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: End of Dragons builds

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on July 12, 2022 and is up to date for the November 28, 2023 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:

  • - AoE damage in melee and some utility.
  • - quickness quickness, combine with and for good quickness uptime.
  • - for a full signet build.
  • - mobility.


Specializations

  • Remember you have to be 150 units away from your enemy to fire your high damage .
    • Mace attacks have a range of about 155-160, so you can use 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.
  • - 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 Fury, , and you have 100% critical chance.
  • - 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.
  • budget DPS
  • - great when soloing, replaces Air
  • - defensive
  • - good quickness uptime when combined with and
  • Knight Knight - defensive gear at the expense of dps
  • , - 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 and off cooldown. The auto attack, , is also great and fires which is an Explosion.
  • If using mace, spam and off cooldown.
  • Spam your Mech skills off cooldown. Remember usinng your third weapon skill causes the Mech to fire , this doesn't interrupt any action the Mech is doing.

Crowd control


Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 4 votes.
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5 stars
Devinci gave this build 5 stars • January 2024
Hammer is the perfect weapon for this build. Tons of cc, ridiculous burst, and a significant amount of defense are available with just a few key presses. With mech skills on full auto, just drop hammer 5, then inside the electric field do some or all of Throw Mine, hammer 2, and hammer 3, then add a couple of auto attacks if needed and anything less than the hardest hero points will be dead, usually without you taking damage due to the built in defense, heavy cc, and mech tanking. Kills most open world stuff faster and with less effort than anything else I've tried. Biggest downside is that, due to long weapon skill cooldowns and lack of an engineer kit to swap into, for anything that survives your burst you'll spend a lot of time with nothing to do except dodge and auto attack. Also it's a melee build, which isn't great for those who strongly prefer ranged attacks.
5 stars
Zilhn.7961 gave this build 5 stars • November 2023
love this build it gives my mechanic a power of dps
4 stars
Starlitjupiter gave this build 4 stars • September 2023
With Weaponmaster, Mechanist has gained a significant boost in its power and overall feeling for general open world play. PMech has gone from a build I'd never recommend to one I think is fantastic for people that are new to engineer or just want a laid back, easy farming build to play.
5 stars
Warming Hearth gave this build 5 stars • September 2023
Stupidly easy to play, great damage, great crowd control, super tanky pet. All in all a great build. The only thing that sucks is the cooldown penalty from being away from your mech, hopefully Anet finds a better way to incentivise controlling the mech.

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