Difference between revisions of "Virtuoso - Power Virtuoso"

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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 July 26, 2022 and is up to date for the March 19, 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 low sustained damage and sustain.

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Skill Bar

Dagger/Sword

Greatsword

Utility

Weapon Variants

Sword/Focus can replace Greatsword for improved sustained damage and a useful pull on focus at the cost of burst and easy ranged tagging in zergs.

Skill Variants

Utility

Mirror Images - valuable stunbreak
Mantra of Resolve - condition cleanse
Mimic, Blink, Portal Entre - very strong utility

Elite

Mass Invisibility - stealth for channeling hero points or sneaking passed powerful enemies

Specializations

Specialization Variants

Bloodsong + Jagged Mind - Improved Blade generation if you can continually attack your enemy, cleave multiple enemies.
- Will also be marginally higher DPS if attacking from beyond 600 range.
Empowered Illusions - If not using Greatsword.

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required.

Head
Assassin

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Assassin

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Dagger
Berserker

Sword
Berserker

Sigil

Greatsword
Berserker

Sigil

Rune
x6

Equipment Variants

Stats

Swap between Berserker stats and Assassin to finetune crit-chance if needed (e.g. if using exotic gear or different runes/sigils).
Knight trinkets - defense
Marauder and/or Dragon stats - Can be mixed in for extra HP at a slight damage reduction
- Be aware of crit-cap when substituting these stats.

Runes

Rune of Superior Rune of the Eagle - Budget DPS option with extra critical chance and a more reliable damage modifier in open world. It is recommended to replace Sigil of Superior Sigil of Accuracy if using this rune
Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - Sustain in zerg events.

Sigils

Sigil of Superior Sigil of Strength instead of Sigil of Superior Sigil of Accuracy - Might generation if you have sufficient critical chance by changing gear stats or runes
Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - Generic defensive sigil

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.

Prioritise your phantasm skills for damage, blade generation and fury uptime.
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

Sword/Focus

Blurred Frenzy - evade
Phantasmal Warden - projectile block

Crowd Control

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

Sword/Focus

Temporal Curtain > Into the Void - pull

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 | designed for = open world, open world general
 | focus = strike damage
-| rating = draft
+| rating = great
 | xpac = eod
 }}
-==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  {{Tooltip|Greatsword}} this makes pVirt one of the best farming builds for open world.
+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 [[Build:Virtuoso - Condition Virtuoso|condition virtuoso]], this build offers excellent burst damage, but has low sustained damage and sustain.
 ==Template Code==
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 |specialization = virtuoso
 |weapon1 = Dagger
-|weapon2 = Focus
+|weapon2 = Sword
 |weapon3 = Greatsword
 |weapon4 =
 |healing = Signet of the Ether
 |utility1 = Rain of Swords
-|utility2 = Mantra of Pain
+|utility2 = Phantasmal Disenchanter
-|utility3 = Arcane Thievery
+|utility3 = Mantra of Pain
-|elite = Time Warp
+|elite = Thousand Cuts
 }}
+===Weapon Variants===
+* Sword/Focus can replace Greatsword for improved sustained damage and a useful pull on focus at the cost of burst and easy ranged tagging in zergs.
-==Skill Variants==
+===Skill Variants===
+:'''Utility'''
 * {{Skill|Mirror Images}} - valuable stunbreak
 * {{Skill|Mantra of Resolve}} - condition cleanse
-* {{Skill|Signet of Inspiration}} - passive swiftness
 * {{Skill|Mimic}}, {{Skill|Blink}}, {{Skill|Portal Entre}} - very strong utility
+:'''Elite'''
 * {{Skill|Mass Invisibility}} - stealth for channeling hero points or sneaking passed powerful enemies
 ==Specializations==
-{{Specialization|Dueling|top|mid|top}}
+{{Specialization|Domination|top|mid|top}}
 {{Specialization|Illusions|mid|mid|top}}
-{{Specialization|Virtuoso|mid|top|bot}}
+{{Specialization|Virtuoso|mid|mid|mid}}
-===Domination===
+===Specialization Variants===
-Domination may potentially offer higher DPS than Illusions if permanent {{Tooltip|Quickness}} can be maintained through {{Trait|Duelist's Reversal}}. This needs to be tested.
+* {{Trait|Bloodsong}} + {{Trait|Jagged Mind}} - Improved Blade generation if you can continually attack your enemy, cleave multiple enemies.
-{{Specialization|Domination|top|mid|top|variant=y}}
+** Will also be marginally higher DPS if attacking from beyond 600 range.
+* {{Trait|Empowered Illusions}} - If not using Greatsword.
 ==Equipment==
-Ascended gear is not required. [Equipment Description]
+* Ascended gear is not required.
 {{PvE equipment
+| stats = Berserker
 | weight = Light
-| stats = Berserker
 | rune = Superior Rune of the Scholar
 | rune-qt = 6
 | weapon1 = Dagger
-| weapon2 = Focus
+| weapon2 = Sword
 | sigil1 = Superior Sigil of Force
 | sigil2 = Superior Sigil of Accuracy
 | weapon3 = Greatsword
-| weapon4 =
 | sigil3 = Superior Sigil of Force
 | sigil4 = Superior Sigil of Accuracy
+| variant =
+| head = assassin
+| shoulders =
+| chest =
+| hands =
+| legs = assassin
+| feet =
 }}
-* {{Tooltip|Knight}} trinkets or {{Tooltip|Marauder}} gear - defense
-* {{Rune|Superior Rune of Durability}}, {{Rune|Superior Rune of Vampirism}} - defense
-* {{Rune|Superior Rune of Strength}}, {{Rune|Superior Rune of Infiltration}} - budget dps
+===Equipment Variants===
-* {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Energy}} - defense
+:'''Stats'''
+* Swap between {{Tooltip|Berserker stats}} and  {{Tooltip|Assassin}} to finetune crit-chance if needed (e.g. if using exotic gear or different runes/sigils).
+* {{Tooltip|Knight}} trinkets - defense
+* {{Tooltip|Marauder}} and/or {{Tooltip|Dragon stats}} - Can be mixed in for extra HP at a slight damage reduction
+** Be aware of crit-cap when substituting these stats.
+:'''Runes'''
+* {{Rune|Superior Rune of the Eagle}} - Budget DPS option with extra critical chance and a more reliable damage modifier in open world. It is recommended to replace {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Accuracy}} if using this rune
+* {{Rune|Superior Rune of Vampirism}} - Sustain in zerg events.
+:'''Sigils'''
+* {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Strength}} instead of {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Accuracy}} - Might generation if you have sufficient critical chance by changing gear stats or runes
+* {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Energy}} - Generic defensive sigil
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 :'''Utility'''
 * {{Utility|Sharpening Skull}} (and variants) - farming
-* {{utility|Tin of Fruitcake}}, {{utility|Superior Sharpening Stone}} - dps
+* {{utility|Tin of Fruitcake}}, {{utility|Superior Sharpening Stone}} - DPS
 ==Usage==
-The usage section of this build is still being tested! A few important notes for now:
+This build focuses on stocking 5 blades then firing {{Skill|Bladesong Harmony}}.
-* Your shatters are very important to your DPS
+===Damage===
-* Your ability to generate "clones" (blades) remains important, as it does in any mesmer build
+The build is very simple to use.
-* A significant amount of your damage comes from Phantasms.
+* Prioritise your phantasm skills for damage, blade generation and {{Tooltip|fury}} uptime.
+* Use {{Skill|Signet of the Ether}} to cast {{Skill|Phantasmal Swordsman}} twice, but only when {{Skill|Phantasmal Disenchanter}} is on cooldown.
+===Defense===
+* {{Skill|Illusionary Riposte}} - block
+* {{Skill|Bladeturn Requiem}} - block
+:'''Sword/Focus'''
+* {{Skill|Blurred Frenzy}} - evade
+* {{Skill|Phantasmal Warden}} - projectile block
-In general you should be using most of your skills on cooldown, however {{Skill|Illusionary Wave}} should be used defensively or to break Defiance bars.
+===Crowd Control===
+* {{Skill|Counter Blade}} - daze
+* {{Skill|Bladesong Dissonance}} - daze
+* {{Skill|Illusionary Wave}} - knockback
+:'''Sword/Focus'''
+* {{Skill|Temporal Curtain}} > {{Skill|Into the Void}} - pull

Difference between revisions of "Virtuoso - Power Virtuoso"

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