbelt		½	15	Break your cureall vial at the target area, cleansing conditions and slowing foes.

Utility

Skill	Type				Description
Armed Vortex	Trap		½	25	Arm a trap that slows foes and destroy projectiles entering the area.
P.V.G.	Toolbelt		½	15	Activate a pocket vortex generator that pulls foes to the target area.
Armed Slime	Trap		½	25	Arm a trap that coats foes in slime, weakening them and preventing them from obtaining boons.
Slime Grenade	Toolbelt		½	20	Throw a slime grenade at the target area, weakening them and stripping boons.
Armed Charges	Trap		½	20	Arm a series of charges that periodically explodes, damaging and burning foes.
Misfire	Toolbelt		½	15	Trigger an explosive misfire at the target area, bleeding and blinding foes.
Armed Frame	Trap		½	50	Arm a trap that creates an impassable frame in the targeted area.
Throw Toolbox	Toolbelt		½	35	Throw your toolbox at the target area, applying random conditions and crowd control effects.

Elite

Skill	Type				Description
Armed Inverter	Trap		½	90	Arm a trap that converts conditions on allies into boons, and boons on foes into conditions.
Invert Location	Toolbelt		½	50	Teleport to the target location, confusing nearby foes.

Corsair Traits

Tier	Name	Description
Minor Proficiency	Axe Proficiency	You can wield axes.
Minor Adept	Smuggler	Apply vulnerability when you plunder from a foe.
Adept	Arm Twist	Improves the side effects of plunders.
Adept	Murderous Spoils	Boons you steal have increased duration.
Adept	Long Reach	Axe skills deal more damage and have increased range.
Minor Master	Escape Plan	Regenerate endurance whenever you gain a new boon.
Master	Collateral Damage	Plunders can strike multiple foes around your target.
Master	Shake Down	Weaken foes when you make them vulnerable.
Master	Gambling Spree	Reduces recharge on gambits and reduces their side effects.
Minor Grandmaster	Browbeat	Plunders are unblockable and steal a boon on hit.
Grandmaster	Profiteer	Your next attack after stealing a boon has a 100% critical hit chance.
Grandmaster	Tip the Scales	Gain might whenever you strike a vulnerable foe.
Grandmaster	Dead Man's Luck	Regenerate health while you have boons. If you have three or more boons, you will instead lose them if you take a lethal blow.

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