Virtuoso - Confuse You Oh So

Skill Variants

• 坚定咒语 for extra cleanse
• 灵刃新生 for distortion and restocking blades
• 幻象纹章 to recharge bladesongs quicker
• 错乱咒语 for a disable (which could pair well if taking 阿奇姆古物)
• 灵能之力 for a disable (which could pair well if taking 阿奇姆古物)

Variants

• 恶意巫术 over 破碎大师 to invest more into confusion at the expense of enhanced bladesongs.

• The build’s greatest weapon is 悲伤咏刃.

  • It inflicts a staggering 20 stacks of 困惑. It normally only applies one stack of 困惑 for each of the five blades but the Illusions trait 痛苦之吼 inflicts an extra stack per blade and the combination of Dueling traits 目盲幻碎 and 障目强光 inflict two extra stacks per blade. In total that is four stacks of 困惑 per blade.
  • The Dueling trait 目盲幻碎, Illusions traits 幻灭伤残 and 破碎大师, and Virtuoso traits 波动思维 and 致死利刃, inflict 目盲, 折磨, 残废, 流血 (on a critical hit) and 易伤 (on a critical hit) respectively per blade. Conveniently, many of these are applied after the confusion, so they also serve the role of cover conditions.
  • Dodging triggers the Virtuoso trait 灵能回应, which makes 悲伤咏刃 (along with the other bladesongs) unblockable. Dodges are an extremely valuable resource for mitigating damage, so think very carefully before sacrificing them just to make 悲伤咏刃 unblockable. Sometimes it can be worth it, for example, to penetrate blocks, reflects or projectile denial effects at critical times. In other situations you may have already dodged for damage mitigation recently and triggered 灵能回应 passively, or the opponent has used up their defensive abilities so 悲伤咏刃 does not need to be made unblockable.
  • The Virtuoso trait 锐化悲伤 grants 激怒 when 悲伤咏刃 is cast and provides bonus expertise to 激怒. Furthermore, the Virtuoso trait 寂静强烈 provides +10% bonus critical chance to 激怒.
  • Be wary of when 悲伤咏刃 is used. It can be cleansed or evaded, and if 灵能回应 is not triggered, 悲伤咏刃 can also be blocked, reflected and projectile denied. It may be better to bait out the opponent's defences with other abilities first.
  • It shares the same resource as 失真咏刃 (and the other bladesongs). If 悲伤咏刃 is used, blades will need to be restocked before 失真咏刃 can be used. For that reason, try to ensure other defensive options are available when using 悲伤咏刃.

• 失真咏刃 grants a brief period of invulnerability.

  • It shares the same resource as 悲伤咏刃 (and the other bladesongs). If 失真咏刃 is used, blades will need to be restocked before 悲伤咏刃 can be used. For that reason, it is generally considered the absolute last resort as a defensive tool when no other options are available.
  • The Illusions trait 破碎大师 makes 失真咏刃 a reflect. It can be used offensively to counter incoming projectiles, especially if those projectiles scale well with condition damage. But it is usually better used defensively to mitigate damage. When used defensively, be wary of reflecting projectiles from stealth as that could reveal you.

• The Scepter + Pistol weaponset:

  • The auto attack stocks a blade at the end of its chain, as well as applying a bit of .
  • is a block that transitions into an evade, while applying on the attacker and stocking a blade.
  • The main combo of the weapon set is -> -> . Using after allows the Dueling trait to reduce the cooldown of both skills. Furthermore, the first packet of damage from usually hits before , which can help remove and improve the likelihood of landing. is a two second , which can help to land while the phantasm from unloads its attack.

• The Axe + Torch weaponset:

  • inflicts , , and stocks a blade so try to use it when fewer than five blades are stocked.
  • , if used offensively, applies more stacks of the more blades are stocked and is a 600 range teleport. It can also be used defensively as an evade.
  • can be used defensively for its condition cleanse, its stealth to escape pressure, or its that is inflicted on nearby opponents, which also triggers the Dueling trait to inflict a couple of stacks of . Meanwhile, the stealth can also be used offensively to setup a burst. Three seconds after it is cast, a flame blast inflicts a stack of burning on nearby opponents that is made more potent by the Illusions trait , which adds another two stacks of .
  • inflicts a stack of on nearby opponents upon cast that is enhanced by , which adds another two stacks of . It also generates a phantasm that attacks a few moments later, to inflict more , and a small .
  • A few of the possible combos are:
    • -> just before completes its cast time
    • -> -> just before completes its cast time and just as the flame burst from activates
    • ->
    • -> ->
    • -> -> x2

• Try to use when fully stocked on blades, as its healing and condition cleanse scale with the number of blades.

• passively increases expertise, but its main role is a stun break on activation that also applies on nearby opponents, which in turn applies a bit of through the Dueling trait . If stunned and about to be burst by an opponent, an option is to counterattack with the combo -> dodge -> .

• , which also acts as a stun break, is mainly an escape tool but in some situations it can be sacrificed as an offensive gap closer. For example, the combo -> can be used to stealth a distant ally and peel for them when they are being chased by opponents.

Equipment Variants

Rune

• for movement speed and other relevant stats, while freeing up the relic slot for something other than .
• , , , and for different mixes of condition damage, power and vitality, when paired with .

Amulet

• makes the build's condition damage more potent and adds 400 vitality. However, it sacrifices 100 power and 500 precision from the . The precision synergises well with multiple traits, such as and from the Dueling traitline and and from the Virtuoso traitline. Furthermore, skills such as , , , and have power coefficients that can leverage strike damage related stats and helps this build be less of a condition-only one trick pony.

Relic

• if taking . But care must be taken with how is used. It might be counter-intuitive to disable an opponent that is already inflicted with , as that would negate damage from the they are already inflicted with. It may be better to let the opponent finish casting their skills so that the existing stacks trigger their damage. Instead, could be used when the opponent is inflicted with no or few stacks of but five or more stacks of . This can be achieved through (which provides thanks to ), , , or the auto attack chains of either weaponset.