GW2. Best Open World Build. Celestial Mechanist. Engineer PvE.
Last Update: April 2024
This Mechanist build focuses on gaining plenty of might and sharing it with your Mech while having plenty of survivability. You can change a few traits to provide Alacrity to allies in group events if you need.
Skill Priority:
- Superconducting Signet
- Mech abilities F1/F2
- Mace 2/3/Pistol 4
- Spam Grenade Kit 2/4/5
- Mace 1 or Grenade 1
NOTE: If using Shortbow as alternative, prioritize the order of chain skills as 4/2/3/5.
Grenade Tips:
Setup your Ground Targeting option as “Instant” as well as enabling “Skill Retargeting” and practice aiming with your Grenade Kit while moving for better accuracy. This improves your damage output while under pressure or kiting drastically. 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!
Equipment
| Item | Stat | Rune / Sigil |
|---|---|---|
| Helm Celestial | ||
| Shoulders Celestial | ||
| Coat Celestial | ||
| Gloves Celestial | ||
| Leggings Celestial | ||
| Boots Celestial |
Primary Weapon Set
| Mace Celestial | ||
| Pistol Celestial |
Optional Weapon Set
| Shorbow Celestial |
|
| Item | Stat |
|---|---|
| Amulet Celestial | |
| Ring Celestial | |
| Ring Celestial | |
| Accessory Celestial | |
| Accessory Celestial | |
| Backpiece Celestial |
Relic
Consumables
Infusions
| Optional x18 |
Alternatives
- Jade Bot Core: for extra vitality
- Rune: for more damage
- Rune: if cannot get Leadership
Skills
| Mace / Pistol | Heal / Utility / Elite |
| Shortbow | Grenade Kit |
Traits
Alternatives
- Mechanist: for Alacrity from barrier
- Mechanist: for more Alacrity uptime in group situations
Build Template
Chat Code: (copy/paste into in-game chat)
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Full Video Guide:
Credit to Vallun for the video.Shortbow Alternative Gameplay:
I feel like this build is pretty squishy with all Zerker, even with the Golem and Mech I feel like I’m running for my life most of the time annd going down quickly when soloing harder Elites and stuff. I don’t think this is quite the sweet spot for a solo open world build.
You can always adapt the build to your needs, if you feel squishy then you take some pieces with toughness, thats how it works.
Isn’t the idea behind the playstyle for this particular build to have the mobs on your rune golem, while your mech unloads, and you go through your rotation?
Hey, great guide! 😀 It feels nice to play a berserker build and to be able to dish out great damage while still keeping a safe distance from the enemy. But I still have one question: What ability should I use while waiting for my cooldowns, should I spam rifle 1 or exclusively camp grenade kit and spam grenade kit 1 while limiting my rifle use to the 2-5 skills?
Rifle 1 does less damage than grenades, but is more reliable. Generally use all of your 2-5 on grenades and then stick to rifle, but keep using the grenade auto attack if you need to kite while attacking.
I played 4 variations of Mech pve builds:
Solo Survival Celestial, Sanctuary Runes Alac Flamethrower
Group Ritualist, Alac (Mace/Pistol) (Might change to healing instead of condi dps)
Condi DPS, Viper with Explosions
This build
I found this Build to be very, very squishy and 1/2 of the dps of the Condi build and it is also a little bit harder since grenades are not auto attack (and are slow without Grenade Barrage).
What really turned me off for the rifle is that the most damaging skills require you to be close to the target.
Did you just cherry pick the weaknesses of the build without affording its advantages? It has range unlike the condi viper build which means you can be much safer positioning. If you want to auto attack in melee range, then yes this build is bad. However, if you want to easily hit targets from range, this one works best in my opinion.
Why is the power wrench trait taken in this assembly? It reduces the cooldown of skills in a “tool kit” that is not used in this build.
The trait not only does that, it also reduces the cooldown of the elite skill when you dodge, I know sometimes the tooltips are confusing but read them paying attention to understand the synergy. The other options in the slot aren’t worth anyway.
A friend of mine started few weeks ago and just used his Lv80 booster and received a full Celestial gear. Are the Traveler runes a good alternative or what Boon Duration would you recommend to use until he got Leadership?
the movement speed would be wasted, try krait or elementalist runes for now unless you really wanted more boon duration then traveler is fine
I bought him Elementalist runes because he reach 100% burning & bleeding duration anyways and the build turns out to be pretty solid. Thanks for the advice buddy, have a great day!
Is there an actual link to the build used in the celestial mechanist video? It just points back here even though its a different build.
It is the same build
Can you go pistol+pistol or do you lose much dps/surviability by going that?
You can