Build Template
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Build Difficulty: ● ○ ○ ○ ○
- High damage
- Plenty of CC
- Easy to learn
- Defensive options
- Fast paced rotation
- Relies on resource management
- Reduced damage around adds
- Loses damage on moving targets
- Power
- 2006
- Toughness
- 1045
- Vitality
- 1344
- Precision
- 2155
- Critical Chance
- 60%
- Ferocity
- 173
- Critical Damage
- 161.5%
- Condition Damage
- 1847
- Healing Power
- 45
- Expertise
- 225
- Condition Duration
- 15%
- Concentration
- 45
- Boon Duration
- 3%
Equipment
Traits & Skills
Traits
Skills
Rotation & Extras
Step One
This first step introduces the class mechanic: Blades. Whenever you have 5 blades stocked, you can use 
和谐咏刃, 
悲伤咏刃 or 
旋刃魂曲.
These skills are among the strongest actions you can take. Applying Bleeding to an enemy (and thanks to your traits 
波动思维 and 
锐利幻象 nearly everything you do applies Bleeding) will refill your blades by the trait 
鲜血之歌.
Since 和谐咏刃 uses an ammo system, you can always give priority to the other two and use your 和谐咏刃 only when it is convenient.
Step Two
The second step introduces the dagger skills: 
利刃呼唤 and 
狂刃风暴. 利刃呼唤 applies 6 stacks of Bleeding and immediately stocks an extra blade, 狂刃风暴 will apply 8 stacks of Bleeding over time.
In this step you already have a lot of blades available to you. Make sure to keep spending them on 和谐咏刃, 悲伤咏刃 or 旋刃魂曲 whenever you have five of them.
Step Three
The third step introduces 
幻影剑客. This skill applies 9 stacks of Bleeding through the trait 锐利幻象. When the phantasm dies it automatically turns into a blade, but also triggers 
幻影强刃, which launches another blade attack, triggering 波动思维 for a 10th stack of Bleeding.
In the final step, it will become very important to use this skill precisely off Cooldown, so get used to using it whenever it is available!
Step Four
The fourth step introduces 
幻影守望 and 
千刀万剐. 幻影守望 applies a total of 13 stacks of Bleeding on a very low cast time, making this one of the most efficient skills in the game.
Unfortunately, there are many raid bosses where some of the hits can be lost to additional enemies (e.g. at Xera). There is no good solution for this. In any case, it is always going to be worth casting, it is just not as strong sometimes.
Use your elite skill 千刀万剐 off Cooldown. On the golem, its use is that straightforward. In real fights, it's just very important to remember that this skill takes around 5 seconds to do its full damage, so be careful when trying to hit moving targets with it.
In order to incorporate all of this into our rotation, we have to construct a loop that contains weapon swapping. You get two uses of 幻影剑客 and one use of 幻影守望 within a loop that takes roughly 22 seconds to execute. Every second of delay in your Weapon Swap timings adds a second to that loop with no way of getting it back.
The rotation is started on the sword set with a 幻影剑客. To keep the loop as short as possible, the Weapon Swap must be immediate after the cast of the 幻影剑客 is completed. Next you use all the skills from the previous steps, as well as 幻影守望. Once Weapon Swap is ready, swap back to Sword, and immediately follow up with a 幻影剑客. Once again use the skills from the previous steps. Finally, use 幻影剑客 again, followed by Weapon Swap.
We can organize this into the following outline of a loop:
Transitioning to the Full Build
What separates you from the full rotation is making use of the two reset buttons 
幻光纹章 and 
幻象纹章. Be warned that using these in a bad way (e.g. using them when the skills you reset would be available anyway) might even result in a DPS loss since they have long cast times. Nevertheless, they are very potent tools, especially to improve the burst of the build and make it useful in fights with short phases.
To find guidance on the optimal use of these, alongside with more information on the class, visit the Condition Virtuoso page.