Amalgam - Condi DPS

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Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on December 27, 2025.

Overview

A condi DPS build for Amalgam.

Skill Bar

Spear

Utility

Protocol Variants

Offensive Protocol: Shred does an underwhelming amount of damage, so it could easily be swapped out for a utility option.

Pistol Variants

Players who don't own Janthir Wilds cannot use spear, so Pistol/Pistol is the next best option. Pistols also have better ranged capabilities, which might be preferable on some encounters.

Skill Variants

• Flamethrower can be swapped out for Flame Turret or Liquid State to simplify the rotation for a moderate DPS loss. Both skills offer similar DPS.
  • Flame Turret is completely passive but cannot move and so is unsuitable against bosses that move a lot.
  • Liquid State gives you an evade and deals more damage long-term, but takes a while to ramp up.
• The heal skill can be whatever you want, though some options stand out:
  • A.E.D. allows you to survive some one-shot attacks.
  • Healing Turret does an AoE condi cleanse when it is placed, which can be situationally useful.

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• None of the Adept traits in Amalgam offer any DPS, so you can run whichever survivability you think will be most useful.
• The grandmaster traits in Amalgam do not offer much damage for condition builds, so it is a smaller DPS loss than other builds to take New Genes and provide boons.

Equipment

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Sinister

Chest
Viper

Hands
Sinister

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Sinister

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Spear
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Pistol
Viper

Pistol
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

• Either sigil could be swapped for a Sigil of Superior Sigil of Geomancy. The sigil is cheaper than Sigil of Superior Sigil of Bursting and the damage is slightly better than Sigil of Superior Sigil of Earth, but it requires you to be in melee to benefit and variance in your kit swaps can reduce its DPS.
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Doom is more consistent than Sigil of Superior Sigil of Earth, but there's not much difference between the two.
• The recommended setup is practically the same damage as full Viper stats gear.
  • In this case, would be the stronger utility.

Non-SotO Relics

• Players that own Janthir Wilds but not Secrets of the Obscure can use Relic of the Steamshrieker. Note that this locks you into Med Kit as a heal, and you should also replace Plasmatic State with Bomb Kit.
• There are two options for core relics. Relic of Thorns has the highest potential, but it isn't triggered reliably on every encounter. Relic of the Aristocracy works everywhere, but requires modifying your gear as follows:
  • You would want to swap some pieces to Sinister stats such that you reach ~67% base condition duration, with bleeding and burning duration capped.
  • It may be recommended to pick an option that offers some utility instead.

Consumables

Food

• or ascended versions

Utility

• • for a cheaper alternative

Usage

Spear rotation

The basic structure of Spear's rotation will be very familiar to players of engineer: You finish your auto chains and use DPS skills off cooldown until you use Conduit Surge (skill 2), then jump into Grenade Kit and use Shrapnel Grenade along with Freeze Grenade or Poison Grenade if they are off cooldown.

The unique aspect of Spear is the Focused mechanic, which is applied by Conduit Surge and refreshed by the last hit of the auto chain. You can only have a single Focused target, and hitting the target with Spear skills will trigger enhanced effects:

• The autoattack chain will apply Vulnerability
• Conduit Surge applies more Burning
• Lightning Rod ⇒ Electric Artillery deals more damage, and applies more Vulnerability and Burning.
• Roiling Skies deals (slightly) more CC.
• Devastator will hit the Focused target with Focused Devastation, applying more damage and Burning.

Rotation fundamentals

Your three biggest damage contributions come from Lightning Rod ⇒ Electric Artillery, Conduit Surge and Shrapnel Grenade. When you activate Lightning Rod a whirling AoE spins around you for four seconds, gaining a charge for each target hit. After this Electric Artillery will activate and do damage according to its charge. The cooldown for the skill begins once you activate Lightning Rod so using this skill is high priority, while you can afford to delay Electric Artillery if needed (it lasts until Lightning Rod is ready again).

Conduit Surge and Shrapnel Grenade have the same cooldown, so every time you use Conduit Surge you can immediately jump into Grenade Kit and use Shrapnel Grenade. These two skills form the backbone of your rotation.

You can swap out of Grenade Kit either by pressing Grenade Kit again or by weapon swapping. Using weapon swap will cancel animations when used, which could result in cancelling a grenade skill before its finished. Using Grenade Kit a second time to leave the kit avoids this issue, but if you're only casting a single grenade skill (which is often the case) then the cooldown on kit swaps won't have ended when you need to leave. Ideally you should practise both methods.

Simplified Rotation

Example Opener

1. Evolve
2. Flame Turret (if using)
3. Flux State, and Defensive Protocol: Thorns during the cast
4. Lightning Rod
5. Conduit Surge
6. Grenade Kit
   1. Shrapnel Grenade
   2. Poison Grenade
   3. Freeze Grenade, and stow Grenade Kit during the cast
7. Offensive Protocol: Obliterate
8. Plasmatic State
9. Electric Artillery
10. Conduit Surge
11. Grenade Kit
    1. Shrapnel Grenade
12. Weapon Swap to exit Grenade Kit
13. Devastator
14. Evolve
15. Liquid State (if using)
16. Offensive Protocol: Shred
17. Lightning Rod
18. Conduit Surge
19. Grenade Kit
    1. Shrapnel Grenade
20. Weapon Swap to exit Grenade Kit

For the simplified rotation (without Flamethrower), follow the guidance above while using protocols, utility skills and Flux State off cooldown, though they are lower priority than weapon skills.

Flamethrower Rotation

Example Opener

1. Evolve
2. Flux State
3. Lightning Rod
4. Conduit Surge
5. Grenade Kit
   1. Shrapnel Grenade
   2. Poison Grenade
6. Flamethrower
   1. Stoke the Flames
7. Offensive Protocol: Obliterate, and stow Flamethrower during the cast
8. Devastator
9. Electric Artillery
10. Conduit Surge
11. Grenade Kit
    1. Shrapnel Grenade
12. Flamethrower
13. Plasmatic State
14. Evolve
15. Flame Blast
16. Napalm, and stow Flamethrower during the cast
17. Lightning Rod
18. Conduit Surge
19. Grenade Kit
    1. Shrapnel Grenade
    2. Freeze Grenade, and Defensive Protocol: Thorns during the cast
20. Offensive Protocol: Shred, and Flamethrower during the cast
    1. Flame Blast
    2. Air Blast, and stow Flamethrower during the cast
21. Electric Artillery
22. Conduit Surge
23. Grenade Kit
    1. Shrapnel Grenade
24. Weapon Swap

Rest of the Rotation

The backbone of the rotation is to use Lightning Rod/Conduit Surge as close to off cooldown as possible, then jump into Grenade Kit, use Shrapnel Grenade, and either Poison Grenade or Freeze Grenade if they are off cooldown.

It can help to "link" together skills with the same cooldown to make tracking your kits easier. This creates a second combo when you use Poison Grenade:

1. Poison Grenade
2. Flamethrower
3. Stoke the Flames
4. Offensive Protocol: Obliterate, and stow Flamethrower during the cast
5. Devastator (optional - played optimally, Devastator is lower priority than other skills, but you can keep them linked to give more structure to the rotation)

• Use Defensive Protocol: Thorns off cooldown.
• You usually want to switch to Flamethrower after Grenade Kit. Try to look at your cooldowns each time you enter Flamethrower - if none of your cooldowns are below five seconds, skip it after the next Grenade Kit.
  • It can help to use skills such as Offensive Protocol: Shred, Plasmatic State and Flux State as you swap into Flamethrower - this gives you a short moment during the animation to check whether any cooldowns are available, and exit if not.
• Use at most two Flamethrower skills each time you enter the kit. Air Blast is the lowest priority and can be skipped if you wish to save it for CC.
• Use Offensive Protocol: Shred and Flux State off cooldown.
• Thanks to Symbiotic Synergy, there is some freedom with when you use Evolve, ideally you can combine it with Flux State or Plasmatic State without delaying your core combo. Make sure not to let it reach two charges.
• Freeze Grenade is low priority, so you can skip it if you know there are important cooldowns available.

Crowd Control

• Static Shock (with A.E.D.
• Roiling Skies (Spear)
• Air Blast (Flamethrower)
• Flux State