Holosmith - Power Sword DPS

A power DPS Holosmith build for fractals and raids. This build brings good burst and sustained AoE damage.

While this build deals good damage on its own, it excels when there are lots of conditions on the boss for 弹药改装.

Equipment Variants

• If not using 手雷包 and offhand Pistol, 潜行者古物 will be higher damage.
• Players that own Janthir Wilds can use 血石古物 by swapping out 手雷包 and 光子墙 for 炸弹包 and 投掷地雷.
• The Dragon stats pieces are a tiny dps increase, so you can run full Berserker stats if you prefer.
• 超级夜幕法印 or slaying sigils when applicable.

Weapon Variants

• Shield can be used in the offhand slot for extra CC and/or survivability, for a small DPS loss.

Skill Variants

Healing

• 治疗炮台 could be taken to provide some AoE condi clease if your group otherwise lacks it.

Utility

• 投掷地雷 can replace 光子墙 or 手雷包 for extra CC or boon rip. Additionally, it will be higher burst damage if you are able to precast 投掷地雷 and/or 布设雷区. They are a similar DPS loss, but dropping 光子墙 is preferable as 手雷包 provides ranged damage which can be very valuable in maintaining DPS uptime. You should also switch to 潜行者古物 if you remove 手雷包.
• Players that own Janthir Wilds can swap out 手雷包 and 光子墙 for 炸弹包 and 投掷地雷, and bring 血石古物. This removes your ranged damage and is only a small improvement in long-term DPS, but has higher burst.

Other utility options are a much larger DPS loss:

• 强光竞技场 can be useful in uncoordinated groups for the protection and pull.
• 光谱盾牌 if you don't trust your healer to keep you alive or stunbreak you in high pressure fights.
• 小型冲锤 for massive amounts of CC.

Food

• 碗装甜辣冬南瓜汤

Utility

• 强效超级磨刀石
• Slaying potions when applicable.

Rotation

The logic behind this rotation is to maximize your Photon Forge and 激光利刃 uptime. You build heat in Photon Forge with 电晕爆炸, 光子闪击, and autoattack chains. Using 电晕爆炸 as your last skill and exiting Photon Forge will continue to generate heat for a few seconds without causing you to overheat. Then fill the time cooling down with Sword auto-attacks and your high damage skills such as 破片手雷 and 折射切割刀. Rinse and repeat when you fall below 100 heat.

Opener

Holosmith can vary the length of its opener by starting at different heats. This enables them to maximise damage by ending a phase just after their Photon Forge burst. Choosing the correct opener for the fight is a matter of experience, but 100% heat is a good standard:

100% Heat opener

Try to start with 布设雷区 and 投掷地雷 pre-placed (if using)

1. 手雷包 ⇒ 破片手雷
2. 启用光子熔炉
3. 电晕爆炸
4. 光子墙
5. 手雷弹幕 - triggers 烟花古物
6. 引爆地雷, 引爆雷区, 粒子加速器 and/or 剑刃爆发 (whichever you have)
7. 投掷地雷 (if using) directly onto the boss (see Notes below for details on how to use this during the rest of the rotation)
8. 发射光子墙
9. 激光碟片
10. 光子闪击
11. 巅峰射线
12. 电晕爆炸
13. 停止光子熔炉

Sword loop

火焰喷射 has a cooldown slightly longer than the rotation, so you alternate between using it at the start and end of your sword loop, and in the middle.

1. 火焰喷射 - skip if it's not off cooldown
2. 折射切割刀
3. 破片手雷
4. 毒气手雷
5. 冰冻手雷
6. 火焰喷射 - skip if it's not off cooldown
7. 粘胶射击
8. 闪耀弧光
9. 阳光之刃 ⇒ 阳光开膛手 ⇒ 闪光马刀
10. 折射切割刀
11. 破片手雷
12. ⇒ ⇒ x2
14. - skip if it's not off cooldown
15. - skip if you used Blowtorch

Photon Forge loop

2. (if using) - this helps maintain the buff from
4. (if using)
5. - this will drift backwards in the loop over time, so use whenever it is available
6. - this will drift backwards in the loop over time, so use whenever it is available
7. - this will drift backwards in the loop over time, so use whenever it is available
8. → → x2 - ideally you want to be above 140 heat when you use Corona Burst so depending on your speed you may need to use more or fewer autoattacks
9. and (if using)
12. Return to start of Sword loop

• Use off cooldown (if using). To avoid it detonating instantly, you will need to throw the mine to the edge of the target's hitbox. If you struggle with this, just replace with in the loop.
• Use , ⇒ ⇒ , and off cooldown.
• Use off cooldown, but only while in Photon Forge so that you benefit from .

Bloodstone Rotation

If using , the rotation is very similar but a bit more structured. You need to combo four blasts in quick succession, so and are essential, and this variant may struggle on bosses with high movement or disruptive mechanics.

Opener

On appropriate encounters you can start casting bomb skills before the boss spawns, but bear in mind you cannot gain stacks for outside of combat so the timing needs to be precise.

100% Heat opener

Try to start with and pre-placed (if using)

9. and as soon as the buff appears
10. directly onto the boss
13. ⇒ ⇒ - you don't have to complete the chain if you're in danger of overheating

Sword loop

5. if available, otherwise ⇒
6. ⇒ ⇒
8. ⇒ ⇒ x2

Photon Forge loop

5. and as soon as the buff appears
7. → → x2 - ideally you want to be above 140 heat when you use Corona Burst so depending on your speed you may need to use more or fewer autoattacks
10. Return to start of Sword loop

Notes

• Under no circumstances should you ever overheat as it will massively reduce your damage output. Try to exit photon forge as close to 149 heat as possible.
• will continue to generate heat for a short time after it finishes, but it will not trigger an overheat if you are not in forge. For this reason, it should be the last skill you use while in Photon Forge.
• If you are a little slow with the rotation outside of Photon Forge, you may find that you are not close to 149 heat when you would normally exit. In this case, perform extra Photon Forge autos.