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Power Holosmith

Guild Wars 2 Power Holosmith - Sword & Shield / Pistol Meta build for open-world: complete guide with gear, runes, relics, traits, and rotation tips.

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Power Holosmith is a burst-focused Open World build that leverages Heat for high strike damage and mobility, offering strong DPS and reliable sustain for farming.

Overview

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Pros
Cons
Attributes
  • High damage
  • Good mobility
  • Plenty of CC
  • Provides self boons
  • Strong bursts
  • Lots of cleave
  • High mastery curve
  • Relies on resource management
  • Relies on enemy conditions
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Equipment

Traits & Skills

Traits

Skills

自动除颤 图标自动除颤 can be replaced when needed:

  • 冷却爆破 图标冷却爆破 provides a lot of Healing when above 50 Heat
  • 治疗炮台 图标治疗炮台 provides a moderate Heal, Regeneration and Condition Removal
  • 医疗包 图标医疗包 provides a large amount of utility through Healing, Condition Removal, Swiftness, Vigor and Regeneration.

光子墙 图标光子墙 can be replaced when needed:

巅峰射线 图标巅峰射线 can be replaced when needed:

  • 精英炮座 图标精英炮座 provides Ranged Damage with Chill, Blind and Healing
  • 空投补给 图标空投补给 provides a Blast Finisher, Stuns enemies and can provide as a distraction.

速燃引线 图标速燃引线 can be taken if you are lacking Fury.

超级冲击法印 图标超级冲击法印 can be taken instead of 超级嗜血法印 图标超级嗜血法印.

Rifle can be taken to provide more Ranged Damage.

Hammer can be taken instead of Pistol off hand if you have access to Secrets of the Obscure (SotO).

  • Hammer offers slightly lower Damage and reduce utility. You provide similar levels of Defiance Break as with the other set.

海盗女王古物 图标海盗女王古物 can be replaced when needed:

Janthir Wilds Relics:

Secrets of the Obscure Relics:

Core Game Relics:

  • 雄鹰古物 图标雄鹰古物 flat 10% Damage to enemies under 50% Health
  • 潜行者古物 图标潜行者古物 is an easy to maintain Damage buff.
  • 流水古物 图标流水古物 grants Condition Removal when you use your Heal skill.
  • 骑兵古物 图标骑兵古物 grants you Aegis, Quickness, Swiftness, Resistance and Might when you hit an enemy with your mount engage skill. (Hint: the Skyscale engage skill will leave a pulsing field that will give boons on every strike!).

Rotation & Extras

Key Concepts

Your Damage is heavily related to your Heat and your 手雷包 图标手雷包. Keep your Heat high but make sure you do not 过热 图标过热. It's quite inconvenient.

激光利刃 图标激光利刃 is your Damage from Heat trait. 强化储存单元 图标强化储存单元 further synergizes with this by granting you Might.

Whenever you use 停止光子熔炉 图标停止光子熔炉, you will passively lose Heat.

Dealing Damage

The core "burst" rotation inside 启用光子熔炉 图标启用光子熔炉 looks like this:

  1. 电晕爆炸 图标电晕爆炸
  2. 光子闪击 图标光子闪击
  3. 光子墙 图标光子墙手雷弹幕 图标手雷弹幕发射光子墙 图标发射光子墙 Complete up to two Auto Chains, but avoid 过热 图标过热 at all costs.
  4. 电晕爆炸 图标电晕爆炸
  5. 停止光子熔炉 图标停止光子熔炉

The note on step three is very, very important. Do not 过热 图标过热.

Once you've done your burst and used 停止光子熔炉 图标停止光子熔炉, you will need to wait for your Heat to decrease. At around 80 Heat, you can consider using 启用光子熔炉 图标启用光子熔炉 to restart.

Make sure to use the following big Damage skills off Cooldown:

Use 激光碟片 图标激光碟片 and 巅峰射线 图标巅峰射线 should be used off Cooldown when at high Heat.

Keep in mind that 巅峰射线 图标巅峰射线 is a priority skill and will cancel most other skills.

Your Auto Chain, due to 闪光马刀 图标闪光马刀, reduces the Cooldown of your other Sword skills.

The following combo provides decent Damage and Blocks / Reflects Missiles:

If you can, pair 破片手雷 图标破片手雷 with 毒气手雷 图标毒气手雷冰冻手雷 图标冰冻手雷

Use 手雷包 图标手雷包 to tag mobs to make sure you steal all the precious loot.

There are a few traits you need to know about to maximise your Damage:

  • 钢片炸药 图标钢片炸药 causes your 手雷包 图标手雷包 skills to inflict Vulnerability.
  • 优质枪械 图标优质枪械 provides you with 15% additional Critical Chance if you are within the Range threshold. Pay attention!
  • 流血追击 图标流血追击 provides you with 15% additional Critical Chance against Bleeding enemies.
  • 弹药改装 图标弹药改装 increases Damage based on the number of conditions on your target. 手雷包 图标手雷包 has many useful conditions tucked away inside.

Burst Rotation

Preheat to 100 Heat.

  1. 破片手雷 图标破片手雷
  2. 启用光子熔炉 图标启用光子熔炉
  3. 电晕爆炸 图标电晕爆炸
  4. 剑刃爆发 图标剑刃爆发 + 粒子加速器 图标粒子加速器
  5. 光子墙 图标光子墙手雷弹幕 图标手雷弹幕发射光子墙 图标发射光子墙
  6. 激光碟片 图标激光碟片光子闪击 图标光子闪击巅峰射线 图标巅峰射线
  7. 电晕爆炸 图标电晕爆炸
  8. 停止光子熔炉 图标停止光子熔炉

Defense

自动除颤 图标自动除颤 is your last defense. Once used, it lasts for five seconds and will Heal you a large amount if you take lethal Damage during this time. It will also act as a Condition Removal for any damaging conditions.

Your Shield has great defensive capabilities:

闪光手雷 图标闪光手雷 can be used to Blind foes.

Crowd Control

SkillDefiance BreakSource
全息震波 图标全息震波232启用光子熔炉 图标启用光子熔炉
地磁护盾 图标地磁护盾磁力反转 图标磁力反转150Shield
静电护盾 图标静电护盾投掷盾牌 图标投掷盾牌100 per hit → 100Shield
静电冲击 图标静电冲击200Toolbelt
巅峰射线 图标巅峰射线232Elite
投掷地雷 图标投掷地雷引爆地雷 图标引爆地雷200Alternate Utility
小型冲锤 图标小型冲锤232Alternate Utility
发射冲锤 图标发射冲锤100Alternate Utility Toolbelt
棱镜奇点 图标棱镜奇点150Alternate Utility Toolbelt