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:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on November 06, 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 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

• Signet of Illusions can be dropped for more utility if needed.
• Rain of Swords can replace Signet of Illusions for a higher cleave, but at the cost of burst.

Elite

• Signet of Humility - large amount of crowd control if needed.

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

• This setup with provides 60% crit chance, or 100% with Fury thanks to Quiet Intensity.
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Accuracy should not be used because Illusions do not gain the increased critical chance from it.
• If you want to fully min-max, you can use and optimise your gear set around it.
• You want to aim for 2155 precision and 100% bleed duration whichever setup you go for.

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

• Use with this setup.

Consumables

Food

Utility

Usage

This build requires an extremely high critical chance, ideally 100%, which is why it uses so much Rampager gear. Thankfully, Quiet Intensity helps with this. The build then converts this high crit chance into Bleeding damage through Sharper Images and Jagged Mind. This high bleeding output generates an insane amount of Blades with Bloodsong, which are then consumed on Shatters/Bladesongs to both deal direct damage and increase your damage with Deadly Blades.

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 Fencer's Finesse and Deadly Blades.

1. Unstable Bladestorm + Bladeturn Requiem during the cast
2. Phantasmal Swordsman
3. Weapon Swap
4. Bladecall
5. Phantasmal Warden
6. Signet of the Ether
7. Bladesong Harmony - as an ammo skill, we want to get this on cooldown early
8. Phantasmal Warden
9. Thousand Cuts - cast once you hit 10 stacks of Fencer's Finesse, as an instant cast it can be used during other skills
10. Bladesong Harmony - use once you're back at fives blades
11. Bladecall
12. Rain of Swords or Signet of Illusions
13. Bladesong Sorrow - 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:

• Thanks to Bloodsong in combination with Jagged Mind and Sharper Images, you stock blades almost as fast as you can spend them.
  • Bladesong Harmony, Bladesong Sorrow and Bladeturn Requiem should be used as soon as you reach five blades, with Bladesong Sorrow taking priority.
  • Bladesong Dissonance deals negligible damage, but can be used to maximise uptime of Deadly Blades if you cast it as you are about to lose the buff.
  • Use Signet of Illusions when Bladesong Sorrow is on a long cooldown and Bladesong Harmony is out of charges.
• Use all Dagger skills, Thousand Cuts and Rain of Swords (if using) off cooldown.
• Use Phantasmal Warden as soon as you swap to Focus and Weapon Swap away again as soon as you can
  • Use Signet of the Ether as soon as it comes off cooldown, and follow up with another Phantasmal Warden - over time Signet of the Ether will come up later and later in the Focus section. The best choice then will depend on how long the phase will last:
    • If the phase will end within ~50 seconds, stay on Focus each loop until you can use Signet of the Ether → Phantasmal Warden.
    • If the phase will go on longer, skip Signet of the Ether for one Focus section so that it is immediately available for the Focus section after that.
• Use Phantasmal Swordsman as soon as you swap to Sword, use it again when it is off cooldown, and then Weapon Swap immediately.

Video example

Defense

• Bladesong Distortion - invulnerability.
• Illusionary Riposte - block.

Sustain

• Dealing damage heals you thanks to Jagged Mind.
• When Signet of the Ether is not on cooldown, every Blade you stock will heal you for a small amount.

Crowd control

• Bladesong Dissonance - daze. Daze duration increases with number of stocked Blades.
• Illusionary Riposte⇒Counter Blade - daze.
• Temporal Curtain⇒Into the Void - pull.
• Signet of Domination - stun (emergencies only).