Engineer - Core Spear Engi

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Hybrid damage and Control

Designed for: PvP Conquest

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Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on February 26, 2025 and is up to date for the March 11, 2025 patch.

Overview

A Core Engi build built around the new land Spear introduced by Janthir Wilds.

Skill Bar

Spear

Utility

Grenade Kit

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Equipment

Spear

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Usage

General

• Every elixir skill (including toolbelt ones) can proc extra Poison from
  Relic of Vass
  .
  • Using elixirs with a cast time in the middle of burst combos tends to be a DPS loss. Either build up some stacks beforehand or simply use your skills as intended without stressing over the procs, you'll still have good Poison uptime without having to think about it too much. Think more about how you're going to consume the procs you end up with.

• Your elite skill
  Supply Crate
  can be used both defensively and offensively, as the CC's good in every situation.

Damage

• Spear has a central mechanic called focus. Focused targets are more heavily affected by your Spear skills.

• You make someone your focus target by hitting them with
  Conduit Surge
  . Using this as your opener is therefore recommended.

• Skill #3
  Lightning Rod
  should be activated as soon as you use Conduit Surge. It's an instant skill that does damage passively around you and being charging up its chain skill.
  • Charging it up turns this skill into
    Electric Artillery
    , a long range strike with Immobilize, making it great at setting up burst.

• Roiling Skies
  is primarily a setup skill too as it's a CC with not much else to it.

• Devastator
  is your primary burst skill on Spear. Try to land it on focused targets, preferably when they're CC'd so it doesn't miss.

• The toolbelt skill
  Grenade Barrage
  is your other big burst skill. Both this and Devastator are great at consuming Vass stacks too.

• Spam grenades when your Spear skill are on CC or if getting into melee would be too dangerous. Fill any downtime with grande spam, even if it's just the autoattack.

• Even your healing skill is a minor source of burst damage in melee range:
  • Elixir H
    procs another elixir via trait synergy, granting you a total of 6
    Relic of Vass
    procs. Using a healing skill also triggers a lesser
    Grenade Barrage
    around you from traits, which could immediately consume the Vass stacks you've just built.
  • This is quite useful for counterpressuring targets, sometimes even turning the tides against the one chasing you. Be warned though that the grenade proc could also end up accidentally breaking your Stealth when you heal next to an enemy, which could actually endanger you on low health.

Sustain

• Elixir skills remove conditions, providing a steady stream of cleansing in combat.

• Your healing skill cleanses multiple conditions because it also procs
  Transmute
  .

• Med Pack Drop
  is the closest thing you've got to a mass cleanse, although it's not as simple as just pressing the button - you have to pick up the Med Packs by walking over them.
  • If you're really pressured you could follow this up with
    Elixir S
    . Being invulnerable makes it much easier to pick up the Med Packs, and the invuln also makes you stop taking condition damage while you grab the cleansing you need.

• Elixir S
  is your time out button, use it to avoid burst damage if there's no other way out, or to extend your life at low HP. It also breaks stuns.

• Elixir U
  is your other stunbreak, but as long as Elixir S is available you're free to use this skill offensively too for the Quickness.

• Toolbelt elixirs are also quite useful -
  Toss Elixir H
  can give you Protection while
  Toss Elixir U
  grants Superspeed which is great for kiting enemies.
  • The superspeed works even better when combined with skills that snare enemies, like
    Freeze Grenade
    or
    Electric Artillery
    .

• Spear offers very little in terms of sustain, but at least
  Conduit Surge
  is a mobility skill which you could use to quickly build some distance.

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