Mechanist - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

Weapon Variants

• Pistol or Mace with offhand Pistol is the best option for players that don't own Janthir Wilds.
  • Pistol is higher damage, but Mace offers a bit more defensive support.

Skill Variants

• If you find you need more 敏捷 generation, you could replace 超导纹章 or 喷火器 with 屏障纹章, but this will be more of a DPS loss than just taking more boon duration.
• You can take 位移纹章 instead of 喷火器 for a much simpler rotation, but at a DPS loss.

Trait Variants

• It would be a minor DPS gain to take 机甲武器：单刃切刀, but you would lose a decent amount of 威能 for doing so.

• This setup has ~36% boon duration.
  • It's a pretty small DPS loss to run Celestial stats or Ritualist stats in every slot.
  • You could go as low as ~31%, but this is not recommended.
• If the +408 toughness from Celestial stats causes problems, you can replace your gear with Ritualist stats pieces instead. This will leave you with only +45 toughness from the .
• Either sigil could be swapped for a . The sigil is cheaper than and the damage is slightly better, but it requires you to be in melee to benefit and variance in your kit swaps can reduce its DPS.

Food

• or ascended versions.

Utility

Spear Rotation

The basic structure of Spear's rotation will be very familiar to players of engineer: You finish your auto chains and use DPS skills off cooldown until you use 管流激增 (skill 2), then jump into 手雷包 and use 破片手雷 along with either 冰冻手雷 or 毒气手雷 if they are off cooldown.

The unique aspect of Spear is the Focused mechanic, which is applied by 管流激增 and refreshed by the last hit of the auto chain. You can only have a single Focused target, and hitting the target with Spear skills will trigger enhanced effects:

• The autoattack chain will apply 易伤
• 管流激增 applies more 燃烧
• 闪电矛杖 ⇒ 电气炮轰 deals more damage, and applies more 易伤 and 燃烧.
• 连绵起伏 deals (slightly) more CC.
• 毁天灭地 will hit the Focused target with 聚焦毁天灭地, applying more damage and 燃烧.

Rotation fundamentals

Your three biggest damage contributions come from 闪电矛杖 ⇒ 电气炮轰, 管流激增 and 破片手雷. When you activate 闪电矛杖 a whirling AoE spins around you for four seconds, gaining a charge for each target hit. After this 电气炮轰 will activate and do damage according to its charge. The cooldown for the skill begins once you activate 闪电矛杖 so using this skill is high priority, while you can afford to delay 电气炮轰 if needed (it lasts until 闪电矛杖 is ready again).

Practically speaking, if you cast 闪电矛杖 and 管流激增 together, the charging time on 电气炮轰 means that it becomes available around the time that 管流激增 comes off cooldown. And as you always want to be following up 管流激增 with 破片手雷, your rotation should end up always casting these three skills together (alternating between 闪电矛杖 and 电气炮轰):

1. 闪电矛杖/电气炮轰
2. 管流激增
3. 手雷包
4. 破片手雷

Unfortunately none of your weapon skills line up neatly with 烈焰爆弹, making it harder to track the cooldown of this key skill. However, the cooldown on 毒气手雷 is the same as 爆燃烈焰, so by using these two skills together you can add more structure to the rotation. It is practical to use 烈焰爆弹 at the same time as you can neatly fit two additional uses between each 爆燃烈焰. As 毁天灭地 also has a 20-second cooldown, you can add this on afterwards to create the following:

5. Weapon Swap

You can piece together the rotation by following the structures above, performing the spear combo and checking on the cooldown of poison grenade while there. Then when using poison grenade combo, check on the cooldowns of your flamethrower skills.

Played optimally, the cooldowns of and will drift apart so there is no consistent loop (or rather, it is very long and easy to get lost in). The spear combo is the highest priority, while and are low priority and can be skipped if other cooldowns are available.

Example Opener

9. Weapon Swap
20. Weapon Swap
25. Weapon Swap

Crowd Control

• : 200 defiance break - 232 to your Focused target
• : 150 defiance break. DPS contribution is low so you can hold on to it.

Mace Rotation

General Tips

• Thanks to , if you are over 360 units away from your mech when using F1-3 skills, their cooldown will be 50% longer. It is therefore vital to make sure you are within range before using them or you will cripple your boon uptimes.
• You will need to use to maintain , but it can be delayed slightly if the is needed.
• Use off cooldown. You can delay it by a second if it will coincide with , as the internal cooldown of would prevent the first tick from applying in this case.
• If you are using , use it instead of in the opener, then use one second after the final pulse of . Make sure never to have these two skills overlap - this is to avoid the internal cooldown from .
• Try to keep an eye on your mech, as it is a major source of thanks to . If it ends up more than 600 units from the stack, you can use (if you have it) to force it to the correct location.

The rotation below does not use . See the Condi DPS page for this rotation - if you are using Pistol/Pistol you can follow it as written; if you are using Mace/Pistol then do an extra mace auto chain whenever you would use Pistol skills.

Opener

8. Weapon Swap (or stow kit)
10. → →
14. Weapon Swap (or stow kit)

Rest of the Rotation

After the opener, your basic loop is as follows:

1. Autoattack and use on Mace until either Blowtorch or Rocket Fist Prototype are available - make sure to finish your auto chains!
2. or - these should alternate between loops
4. and (if available)
5. Weapon Swap (or stow kit)
6. Repeat

If you're fast, you may occasionally swap to and won't be immediately available. In this case, use to fill the gap.

Other Rotations

As indicated above, there are a number of ways this build can be modified to suit the player, each bringing a different rotation. Rather than attempt to cover all of them, some general guidance is provided, from most to least complex: