Virtuoso - Power Virtuoso

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World, Open World General and [[|]]

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on August 20, 2023 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 disappear 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 past 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.
• Bladeturn Refrain - very high survivability at the cost of DPS.
• 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

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Dagger
Berserker

Sword
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Greatsword
Berserker

Sigil

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

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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• (and variants)

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

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