Holosmith - Explosives Storm Farmer

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Overview

A Holosmith build focused on farming large group events. This build utilizes to tag as many mobs as possible while maintaining permanent Photon Forge through and .

While this build excels at tagging groups of enemies, it can also deal a lot of damage to bosses and is able to run solo quite easily.

Skill Bar

Sword/ShieldHealingUtilityElite

Weapon Variants

The choice of weapon is up to you, as long as you are tagging in a zerg you will have permanent Photon Forge anyway. You should choose weapon for bosses and/or mobility. I went with sword/shield because I feel it provides the best DPS and survivability against bosses.

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

if you run the Alchemy specialization and don't need the cleanse.

Utility Skills

for higher Photon Forge uptime during boss fights.
to deal with bosses without the need to maintain heat in any way.
for some nice on demand AOE.
, to cover entrances/overlap AOE.

Specializations

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Variants

if you run the Alchemy variant.

Variants

Switch Firearms for Alchemy for permanent Vigor, and improved potions. Unfortunately, we lose effortless Might generation with this change.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Speed

18x

Mighty +5 Agony Infusion

Variants

This build works fine with whatever equip you have on hand and is generally fairly budget. The only required piece is a weapon with .

Stats

Low DPS variant can use Knight's .
Budget options are Rampager, Berserker's or anything with enough precision to get as close to 100% crit chance as possible.

Sigils

if you run the Alchemy specialization.
instead of speed if you feel like you are getting enought swiftness.

Runes

Feel free to run whichever runes you prefer, Speed are obviously BiS, but expensive. You should focus on capping your crit chance and/or high boon uptime.
, , are some budget options examples.
allows you to not focus on Swiftness uptime as much.
a nice option to complement Alchemy specialization.

Consumables

Food

Ascended food is always better than anything else.
- More stamina regen and decent Might generation.
- General farming.
- More magic find.
- More sustain.

Utility

, , - General farming.
- More damage and karma.

Usage

The idea of this build is to maintain permanent Photon Forge through and while tagging stuff with ().
- You should dodge as often as possible to maintain low heat and prevent overheating.
- is an Explosion so we proc all traits from our explosion tree. Furthermore, since we are constantly dodging, we reset everytime we dodge.
- We maintain permanent 25 stack of Might from the combination of , and .
The main issue this build faces is when we run out of stamina while killing bosses. Therefore, you should have a decent weapon on you when you inevitably have to disable Photon Forge.
- Alternatively, you can just run for bosses and run around with a hammer for style points.
Action Camera is advised and fun to use with this build.

Notes

Feel free to interrupt attack chains as you deem necessary when tagging, your goal is to never overheat and stay in the Photon Forge as long as possible.
To enable Action Camera press the binded key (Options -> Control Options -> Camera -> Toggle Action Camera).