Amalgam - Condi DPS

Protocol Variants

进攻协议：粉碎 does an underwhelming amount of damage, so it could easily be swapped out for a utility option.

Pistol Variants

Players who don't own Janthir Wilds cannot use spear, so Pistol/Pistol is the next best option. Pistols also have better ranged capabilities, which might be preferable on some encounters.

Skill Variants

• 喷火器 can be swapped out for 烈焰炮台 or 液体状态 to simplify the rotation for a moderate DPS loss. Both skills offer similar DPS.
  • 烈焰炮台 is completely passive but cannot move and so is unsuitable against bosses that move a lot.
  • 液体状态 gives you an evade and deals more damage long-term, but takes a while to ramp up.
• The heal skill can be whatever you want, though some options stand out:
  • 自动除颤 allows you to survive some one-shot attacks.
  • 治疗炮台 does an AoE condi cleanse when it is placed, which can be situationally useful.

• Either sigil could be swapped for a 超级地能法印. The sigil is cheaper than 超级渴求法印 and the damage is slightly better than 超级大地法印, but it requires you to be in melee to benefit and variance in your kit swaps can reduce its DPS.
• 超级厄运法印 is more consistent than 超级大地法印, but there's not much difference between the two.
• The recommended setup is practically the same damage as full Viper stats gear.
  • In this case, 大师调谐水晶 would be the stronger utility.

Non-SotO Relics

• Players that own Janthir Wilds but not Secrets of the Obscure can use 蒸汽尖啸者古物. Note that this locks you into 医疗包 as a heal, and you should also replace 原浆状态 with 炸弹包.
• There are two options for core relics. 荆棘古物 has the highest potential, but it isn't triggered reliably on every encounter. 望族古物 works everywhere, but requires modifying your gear as follows:
  • You would want to swap some pieces to Sinister stats such that you reach ~67% base condition duration, with bleeding and burning duration capped.
  • It may be recommended to pick an option that offers some utility instead.

Spear rotation

The basic structure of Spear's rotation will be very familiar to players of engineer: You finish your auto chains and use DPS skills off cooldown until you use 管流激增 (skill 2), then jump into 手雷包 and use 破片手雷 along with 冰冻手雷 or 毒气手雷 if they are off cooldown.

The unique aspect of Spear is the Focused mechanic, which is applied by 管流激增 and refreshed by the last hit of the auto chain. You can only have a single Focused target, and hitting the target with Spear skills will trigger enhanced effects:

• The autoattack chain will apply 易伤
• 管流激增 applies more 燃烧
• 闪电矛杖 ⇒ 电气炮轰 deals more damage, and applies more 易伤 and 燃烧.
• 连绵起伏 deals (slightly) more CC.
• 毁天灭地 will hit the Focused target with 聚焦毁天灭地, applying more damage and 燃烧.

Rotation fundamentals

Your three biggest damage contributions come from 闪电矛杖 ⇒ 电气炮轰, 管流激增 and 破片手雷. When you activate 闪电矛杖 a whirling AoE spins around you for four seconds, gaining a charge for each target hit. After this 电气炮轰 will activate and do damage according to its charge. The cooldown for the skill begins once you activate 闪电矛杖 so using this skill is high priority, while you can afford to delay 电气炮轰 if needed (it lasts until 闪电矛杖 is ready again).

管流激增 and 破片手雷 have the same cooldown, so every time you use 管流激增 you can immediately jump into 手雷包 and use 破片手雷. These two skills form the backbone of your rotation.

You can swap out of 手雷包 either by pressing 手雷包 again or by weapon swapping. Using weapon swap will cancel animations when used, which could result in cancelling a grenade skill before its finished. Using 手雷包 a second time to leave the kit avoids this issue, but if you're only casting a single grenade skill (which is often the case) then the cooldown on kit swaps won't have ended when you need to leave. Ideally you should practise both methods.

Simplified Rotation

Example Opener

1. 进化
2. 烈焰炮台 (if using)
3. , and during the cast
9. , and stow Grenade Kit during the cast
16. Weapon Swap to exit Grenade Kit
19. (if using)
25. Weapon Swap to exit Grenade Kit

For the simplified rotation (without ), follow the guidance above while using protocols, utility skills and off cooldown, though they are lower priority than weapon skills.

Flamethrower Rotation

Example Opener

10. , and stow Flamethrower during the cast
20. , and stow Flamethrower during the cast
25. , and during the cast
26. , and during the cast
28. , and stow Flamethrower during the cast
33. Weapon Swap

Rest of the Rotation

The backbone of the rotation is to use / as close to off cooldown as possible, then jump into , use , and either or if they are off cooldown.

It can help to "link" together skills with the same cooldown to make tracking your kits easier. This creates a second combo when you use :

4. , and stow Flamethrower during the cast
5. (optional - played optimally, Devastator is lower priority than other skills, but you can keep them linked to give more structure to the rotation)

• Use off cooldown.
• You usually want to switch to after . Try to look at your cooldowns each time you enter - if none of your cooldowns are below five seconds, skip it after the next .
  • It can help to use skills such as , and as you swap into - this gives you a short moment during the animation to check whether any cooldowns are available, and exit if not.
• Use at most two skills each time you enter the kit. is the lowest priority and can be skipped if you wish to save it for CC.
• Use and off cooldown.
• Thanks to , there is some freedom with when you use , ideally you can combine it with or without delaying your core combo. Make sure not to let it reach two charges.
• is low priority, so you can skip it if you know there are important cooldowns available.

Crowd Control

• (with
• (Spear)
• (Flamethrower)

Food

• 盘装牛肉仁当 or ascended versions

Utility

• 剧毒调谐水晶
  • 大师调谐水晶 for a cheaper alternative

Trait Variants

• None of the Adept traits in Amalgam offer any DPS, so you can run whichever survivability you think will be most useful.
• The grandmaster traits in Amalgam do not offer much damage for condition builds, so it is a smaller DPS loss than other builds to take 新型基因 and provide boons.