Build:Mechanist - Power Mechanist

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on December 22, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Power Mechanist is a very simple and straight forward build. Armed with the sturdy CJ-1 mech that will tank almost everything for you, power mechanist is a very safe and reliable open world build, and has good crowd control and damage.

The build has one annoying downside named Mechanical Genius, which requires you to always be near your mech or your mech command skills (F1, F2, F3) will have their cooldown increased by 50%, these skills also replace your toolbelt skills.

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Skill Bar

Hammer/Rifle

Utility

Weapon variants

If you don't have access to Weaponmaster Training with Secrets of the Obscure, you will not be able to wield a hammer. Use Rifle instead.

• Rifle is taken as a swap here for tagging in zergs.

Skill Variants

Heal skill

Rectifier Signet is great because it also heals your mech. Other alternatives can be considered:

• Healing Turret provides very high healing and cleanses 2 conditions when first deployed, while creating a water field where you can detonate the turret to provide even more healing (See: Guide:What are Combo Fields). Always pick up the turret or detonate it, as it will provide more healing over time than the super weak regeneration that leaving the turret deployed provides.
• A.E.D. - helpful to negate a big attack or a oneshot. This skill requires a bit more skill to use, as it only provides large healing if you were to take lethal damage.

Utility skills

Throw Mine has great damage and crowd control, never replace it. Shift Signet shares your boons with your mech, and can be used to stun break and teleport while cleansing two conditions, it's a really good skill. Force Signet is a basic damage increase and can be activated for crowd control. You can consider other alternatives:

• Elixir U - quickness and stunbreak.
• Barrier Signet - if you need to block dangerous projectiles.
• Rocket Boots - if you need extra mobility.

Elite skill

Overclock Signet is the best elite for this build. It can be used for damage, or to resummon your mech if it dies.

Specializations

Trait variants

• Glass Cannon - DPS increase when playing in groups providing you with Fury.
• Aim-Assisted Rocket - can be used when playing rifle to sacrifice a minor amount of damage for some extra AoE.
• Mech Core: J-Drive - for underwater combat with its passive skill, but we recommend you don't play mechanist underwater.

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Hammer
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter and Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar are interchangeable.
• Other relics include Relic of the Adventurer, Relic of Cerus, Relic of the Cavalier.
• For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food, traits, or skills if required. If necessary, use Knight trinkets.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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• (and variants)

Usage

This build is extremely easy to play so this section is going to be very short.

Damage

• Spam Electro-whirl, Throw Mine, and Thunderclap. You can also use Rocket Charge to command your mech to use Rocket Punch (Mechanist), this doesn't interrupt any action the Mech is doing.
  • If using rifle, spam Blunderbuss and Jump Shot. You can also use Net Shot to command your mech to use Rocket Punch (Mechanist), this doesn't interrupt any action the Mech is doing. You can save Overcharged Shot for CC or to cleanse yourself of movement-impeding conditions, or otherwise spammed for damage.
• Stay near your mech to avoid the cooldown penalty of Mechanical Genius.
• Spam your mech F1 skill off cooldown. You can set it to auto-cast if you want by pressing control+mouse 2 on the skill.
• F2 and F3 can be spammed for damage, or saved if you need CC. If you need to save them for CC, do not set them to auto-cast.
• In fights where your mech is not at risk of dying, you can use Overclock Signet for extra damage.
• Stay close to your target to benefit from No Scope and High Caliber.

Defense

• The best defense is always to dodge or sidestep attacks
• Your mech will tank most enemies for you. Hide behind it when fighting enemies that fire projectiles.
• If your mech is standing in a damaging AoE, you can recall it to your location with F7 Return to Me.
• You can block attacks with Shock Shield.
• You can teleport out of danger with Shift Signet. This skill also cleanses 2 conditions from yourself and your mech.
• If your mech dies, wait a second for the skill to go on cooldown, then use Overclock Signet to resummon it immediatly.
• You have minor healing over time from both Rectifier Signet and Big Boomer.
• If your enemy gives itself boons, save Throw Mine to remove up to 3 of them.

Crowd control

• Throw Mine
• Rocket Charge ⇒ Rocket Punch (Mechanist)
• Core Reactor Shot (Mech's F2)
• Jade Mortar (Mech's F3)
• Force Signet