GW2. WvW Build. Celestial Mechanist WvW Roaming Build. Engineer WvW. Small Scale WvW Build.
Role: Bruiser 
Preferred Group Size: 1-5
The Celestial Mechanist is a WvW Roaming Engineer build with high sustain to keep itself and the Jade Mech alive due to the healing power and high uptime of regeneration from the Inventions/Relic of Rivers and passive healing from the signet heal.
The spear and grenade kit have great hybrid damage that scales well with might you gain from barrier application, and when you dodge you gain Alacrity, Resistance, and Regeneration, Explosive Entrance, and all boons get sent to your mech due to the Shift Signet passive.
Generally, you want to use the Spear skills off cooldown because they do great damage, then fill in the gaps of cooldowns with Grenade kit. The Spear 3-second activation takes some time to enable, but it allows a ranged immobilize which can help you land your more important Spear 2/5 or Grenade 2/5 skills for damage.
Skill Combo
- Spear 3 > 2 > 4 > 5 > 3 > Swap to Grenade Kit > 254
Save your Overclock Signet to revive your Mech in risky situations or activate it for extra burning damage when you want fights to end faster.
Grenade Tips:
Set up your Ground Targeting option as “Instant” enable “Skill Retargeting” and practice aiming with your Grenade Kit while moving for better accuracy. This drastically improves your damage output while under pressure or kiting. If you still have issues to land grenades you can try using the option “Snap Ground Target to Current Target” and the grenades will go to your target as long you are in range, just make sure to detarget before using any other AoE like if you want to throw an elixir at your location. You can see a tutorial on this at the start of this video: Click!
| Item | Stat | Rune / Sigil |
|---|---|---|
| Helm Celestial | ||
| Shoulders Celestial | ||
| Coat Celestial | ||
| Gloves Celestial | ||
| Leggings Celestial | ||
| Boots Celestial |
| Spear Celestial |
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Alternatives
- Weapon: Mace/Shield or Pistol/Shield can replace Spear
| Spear | Heal / Utility / Elite |
| Grenade Kit | |
Alternatives
- Explosives: for extra Fury
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16 Comments
Rune alternative?
sanctuary, earth, krait, divinity
Is it worth to use pack runes instead of durability?
You can yes
any chance someone could tell me the traits and skills for the tools version ? gw2 api is down for long time . runes and sigils also
Does Relic of the Water proc on the passive heal of the signet? Or is it only when you activate it? Is the reason for taking it simply to add another cleansing source? I’m not sure I see the synergy, but it seems to be working well in practice.
It does cleanse when you active use the healing, it is just for another cleanse source.
Following the advent of spear, would a spear work a bit more favorably on this build than Mace/shield if I wanted to play a bit more aggressively?
Do we have an alternative for the spear (don’t have the expansion yet)?
Btw, thank you for all your great work.
Mace Shield
I was under the impression Automated medical response didn’t work on Mechanist since they don’t have a healing toolbelt skill?
It does work
any altrenative to cele armor
perhaps half cele and half soemting else
For celestial to be impactful needs to be full celestial, otherwise find another build.
Is a similar build possible using mortar?
You can use Mortar yes.