Tinker Demolition is pure ordnance: bombs, rockets, and a wall of Fire and Physical damage that levels everything in its path. Drop your charges, pop your gadgets, and let the fireworks do the work.
Dealing direct Fire damage now applies Napalm to your target. Napalm (Damage): Fire damage taken is increased and healing received is reduced by 3% for 8 seconds, stacking up to 10 times.
The closest retail analog is Survival Hunter, but fully ranged instead of melee. The class fantasy is identical: you live and die by explosives — Sticky Bomb and Bomb Toss are your Wildfire Bomb, Oil-Spill Pylon is your Flare/Tar Trap, and Napalm stacking into empowered drones and shots mirrors Survival's bleed-and-bomb proc chains; the 'damage to a Sticky-Bombed target detonates extra mines and amplifies the explosion' engine (Gazlowe's Wisdom, I Need More Explosions!) is mechanically the same idea as Survival's bomb chains. It diverges by dropping melee entirely — everything is gun- and gadget-based — and bolting on a thin raid support layer (The BIG Guns! attack-power buff, Bomb Toss' armor shred) that Survival doesn't have, landing on Survival's bomb identity crossed with a ranged deployable-summoner, minus any equivalent to Survival's melee mobility.
The core loop — Scrap Shot building Napalm, Sticky Bomb triggering the explosion — is quick to pick up, but the real difficulty is timing your Sticky Bomb tag against the incoming damage spike on a pack while managing Firepot Drone and Spider Bomb charge economy without burning them empty.
Solo/duo: Bomb Toss and Scrap Shot as ranged filler while Sticky Bomb/Spider Bomb (boosted by Target Acquired) burst single targets down fast, with Med Pack as the only self-heal for downtime between pulls.
Group role: heavy AoE burst (Firepot Drone, Oil-Spill Pylon, Hyperblast Barrage) plus a party attack-power buff (The BIG Guns!) and turret-scaling synergy (Rocket Bombardment, Rocket Turrets) that boosts the whole raid's Sentry Turret uptime.
- Core loop — firearms, mechs, and nanobots, all powered by a barrage of bombs and rockets.
- Signature (Napalm): Dealing direct Fire damage now applies Napalm to your target. Napalm (Damage): Fire damage taken is increased and healing received reduced by 3% for 8 seconds, stacking up to 10 times.
Your damage rides ranged spells and projectiles (Bomb Toss, Rocket Launcher, Spider Bomb) that need to land first, so Hit comes first. Critical Strike and Haste come next since they directly feed your loop — Boom Hour, Buster Scope, and Short Fuse all scale off crit, and Explosives Expert refunds mana on every direct crit from you or your summons. Agility and Attack/Spell Power sit at the base, since your damage blends physical scaling (bombs, rockets) with Fire scaling (Napalm, drones).
- Delayed but massive AoE — seeding a stacked pack with Sticky Bomb and feeding it Bomb Toss, Scrap Shot, and Firepot Drones detonates every Gazlowe's Wisdom mine and amplifies Sticky Bomb Explosions across the whole cluster for a fight-ending alpha strike.
- Bomb Toss stacks a heavy armor shred on the target, softening it for your own Fire burst and your allies' physical damage, while feeding passives (Bombastic, Bomber Man) that reset itself and shorten Sticky Bomb's cooldown.
- Strong deployable pressure and range control — Firepot Drones, Spider Bomb Factory, and Oil-Spill Pylon's slow-and-soften zone let you dictate engagement range and keep dealing damage without ever meleeing.
- No anti-CC in the spec line itself — the answers are all class-kit picks (Kinetic Shield for stun immunity, Rocket Boots for root dispel, Build: Alarm Beacon for fear/charm/sleep) — so there's still no true trinket-equivalent, and reaching that floor costs Essence picks.
- Thin in-combat escapes — Combat Dash ends the moment you deal direct damage, so you can't fight and kite through it, and the stronger outs (Rocket Boots, Kinetic Shield) are class-kit picks — without them, a hard focus that reaches you sticks.
- Self-healing is borrowed from the shared Tinker kit and costs you damage — Repair Shot, Med Pack, and Nanobot Reconstruction are all GCDs not spent on your explosion engine, the strongest panic heals live over in the Invention branch, and there is still no battle-rez.
Demanding to play well — you need to track Napalm stacks, Firepot Drone charges, and your Sticky Bomb window, or you're leaving damage on the table.
Strong skill expression — optimizing your stack/combo economy.
See also: the Ascension CoA builds hub · the Ascension talent builder
Talent data: ascension.gg
· Spec tiers & analysis: ascensionsidekick.com
Editorial rewrite, interactive talent tree, tooltips and fact-checking: KAMI LABS
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