Trap

Traps, Mine and Mines redirect here. For the support gems that create Traps and Mines, see and . For lists of Trap and Mine skills, see Category:Trap skills and Category:Mine skills. For the Map, see Mine (map).

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Traps and Mines are entities created by certain skills, which lie on the ground until triggered, at which point they cast a skill.

Traps

When a trap is laid, it is visible to all creatures, but only for a brief period. During this period the trap is not yet armed, and cannot be triggered. When this period ends, the trap is armed, becomes invisible to enemies, and can then be triggered.

Once armed, a trap will be triggered by the first enemy to enter its trigger radius. The trap will then cast its skill at the enemy that triggered it, and the trap is destroyed.

Traps can be thrown to any location on the ground within the player's line of sight, although there is a maximum distance that they can be thrown. This allows them to be thrown at an enemy's feet, causing it to trigger as soon as it arms unless the enemy moves out of the way in time.

There are currently four trap skills:

• Lightning Trap
• Conversion Trap

There is also the support gem , with which you can link any active skill gem.

Mines

Unlike traps, mines do not have an arming period and are invisible to enemies from the moment they are laid, but they can only be laid at the feet of the creature laying the mine.

Once a mine is laid, a Detonate Mines skill becomes available. Using this skill is the only way to trigger a mine, and it will trigger all the player's active mines simultaneously (even mines of varying types). When triggered, a mine will cast its skill at the closest enemy within its trigger radius. If there is no enemy within range when it is triggered, the mine will target itself with the skill - this will cause any projectiles from the skill to fly in a random direction.

The detonation skill is considered a spell, and is therefore affected by cast speed. However the gem will not affect the detonation skill, because it is part of neither the mine nor the skill cast by the mine. It is an innate ability of the player to detonate all mines of any type they have active.

There are currently two mine skills:

There is also a support gem called .

Trigger Radius

The trigger radius stat is unique to traps and mines. It is not considered an Area of Effect, and will not be affected by area of effect modifiers. It can be increased by Trap and Mine Trigger Radius modifiers, some of which are found on passive skills.

Laying Speed

Traps and Mines are not considered spells (even ones that cast spells), so laying a trap or mine cannot be sped up by increased Cast Speed modifiers. They are instead affected by Trap and Mine Laying Speed modifiers.

Maximum active traps and mines

There are limits on the number of traps and mines a player can have active at one time. A player can have:

• Up to three active traps

and

• Up to five active mines

Laying a fourth trap will cause the oldest active trap to be destroyed. Similarly, laying a sixth mine will cause the oldest active mine to be destroyed.

There are several passive skills which increase these limits, to a potential maximum of 6 traps and 7 mines.

Multi-cooldowns

Both traps and mines have a multi-cooldown. Each time the cooldown completes, a counter that is shown on the skill's hotkey icon is increased by one. This counter is how many traps/mines the player has "in stock" that are available to be laid. The counter will continue to increase slowly until the maximum is reached (three for trap skills, five for mine skills).

Unlike the maximums for active traps/mines, which are global across all skills, the "stock" is tracked separately for each individual trap or mine skill, and the cooldowns also operate on a per-skill basis. Different instances of the same skill share the same cooldown. This means that if you use a fire trap gem and a bear trap gem, laying fire traps will trigger the cooldown for the fire trap but not the bear trap. If you have 2 fire trap gems and lay 3 fire traps, BOTH fire trap gems will be in a shared cooldown so you won't be able to use the second gem while the first one is in a cooldown.

This also means that unlike with a traditional cooldown, the traps/mines can be laid in rapid succession, until the current stock is exhausted. They will then have to wait for more cooldowns to complete before more traps/mines become available.

Removing a trap or mine from a socket, removing the item the trap/mine is socketed into or swapping to the alternative weapon set will NOT reset the cooldown to zero.

Destroying Traps and Mines

All traps and mines have a maximum Life of 1. They cannot be targeted directly by attacks or skills, but are vulnerable to Area of Effect damage. Since they have only 1 Life, they will be destroyed by any damage they take. The passive skill Clever Construction can prevent this.

Interaction with player stats and support gems

It is important to note that when a trap/mine casts its payload, it is the trap/mine that casts the skill, not the player, but the skill will still get the benefits of any modifiers that would normally apply if it were the player casting the skill. This includes any modifiers from passive skills and equipment, buffs affecting the player, etc.

Since it is the trap/mine casting the skill, any negative effects that might result from casting the skill affect the mine, not the player. For instance if the mine damages a monster that has damage reflection, the damage will be reflected back onto the mine, not the player.

When the , , and or gems are all linked in combination with a skill, the result is a skill that lays a mine. When the mine is detonated, it lays a trap. When the trap is sprung, it casts a totem, which then can cast the linked skill.

Skill restrictions

Triggering a trap also causes a trap/mine to be destroyed. Therefore auras and other skills that require being turned on for a duration (such as Tempest Shield) cannot be put on traps/mines, although doing so would be pointless anyway.

When the or support gems are linked to an attack skill, the trap/mine is considered to be using whatever weapon you are wielding. Only ranged weapons can be used with Trap or Remote Mine attack skills, not melee weapons.

Unique Items that interact with Traps and Mines

DeerstalkerDeerstalker
Deerskin BootsEvasion: (192-276)Requires Level 22, 42 DexSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 15 Trap
(160-200)% increased Evasion Rating
15% increased Movement Speed
(14-18)% increased Trap Throwing Speed
15% increased Movement Speed for 9 seconds on Throwing a TrapAnticipation, preparation, exhilaration, celebration.

FencoilFencoil
Gnarled BranchStaff
Physical Damage: 9-19
Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
Attacks per Second: 1.30
Weapon Range: 1.3 metres+18% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a StaffSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 8 Trap
(40-50)% increased Global Damage
(10-20)% increased maximum Life
(10-20)% increased maximum ManaYou've no reason for fear when you're a root in a fen
- Old Ezomyte saying.

Jaws of AgonyJaws of Agony
Supreme Spiked ShieldChance to Block: 24%
Evasion: (242-278)
Energy Shield: (49-57)
Movement Speed: -3%Requires Level 70, 85 Dex, 85 Int+5% chance to Suppress Spell DamageGrants Level 25 Bear Trap Skill
(18-28)% increased Trap Damage
(15-25)% increased Global Physical Damage
+(60-80) to maximum Life
-(18-14) Physical Damage taken from Attack Hits
25% chance to gain a Power Charge when you Throw a TrapOne wrong step triggers destruction.
Agony slowly dominates the will to live.

SunblastSunblast
Cloth BeltRequires Level 37(15-25)% increased Stun and Block RecoverySkills which Throw Traps throw up to 2 additional Traps
Traps from Skills are thrown randomly around targeted location
Traps cannot be triggered by Enemies
+(20-30)% to Fire Resistance
(75-50)% reduced Trap Duration
25% increased Light RadiusThe sun's fury, trapped
in pillars of blazing light,
Explodes from its cage.

Passive Skills

The Damage of Traps and Mines are affected by passives according to their other keywords (e.g. Fire) as normal. Additionally the following passives affect Traps and Mines specifically:

See also

• Totem
• Category:Trap skills, Category:Mine skills