Virtuoso - Power Virtuoso

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on June 09, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Power virtuoso is a power based virtuoso build with good burst potential, long range damage, and is simple to play. As a virtuso, clones are replaced by blades, so they no longer tank for you but they don't dissapear after the fight.

Compared to condition virtuoso, this build offers excellent burst damage, but has very low sustained damage and sustain.

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Skill Bar

Dagger/Sword

Greatsword

Utility

Skill Variants

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

Specializations

Variations

• Bloodsong - outperforms Infinite Forge when you have very high critical chance and can continually attack your enemy, due to Sharper Images.

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required.

Head
Assassin

Shoulders
Assassin

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Assassin

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Assassin

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Dagger
Berserker

Sword
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Greatsword
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

• Knight trinkets or Marauder gear - defense
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar is worse in open world content, but better in group instanced content. Consider this rune if you're going to be playing instanced group pve content often with this gear set.
• If you want to use one single gear set for power chronomancer and power virtuoso, you can use full Berserker stats.

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

This build focuses on stocking 5 blades then firing Bladesong Harmony.

Damage

The build is very simple to use. Your highest damaging skills are Phantasmal Berserker, Phantasmal Swordsman, Phantasmal Disenchanter, Thousand Cuts, Blurred Frenzy, and sword auto attacks.

• Use Signet of the Ether to cast Phantasmal Swordsman twice, but only when Phantasmal Disenchanter is on cooldown.

Defense

• Illusionary Riposte - block
• Bladeturn Requiem - block

Crowd Control

• Counter Blade - daze
• Bladesong Dissonance - daze
• Illusionary Wave - knockback