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Condition DPS Mechanist
February 2023

Instanced PvE
Dps
Low intensity icon Low intensityRecommended icon Recommended

Armor

Illustrious Visage icon Superior Rune of Thorns icon
Viper's HelmSuperior Rune of Thorns
Illustrious Shoulderguard icon Superior Rune of Thorns icon
Viper's ShouldersSuperior Rune of Thorns
Illustrious Guise icon Superior Rune of Thorns icon
Viper's ChestSuperior Rune of Thorns
Illustrious Grips icon Superior Rune of Thorns icon
Viper's GlovesSuperior Rune of Thorns
Illustrious Leggings icon Superior Rune of Thorns icon
Viper's LegsSuperior Rune of Thorns
Illustrious Striders icon Superior Rune of Thorns icon
Viper's BootsSuperior Rune of Thorns

Weapons & Sigils

Pistol icon Superior Sigil of Doom icon
Viper's PistolSuperior Sigil of Doom
Pistol icon Superior Sigil of Earth icon
Viper's PistolSuperior Sigil of Earth

Trinkets

Quiver of a Thousand Arrows icon
Viper's Backpiece
Black Ice Earring icon
Viper's Accessory
Asgeir's Talisman icon
Viper's Accessory
Asgeir's Amulet icon
Viper's Amulet
Black Ice Band icon
Viper's Ring
Mistborn Band icon
Viper's Ring

Food

Cilantro and Cured Meat Flatbread icon Toxic Focusing Crystal icon
Cilantro and Cured Meat Flatbread Toxic Focusing Crystal

Infusions

Malign WvW Infusion icon
18xMalign Infusion

Weapon Skills

Utility Skills

copied

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

Mech Core: J-Drive is the defining trait of 1-Kit Mechanist as it allows you to gain the benefits of the signets while they are on cooldown, meaning you can use your signets as a dps increase and make your Mech useful with boons shared via Shift Signet.

To deal damage use all pistol skills, grenade skills, and both damaging signets Overclock Signet and Superconducting Signet off cooldown. Use Fragmentation Shot as a filler skill while waiting for other skills to get off cooldown.

Use your Mech Skills off-cooldown:

  1. Discharge Array
  2. Rolling Smash
  3. 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

Armor

Illustrious Visage icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
Viper's HelmSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
Illustrious Shoulderguard icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
Viper's ShouldersSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
Illustrious Guise icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
Viper's ChestSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
Illustrious Grips icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
Viper's GlovesSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
Illustrious Leggings icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
Viper's LegsSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
Illustrious Striders icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
Viper's BootsSuperior Rune of the Elementalist

Weapons & Sigils

Pistol icon Superior Sigil of Bursting icon
Viper's PistolSuperior Sigil of Bursting
Pistol icon Superior Sigil of Earth icon
Viper's PistolSuperior Sigil of Earth

Trinkets

Quiver of a Thousand Arrows icon
Viper's Backpiece
Black Ice Earring icon
Viper's Accessory
Asgeir's Talisman icon
Viper's Accessory
Asgeir's Amulet icon
Viper's Amulet
Black Ice Band icon
Viper's Ring
Mistborn Band icon
Viper's Ring

Food

Cilantro and Cured Meat Flatbread icon Toxic Focusing Crystal icon
Cilantro and Cured Meat Flatbread Toxic Focusing Crystal

Infusions

Malign WvW Infusion icon
18xMalign Infusion

Weapon Skills

Utility Skills

copied

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:

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:

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.

Armor

Illustrious Visage icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
Viper's HelmSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
Illustrious Shoulderguard icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
Viper's ShouldersSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
Illustrious Guise icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
Viper's ChestSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
Illustrious Grips icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
Viper's GlovesSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
Illustrious Leggings icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
Viper's LegsSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
Illustrious Striders icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
Viper's BootsSuperior Rune of the Elementalist

Weapons & Sigils

Pistol icon Superior Sigil of Bursting icon
Viper's PistolSuperior Sigil of Bursting
Pistol icon Superior Sigil of Earth icon
Viper's PistolSuperior Sigil of Earth

Trinkets

Quiver of a Thousand Arrows icon
Viper's Backpiece
Black Ice Earring icon
Viper's Accessory
Asgeir's Talisman icon
Viper's Accessory
Asgeir's Amulet icon
Viper's Amulet
Black Ice Band icon
Viper's Ring
Mistborn Band icon
Viper's Ring

Food

Cilantro and Cured Meat Flatbread icon Toxic Focusing Crystal icon
Cilantro and Cured Meat Flatbread Toxic Focusing Crystal

Infusions

Malign WvW Infusion icon
18xMalign Infusion

Weapon Skills

Utility Skills

copied

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 which 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

The high damaging skills you want to use off cooldown are all the mechs skills, the pistol skills as well as making sure that Flame Turret is placed. A tip to not have to worry about using your mech skills is making them auto-cast by ctrl+right clicking them.

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.

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