Mechanist - Spear Mechanist

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Focused on: Power damage, Mobility and Burst damage

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on March 25, 2025.

Overview

Power Spear Mechanist is a roamer build with great mobility and burst damage.

Skill Bar

Spear

Utility

Elixir Gun

Tool Kit

Skill Variants

Weapon & Kit

You can replace Spear &

Tool Kit

with:

• Hammer &
  Grenade Kit
  - Use
  Grenade Kit
  mostly while at melee range as the projectiles are slow since you won't be using
  Grenadier
  . This is much slower but equally strong option.

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• Flashbang
  - Increased sustain. Recommended for beginners.
• Mech Arms: Jade Cannons
  - Gives the build another ranged option. Less burst more DPS.

Equipment

Spear

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Relic

• Relic of Zakiros
  - best sustain option against power damage teams
• Relic of the Astral Ward
  - resistance uptime
• Relic of Rivers
  - stacks Alacrity along with your other sources, also grants to mech though
  Shift Signet

Rune

• Rune of the Scholar

Usage

• This build is for taking 1v1s and bursting. This build has very low cleanse and resustain, try to avoid taking team focus.

How to Play

Close the gap with your target using

Conduit Surge

,

Devastator

,

Shift Signet

,

Magnet

or

Acid Bomb

. Get to pumping big damage through the use of

Explosive Entrance

and your Mech. Once closing the gap isn't necessary or possible use

Elixir Gun

to keep applying pressure from range. Keep yourself alive using the same mobility skills you used to close the gap to widen it.

How to use Kits

To be used for defensive play at range or aggressive at melee.

Elixir Gun	Skill Use
Tranquilizer Dart	Once an enemy is too far to catch or the gap isn't worth closing, use this skill to maintain damage pressure.
Glob Shot	This skill has a very strong niche usage for mechanist. When you and your mech are both stood within 600 range of the first hit target, glob shot will bounce between the two of you before returning to it's orginal target. This technique however is limited by RNG. With each extra enemy or ally target in the area the chance of this happening goes down by 50%.
Fumigate	Can be used to hit through walls and poison downed enemies.
Acid Bomb	This skill makes for a great burst finisher, use it to deal fast unblockable damage and escape pressure.
Super Elixir	This is your only resustain option besides heal. Use it as frequently as possible and also to cleanse. Gain Light Aura with Conduit Surge to improve your chances in condi match ups.

To be used for melee play and kiting.

Tool Kit	Skill Use
Smack	Strongest melee auto-attack on engineer. Use this instead of the Spear auto-attack. If you don't like the 3rd hit then mix the two auto-attack chains together into a 5 hit sequence.
Box of Nails	Always use this while running away. It doesn't seem impressive at first but this cripple will help you build a gap when timed right.
Pry Bar	Good burst finisher especially after using Conduit Surge , Lightning Rod & Devastator .
Gear Shield	Your main defensive cooldown. Use when in a dangerous situation.
Magnet	This move still has a few tricks even with invisible magnet gone. Canceling the magnet has the animation presist, be sure to cancel magnet if you predict a dodge and they may still dodge the presisted animation. Also on Magnet start-up, use about-face > during it's channeling run away from the opponent > right before the skill triggers, use about-face again and pull the opponent, using those 2 tricks I increased my magnet success rate.

Burst

Your full burst would be:

• Explosive Knuckle
  +
  Explosive Entrance
  +
  Electric Artillery
  ->
  Conduit Surge
  ->
  Sky Circus
  ->
  Devastator
  ->
  Pry Bar
  ->
  Glob Shot
  ->
  Acid Bomb
  ->
  Smack

Mix and match that burst as you see fit.

Extra

• Build is weak to condi pressure.

• Sky Circus
  is a 5 second launch.

• Roiling Skies
  with focus is a 3 second launch.

• Overclock Signet
  (Jade Buster Cannon) can be used for an unblockable ~4k hit, but make sure you don't use it when the mech is at risk of dying as you need the
  Overclock Signet
  cooldown to respawn the mech.

• Overclock Signet
  (
  Crash Down
  ) does 4x damage than the regular
  Crash Down
  . However it has 2 seconds of delay and casts on a random target within ~600 range. It also stunbreaks, this almost makes up for the fact that mech lost 3 core engi stunbreaks. :)