Build:Mechanist - Power Mechanist

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on August 24, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Power Mechanist is a simple build that is playable in open world. While it does substantially less damage than Power Scrapper, Power Holo, or Condition Mechanist, the build is quite simple to play, perhaps even boring, and relatively safe thanks to the Mech tanking most mobs for you.

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Skill Bar

Rifle

Utility

Skill Variants

The suggested skills are optimized for dps, but feel free to use other utilities such as:

• Bomb Kit - AoE damage in melee and some utility.
• Elixir U - quickness, combine with Mech Core: Jade Dynamo and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Rage for good quickness uptime.
• Barrier Signet - for a full signet build.
• Rocket Boots - mobility.

Specializations

• Mech Core: Jade Dynamo - personal quickness, great pick when you're comfortable pressing all your buttons. Whereas J-Drive works best with a simpler playstyle.
• Glass Cannon - DPS increase for group bosses if other players are providing fury.

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

Rifle
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Equipment Variants

Gear

With Fury, High Caliber, and Hematic Focus you have 100% critical chance when using Berserker gear.

• Marauder and/or Dragon - Luxury defensive open world stats that provide extra health at the cost of some damage
  • Note that these stats change your critical chance so be aware of crit cap.
  • Also be aware of the effects of stat choices on the mech's critical chance (75% without fury is ideal as the mech does not inherit flat critical chance from traits)

Runes

• Rune of Superior Rune of Strength budget DPS
• Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - defense at the expense of dps

Sigils

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Strength - great when soloing, replaces Air
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - General defensive sigil
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Rage - good quickness uptime when combined with Mech Core: Jade Dynamo and Elixir U

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

• Spam Blunderbuss and Jump Shot off cooldown. The auto attack, Rifle Burst, is also great and fires Rifle Burst Grenade which is an Explosion.
• Spam your Mech skills off cooldown. Remember that using your third weapon skill causes the Mech to fire Rocket Punch (Mechanist), this doesn't interrupt any action the Mech is doing.
• You can put the Mech's F1 ability on auto-cast if you want by pressing control+mouse 2 on the skill. Don't use autocast on F2 and F3 because these skills inflict crowd control, and you want to be able to decide when and when not to inflict crowd control.

Crowd control

• Overcharged Shot
• Net Shot ⇒ Rocket Punch (Mechanist)
• Core Reactor Shot
• Sky Circus
• Force Signet