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Condi Holosmith is not viable (it's not even "passable") because the amount of burning it puts out is quite low. Heat Management is the biggest penalty for screwing up among all rotations. Please check out this video for more information. The Tools Holosmith takes advantage of the interaction between the vigor and damage modifiers of the tools trait line and the damage modifiers and dodge synergy of the explosives trait line. Where is this idea that Holosmith sucks even coming from? GW2. The spec is stupid strong in PvP and parses above average in PvE, yet this weird meme persists. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, gw2tools.gitlab.io lead | MehWhatever.1248. Mastery of this build will take considerable time due to management of the mechanic. Strong, ;ong lasting Burn field from prime light i find superior to mortar kit abilities. Power Holosmith is fairly beginner friendly due to it's simple rotation. Harry edit: clarity.
That said, the same guy has been refining his benching at least.
Heal Renegade.
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Welcome to the Builds Archive. Take damage if you overheat. The Official API is experiencing issues; skill, trait and item data cannot be loaded at the moment. So, I've been wondering...where have others had success with their Holosmiths? © 2010-2020 ArenaNet, Inc. and NC Interactive, Inc. All rights reserved. We keep the orphan builds together and salute the veteran builds that held a position in the good, great, or meta categories. With an easier rotation to boot. If you can't even compete with condi engi damage, let alone power dragonhunter damage while being a selfish specialization that doesn't have much room to offer any meaningful support / boons / etc to allies, well... why should I play holosmith, where the risk isn't properly rewarded? Click on the boss icons to go to the raid guide!
Like many, I was pretty psyched for the Holosmith. Here's a link to someone recently pulling 35.3k dps on the golem with realistic buffs for raids. I can also solo elites and a couple champs. Help me find my Holo's niche! More Hard CC than traditional condi engi. ... Each vertical trait line in the Holosmith fits a theme (other elite specializations tend to theme traits across horizontal lines).
Tools Holosmith Roaming Build. Upgrade to premium membership and take advantage of all the premium benefits, including complete ad removal across the entire website, starting from only $1.99!Upgrade. Welcome to /r/GuildWars2 where we strive to be a place where you can share your Guild Wars 2 experiences and partake in discussions with players from around the world. No one likes ads, we know that, but this website is made possible by displaying ads. In a raid, I kept up with the other dps's even when taking utility (ram for more cc) over grenade kit. Cookies help us deliver our Services. The Engineer’s effectiveness as a class depends almost entirely on the player. From parsing my own raid logs I find 10 permanent condis to be unrealistic in a real raid so I can't objectively say those numbers are legit. Maybe raids down the line but for now I just want to optimize a build to roam the desert.
Heat mechanics should at least exist on every equippable weapon, and the spec should give you off-hand sword or off-hand dagger skills that are focused on power damage, since they're obviously willing to give another elite spec two 1Her unlocks. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, [TTS][Chef] Condi Weaver, Renegade, FB, and PChrono. This page was last edited on 15 July 2018, at 20:26. It should absolutely be dealing a lot more damage than vanilla condi engineer. Focused on: Condition damage, Control, Utility.
Not only that, but if you use a raid build with the trait where you purposefully blow yourself up, you're constantly pushing yourself out of the health range for Scholar runes. Power Holosmith is fairly beginner friendly due to it's simple rotation.
The build benefits from slaying potions such as Powerful Potion of Slaying Scarlet's Armies and. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. A power DPS Holosmith build for fractals and raids. Dodge to dissipate heat and proc vent exhaust. Since 2012 we are providing the Guild Wars 2 community with our website and our build editor, and we hope that you are satisfied with the quality of our resource.
Generate heat while Photon Forge is active. See the ones that gathered dust, were orphaned by their original writers, or became obsolete by balance patches. This build is heavily reliant on critical hits, due to its high Power. Guides.
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Wvw roaming it's better than scrapper imo because it fits better for offencive build. Not bad, exactly, but definitely a victim of power creep that is simply outclassed by other professions - especially by the other PoF elite specs. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. A detailed guide on the Soulbeast in Guild Wars 2.
Rotation Is priority based. Please check out this video for more information. A build that deals massive amounts of flat damage, with some of the highest power coefficients in the game letting it deal upwards of 20,000 with single blows reliably. Holo is really not that good in anything outside solo exploring. I'd give it another look. Overview Variant of Engineer - DPS Condition.
Renegade. Higher burst via Photon forge skills and access to more hard cc with Prime light beam and holo shockwave. Holosmith has a, I'd say, respectable dps amount atm for raids. When playing with Sword, you need to take: Axias Healing Turret/Grenades/Flamethrower/Bombs/Prime Light Beam. The 6sec kit cooldown is a big tax, the heat management is also a tax of sorts and the end product isn't up to par. With Strenth runes I get to 25 might easily and the stability lets me just dps through most attacks. Power Holosmith. Everything else I can take out in groups of five to ten if I am careful. Condi kicks ass right now. Power Dragonhunter. The only things I have issues with are the harpies. Mechanically it feels alright but in numbers it's nothing to write home about. Spvp? This class scales heavily with the amount of conditions applied to the boss and also the duration of the fight. Condition Holosmith build comparable and possibly superior to traditional condi engi.