Build:Virtuoso - Power Virtuoso

This is a rough draft. Once adequately written, it will progress to the testing stage, where it can be rated by the community. You can help by proposing changes with a comment.

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on April 14, 2022.

Draft Build

This is a draft build. You are encouraged to participate via discussion in the comments.

Overview

Power Virt carries extremely high solo DPS and offers some of the highest long-range damage in the game. Combined with the hit-scan nature of Greatsword this makes pVirt one of the best farming builds for open world.

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Skill Bar

Dagger/Focus

Greatsword

Utility

Skill Variants

• Mirror Images - valuable stunbreak
• Mantra of Resolve - condition cleanse
• Signet of Inspiration - passive swiftness
• Mimic, Blink, Portal Entre - very strong utility
• Mass Invisibility - stealth for channeling hero points or sneaking passed powerful enemies

Specializations

Domination

Domination may potentially offer higher DPS than Illusions if permanent Quickness can be maintained through Duelist's Reversal. This needs to be tested.

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required. [Equipment Description]

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Dagger
Berserker

Focus
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Greatsword
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

• Knight trinkets or Marauder gear - defense
• Rune of Superior Rune of Durability, Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - defense
• Rune of Superior Rune of Strength, Rune of Superior Rune of Infiltration - budget dps
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - defense

Consumables

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
• - farming
• , - DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• , - dps

Usage

The usage section of this build is still being tested! A few important notes for now:

• Your shatters are very important to your DPS
• Your ability to generate "clones" (blades) remains important, as it does in any mesmer build
• A significant amount of your damage comes from Phantasms.

In general you should be using most of your skills on cooldown, however Illusionary Wave should be used defensively or to break Defiance bars.