Holosmith - Burn Holo

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Focused on: Burst damage and Condition damage

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Hard

This build was last updated on June 24, 2025.

Overview

Burn Holo is a hybrid damage based PvP build for Engineers. This is a fast-paced hybird damage roamer with mixed melee/ranged options. The build makes use of Spear's synergy with Engage Photon Forge & Flamethrower to create a strong mixed Power & Condi roamer. This build boasts high Stealth uptime thanks to Smoke Bomb (engineer).

Skill Bar

Spear

Utility

Bomb Kit

Flamethrower

Elite Mortar Kit

Skill Variants

Weapons

• Pistol x Pistol - For those who don't have Spear.

Use with:

• Prime Light Beam - For more burst damage.
• Chemical Rounds - If you want more condi damage output.

Utility

Choices for utility over Elixir B:

• Elixir B - Grants much more Stability, Might & Swiftness uptime allowing for you to take more damage.
• Flame Turret - This is a niche but viable pick due to the Smoke Screen (engineer) it provides. Player must use a skill directed at an enemy target within 500 range on turrets spawning in order to trigger Smoke Screen (engineer).

Elite

• Prime Light Beam - Greatly increases Burn output. Sets up nice into burst combos.
• Elixir X - Can be used to improve stability uptime.

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• Prismatic Converter - Increased cleanse.
• Juggernaut - Higher Quickness uptime.

Equipment

Spear

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Amulet

Rune

• Rune of Undead - Condition damage alternative.
• Rune of Fighter - Power damage alternative.
• Rune of Revenant - Little bit of everything.

Sigil

• Sigil of Smoldering

Usage

• This build is for taking 1v1s and bursting.

How to Play

Close the gap with your target using Conduit Surge, Devastator, & Holo Leap. Get big damage using a mix of high power and Burn options. Once closing the gap isn't necessary or possible use Elite Mortar Kit to keep applying pressure from range. Keep yourself alive using the same mobility skills you used to close the gap, to widen it.

Kits

While usage of Engage Photon Forge and Spear are already conventional and much like other classes, usage of kits can be a challange to figure out at times. This is my basic understand of how to use the kit skills in PvP for those who aren't very familiar with how it works. Be sure to remember that you aren't locked out of kits untill you enter photon forge, you don't have to use ALL the cooldowns before swapping out of a kit, instead mix and match skill combos as if it's one big weapon.

Flamethrower:

• Flame Jet - Good for hitting through walls.
• Flame Blast - This is the best skill on Flamethrower and is made to be spam used. You'll want to use these as you'd use Grenade Kit, running away and shooting behind you. Due to slow speed projectile has very small range when chasing. You'll basically always want to land the x2 hit, this is easiest to do at melee range. Having the projectile travel though the opponent the skill will do 50% more damage, with 25 Might this skill alone can do up 10k in Burning/power damage.
• Air Blast - This is the builds main CC and the fastest. Use it to combo or as a Get-Off-Me option. Applies burn if opponent is already Burning & will reflect projectiles for 1 second.
• Napalm - Apply as soon as an enemy goes down. Also use to cover caps for extra damage.
• Smoke Vent - Stunbreaks. Be very careful when entering Engage Photon Forge as it will lock you out of your 2nd stunbreak for 6 seconds.

Mortar Kit:

• Mortar Shot - Can still do moderate damage due to Might stacking. Doesn't suffer from dragback unlike other mortar skills therefore has the most range.
• Poison Gas Shell - Condi damage option. Apply to downed bodies. Can be used to apply Weakness.
• Endothermic Shell - Best cover condi option. Easy to Frost Aura
• Flash Shell - Blind spam field, use it at melee range to make you hard to hit.
• Elixir Shell - Heal field when spamming blast and leap finishers. Use it when you have enough safety to spare 3-5 seconds to stop moving and heal.

Burst

A couple example bursts would be:

• Electric Artillery -> Conduit Surge -> Roiling Skies -> Flame Blast -> Devastator
• Electric Artillery -> Conduit Surge -> Holographic Shockwave -> Corona Burst -> Photon Blitz
• Conduit Surge -> Lightning Rod -> Corona Burst -> Photon Blitz
• Conduit Surge -> Poison Gas Shell/Endothermic Shell -> Flame Blast

Defense

Escape

• Smoke Vent is your 2nd stunbreak.
• Elixir S & Toss Elixir S - These are your main 2 options to escape pressure. Try to save these skills for avoiding damage.

Mobility

• Conduit Surge, Devastator & Holo Leap - Use these skills to widen gap in opportune times. To do this you need to get good at detargeting for use of mobility skills.

Regen and Healing

• Compounding Chemicals - This trait actually triggers per stack of Might, this makes it a very strong regeneration ability. You can even use Elixir B and other elixirs to do some minor healing when needed.
• Elixir Shell - When heal is on cooldown use this skill combined with your multiple leap and blast finishers.

Slowing Chasers

• Endothermic Shell - The Frost Aura given from this skill is very strong when paired with this build. Since this build lacks covers, a reapplying Chill can make the Burn underneath a lot harder to deal with.

Damage Mitigation

• Flash Shell - Pulses Blind every second. Very hard to attack you in this field on specific classes. Should be used as much as possible.
• Poison Gas Shell - Leap and blast finishers will cause Weakness.
• Air Blast - This skill is actually a projectile reflect for 1 second. Will reflect infront and behind.

Extra Techniques

• Leave Napalm & Poison Gas Shell on downed bodies as soon as they fall.
• Once at 25 stacks of Might you have a ~30% increase to both condi and power damage.