Holosmith - Tools Holo Roamer

• Holosmith - Power Tools Holo - Conquest PvP version.

Variants

There are 2 main versions for this build: 热能释阀 and 强化储存单元.

• With 热能释阀 you'll focus on dodging for heat management and 爆破进击 synergy. You should aim to hit 90-100% bonus endurance regen. 50% is provided by 活力 from Tools and the rest should either come from 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 OR 激素植入 on Tools, but not both! You don't want to overcap endurance regen. If you take Adrenal Implant you get to use ascended food and still have 75% bonus endurance regen plus CD reductions on toolbelt skills, if you take the dodge food you'll have 90% endurance regen and retain access to 动力电池.

• If you go with 强化储存单元 your burst potential is going to be even higher, your Holo skills become stronger but your heat management gets worse, forcing you to use Photon Forge less often. Both of the Tools GM traits and both of the food options remain viable choices, but you'll no longer have to focus on endurance regen if you don't want to.

Skill Variants

Utility

Viable choices for the optional slot:

• 步枪炮台 - it's mostly for the toolbelt skill, 奇袭射击 is an instant trigger for 静电释放 and improves your burst damage. Has great synergy with the Tools spec in general because of its low CD, but it's also the least defensive option on this list, and therefore the hardest to play.

• 工具包 - CC, block, and some decent damage on 撬棍.

• S型试剂 - great panic button against any kind of pressure and even has 潜行 access on toolbelt.

• 光谱盾牌 - defensive skill that also breaks stuns and its CD could be reduced when used at high heat levels.

Weapons

• Hammer - this is an equally viable option for people who own the Secrets of the Obscure expansions. The two sets offer very similar things - block, projectile-reflect, CC, leap finishers. Hammer is a slower weapon but has more damage.

Heal

• 医疗包 - worse cleansing but higher healing thanks to the toolbelt skill 自我包扎 and the water field the kit offers. Goes up in value compared to 冷却爆破 when NOT playing with 强化储存单元.

Elite

• 巅峰射线 - unblockable ranged CC on low CD.

• 空投补给 - a different kind of AoE CC, and the combo field could even be used for 潜行 stacking.

Food

• 黑胡椒调味牡蛎汤球 - defensive ascended choice with passive damage mitigation while also providing a decent amount of offensive stats.

• 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - defensive option with 爆破进击 and 热能释阀 synergy.

  • 碗装鲜肉冬菜煲 - budget version.

Utility

• 强效超级磨刀石 or 罐装水果蛋糕, whichever is cheaper (note that the sharpening stone lasts twice as long).

Equipment Variants

Runes

• 超级兽群符文 - lower sustain, more damage, retains the same boon duration.

Sigils

If you're confident in your ability to handle conditions even without 超级洁净法印, other options open up:

• 超级迅敏法印 - lines up perfectly with 雷霆一击 when playing with Hammer, significantly improves 急速 uptime.

• 超级远见法印 - improves the consistency of your bursts.

• 超级空气法印 - higher burst potential.

Relics

• 领导古物 - boosts your condition cleansing. Works especially well with Mortar Kit as the kit has no cast time and no CD, making it easy to proc this relic every 30 seconds even while stunned.

• 河流古物 - works well with endurance regen traits and consumables, adding a decent uptime of 敏捷 to the build.

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 (150) should be avoided as Overheating damages you and locks you out of the forge until heat goes back to 0.

• 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 at least 6 seconds, so be careful about 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.

Forge skills

• The autoattack chain can do considerable cleave damage especially with 急速.

• 全息跳跃 should be used on CD most of the time as this is an incredibly loaded skill on a very short CD. This skill provides mobility/cleansing via 水晶形态：和风, does decent damage, and even functions as a Leap Finisher.

• 电晕爆炸 tends to be the first skill Holosmiths use in combat right after entering holo mode. This is a two-parter that also stacks 威能. The second strike goes off after a delay, making it ideal to combo with other skills for burst damage. Try to squeeze in 2 Corona Bursts before exiting the form.

• 光子闪击 offers some ranged pressure on an otherwise melee-focused set. You could combo this with the toolbelt skills 粒子加速器 and 奇袭射击 for ranged burst damage if going into melee is too risky, but it's worth using for the damage regardless of range.

• 全息震波 is an excellent AoE CC and also a Blast Finisher. You may also fake cast it by stowing your weapon right after activation in order to bait dodges from enemies.

General

• and are best used above 50 heat for maximum effectiveness. For Sword skills you should be aiming for 100+ heat.

• on toolbelt is the only stun break in the build by default, but at least it recharges quickly. could be used while stunned in hopes of CCing enemies.

• is a versatile kit useful in just about any situation and has a lot of combo potential. It has a field for healing reduction (that could also make it harder for enemies to rez their downed allies), and to avoid damage or kite enemies, and a Water field to combo extra healing. Most skills also do solid damage and could be used to pressure targets both in melee and range, further reducing your downtime between burst combos.

Damage

• The more heat you have, the more damage you do thanks to and .

• After every dodge roll you gain which adds a decent damage proc to your next attack.

• When playing with Sword/Shield follow up with and right after exiting the forge (while your heat is still high), preferably in this order - Radiant Arc leaps to your target which makes it easier to land Refraction Cutter in melee range, increasing the chance of landing all projectiles on one target.

• and are the best skills for proccing . These provide frequently available instant burst damage and should be used as often as possible.

• Every 5th toolbelt skill you use gives you and via .

• is primarily a defensive skill, but its chain skill lets you shoot it at nearby enemies for extra damage. Using this skill only for the damage is hardly ever worth it (as it's one of your few defensive CDs and doesn't hit that hard), but you should consider using when Photon Wall is about to expire.

• If taken is a powerful unblockable ranged AoE CC on low CD and works great for setting up bursts. The skill is very telegraphed and somewhat easy to avoid if you don't have , but you could even pull some mind-games with it. PLB roots you in place and makes you face towards your target - with skill retargeting enabled under Combat/Movement Options you're able to cast it on target A, bait out a dodge and then switch to target B in the last moment, hitting them with the beam.

  • If target A dodges and there is no target B simply stow your weapon to cancel it and try again a few seconds later, don't waste your elite.

• Once your heat is back at a reasonably low level enter holo mode and spam those skills, that's really all there is to it.

Sustain

• Every Hammer skill except the autoattack could be used defensively.

• does great damage in melee while reflecting projectiles, has a lengthy evade frame on top of being a double combo finisher and having high damage, stuns enemies while leaving behind a pulsing damage field.

• is the most defensive thing on Hammer, being a block skill with barrier. While the damage is mediocre it's still worth using it in melee as you gain barrier whenever the skill strikes an enemy, but even if you don't do that the block is still very useful.

• is great at turning things around. The instant unblockable AoE CC could stop most burst attempts made by enemies without while also creating the perfect opening for counterpressuring targets. Really good at immediately punishing teleport skills like or too.

• Toolbelt skills remove conditions. Since you're going to be spamming and quite a lot you should be able to keep them at bay just by playing offensively. When conditions start to overwhelm you use (preferably at high heat).

• The only stunbreak in the build is found on toolbelt skill (not to be confused with the effect of the same name).

• is an extremely valuable blocking skill that allows you to keep pressuring targets without having to worry in most cases.

• Standing inside any of the AoE fields created by is already going to make you a less attractive target, but and are especially useful when used defensively. isn't scary but being a water field you could use your many leap/blast finishers like or to get even more healing out of it.