Condition DPS Mechanist

February 2023

This build offers high condition dps with a lot of confusion stacks while being very easy to pick up. A downside of it is the lack of CC.

1-Kit variant uses Grenade kit making the rotation more difficult. It does however give the player access to ranged attacks on demand.

2-Kit variant has a slight dps increase by using Grenade kit and Bomb kit making the rotation a bit more difficult.

Low intensity variant uses no kits this leads to a slight damage loss but if you are just getting started with mechanist this is a great choice to get comfortable with condition mechanist.

Build Fundamentals

This build is challenging as it requires an excellent awareness of skill cooldowns as well as near-permanent Alacrity. You switch through your different kits to use your highest damaging skills off-cooldown. The following are your high damaging skills:

• Pistol/Pistol has Blowtorch, Static Shot, and Poison Dart Volley
• Grenade Kit has Shrapnel Grenade, Poison Grenade, and Freeze Grenade
• Bomb Kit has Fire Bomb and Concussion Bomb

As a filler skill use Fragmentation Shot in between your high-damaging skills.

Knowing the cooldown of Shrapnel Grenade with Alacrity is approximately four seconds, you can estimate how much time has elapsed, allowing you to use it as a “timer” for other skills.

For example, Blowtorch has a 10-second cooldown with alacrity, so this means that you want to be using Shrapnel Grenade at least two times as well as one or two other skills like the filler Fragmentation Shot before switching to your pistol again.

Shift Signet shares your boons with your Mech which makes your Mech useful so try to not use it. Use your Mech-Skills off cooldown:

• Discharge Array
• Rolling Smash
• Sky Circus

Mechanical Genius gives your Mech a percentage of your attributes. It also gives you this icon on your buff bar if you don’t have it there’s a 50% penalty on the stats inherited by your mech making your mech very weak. The Mechanical Genius buff is reapplied every 3 seconds if you are within a 300 radius of your mech and lasts for a total of 6 seconds. So make sure to stay close to your mech whenever possible to reapply the buff.

Crowd Control

• Glue Shot
• Glue Bomb
• Freeze Grenade