Amalgam

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"Synchronize!"

Asuran research has led to the creation of a new ooze subspecies, the mercurial mold. When an amalgam is bonded to one of these molds, they can command their mold to take any form - from a blunt weapon to a body-tight shield.

— In-game description

Amalgam is an elite specialization for the engineer unlocked with the Visions of Eternity expansion.

Using specialized mercurial molds, they replace utility toolbelt abilities with morph skills shapeshifted into different forms. Different compositions of the mercurial mold accumulate different strain effects delivered in its Evolve activation. At the same time, use of the mold extends to different stances, allowing the amalgam to transit through a variety of states on the battlefield.

List of amalgam skills

See also: List of engineer skills

Profession mechanic

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The product of asuran science experiments with ooze, the Amalgam shares a symbiotic bond with its subject, melding into various forms to best suit the challenge at hand. Amalgams replace the normal engineer utility abilities with the power to morph. Depending on which form they morph into, the Amalgam has access to a wide variety of boons, buffs, and control effects in combat.

— Promo description

• The amalgam uses a heavily modified tool belt with most slots replaced by skills representing the mercurial mold mechanic:
  • F1 remains a traditional tool belt skill reflecting the equipped healing skill of the character.
  • F2 to F4 become dedicated to a pool of 7 selectable morph skills only available to the amalgam.
    • Each morph skill possesses an activation effect and a strain feature.
  • F5 becomes an Evolve activation. By default, using Evolve will activate all three strain features corresponding to the slotted morph skills.

#	Skill			Description
Tool belt
The F1 slot will reflect the slotted healing skill
F1	Symbiotic Shielding		25	Gain barrier and magnetic aura.
Morph skills
Until a Protocol is selected, the F2 to F4 slots are taken up by this skill.
	Locked			Select a skill using the arrow above.
The F2 to F4 slots may only be filled from the Protocol choices below.
	Defensive Protocol: Protect	10.5½	20	Briefly block incoming attacks.
	Defensive Protocol: Cleanse		20	Convert damaging conditions to barrier and nondamaging conditions to protection.
	Defensive Protocol: Thorns		20	Grow protective spikes, damaging nearby enemies. For a short duration, the spikes react when you are struck, damaging nearby enemies again.
	Offensive Protocol: Pierce	1	20	Thrust forward with a spike, piercing the defense of your foe.
	Offensive Protocol: Obliterate	0.75¾	20	Create a giant blade to maim your enemy. The attack destroys the barrier of enemies hit.
	Offensive Protocol: Shred	1	20	Launch cutting disks at your enemies, piercing enemies in their path. Enemies struck are crippled; if an enemy is struck by all three disks, they are immobilized instead.
	Offensive Protocol: Demolish	10.25¼	20	Spin around a hunk of metal, then finish with a forward smash.
Evolve
F5	Evolve	0.75¾	40	Evolve.

Slot skills

Healing

Skill				Description
Mitotic State		1	20	Stance. Your slime stimulates your cells to regenerate, healing you rapidly over time. The healing is increased while you have barrier.

Utility

Skill				Description
Solid State		0.75¾	25	Stance. Leap into the air as you command your body to compact, stunning enemies upon landing. Gain stability and increase your outgoing stun durations for a duration.
Liquid State		10.5½	20	Stance. Quickly melt down into a puddle, evading all incoming attacks.
Gaseous State			20	Stance. Sublimate, breaking stun from yourself. Remove movement-impairing conditions and prevent their reapplication.
Plasmatic State		0.75¾	25	Stance. Superheat your body and lash out, damaging and burning enemies struck. Your outgoing strike and condition damage is increased for a duration.

Elite

Skill				Description
Flux State		0.75¾	50	Stance. Your slime rapidly spins around you, creating a magnetic field. Pull in nearby enemies as a metallic storm swirls around you.

List of amalgam traits

See also: List of engineer traits

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Experimental Union		Through asuran ingenuity, you are host to a mercurial mold. You are able to command it using selectable morph skills that replace your toolbelt skills or even fully merge with it to evolve into a superior being. Morph skills selected will alter the composition of the mercurial mold, changing the bonuses it grants you when you evolve. Gain access to stance utility skills.
Major Adept	Stainless Steel		Convert conditions to boons when you use a stance skill or evolve.
Major Adept	Innervating Alloy		Heal every second while you have barrier. Heal when you evolve.
Major Adept	Hardened Chrome		Morph skills and evolving grant protection to yourself.
Minor Master	Hybrid Vigor		Gain vitality. Gain barrier when you use a morph skill.
Major Master	Carbolic Composition		Amalgam skills inflict poison on hit. Poison you inflict lasts longer.
Major Master	Mercurial Tendencies	0.25¼	Disabling an enemy reduces the cooldown of Evolve.
Major Master	Silver Lining		Evolve no longer inherits bonuses from strains. Morph skills grant their strain bonuses.
Minor Grandmaster	Willing Host		Using a morph skill increases your damage for a duration.
Major Grandmaster	Symbiotic Synergy		Evolve recharges morph skills. Morph skills deal increased strike damage.
Major Grandmaster	New Genes		Morph skills grants boons to allies. Grant an additional boon based on which morph skill was used.
Major Grandmaster	Double Helix		Evolve has two charges and grants an increased attribute bonus.

Lore

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Asuran scientists have studied, manipulated, transformed, and occasionally displaced oozes at every level of scientific research. Endlessly adaptable, oozes can absorb the properties of substances and living creatures they come into contact with—and a recent breakthrough has allowed them to be used as a powerful tool for both defense and offense.

The mercurial mold is a special species of ooze that can form a symbiotic bond with its owner and interpret their needs in battle. It’s lightweight, responds instantly, requires no special feeding, and—best of all—no fatalities have been reported as a result of the bonding process. Why not give it a try?

— Official website

Gallery

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External links

• The Final Three Elite Specializations: Elementalist, Engineer, Revenant, Guildwars2.com
• Elite Specializations: Evoker, Amalgam, Conduit, YouTube.com
• Elite Specialization Livestream: Evoker, Amalgam, and Conduit | Visions of Eternity, Twitch.com

Trivia

• This specialization is likely a homage to the T-1000 from the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which could similarly bend its shape and body to long blades and blunt weapons as shown in the Amalgam's abilities.
  • In Guild Wars, the G-1000, another homage to the T-1000, was also depicted as an ooze, albeit classified as a golem. It is currently unknown whether a connection exists between the Amalgam's mercurial mold and the G-1000.

References

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