Holosmith - Power Sword DPS
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Contents
Overview
- A power DPS Holosmith build for fractals and raids. This build brings good burst and sustained AoE damage.
- While this build deals good damage on its own, it excels when there are lots of conditions on the boss for .
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
- Weapons
- Shield can be used in the offhand slot of extra CC and/or survivability for a very minor DPS loss.
- Healing Skills
- provides a massive amount of healing if you can predict damage spikes (e.g. specific mechanics in raids). It also provides CC with .
- Utility Skills
- Swapping out your utility skills is a large DPS loss and should only be considered as a last ditch option.
- can be useful in uncoordinated groups for the protection and pull.
- if you don't trust your healer to keep you alive or stunbreak you in high pressure fights.
Specializations
Equipment
Variants
- or slaying sigils when applicable.
Consumables
Food
Utility
- Slaying potions when applicable.
Usage
- The logic behind this rotation is to maximize your Photon Forge and uptime. First you build heat in Photon Forge with , , and autoattack chains. After you overheat, you use your highest damage skills together with , then fill with Sword auto-attacks and your high damage skills such as and . Rinse and repeat when Photon Forge is available again.
Opening Rotation
- Start with 75% heat.
- → →
- → →
Loop Rotation
- -> ->
- -> ->
- -> ->
- -> ->
- → →
- → →
- → →
Notes
- Under no circumstances should you ever overheat as it will massively reduce your damage output. Try to exit photon forge as close to 149 heat as possible.
- Never interrupt your Photon Forge auto-attack chain.
- should be used off cooldown. Try to stand inside the boss' hitbox when you cast this, to ensure all projectiles hit the boss.
- , and should also be used off cooldown.
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