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Revision as of 13:48, 6 July 2022

This is a test build. You may comment and rate it.

Focused on: Direct damageCondition damage and Sustain

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required: End of Dragons builds

Difficulty:
TBD

Overview

A 1v1 Virtuoso build that deals unblockable burst damage, has good sustain through blocks and heals. This build is a capable sidenoder with potential to add ranged damage to teamfights. Comes with both power and condi variant.

Skill Bar

Scepter/Pistol
Sword/Focus
Utility

Traits

Variants

  • for Condi variant
  • for variant


Equipment

Scepter
Pistol
Sigil
Sigil
Sword
Focus
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
Amulet

With this gear you will have 70% crit chance, and 100% crit chance thanks to when you have fury from .

Variants

Condi variant - Higher toughness, focuses on damage through confusion stacking via

Zerker amulet variant - More damage, but less survivability

Usage

Blade Generation

  • Make sure to make good use of your blocks from , and Aegis from to generate blades and make your and unblockable via .


Burst Combos

  • Sword/Focus burst combo:
    • -> -> OR ->
  • Scepter/Pistol burst combo:
    • -> OR -> ->
  • In both cases the point is to get quickness through to speed up your Bladesong casts and following up with CC from either or to ensure the Bladesongs land.
  • Note that the gives 20% attack speed increase on ALL skills while you are in your Scepter/Pistol set! That includes your , or your . This bonus does not stack with Quickness though, but is still very nice.


  • In case of the Condi variant, you don't get quickness from Phantasms, so you can skip them and go straight into Bladesongs + CC combination
  • You may also land these combos without Phantasms in either variant with the quickness gained from after successful block/dodge.
  • can also be used to land your OR from stealth.


Sustain and Defense

  • The primary sustain of this build comes through the looping synergy:
    • Blocks/dodges stock up blades thanks to -> which heals through and allows casting Bladesongs -> Bladesongs heal and condi cleanse via and give aegis thanks to -> enabling block and continuing the loop.
  • It is important to maintain tempo by constantly blocking -> stocking up blades -> firing Bladesongs to heal and enable more blocks.
  • Your main defensive cooldowns are and .
    • heals you thanks to and is safe from unblockables.
    • gives you boons and blades back on succesful block thanks to . Keep in mind that the block duration doesn't scale with blades, so you can use it with any number of blades.
  • and are your stunbreaks and oh shit buttons.

Counters

  • Power Bladesworn is a direct counter matchup for this build. attacks with cannot be blocked, blinded and they stun you while doing lot of damage. The main options are to evade by dodge rolling or by distortion from or .
  • Projectile Destruction/Reflects - , , , etc. Blades that are made unblockable thanks to will not be destroyed/reflected/blocked, but blades generated from skills such as , , , , will be not unblockable!
    • Due to a bug, the blades from will not be unblockable when traited with .


Media


Ratings

This build has a rating of 3 stars based on 1 votes.
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3 stars
MadTavish gave this build 3 stars • July 2022
This build attempts to play more sustained dueling role by utilizing the synergy between Inspiration and Virtuoso traits, however like most Virtuoso builds it suffers from the need to get hit often enough to generate its sustain and offense, but not too often as not to die. The damage is passable if one can shatter on CD, the unblockable property really helps when dealing with Willbender, Untamed and Vindicator blocks. However, lack of instant CC or domination trait line for boonstrip, as well as more easily avoided burst from bladesongs make this build struggle to perform better than Chaos Staff Mirage in the duelling/sidenode role.

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