Mechanist - Celestial Alacrity Support

Part of the current metagame

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Focused on: Support, Condition damage and Healing

Designed for: Open World, Fractals and [[|]]

Difficulty:

TBD

Overview

A flexible 'do it all' build for Mechanist that's easy to use and can perform multiple roles. Good for open world, story, fractals, strikes. Bring either alac+solid dps (~15K) with 100% burn/bleed duration, or alac+healing with 80% boon duration, all in the same gear via skill swaps. Extra tanky due to celestial stats so great for beginners. Jack of all trades, master of none.

The draw of this build is it's easy to do 'well' while filling a group's need for Alac in either dps or support with minimal tweaks in one set of gear. As an added benefit, Celestial gear is what you're given on boost and Traveler runes are very cheap, making the build very accessible to players new to engineer that have a boost available.

Quick overview:

• Celestial armor, trinkets, mace & shield (concentration & paralyzation)
• Sinister mace & pistol (malice & bursting)
• Sinister weapons + first loadout = solid DPS and alacrity
• Celestial weapons + second loadout = solid Healer and alacrity

Enjoy!

Alac DPS Loadout

Mace/Pistol

Mace/Shield

Utility

Equipment

Head
Celestial

Shoulders
Celestial

Chest
Celestial

Hands
Celestial

Legs
Celestial

Feet
Celestial

Backpiece
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Amulet
Celestial

Ring
Celestial

Ring
Celestial

Mace
Sinister

Pistol
Sinister

Sigil

Sigil

Mace
Celestial

Shield
Celestial

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Hybrid DPS or Hybrid Heal

The draw of this build is it's easy to do 'well' while filling a group's need for Alac in either dps or support with minimal tweaks in one set of gear. As an added benefit, Celestial gear is what you're given on boost and Traveler runes are very cheap, making the build very accessible to players new to engineer that have a boost available.

Defiance Bar

Whether you're playing heal or dps you should know which skills will hurt the blue bar:

• DPS: Rocket Fist Prototype, Air Blast as well as Glue Shot and Smoke Vent
• Heal: Rocket Fist Prototype, Magnetic Inversion, Static Shield, Throw Shield

DPS Skill Usage

For alac-dps, run the Sinister weapons and first set of skills shown. For more damage and less alac uptime (solo/open world), use Mechanist Trait Top 2 (Discharge Array) to pump up the mech's damage.

Mace/Pistol

Mace/Shield

Utility

DPS Priority:

• Swap to Flamethrower to drop Napalm and Flame Blast when Napalm is up
• Use Rocket Fist Prototype and Blowtorch off cooldown (they have the same cooldown)
• Rolling Smash and Superconducting Signet off cooldown when available (make sure the mech is in position to hit)
• Mace auto chain (you have +67% condi duration so you'll be providing alac&barrier while also dropping confusion stacks on the target)

Defense/Zergs: For crowds, you can camp Flamethrower to tag. If Barrier Signet and mace autos aren't enough defense, swap to flamethrower for Smoke Vent (aoe blind) or Air Blast (aoe knockback). Rectifier Signet is a strong personal heal, and Overclock Signet can be used to re-summon the mech if something goes wrong, as it has a tendency to get instagibbed in some scenarios.

Heal Skill Usage

For alac-heal, weapon-swap to Celestial mace/shield, slot in Med Kit, replace Flamethrower with Elixir Gun, and slot Elite Mortar Kit as shown below. You can also replace Superconducting Signet with an elixir or turret of choice.

Mace/Shield

Utility

Heal Priority:

• Mace auto chain constantly pulses barrier&alac to your group - if not doing something else, do Mace auto!
• Barrier Signet & Mech abilities as you deem appropriate
• Big heals: Elixir Gun 5, Mortar Kit 5, Med Kit 4
• Useful: Med Kit 5 (regen), Med Kit 2 (regen), Med Kit 1 (top-off aoe)

For even more healing, replace the Firearms traitline with Alchemy: