Explosive Entrance (trait skill)

Your first attack explodes, dealing extra damage to nearby enemies. — In-game description

Explosive Entrance

Profession

Engineer (trait skill list)

Trait

 Explosive Entrance

Game link

API

59562

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0.25¼  

Explosive Entrance

Your first attack explodes, dealing extra damage to nearby enemies.

 Damage: 332 (1.25)^?

 Damage: 106 (0.4)^?

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Explosion

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Explosive Entrance — Your first attack when entering combat explodes, dealing damage to nearby foes. This ability refreshes after a dodge roll.
• Short Fuse — Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
• Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
• Explosive Temper — Explosions grant stacking ferocity when they hit.
• Blast Shield — Explosive Entrance grants barrier. Gain vitality based on a percentage of your power.
• Grand Entrance — Explosive Entrance grants you resistance and increased critical-strike chance for a brief duration.
• 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.

Notes

• This effect lasts forever until the Engineer attacks. When ready, the Engineer's right hand glows orange.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the power coefficient from 0.9 to 0.4 in PvP and from 1.25 to 0.4 in WvW.
December 01, 2020	Reduced power coefficient from 1.25 to 0.9 in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Explosive Entrance has been added to the game. This new trait causes the first attack on entering combat to explode, damaging nearby enemies. This counts as an explosion. This ability refreshes after a dodge roll or while out of combat.