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:

TBD

This build was last updated on July 12, 2022 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

• You can instead use Mace-Shield for about the same damage but only in melee range.

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

• Remember you have to be 150 units away from your enemy to fire your high damage Aim-Assisted Rocket.
  • Mace attacks have a range of about 155-160, so you can use Explosive Temper when playing with mace if you don't want to bother finding the exact range to fire the rockets while still landing your mace skills.
• 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.

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

Mace
Berserker

Shield
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

• With Fury, High Caliber, and Hematic Focus you have 100% critical chance.
• 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
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Strength - great when soloing, replaces Air
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - defensive
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Rage - good quickness uptime when combined with Mech Core: Jade Dynamo and Elixir U
• Knight - defensive gear at the expense of dps
• Rune of Superior Rune of Durability, Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - defense at the expense of dps

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

• In rifle, spam Blunderbuss and Jump Shot off cooldown. The auto attack, Rifle Burst, is also great and fires Rifle Burst Grenade which is an Explosion.
• If using mace, spam Energizing Slam and Rocket Fist Prototype off cooldown.
• Spam your Mech skills off cooldown. Remember usinng your third weapon skill causes the Mech to fire Rocket Punch (Mechanist), this doesn't interrupt any action the Mech is doing.

Crowd control

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