Virtuoso - Condi DPS
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Focused on: Hybrid damage
Designed for: Fractals and Raids
Expansions required: 
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.
Template Code
Skill Bar
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.
Specializations
Equipment
- This setup with Bowl of Fancy Potato and Leek Soup provides 60% crit chance, or 100% with
Fury thanks to Quiet Intensity. - 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 Writ of Masterful Malice 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.
- Use Spherified Cilantro Oyster Soup with this setup.
Consumables
Food
- Bowl of Fancy Potato and Leek Soup
Utility
- Toxic Focusing Crystal
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.
- Unstable Bladestorm + Bladeturn Requiem during the cast
- Phantasmal Swordsman
Weapon Swap- Bladecall
- Phantasmal Warden
- Signet of the Ether
- Bladesong Harmony - as an ammo skill, we want to get this on cooldown early
- Phantasmal Warden
- Thousand Cuts - cast once you hit 10 stacks of Fencer's Finesse, as an instant cast it can be used during other skills
- Bladesong Sorrow - use once you're back at fives blades
- Bladesong Harmony - use once you're back at fives blades
- Bladecall
- Rain of Swords or Signet of Illusions
- 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 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:
- Use Phantasmal Swordsman as soon as you swap to Sword, use it again when it is off cooldown, and then Weapon Swap immediately.
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).
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