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Virtuoso - Condi DPS

Part of the current metagame

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Hybrid damage

Designed for: Fractals and Raids

Expansions required: End of Dragons builds

Difficulty:
Easy
This build was last updated on December 31, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Condition Virtuoso is a powerful ranged condition DPS build with innate sustain.

This build inflicts enormous amounts of Bleeding Bleeding damage through critical hits while generating lots of Blades to use Bladesongs essentially off cooldown. It is quite simple, yet effective, but very dependent on having the right gear.


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Skill Bar

Dagger/Sword
Dagger/Focus
Utility


Weapon Variants

  • Phantasmal Warden attacks randomly any target at range. If there are many adds, it might be better to use pistol.


Skill Variants

Utility


Elite


Specializations


Equipment

Head
Rampager
Shoulders
Sinister
Chest
Rampager
Hands
Sinister
Legs
Viper
Feet
Sinister
Backpiece
Rampager
Accessory
Sinister
Accessory
Rampager
Amulet
Sinister
Ring
Sinister
Ring
Sinister
Dagger
Sinister
Sword
Sinister
Sigil
Sigil
Focus
Sinister
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
Relic


Optimal Gear

The following gear allows you to benefit from ascended buffs, and will be slightly more DPS if the lifesteal version is used. This does provide 45 additional toughness though, which may interfere with tanking.

Head
Rampager
Shoulders
Sinister
Chest
Rampager
Hands
Sinister
Legs
Rampager
Feet
Sinister
Backpiece
Rampager
Accessory
Sinister
Accessory
Sinister
Amulet
Sinister
Ring
Sinister
Ring
Rampager
Dagger
Sinister
Sword
Sinister
Sigil
Sigil
Focus
Sinister
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
Relic


Consumables

Food


Utility


Usage

This build requires an extremely high critical chance, ideally 100%, which is why it uses so much Rampager Rampager gear. Thankfully,

helps with this. The build then converts this high crit chance into Bleeding Bleeding damage through and . This high bleeding output generates an insane amount of Blades with , which are then consumed on Shatters/Bladesongs to both deal direct damage and increase your damage with .


Beginner Rotation

For a simpler introduction to Condition Virtuoso, Virtuoso - Condi Chaos DPS is recommended.


Rotation

Opener

The opener isn't extremely strict, but is mostly based around maximising the benefit of

and .

  1. + during the cast
  2. Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
  3. - as an ammo skill, we want to get this on cooldown early
  4. - cast once you hit 10 stacks of , as an instant cast it can be used during other skills
  5. - use once you're back at fives blades
  6. - use once you're back at fives blades
  7. or
  8. - use once you're back at fives blades, this will only be available if you used Signet of Illusions


Rest of the Rotation

Most of the rest of the rotation is using skills off cooldown, though there is some structure:


Video example


Defense


Sustain


Crowd control


Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 2 votes.
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5 stars
OfficerAndyGentleman gave this build 5 stars • April 2024
Great sustain, fully ranged, and Signet of Illusions can easily be replaced, giving access to mesmer's excellent utilities. With so many recent strikes punishing melee builds, condi virtuoso just keeps looking better.
5 stars
Warming Hearth gave this build 5 stars • May 2022
The meta condi virtuoso build. Extremely high damage and innate sustain. The only downside is low burst damage. Can fight from range when needed, but works best in melee.

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