Mechanist - Condi DPS

• 机甲核心：翠玉融合 is the stronger (though more complicated) option.

Food

• 盘装牛肉仁当 or ascended versions

Utility

• 剧毒调谐水晶
  • 大师调谐水晶 for a cheaper alternative

Pistol Variants

Players who don't own Janthir Wilds cannot use spear, so Pistol/Pistol is the next best option. Pistols also have better ranged capabilities, which might be preferable on some encounters.

机甲核心：翠玉融合 is the strongest option for the Pistol build, but using 机甲核心：翠玉驱动器, you can dramatically simplify the rotation without losing too much damage.

If using 机甲核心：翠玉融合, replace 超导纹章 with 喷火器.

Skill Variants

• The heal skill can be whatever you want, though some options stand out:
  • 整流纹章 is very potent with 机甲核心：翠玉驱动器 as it has higher passive healing, which isn't lost upon activating the signet.
  • 自动除颤 allows you to survive some one-shot attacks.
  • 治疗炮台 does an AoE condi cleanse when it is placed, which can be situationally useful.
• The highest damage option is to replace 超导纹章 with 喷火器 and use 机甲核心：翠玉融合, though the additional complexity means this may not be better in real encounters.
• If you want to totally avoid kits, use 斥力纹章. Be aware that removing 手雷包 removes your main way of triggering both 追踪火箭 and 飞散弹片, which means 脾气爆发 and 超然爆发 should perform better, though the difference will be minor.

Simpler Spear Rotation

Mechanist's signets are very strong, which allows them to replace 手雷包.

With this rotation all you need to do is use the following skills off cooldown:

• 管流激增
• 闪电矛杖/电气炮轰
• 毁天灭地
• 超导纹章
• 超频纹章 - skip if there's any danger of your mech dying, so you can use it to resummon them instead.
• Your mech skills

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 冰冻手雷 and 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).

管流激增 and 破片手雷 have the same cooldown, so every time you use 管流激增 you can immediately jump into 手雷包 and use 破片手雷. These two skills form the backbone of your rotation.

You can swap out of either by pressing again or by weapon swapping. Using weapon swap will cancel animations when used, which could result in cancelling a grenade skill before its finished. Using a second time to leave the kit avoids this issue, but if you're only casting a single grenade skill (which is often the case) then the cooldown on kit swaps won't have ended when you need to leave. Ideally you should practise both methods.

Example Opener

7. Weapon Swap
12. ⇒ ⇒ Weapon Swap

For the rest of the rotation, try to finish your auto chains ( and take priority over finishing the chain), while using the following skills off cooldown:

• /
• Your mech skills
• - skip if there's any danger of your mech dying, so you can use it to resummon them instead.

You can look at the cooldown of and whenever you go into for . If the cooldown is under two seconds, you exit, do an auto chain, then go back into for them.

Your two main skills have an effective cooldown of just under five seconds (with and ). However, / has an effective cooldown of just over 10 seconds, and your other grenade skills and have a ~16s cooldown (with ). This means that played optimally, these skills will end up shifting their position relative to each other over the course of the rotation.

You can simplify the rotation slightly if you slightly delay until after /. As you always want to be following up with , your rotation should end up always casting these three skills together (alternating between and ).

Additionally, if you find handling kits tricky (or just prefer a neater loop), you can use the following rotation, which is a relatively small DPS loss over the optimal one:

Burst Loop

7. Weapon Swap

Filler Loops

Repeat this loop three times, then return to the Burst Loop

1. or (whichever is available)
5. Weapon Swap
6. ⇒ ⇒ x2

This rotation slightly delays using to make the rotation loop properly. It also does not list mech skills or , which should be used off cooldown but have no cast time. You could set the mech skills to autocast, though this may be less effective than triggering them yourself.

Crowd Control

• : 200 defiance break - 232 to your Focused target
• : 232 defiance break - used for damage in your rotation, but the damage is low so you could hold onto it for CC
• : Not a CC in itself, but it drops a lightning field that you could combo with for 100 defiance break.

Spear Jade Dynamo Rotation

Example Opener

9. Weapon Swap
19. Weapon Swap

• The Jade Dynamo Rotation follows the same principals as the J-Drive rotation above with the addition of Flamethrower skills. All are important damage contributors except for which can be saved for CC.
• As has the same cooldown as , it's helpful to follow up with a switch to each time you use it.
  • Ideally should also be available every time, and you can get two additional uses in between each .
• As with Grenade Kit, it's helpful to look at cooldowns every time you're in so you have an idea of when to enter it next.

Simpler Pistol Rotations

Pistol Jade Dynamo rotation

• Either sigil could be swapped for a 超级地能法印. The sigil is cheaper than 超级渴求法印 and the damage is slightly better than 超级大地法印, but it requires you to be in melee to benefit and variance in your kit swaps can reduce its DPS.
• The recommended setup is practically the same damage as full Viper stats gear.
  • In this case, 大师调谐水晶 would be the stronger utility.

Non-SotO Relics

There are two options for core relics. 荆棘古物 has the highest potential, but it isn't triggered reliably on every encounter. 望族古物 works everywhere, but requires modifying your gear as follows:

• You would want to swap some pieces to Sinister stats such that you reach ~67% base condition duration, with bleeding and burning duration capped.
• It may be recommended to pick an option that offers some utility instead.

The Jade Dynamo rotation (using three kits) is very complicated and essentially boils down to keeping track of priority cooldown skills and switching into kits as necessary to maximise their uses. Downtime between kit swaps are filled with Pistol autos.

To make this manageable, each "kit" you swap to (for these purposes we consider Pistols to also be a kit) has a key skill that we ideally want to swap to and use every time it comes off cooldown, as well as some lower-priority skills that you use if they happen to be off cooldown when you swap. The skills you use in each kit are:

Pistol/Pistol Key skills: 火焰喷射 & 毒镖连射 Other skills: 静电射击

Grenade Kit Key skill: 破片手雷 Other skills: 冰冻手雷 & 毒气手雷

Bomb Kit Key skill: 燃烧弹 Other skill: 电流弹

You may notice that the cooldowns of the key skills (before 敏捷) are 5, 8 and 12 seconds, which do not fit together very neatly. The full rotation then is not going to look very neat, but it can be broken down into a general loop with three sections:

Section 1

Cycle through each kit in turn, using all the skills named above in each. In general, the best order for kits will be

Mechanic

静电射击火焰喷射手雷包毒镖连射炸弹包

毒镖连射 and 燃烧弹 have the same cooldown, so if we make sure to cast 毒镖连射 last on Pistol and 燃烧弹 first in 炸弹包 then we can know that we only need to go into 炸弹包 immediately after using 毒镖连射.

After 炸弹包, autoattack on Pistol until just before 毒镖连射 then do:

Mechanic

破片手雷毒镖连射燃烧弹

Section 2

Your key Pistol/Pistol should be coming off cooldown now so you can immediately go

may not be available when you swap to , so auto with until it's ready.

After autoattack on Pistol until just before , then:

Section 3

The final section is much like Section 2, but the cooldowns align slightly differently.

This time, when is available do

Autoattack on Pistol until and are on a ~6 second cooldown then quickly swap into and use . Return to Pistol/Pistol after using and start again from Section 1 when and are off cooldown.

Winging It If you find the structure above difficult to follow, you can use your Pistol cooldowns to prompt you to swap kits:

• Every time you use , go into
• has roughly half the cooldown of and , so use it once immediately before or after using these Pistol skills, then again when they are on a ~6 second cooldown.
• Focus on the key skills so as not to delay your rotation.
  • When swapping to kits to use key skills, have a look at the remaining cooldowns on the other skills. If they are ready, then swap back to the kit and use them when you would otherwise just be autoattacking on Pistol.
• Pistol skills should take priority.

General Tips

• Make sure you're within 360 units of your mech before using F1-3 skills, or they will have a 20% longer cooldown thanks to .
• Any of your other Pistol skills will interrupt , so it's best to use it last.
  • You can swap to during the cast without interrupting the skill.
• During the wind-up of , it can be interrupted with . Either make sure not to press too soon, or use first.
• Press all your mech skills off cooldown - you can save for CC if necessary.
• If using , use it off cooldown. It is a very small DPS gain though, so hold on to it if there is any danger that the mech might die.

Mechanist's signets are very strong, which allows them to replace 手雷包 and 精英炮座 if you use the 机甲核心：翠玉驱动器 trait. This also allows you to use 位移纹章 without losing DPS.

See the Condi Boon Support page for this rotation, and use 超导纹章 off cooldown - this should prevent you needing to use 冰冻手雷 outside of the opener.