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Revision as of 16:51, 22 September 2022

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: End of Dragons builds

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on September 22, 2022 and is up to date for the February 27, 2024 patch.

Overview

Condition Virtuoso is a powerful ranged condition DPS build with innate sustain.

This build inflicts enormous amounts of Bleeding 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
Dagger/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

Utility

  • can be dropped for more utility if needed.
  • can replace for a higher cleave, but at the cost of burst.


Elite

  • - large amount of crowd control if needed.


Specializations


Equipment

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
Infusion
x2
Infusion
x16
  • This setup with provides 59,99% crit chance, or 99,99% with Fury Fury thanks to .
  • 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 and optimise your gear set around it.


Consumables

Food


Utility


Usage

This build requires an extremely high critical chance, ideally 100%, which is why it uses so much Rampager Rampager gear. Thankfully, helps with this. The build then converts this high crit chance into Bleeding Bleeding damage through and . This high bleeding output generates an insane amount of Blades with , which are then consumed on Shatters/Bladesongs to both deal direct damage and increase your damage with .


Rotation

Opener

The opener isn't extremely strict, but is mostly based around maximising the benefit of and .

  1. Weapon Swap Weapon Swap
  2. - as an ammo skill, we want to get this on cooldown early
  3. - by using this slightly later in the opener, more of the hits will be at high stacks of
  4. - cast once you hit 10 stacks of , as an instant cast it can be used during other skills
  5. - use once you're back at fives blades
  6. - use once you're back at fives blades
  7. or
  8. - 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 in combination with and , you stock blades almost as fast as you can spend them.
    • and should be used as soon as you reach five blades, with taking priority.
    • and deal negligible damage, but can be used to maximise uptime of if you cast them as you are about to lose the buff.
    • Use when is on a long cooldown and is out of charges.
  • Use all Dagger skills, and (if using) off cooldown.
  • Use as soon as you swap to Focus and Weapon Swap Weapon Swap away again as soon as you can
    • Use as soon as it comes off cooldown, and follow up with another - over time 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 .
      • If the phase will go on longer, skip for one Focus section so that it is immediately available for the Focus section after that.
  • Use as soon as you swap to Sword, use it again when it is off cooldown, and then Weapon Swap Weapon Swap immediately.


Video example


Defense

  • - block.
  • - block.


Sustain

  • Dealing damage heals you thanks to .
  • When is not on cooldown, every Blade you stock will heal you for a small amount.


Crowd control

  • - daze. Daze duration increases with number of stocked Blades.
  • - daze.
  • - pull.
  • - stun (emergencies only).


Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 2 votes.
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4 stars
OfficerAndyGentleman gave this build 4 stars • May 2023
Great sustain, fully ranged, and Signet of Illusions can easily be replaced, giving access to mesmer's excellent utilities
5 stars
Warming Hearth gave this build 5 stars • May 2022
The meta condi virtuoso build. Extremely high damage and innate sustain. The only downside is low burst damage. Can fight from range when needed, but works best in melee.

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