Build:Virtuoso - Condition Virtuoso

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on August 31, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Condition virtuoso is a powerful ranged condition dps build for open world where the lack of clone setup requirements and persistent blade stacks make it more friendly to general open world play.

This build inflicts enormous ammounts 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

X/Focus

Utility

Weapon Variants

• None. Dagger is a must and cannot be substituted by any other weapon. We advise not to change the offhand weapons either since this build prefers phantasms that attack multiple times, making sword and focus better than the traditional condi offhands torch and pistol.

Skill Variants

Healing skill

• Ether Feast - very large heal, especially when used with maximun stocked blades, but less damage.

Utility skills

• Mantra of Concentration - valuable stunbreak.
• Mantra of Resolve - condition cleanse.
• Mimic, Blink, Portal Entre - very strong utility.

Elite skills

• Mass Invisibility - stealth for channeling hero points or sneaking past powerful enemies.
• Time Warp - small burst of quickness for yourself and allies.
• Signet of Humility - large amount of crowd control.

Specializations

Specializations Variants

• Persistence of Memory - Boon generation when solo.
• Sharpening Sorrow - If using the optional equipment set optimised for no food/utility/infusion stat buffs

• Inspiration can replace Illusions when soloing to massively increase sustain.

Equipment

• The default recommended gear is the same as the condi virtuoso raid build for ease of gearing.
  • With , this setup provides 59,99% crit chance, or 99,99% with Fury thanks to Quiet Intensity.
• Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required for Open World.
• Feel free to adjust or rearrange the stats of individual pieces, with the aim of having as close to 100% critical chance (with fury) and 100% bleeding duration.
  • Sigil of Superior Sigil of Accuracy should not be used because Illusions do not gain the increased critical chance from it.

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Rampager

Chest
Viper

Hands
Rampager

Legs
Sinister

Feet
Rampager

Backpiece
Rampager

Accessory
Rampager

Accessory
Rampager

Amulet
Rampager

Ring
Viper

Ring
Rampager

Dagger
Viper

Sword
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Focus
Viper

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

• This build loses massive damage from defensive gear; for defense, equip a jade core and use defensive traits instead.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
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Farming

• Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
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• (and variants)

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.

Rotation

Against bosses and other durable enemies, try to follow this rotation

1. Phantasmal Swordsman
2. Bladesong Harmony
3. Bladecall
4. Unstable Bladestorm
5. Weapon swap
6. Phantasmal Warden
7. Signet of the Ether and Thousand Cuts
8. Phantasmal Warden
9. Rain of Swords
10. Bladesong Harmony

From here on, just use your Phantasm and Blade skills offcooldown. When you swap to sword, use Phantasmal Swordsman and use it again when it recharges, then weapon swap. On the focus weapon set, cast Phantasmal Warden twice by using Signet of the Ether. You will generate a lot of Blades, but space your Bladesongs to upkeep the buff from Deadly Blades.

Defense

• Illusionary Riposte - block.
• Bladesong Distortion - invulnerability

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).

Video examples

• vs. Champion Chak Lobber (Egg Clutch Hero Challenge) Great showcase of all the defensive skills this dps build has access to. Thanks to blocks and Distortion, this build is very safe.

• vs. Vampire Beast Broodmother (Pile of Guano Hero Challenge) Great showcase of how to abuse Distortion.