Troubadour - Quickness Support Power DPS

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Focused on: Direct damage, Support and Utility

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on November 09, 2025.

Overview

Power Quickness Troubadour plays pretty similarly to Chronomancer, with the notable advantage that it easily provides 25 Might and permanent Fury in addition to Quickness.

Skill Bar

Dagger/Sword

Spear

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Sword is the best mainhand weapon for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure.
• Greatsword is the best replacement for Spear for players that don't own Janthir Wilds. This also makes the build fully ranged (assuming Dagger mainhand), which could have niche use.
• Taking both Greatsword and Spear is also an option. It deals around the same damage as Dagger/Greatsword, but has higher boon generation as both phantasms trigger your boon trait twice.
• Offhand Sword can be replaced by a Shield for tanking and extra boons, or Focus if you need Temporal Curtain to pull adds into the boss.

Skill Variants

Heal

The choice of heal skill is free, as Signet of the Ether is a DPS loss to cast, and you don't rely on phantasm casts for boons.

Utility

You don't want to swap out either of your Tale skills, as Tale of the Soulkeeper is essential for boons, and Tale of the Tortured Mastermind helps with Relic of the Claw uptime. Both skills additionally generate extra notes.

You can easily replace Mantra of Pain, depending on whether utility or DPS is more important.

• Feedback provides a long-duration reflect.
• Mantra of Concentration provides Stability to your group.
• Mantra of Distraction for encounters that require heavy CC.
• Signet of Domination offers more CC than Mantra of Distraction but on a longer cooldown, which may be more suitable for some encounters.
• Portal Entre if you need a portal.
• Mimic allows you to get a second use out of a key skill if you'll need it more often than the cooldown. Often used together with Portal Entre.

Elite

• Time Warp if you have doubts about your Quickness uptime.
• Signet of Humility for CC.

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• Use Bountiful Blades when running Greatsword.

Equipment

This uses the same gear as virtuoso/chronomancer for convenience.

With four instruments playing, this is sufficient to reach 100% crit chance. This should be the case for most of the rotation, but there are sections where there are only three, and if you make mistakes this is likely to occur more frequently. If you want to optimise around only three instruments, you can run full Berserker stats gear, and Rune of Superior Rune of the Pack.

While you can technically maintain Quickness without any boon duration, in practise you want some. Easy options are:

• Replace Sigil of Superior Sigil of Force with Sigil of Superior Sigil of Concentration
• Rune of Superior Rune of Fireworks
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Pack with the setup mentioned above.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Assassin

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Dagger
Berserker

Sword
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Spear
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x14

Infusion
x4

Relic

Consumables

Food

• , or ascended alternatives

Utility

• or alternatives

Usage

Notes

• Sword is the default offhand weapon because it deals the most damage. But Focus is still very good with Temporal Curtain ⇒ Into the Void to pull adds onto the boss.
• Blurred Frenzy (mainhand Sword), Illusionary Riposte (offhand Sword), and Imaginary Inversion (Spear) can be used to avoid incoming damage with less of a DPS loss than dodging.

Note Sources

The following skills summons clones:

• Bladecall (mainhand Dagger) summons a clone next to you.
• Illusionary Leap (mainhand Sword) summons a clone on your target.
• Illusionary Riposte (offhand Sword) summons a clone on your target if you successfully block.
• Mind the Gap (Spear) summons a clone next to you.
• Mirror Blade (Greatsword) summons a clone on your target when the projectile hits.

The following skills summon phantasms than later become clones:

• Phantasmal Swordsman (offhand Sword)
• Phantasmal Lancer (Spear) - two phantasms are summoned if empowered with Clarity)
• Phantasmal Warden (Focus)
• Phantasmal Berserker (Greatsword) - two phantamss are summoned with Bountiful Blades

Crowd Control

• Deafening Drum - daze.
• Mental Collapse - stuns if used with Clarity, but generally you won't want to do so.
• Illusionary Riposte ⇒ Counterblade - daze.
• Temporal Curtain ⇒ Into the Void - pull (focus only).
• Tides of Time - stun (shield only).
• Illusionary Wave - Knockback.
• Tale of the Tortured Mastermind.
• Signet of Humility - daze.

If you need more CC remember you can take Signet of Humility, Mantra of Distraction, or Signet of Domination.