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 June 28, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Power Mechanist is a power build with great damage and is very easy to play. Even with low access to boons, this build will delete most enemies with the combined force of the Mechanist rifle and their Mech's cannons. The build also has a lot of CC.

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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_stats.

• Knight - defensive gear at the expense of dps
• Marauder and/or Dragon_stats - 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 the Golemancer - slightly better than Scholar because of how Mech scaling works, but then this gear set wouldn't work too well for power holosmith or scrapper.
• Rune of Superior Rune of Strength budget DPS
• Rune of Superior Rune of Durability, 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

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
• - farming
• , - DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• , - dps

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 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 use crowd control.
• Aim-Assisted Rocket only fires the rocket if the projectile strikes the enemy. This means that when using AoE projectiles like Grenade Kit or Elite Mortar Kit, you must hit the enemy with the projectile and not just the explosion in order to fire an Aim-Assisted Rocket.

Crowd control

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