Mortar

Engineer skill · Artillery line · tier 2

Beta 0.7.2

An arcing shot: it lands where the enemy was going, not where it was.

It is only used in combat once it is placed on the hero's active bar, and its 9 s cooldown is before cooldown reduction.

Values by rank

Mortar scales with Fire Damage. Its value at each rank is 11 + 3.1 × rank:

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Value	14.1	17.2	20.3	23.4	26.5	29.6	32.7	35.8	38.9	42

The value is the game's internal number for this skill.

in combat = round(value × skill power × max(0.35, hero damage ÷ 600))
hero damage = Attack + all elemental damage
skill power = 1 + 1% per point in the other Artillery skills + 2% per rank of each skill that boosts it

The damage factor has a minimum of 0.35 and no maximum. A hero with 600 damage and no line mastery or synergies gets the listed value; how it becomes damage or healing per hit depends on the skill's type and timing.

How to unlock it

1
Rank 5 in Chain Shot Tier 1 of the Artillery line.
2
Hero level 12 at the earliest There is no level requirement, but a hero gets one skill point every 2 levels.
3
One skill point per rankUp to rank 10.

Rank 5 in Mortar opens Barrage Volley.

Mastery and synergies

Line mastery: every point in the other Artillery skills makes Mortar 1% stronger, up to +40% with all of them at rank 10. Its own points do the same for the rest of the line.

Mortar has no synergies: no skill boosts it and it boosts no other skill.

Artillery line

Skill	Tier	Type	Cooldown	Scales with
Chain Shot	1	Direct damage	6 s	Attack
Mortar	2	Area damage	9 s	Fire Damage
Bomb	3	Area damage	9 s	Fire Damage
Barrage Volley	4	Area damage	9 s	Attack
Bombardment	5	Ultimate	16 s	Fire Damage