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Skill Variants

The heal skill can be whatever you want, though some options stand out:
- Rectifier Signet
  is very potent with
  Mech Core: J-Drive
  as it has higher passive healing, which isn't lost upon activating the signet.
- A.E.D.
  allows you to survive some one-shot attacks.
- Healing Turret
  does an AoE condi cleanse when it is placed, which can be situationally useful.
If you want to totally avoid kits, use
Force Signet
. Be aware that removing
Grenade Kit
removes your main way of triggering both
Aim-Assisted Rocket
and
Shrapnel
, which means
Explosive Temper
and
Big Boomer
should perform better, though the difference will be minor.

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Specializations

Mech Core: Jade Dynamo
is the stronger (though more complicated) option if using Pistol/Pistol.

Equipment

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Sinister

Chest
Viper

Hands
Sinister

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Sinister

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Spear
Viper

Sigil

Pistol
Viper

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Either sigil could be swapped for a
Superior Sigil of Geomancy
. The sigil is cheaper than
Superior Sigil of Bursting
and the damage is slightly better than
Superior Sigil of Earth
, but it requires you to be in melee to benefit and variance in your kit swaps can reduce its DPS.
The recommended setup is practically the same damage as full Viper stats gear.
- In this case,
  Master Tuning Crystal
  would be the stronger utility.

Non-SotO Relics

Unfortunately there aren't any good core damage relics for condi Mechanist, the best option being

Relic of the Aristocracy

, which does not affect your mech.

If running this, you would want to swap some pieces to Sinister stats such that you reach ~67% base condition duration, with bleeding and burning duration capped.
It may be recommended to pick an option that offers some utility instead.

Consumables

Food

Plate of Beef Rendang
or ascended versions

Utility

Toxic Tuning Crystal
- Master Tuning Crystal
  for a cheaper alternative

Usage

Simpler Spear Rotation

Mechanist's signets are very strong, which allows them to replace

.

With this rotation all you need to do is use the following skills off cooldown:

Conduit Surge
Lightning Rod
/
Electric Artillery
Devastator
Superconducting Signet
Overclock Signet
- skip if there's any danger of your mech dying, so you can use it to resummon them instead.
Your mech skills

Spear rotation

The basic structure of Spear's rotation will be very familiar to players of engineer: You finish your auto chains and use DPS skills off cooldown until you use

(skill 2), then jump into

and use

along with

and

if they are off cooldown.

The unique aspect of Spear is the Focused mechanic, which is applied by

and refreshed by the last hit of the auto chain. You can only have a single Focused target, and hitting the target with Spear skills will trigger enhanced effects:

The autoattack chain will apply Vulnerability
Conduit Surge
applies more Burning
Lightning Rod
⇒
Electric Artillery
deals more damage, and applies more Vulnerability and Burning.
Roiling Skies
deals (slightly) more CC.
Devastator
will hit the Focused target with
Focused Devastation
, applying more damage and Burning.

Rotation fundamentals

Your three biggest damage contributions come from

⇒

,

and

. When you activate

a whirling AoE spins around you for four seconds, gaining a charge for each target hit. After this

will activate and do damage according to its charge. The cooldown for the skill begins once you activate

so using this skill is high priority, while you can afford to delay

if needed (it lasts until

is ready again).

and

have the same cooldown, so every time you use

you can immediately jump into

and use

. These two skills form the backbone of your rotation.

You can swap out of

either by pressing

again or by weapon swapping. Using weapon swap will cancel animations when used, which could result in cancelling a grenade skill before its finished. Using

a second time to leave the kit avoids this issue, but if you're only casting a single grenade skill (which is often the case) then the cooldown on kit swaps won't have ended when you need to leave. Ideally you should practise both methods.

Example Opener

For the rest of the rotation, try to finish your auto chains (

and

take priority over finishing the chain), while using the following skills off cooldown:

Lightning Rod
/
Electric Artillery
Devastator
Freeze Grenade
Poison Grenade
Superconducting Signet
Your mech skills
Overclock Signet
- skip if there's any danger of your mech dying, so you can use it to resummon them instead.

You can look at the cooldown of

and

whenever you go into

for

. If the cooldown is under two seconds, you exit, do an auto chain, then go back into

for them.

Your two main skills have an effective cooldown of just under five seconds (with Quickness and Alacrity). However,

/

has an effective cooldown of just over 10 seconds, and your other grenade skills and

Devastator

have a ~16s cooldown (with

Alacrity). This means that played optimally, these skills will end up shifting their position relative to each other over the course of the rotation.

Video example

You can simplify the rotation slightly if you slightly delay

until after

/

. As you always want to be following up

with

, your rotation should end up always casting these three skills together (alternating between

and

).

Additionally, if you find handling kits tricky (or just prefer a neater loop), you can use the following rotation, which is a relatively small DPS loss over the optimal one:

Burst Loop

Filler Loops

Repeat this loop three times, then return to the Burst Loop

Electric Artillery
or
Lightning Rod
(whichever is available)
Conduit Surge
Grenade Kit
1. Shrapnel Grenade
2. Weapon Swap
Puncturing Jab
⇒
Rending Strike
⇒
Amplifying Slice
x2

This rotation slightly delays using

Devastator

to make the rotation loop properly. It also does not list mech skills or

Overclock Signet

, which should be used off cooldown but have no cast time. You could set the mech skills to autocast, though this may be less effective than triggering them yourself.

Crowd Control

Roiling Skies
: 200 defiance break - 232 to your Focused target
Sky Circus
: 232 defiance break - used for damage in your rotation, but the damage is low so you could hold onto it for CC
Superconducting Signet
: Not a CC in itself, but it drops a lightning field that you could combo with
Conduit Surge
for 100 defiance break.

Simpler Pistol Rotations

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Mechanist's signets are very strong, which allows them to replace

Rotation example (J-Drive)

and

Elite Mortar Kit

if you use the

Mech Core: J-Drive

trait. This also allows you to use

Shift Signet

without losing DPS.

See the Condi Boon Support page for this rotation, and use

Superconducting Signet

off cooldown - this should prevent you needing to use

Freeze Grenade

outside of the opener.

Video guide by Masel

Pistol Jade Dynamo rotation

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The Jade Dynamo rotation (using three kits) is very complicated and essentially boils down to keeping track of priority cooldown skills and switching into kits as necessary to maximise their uses. Downtime between kit swaps are filled with Pistol autos.

To make this manageable, each "kit" you swap to (for these purposes we consider Pistols to also be a kit) has a key skill that we ideally want to swap to and use every time it comes off cooldown, as well as some lower-priority skills that you use if they happen to be off cooldown when you swap. The skills you use in each kit are:

Pistol/Pistol
Key skills:

&

Other skills:

Grenade Kit
Key skill:

Other skills:

Freeze Grenade

&

Poison Grenade

Bomb Kit
Key skill:

Fire Bomb

Other skill:

Concussion Bomb

You may notice that the cooldowns of the key skills (before Alacrity) are 5, 8 and 12 seconds, which do not fit together very neatly. The full rotation then is not going to look very neat, but it can be broken down into a general loop with three sections:

Section 1

Cycle through each kit in turn, using all the skills named above in each. In general, the best order for kits will be

&

⇒

⇒

⇒

and

have the same cooldown, so if we make sure to cast

last on Pistol and

Fire Bomb

first in

then we can know that we only need to go into

immediately after using

.

After

, autoattack on Pistol until just before

then do:

⇒

⇒

Section 2

Your key Pistol/Pistol should be coming off cooldown now so you can immediately go

&

⇒

⇒ Pistol/Pistol

may not be available when you swap to

, so auto with

Grenade

until it's ready.

After

autoattack on Pistol until just before

, then:

⇒

⇒

⇒ Pistol/Pistol

Section 3

The final section is much like Section 2, but the cooldowns align slightly differently.

&

⇒

⇒ Pistol/Pistol

This time, when

is available do

⇒

⇒ Pistol/Pistol

Autoattack on Pistol until

and

are on a ~6 second cooldown then quickly swap into

and use

. Return to Pistol/Pistol after using

and start again from Section 1 when

and