Protection Holosmith

December 2022

Prot Holo offers very high sustain and lots of CC. This build gets its value from the boons and Regeneration output it can provide as well as the passive AoE damage that slowly wears down enemies. It is currently not the most common build, as its protection uptime was nerfed multiple times.

Build fundamentals

The utility skills gain the most value when heat is above 50 (out of 150):

• Spectrum Shield ‘s cooldown is decreased by 25%
• Flash Spark gains Light Aura, decreasing condition damage by 10%
• Hard Light Arena ‘s radius increases by 120 and duration increases by 2 seconds
• Prismatic Singularity ‘s radius and pull is increased by 120

At the start of each match, you should use every skill in Engage Photon Forge to get a head start with heat, allowing you to access these buffs asap.

This build also has high resustain via boons from: Super Elixir, Elixir Shell, Compounding Chemicals, and Heat Therapy, as well as high condition management through Anticorrosion Plating and Deactivate Photon Forge (keep in mind you have to actually use this skill to get the condition cleanse).

The gameplay itself is rather rotational, you swap between:

• Main weapon set: more defensive or used to set up quick AoE spam with the Quickness from Radiant Arc
• Elite Mortar Kit: generally just spam all abilities to apply conditions and chip damage
• Elixir Gun where you would like to keep Acid Bomb constantly up for persistent AoE pressure as well as Super Elixir for the extra heal and condition management
• Engage Photon Forge which is used as your main source of damage. You can also put a lot of pressure by getting a cc chain using Corona Burst to apply Vulnerability, Prismatic Singularity, Holographic Shockwave and Photon Blitz