Amalgam - Condi Spear Amalgam

• Amalgam - Celestial Amalgam - WvW version of this sPvP build.

• Twitch: Raiken

Variants

• 优质枪械 higher power damage alternative

Variant

• 脾气爆发 higher power damage if necessary

Variant

• 共生协调 great when using for improved burst damage out of evolve.

Equipment Variants

Amulet

• 悲伤项链 - Powerful hybrid damage alternative

Relic

• 巴瓦·尼索斯古物 - Better condi cleansing.

• 迷雾异客古物 - Great mix of damage and healing.

• 瘟疫使者古物 - Strong cover option as Amalgam has many multi-hit 中毒 skills.

Amalgam basics

• Engineers with the Amalgam elite specialization lose access to most of their regular toolbelt skills. Amalgam toolbelt skills are fully customizeable with their own set of skills, acting like a second utility bar.

  • Your healing skill is exempt from this rule, as it retains its regular toolbelt skill.
  • The elite toolbelt slot is always 进化, but you get to customize this skill through traits.

• Much of the specialization revolves around 进化. Your selection of toolbelt skills directly impacts Evolve, as Evolve gains bonuses on activation based on what toolbelt skills you're running.

General

• 进化 is always useful as it can be used for both defense and offense. On this build Evolve grants a passive stat boost, 敏捷 for CD recovery, 急速 for faster casts, 抗性 to help you ignore conditons that'd lower your damage like 目盲 and 虚弱 or ones that'd hinder your escape like 冰冻 and 定身, and barrier for general tankiness.
  • Evolve has 2 charges.

Damage

• 进攻协议：粉碎 and 电气炮轰 apply 定身 which you can use to root people into your harder hitting skills like 毁天灭地.

• Spear has a central mechanic called focus. Focused targets are more heavily affected by your Spear skills.

• You make someone your focus target by hitting them with 管流激增. Using this as your opener is therefore recommended.

• Skill #3 闪电矛杖 should be activated as soon as you use Conduit Surge. It's an instant skill that does damage passively around you and being charging up its chain skill.

  • Charging it up turns this skill into , a long range strike with , making it great at setting up burst.

• is primarily a setup skill too as it's a CC with not much else to it.

• is your primary burst skill on Spear. Try to land it on focused targets, preferably when they're CC'd so it doesn't miss.

• Spam grenades when your Spear skill are on CC or if getting into melee would be too dangerous. Fill any downtime with grande spam, even if it's just the autoattack.

• skills ranked from most to least threatening:

  • . Simple fire and forget skill with great damage.
  • and . Poison Grenade does more damage over time and it's unblockable, which is important because you can even use it to score healing reduction on skills like Revenant's , but Freeze Grenade does more damage upfront so it's better for bursts.
  • barely does any damage and is mostly a defensive tool that s enemies, but it's still good for condi variety and proccing traits too.

• Even your healing skill is a minor source of burst damage in melee range:

  • a lesser around you from trait. This is quite useful for counterpressuring targets, sometimes even turning the tides against the one chasing you. Be warned though that the grenade proc could also end up accidentally breaking your when you heal next to an enemy, which could actually endanger you on low health. While the build doesn't have stealth access by default, you could still get it from allies and combo fields, so it's worth keeping in mind.

Sustain

• Every stance skill cleanses 1 condition, cleanses 2.

• removes all movement-impairing conditions and makes you immune to them for a few seconds. If you're under heavy condition pressure it might be worth opening with this skill - doing so increases the chance of you removing damaging conditions with your other skills.

  • This is one of your stunbreaks so there's a risk attached to using it for cleansing alone, but as long as you have your other stun break ready, it should be fine.

• Coincidentally your other stunbreak is also a source of condi removal and can be used in a similar fashion. DP

  removes both damaging and non-damaging conditions.

• Every toolbelt skills grants barrier, which is useful against any form of pressure.

• Your healing skill heals you over time, and this healing can be increased by maintaining barrier on yourself. Combining it with toolbelt skills is highly recommended. Some of these skills are instant so you can apply barrier whenever you want.

• One of these instant defensive skills is the toolbelt of your heal, . The best part about this however is the application - you can grant yourself this aura even while stunned, which in turn stuns attackers.

• can be used for evasion and to save endurance or if you can't dodge.

  • Both of these skills can be used while immobilized.

Skill Variants

Morph skills replaceable for 防护协议：保护:

• 进攻协议：抹除 - excellent condition burst option with a powerful damage buff on 进化 .
• 进攻协议：毁坏 - mostly for the 稳固 and damage to healing when using 进化, can still deal notable damage.