Mechanist - Alacrity Support Condi DPS
The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Condition damage and Support
Designed for: Raids and Fractals
Expansions required:
Overview
A condition boon support build for Mechanist. Provides permanent 
Alacrity and high uptimes of 
Fury and 
Might.
Condition mechanist is more complex than its Power counterpart and it suffers a lot more when simplifying the rotation or taking extra utility, but it could be viewed as a "way in" to the Condi DPS build.
Skill Bar
Weapon Variants
- Pistol can replace Mace for higher damage but lower
Confusion and barrier generation.
Skill Variants
- is required if your mech is in danger of dying.
- If you find you need more Alacrity generation, you could replace or with .
- You can take instead of for a much simpler rotation, but at a DPS loss (keep the signet passive).
- Replacing with offers the highest damage, but with a significantly harder rotation and a loss of utility.
Template Code
Specializations
Trait Variants
- It would be a minor DPS gain to take , but you would lose a decent amount of Might for doing so.
Equipment
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Viper
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Viper
Viper
Viper
Viper
x6
x18
- This setup has ~36% boon duration.
- You could go as low as ~31%, but this is not recommended.
- If the +408 toughness from
celestial stats causes problems, you can replace your gear with 
ritualist stats pieces instead. This will leave you with only +45 toughness from the . - If you use , then can be taken for even more damage via .
Consumables
Food
- or ascended versions.
Utility
Usage
Rotation
The rotation below does not use . See the Condi DPS page for this rotation - if you are using Pistol/Pistol you can follow it as written; if you are using Mace/Pistol then do an extra mace auto chain whenever you would use Pistol skills.
Opener
Weapon Swap (or stow kit)- → →
- Weapon Swap (or stow kit)
Rest of the Rotation
After the opener, your basic loop is as follows:
- Autoattack and use on Mace until either Blowtorch or Rocket Fist Prototype are available - make sure to finish your auto chains!
- or - these should alternate between loops
- and (if available)
- Weapon Swap (or stow kit)
- Repeat
If you're fast, you may occasionally swap to and won't be immediately available. In this case, use to fill the gap.
Other Rotations
As indicated above, there are a number of ways this build can be modified to suit the player, each bringing a different rotation. Rather than attempt to cover all of them, some general guidance is provided, from most to least complex:
- Pistol/Pistol with 4 kits - see the following video.
- Pistol/Pistol with 3 kits - see the following video.
- 2 kits - Follow the Condi DPS rotation.
- If using mainhand Mace, follow the same rotation but do a full auto chain each time you would swap to Pistol.
- Mace/Pistol with 1 kit - follow the rotation above.
General Tips
- Thanks to , if you are over 360 units away from your mech when using F1-3 skills, their cooldown will be 50% longer. It is therefore vital to make sure you are within range before using them or you will cripple your boon uptimes.
- You will need to use to maintain Alacrity, but it can be delayed slightly if the
Aegis is needed. - Use off cooldown. You can delay it by a second if it will coincide with , as the internal cooldown of would prevent the first tick from applying Alacrity in this case.
- If you are using , use it instead of in the opener, then use one second after the final pulse of . Make sure never to have these two skills overlap - this is to avoid the internal cooldown from .
- Try to keep an eye on your mech, as it is a major source of Alacrity thanks to . If it ends up more than 600 units from the stack, don't hesitate to use to force it to the correct location.
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