Holosmith - Bunker Holo

Skill Variants

Utility

For your third slot use a combination of stunbreak + CC:

• 漏油跑鞋 - Low CD stunbreak affected by 激素植入, counters blocks, instant cast, strongest defensive option
• 重击炮台 - High CD stunbreak affected by 激素植入, overcharges twice in short succession for AoE knockdown, strongest CC option that can be used both offensively and defensively
• 喷火器 - Low CD stunbreak affected by 激素植入. It gives you another decap tool, brief reflect, field, blast, boons and some midranged burst damage which sounds great on paper but all of it is inaccessible while in Forge so you need to be extra careful in teamfights.
• 实用护镜 - Provides additional cleanse and counters 潜行 but the CC is less impactful and harder to land. Unless you are sure those will be relevant, the above options are usually preferable.

If you expect to be stuck on a sidenode a lot you may want to drop Hard Light Arena for another of these skills. If you pick both gadget utilities in this scenario, consider taking 配件达人.

Variants

• If your team has no dedicated support, the support from and with may be more valuable than personal resistance and movement speed. While the reflect is too slow to reflect on reaction, it can be strong for securing downs or resses.

Variants

• if you need more cleanse /
• against reliant teams.
• is worth considering with Slick Shoes + 1 Gadget + but is so good that even then you may want to keep it. Certainly take it if running more gadgets than that.

Variants

• is always viable and the superior option if you expect to get kited a lot but the loss in sustain is not insignificant.

Specialization Variants

Explosives adds vitality, sustain, a reliable source and has a bit more damage than Tools but it lacks cleanse, its Vigor uptime is less resilient against strips, stunbreaks are available a lot less frequently and heat management becomes a bit less convenient. Possibly the better variant for a premade team but less flexible overall and likely to fold to condi pressure when queueing solo.

Elite specialization basics

• Holosmith grants access to the Photon Forge (sometimes referred to as holo mode) and introduces a new resource: heat. Heat is generated passively while the forge is active and also by activating forge skills. Higher CD skills generate more heat.

• Reaching maximum heat (100) should be avoided as Overheating damages you and locks you out of the forge and your toolbelt until heat goes back to 0. Heat slowly decays outside of Photon Forge but it can also be reduced by dodging thanks to 热能释阀 (TRV).

  • 过热 is triggered on a per-tick basis and does not instantly trigger on reaching 100 heat. This means if you have a dodge left and you are at 95 heat, you may be able to use 全息震波 and then immediately dodge without Overheating as TRV reduces the heat from 100 to 85 before Overheat kicks in. It's not reliable so only try this when your death is certain otherwise.

• 启用光子熔炉 is used to activate the forge, after which your weapon skills will be replaced by 5 new ones. You can't exit the forge for 6 seconds, so think twice before reentering with high heat levels. Be careful when entering it above ~70 heat as you may risk overheating.

• Both Engage Photon Forge and Disengage Photon Forge count as toolbelt skills and will work with related traits. Both skills can proc weapon swap sigils too.

• Be very mindful about when you exit Photon Forge. 激素植入 triggers at the end of your dodge and affects the cooldown of 启用光子熔炉, reducing it from 1 to 0. This means that if you exit at the end of a dodge you may accidently exit and reenter Photon Forge with a single button press which is often lethal.

General

You lack the mobility for decapping but otherwise your role is flexible and changes based on your own team, your enemy team and your exact loadout.

The primary features of the build are huge amounts of lockdown and control alongside moderate damage on top of self-sustain, defensive tools and area boons that let you (and your team) survive long enough to land your lockdown and generate downs or hold points.

The Inventions traitline grants you a huge amount of bonus stats through which can be kept up permanently and amplifies your damage while helping to drive your sustain.

Damage

• Hitting an enemy with a disable triggers for offensive boons and for damage and once per second - even if they have . You have a lot of them:

  • (if taken)
  • (if taken)
  • (if taken)
  • Thumper Turret CC is attributed to the turret, not to the player, so it unfortunately does not trigger them :-( pls fix anet

• All your Photon Forge skills deal solid damage, note that the second hit of hits a lot harder than the first.

• deals solid damage but is hard to land, use it to punish blocking enemies, extend a CC combo or disrupt stomps/resses.

• hits quite hard on a low cooldown and has a big impact area.

• Although triggers regardless of , don't just blindly slam all your control into stability and instead try to pressure with your low cooldown non-CC skills like Mace 2 and Forge while it's up.

• Be mindful about hard mitigation like Blocks, Evades and Invulnerability as they deprive you of most of your benefits. Note that while is unblockable as well, it actually requires the opponent to move so it is ineffective for disrupting blocks like that force the enemy to remain still. is often the more accessible option.

• has a small delay between being placed and performing its overcharge and can be destroyed in that time frame so only place it within multiple enemies if you are sure it will go off. Following up the first knockdown with another CC assures that the second knockdown of the turret hits as well.

• Pay attention to your opponent's stunbreaks so you can lock them into a killing CC chain. In chaotic team fights landing is the ideal setup for catching multiple enemies in a devastating combo.

Sustain

• Most variations of this build run no stability and only a single stunbreak, making you very susceptible to lockdown. Don't present yourself as the natural target!

  • If you find yourself focused in teamfights, use your mobility to kite away and don't hesitate to use hard mitigation early so you don't have to immediately resort to your stunbreak.
  • is your only hard mitigation while in Forge and can cover defensive utility skill casts if you orient the shield right. Utilize your in-combat mobility from your Leaps to run away and make it difficult to get their melee abilities in

• and are the primary drivers of your sustain. provides both to you and nearbly allies while also granting 640 barrier (to allies too!) and dealing solid damage. Use it as often as you can! Insanely broken skill.

• is another great contributor to your regeneration uptime on a relatively low cooldown. Combo the water field with or for extra healing whenever you are not at full health.

• provides a wide area cleanse, heal, regeneration and water field.

  • Combo the water field with and/or every time
  • In certain scenarios you will want to also combo with
  • has no internal cooldown and activates on both placing the turret and overcharging, granting a full 6 seconds of AoE Protection
  • has no internal cooldown and activates on both placing the turret and overcharging, granting a full 6s of personal Resistance and cleansing 2 conditions + blind.
  • If using it grants AoE Vigor and spawns a reflect bubble after 1 second. The bubble immediately disappears on picking up or detonating the turret.
  • Detonate the turret for additional AoE healing or pick it up for cooldown reduction.
  • Due to the amount of beneficial effects that only apply upon placing, pick it up if you think you can get away with it instead of detonating it.

• Every dodge heals you for 600 through unless you are out of heat. High Vigor uptime, Adrenal Implant and Energy sigil ensure you can do it often.

• grants you 1800+ barrier if you can land the first hit. Opponents will rarely dodge this on reflex as they prioritize avoidance of the second hit of the skill.

Dealing with ranged builds

• and both make okay distance, you can chain them in a Mace-Forge-Forge-Mace combo for considerable chase potential.

• If you don't run it is usually not enough to catch up to mobile snipers like Galeshot unless they somehow let you hit Mace 3 on them. You primarily rely on reflects to fend them off.

• Most of your reflects have too much windup to pose a true threat. and are the only skills that can reliably reflect high priority skills on reflex such as , and . Don't use them preemptively as the users all have access to unblockable projectiles as well and can simply punch through your block / reflect if they see you use it.

• when cast above 50 Heat also reflects but the extra requirement makes it unreliable for this purpose.

• If taken, the reflects from act more as area denial while you destroy the sniper's teammates but if you track Galeshot's Wind Force, you can anticipate and reflect that with a turret as well. Even if they dodge the reflected projectiles, getting turret reflected will shatter their mentality and make them afraid.

Support Overview

Numbers assume that is active.

• grants 6s of in a 480 radius

• heals for 2645, cleanses two conditions and grants 8s of in a 480 radius

  • It triggers twice for 6s of in a 360 radius
  • It triggers once for 4s of and 1 cleanse in a 360 radius
  • If taken, it triggers for 3s of in a 600 radius

• with grants 3s of in a 600 radius.

• grants 641 barrier, 3s of and 3s of in a 360 radius

• grants 3s of and 8s of in a 300 radius once per second on hitting a disable

• grants 4s of , and to allies in a 240-360 radius

Overall you grant effectively permanent around you which ticks for 161 health every second. With you can achieve >50% uptimes on and on top of the general disruption you bring.

Equipment Variants

Runes

• 破法者符文 - Greedier option, going more greedy than this makes you susceptible to burst.
• 旅者符文 - only if running 试验炮台 and even then not strictly necessary: You lose your base speed and outside of 全息跳跃 you have no access to Swiftness, making the extra base movement speed valuable while adding trace amounts of boons and healing.

Sigils

• 吸收法印 can be replaced with 洁净法印

Relics

The relic has to be replaced on the Explosives variant as you don't need more Fury there:

• 雾潮古物 can partially compensate for your lack of cleanse as you have enough fields and leaps available.
• 海盗女王古物, 空槽 Relic of the Nautical Beast (unsupported by Relic template?) or 恶棍古物 are good options for more offensive build variants when queueing with a support.