Mechanist - Power Mechanist

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

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on September 07, 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 their 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 good 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

Utility

Weapon variants

Rifle can be used to sacrifice a large amount of damage in exchage for range.

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.
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

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Hammer
Berserker

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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Defense

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.
Spam your mech skills off cooldown.
You can put the mech's F1 and F2 ability on auto-cast if you want by pressing control+mouse 2 on the skill. Don't use autocast on F2 because it inflicts hard crowd control, and you want to be able to decide when and when not to inflict crowd control.
In fights where your mech is not at risk of dying, you can use Overclock Signet for extra damage.