Mechanical Genius (effect)

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Your mech is currently gaining the full effect of Mechanical Genius.

— In-game description

Related traits[edit]

Mechanical Genius (Mechanist) — Through your mechanical genius, you have utilized Canthan jade technology to build a customized battle mech that will fight at your side. Your mech inherits a percentage of all of your combat attributes except precision, which is added to its own. Your tool belt skills are replaced with Mech Commands, customized by your trait choices. Mech Commands take longer to recharge when using them far away from your mech. Gain access to signet utility skills.

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	Reduced the recharge penalty for Mech Command skills when far away from the mech from 50% to 20%.
November 28, 2023	For a short period of time, the effect will remain active even after the mech moves out of range of the engineer.
June 27, 2023	Instead of the mech incurring a stat-reduction penalty, command skills now take longer to recharge if activated while the mech is farther than a range of 360 away from the engineer.
February 14, 2023	Increased duration of the boon applied by Mechanical Genius from 6 seconds to 10 seconds.
November 29, 2022	Mechanical Genius has been added to the game. Combat attribute bonuses to the mech are now reduced by 50% if the engineer is more than a range of 360 away from the mech for a certain amount of time.