Holosmith - Condi Holo

Note that while 光能爆破 reduces the penalties of overheating, you will still lose about 25% of your max hp. In exchage, it provides a lot of damage. If this health loss proves too dangerous to you, you can use 热能释阀 instead, trading damage for safety.

Variants

• 冲击护盾 - trades damage for defense.
• 水晶形态：日蚀 - trades damage for defense.
• 热能释阀 is a large damage loss but is much safer. Don't make this trade when playing in groups with a healer.

Weapon Variants

• Pistol + Pistol - for players without access to Janthir Wilds and land spear. Deals slightly less damage but has more range.

Skill Variants

Heal skill

The choice of heal skill is very open. We recommend 治疗炮台 because it provides very high healing and cleanses 2 conditions when first deployed, while creating a water field where you can detonate the turret to provide even more healing (See: Guide

• 医疗包 provides a decent heal with a low cooldown with the toolbelt skill 自我包扎, a Blast finisher with 灌注炸弹, condition cleanse and water field with 净化区域, and some ally healing.
• 自动除颤 - helpful to negate a big attack or a oneshot, and has a helpful 2 second stun on the toolbelt skill 静电冲击. This skill requires a bit more skill to use, as it only provides large healing if you were to take lethal damage.
• 冷却爆破 - good healing when used above 50 Heat, but not too good at low Heat. Its toolbelt skill is quite niche, transforming the conditions you suffer from into Burning (transforming more conditions at higher Heat levels), which can do more harm than good.

Utility skills

手雷弹幕 provides great damage, and even more thanks to 飞散弹片. It shouldn't be replaced. 喷火器 provides great damage. It shouldn't be replaced. 炸弹包 provides medium damage and crowd control. Can be replaced if needed.

• 光谱盾牌 - great stun break and damage reduction with a low cooldown, even lower if used at high Heat.
• 光子墙 - provides a projectile block on demand and a toolbelt skill that deals good damage.
• - good damage, crowd control, and removes boons.
• - massive condition removal and heals per existing boon.

Elite skill

provides great damage and crowd control. It is the best option.

• inflicts more crowd control but is a massive damage loss.

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
• 盘装牛肉仁当 / 碗装松露拌饭
• 大师调谐水晶 / 协调冰柱

Defense

• 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲
• 辣酱扇贝
• 碗装柠檬草贻贝意粉

Farming

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
• 生日爆破枪 / 令人愉快的生日蛋糕大餐
• 薄荷怪异莓棒
• 锐磨颅骨 (and variants)

This set uses similar gear to Build

If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Viper's Abomination" weapons. Viper exotic armor is very expensive, so we recommend a budget alternative called Carrion (search the trading post for "Shiro" armor) until you can get Viper gear such as by farming Bladed armor or by acquiring ascended armor. Upgrade to Viper and ascended as you progress. See also: Guide

• is a slight DPS loss against single targets, but better vs. groups.

Photon Forge

Part of your damage comes from 启用光子熔炉, the holosmith's profession mechanic. Using skills inside the Forge generates Heat, some Heat is also gained over time. Having high Heat is great, as it increases your damage through 激光利刃. After reaching 100 heat, you will Overheat, which does low damage to yourself but great damage to nearby enemies thanks to 光能爆破. Overheating also prevents you from accessing the Forge until it cools down, and puts your toolbelt skills on a short cooldown.

Note that 光能爆破 prevents the Forge from cooling down. The only way to reduce heat is to overheat. If you're not using 光能爆破, do not overheat.

Damage

Condition holosmith is particularly hard to play. You have to juggle 3 kits, your toolbelt skills, your normal weapons, and the Photon Forge. In open world, without quickness and alacrity, there's no real method to this madness. These are all the skills you will want to use, in no particular order:

• All your Spear skills (except 连绵起伏) but always use 管流激增 first.
• 手雷弹幕
• 燃烧弹
• 破片手雷
• 毒气手雷
• 烈焰爆弹
• 爆燃烈焰
• 凝固汽油
• 巅峰射线
• 电晕爆炸
• 光子闪击
• use off-cooldown

Remember to always use 管流激增 before all other spear skills to "focus" your target, increasing the effectiveness of all other spear skills against that target. Save 连绵起伏 for crowd control, it's not a damage skill. 管流激增 will always come offcooldown at the same time as 闪电矛杖/电气炮轰, so use them together.

Don't stay in the 启用光子熔炉 for long, you don't want to overheat in one single use. Enter the Forge, use its skills then leave to use your weapon and kit skills. After that, enter it again and do overheat this second time. Note that entering and exiting the Forge is good for damage thanks to 太阳聚镜.

Defense and Sustain

• 热量疗法 provides a little sustain in long fights.
• is an evade.
• In longer fights, if you need more defense, you can consider using the defensive utilities and/or at a dps loss.
• Remember that cleanses 2 conditions. If you need even more cleansing, use .

Crowd Control