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: Condition damage

Designed for: Fractals and Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on May 30, 2022 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 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

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

Skill Variants

Elite skills

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

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required. Infusions are not required.

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Rampager

Chest
Viper

Hands
Rampager

Legs
Viper

Feet
Rampager

Backpiece
Rampager

Accessory
Rampager

Accessory
Rampager

Amulet
Rampager

Ring
Rampager

Ring
Rampager

Dagger
Rampager

Sword
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Focus
Viper

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x1

Infusion
x17

Gear optimization

This gear setup reaches 92,1% crit chance while under the effects of Fury and precision food such as the recomended . It is optimized for raids, where Banner of Discipline and Spotter would allow it to reach 100% crit chance. If playing without those buffs, using full Rampager armor while keeping the Viper offhand weapons nets 99,57% crit chance.

Sigil of Superior Sigil of Accuracy should not be used because Illusions do not gain the increased critical chance from it.

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.

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. Bladesong Harmony
10. Signet of Illusions
11. Bladecall
12. Bladesong Sorrow
13. Bladecall
14. Unstable Bladestorm
15. Weapon swap
16. Phantasmal Swordsman
17. Bladesong Harmony

• 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.
• Use Signet of Illusions when Bladesong Sorrow is on a long cooldown and Bladesong Harmony is out of charges.

Defense

• Bladeturn Requiem - block.
• 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).