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Holosmith - Overheat Holo

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Focused on: Power damageBurst damage and Mobility

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns buildsJanthir Wilds builds

Difficulty:
Hard
This build was last updated on July 22, 2025.

Overview

Overheat Holo is a high burst damage roaming PvP build with plentiful access to Stealth Stealth. Use Photonic Blasting Module to make holo go BOOM.


Skill Bar

Spear
Utility
Elixir Gun
Bomb Kit
Elite Mortar Kit


Skill Variants

Weapon

  • Sword Sword & Pistol Pistol - Viable alternative for players without JW.


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Specializations


Equipment

Spear
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
Amulet
Relic


Equipment Variants

Rune

  • Rune of Scholar - For maximum overheat damage.
  • Rune of Resistance - Anti-condition option.

Sigil

  • Sigil of Intelligence - Good synergy with overheat.


Usage

This build is for roaming, 1v1 combaat and can withstand outnumbered fights though effective kiting. It thirives in melee engagements but also offers ranged options, providing versatility in playstyle. While its healing is relatively weak, it compensates with Elixir S & various other Stealth Stealth options, making it notably harder to kill.

How to Play

Use overheat(Photonic Blasting Module) to go BOOM. If you do this from Stealth Stealth nobody can see the BOOM coming.

Once you trigger Photonic Blasting Module, Engage Photon Forge is left on a 20 second cooldown. In that time you can keep up the damage using Spear Spear, Elixir Gun and Bomb.

A critical part of your sustain is also Stealth Stealth, you are able to exit combat or confrontation and re-sustain with ease.

Stealth Stealth Sources:

  • Smoke Bomb (engineer) - Your main source. Short CD but high duration potential.
  • Toss Elixir S - Your quick and easy access. Use when you don't have the time to cast Smoke Bomb (engineer).
  • Supply Crate(Smoke Screen (engineer)) - To trigger the smoke field use any skill while holding target on enemies within range of the turrets. Do this as soon as the Flame Turret spawns in. After the Cleansing Burst water field vanishes, you with have 4 seconds to use the Smoke Screen (engineer) to Stealth Stealth as much as needed. By using instant ground targeting you can make the crate and stun appear in different locations making the stun invisible.

Finishers:

  • Coolant Blast
  • Acid Bomb
  • Conduit Surge
  • Holo Leap
  • Holographic Shockwave
  • Devastator
  • Big Ol' Bomb
  • Photonic Blasting Module

Elite Mortar Kit

This kit is your secondary source of healing but also provides some powerful utilities.

  • Elixir Shell is the main reason you need this kit. Using the waterfield in combination with your various finishers provides you with the opitunity to heal when Coolant Blast alone isn't enough.
  • Flash Shell is your 2nd most important skill on the kit. Being a blind pulsing every second, it has the potential to negate massive amounts of damage.
  • Endothermic Shell similar to Box of Nails use this to slow enemies chasing you, making kiting much easier.
  • Poison Gas Shell use this on downed bodies to slow revives and make posion effectively uncleansable.
  • Mortar Shot high damage high range auto attack.


Ratings

This build has a rating of 2 stars based on 1 votes.
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2 stars
VeganBZ gave this build 2 stars • July 2025
There have been a few overheat holo builds over the years and this one is nothing special. Minimal trait synergy, low overheat numbers, poor choice of weapon, eh choice of rune, and a next to useless Relic. You are infinitely better off running Tools/Elixirs, even Inventions/Elixirs - Elixir H, S, Bomb Kit and the freshly buffed Elixir B to top them all off. For weapons, sword/shield has better burst, sustained damage and defense without sacrificing finishers - not that the buffed Bomb Kit really needs them. Spear's only good skill is 5 while sword/shield's skills are all good. Lastly, Relic of the Sunless is debatably the go-to relic here as the build is focused on extreme windows of burst, and Bomb Kit's new Magnetic Bomb helps to set the ability up for a last push of burst damage. It essentially acts as a second, weaker overheat. For ults, Mortar Kit's lack of a cooldown & frost field have been a good match for this version of the build, but Elixir X or Supply Drop probably work fine too for the sake of Sunless. Hitting Lich Form with Elixir X can cheese fights hard, but the other forms aren't bad either. TL;DR there are many better ways to build overheat holo, especially after the recent engi buffs. Overheat is and will be a "meme" build until anet removes the dodge button, but that doesn't mean it's unplayable (or unfun).

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