HOW TO PLAY VIRTUOSO BUILD AND GUIDE

okay so we're going to talk about how to play virtuoso I'll make it as quick as I can with also like actually giving like good advice because like it's really hard because people won't only want to watch like six minute videos now because everyone's got the attention span of a squirrel but to like actually tell what I need to tell it takes a little time so I'm just gonna start off no explanations of anything other than the build and the variations and what you can choose and what I recommend and blah blah so first things first the build um this is what I like this is Chrono this is very okay this is what I like the most notch this is what I like the most um talking about variations so you can change the first trade in NC um you can play the revive or you can play cleanse the Phantasm on or consequently when you summon a Phantasm I think that the revive is better this is pretty Niche and the only like you have so much consequence on this build it is like a nice amount of stain cleanse I don't really think you can don't change this ever don't change the server don't change any of these ever don't change anything literally can only change this first straight uh the Rune I've been playing a couple against like heavy power comps I've been playing dahliak like when I don't really want to respect anything I play eagle and I think just the best in slot kind of all around is Divinity that's that's pretty much my middle ground right now when you want to bunk up you can literally just play Yak against Power base classes only obviously it's not going over his candy and when you want a ton of damage and you do not care at all about any form of sustainer defensives you can go Eagle I think all three of those options are are viable some people ask me about links runes for movement speed if you really want to you can I played it a lot when virtuosa was New but I ultimately ended up moving off of links runes because they were way too slow for me or the damage was too low so the mobility was nice to make it to fight some time and to rotate however my main issue with link streams is that you you get to rotate quicker and you get into fights faster but the stats do feel kind of lackluster and you do lose out on some damage you lose it on some HP so this is this is what I recommend for like newer players especially I recommend divinity for the weapons I played a lot of dagger when vert was new ultimately dagger's a really bad weapon it's it's kind of fun I do like to play dagger I wish it was good but the reason that great sort of soap good is it excels in covering a lot of virtuoso's weaknesses without greatswords so when you're playing you know sword pistol X the Billet has a lot of kind of weak spots that great sort of rounds off really nicely and it really completes the build in the way it works for uh sigils always play double double energy the second sigil can change I've played a bunch I've played Separation on Greatsword cleansing battle uh revocation I played double Intel for a while ultimately I think the double exploitation is probably the most consistent you can try stuff like double Doom you could play double cleansing I think all of them are fine I I don't actually think it matters that much as much as I've wanted to I've I've tried every variation I change it all the time I don't think one is particularly the best in slot um the only one that would absolutely be best in slot is double cleansing if you're against a lot of candy so that'd be like you know Candy stuff like that double cleansing viable don't need it it's comp dependent so if you have the awareness to change your build based on comp make adjustments accordingly the offhand weapon is probably one of the things that I changed the most on the build histol is the best for 1v1s it feels pretty bad against Catalyst because they have so much reflect and it doesn't feel great against excuse me it doesn't feel great in team fights because there's just like a lot of projectile denial so many classes have so much project out of now right now but it is it is the best in the stuff like rev Thief Warrior uh most 1v1's pistol is best in slot my personal favorite is torch because it it again it rounds off the kit really nicely the Phantasm with quickness is very strong you get a little bit of Connie cleanse blind mid-range stealth to cover your shutter casts and Mage is honestly really good like when Mage hits it hits really hard um you can play Focus I know EU has been playing a lot of offhand sword that's all fine it's it's kind of tool boxy where you kind of figure out what Niche you're going for and then you can pick the best offhand for that game so again I think the best offhand for my preference usually in most games is torch I think that the best offhand for everybody should be you should learn when to play different offhands based on what comp you're trying to counter uh utilities and heal and I'll change the heel cannot change blink do not change midnight blade renewal in my opinion is best in slot I don't think that this should be swapped people do Swap this I've seen people play psychic Force the stun break I think it's I think the CD is way too high if it gave stab maybe it would be good but there's a really big problem with stun breaks that have cast times because there's a lot of sequences where you can stun break but still get punished and I don't think it's very good A lot of people also play signal of Illusions my main issue with signal of Illusions is that you typically reset it as a defensive because your offensive Shadows are Solo CD you have two mind racks on a 10 second CD you have F2 which actually hits very hard which is very relevant for this build on a 17 second chord on so basically you know you have a lot of damage even F3 for like single blade it's anywhere from one to 2K like that's that's good enough so using second evolutions for damage doesn't make a lot of sense in my opinion so most of the time we're actually using it you're using it as a defensive when I want to use Signet as a defensive like I'm pressured I'm interfering I've got two people on me whatever I end up usually just liking blade removal more because signative Illusions can kind of get you killed like it feels pretty rewarding to get it off and obviously the the net gain is much higher as Signet distort for a second blatron Requiem get some blades black distort that's that's very very good however I do really like the consistency and the lower CD of Blade renewal also when you start off games the game takes away your blades you can spawn start the game instantly blade renewal the city is low enough where 15 20 seconds in your first fight you should have it off CD again this is my preference I think this is best in slot the elite is whatever you want I've played all four I think Thousand Cuts is definitely unplayable I don't I don't think you should play it the mass I think is the best one uh 99 of the time it's very rare for me to swap off mass time warp is is very cute um sometimes it does really cool most of the time when I watch my own games and I'm looking at it and I'm playing with it it feels super underwhelming the zoning is just too cute in my opinion and it shines the the most in team fights however I don't think that you want to be putting yourself in 44s and 5v5s with virtual I don't think that's where the build shines I think you want to be dominating side notes or roaming the map so boa is also a good option this is a great counter pick option good into Tempest cancel their overloads great uh get them out of stoneheart great into Necromancer gets their shroud kills their minions so against Ellie and necro this is a decent pick I also think that MO is really good if you have things on your team like fearing staff static five on staff for Ellie um any any type of hard crowd control that can kind of combo with MOA like if you have a duo in rent or something I think MOA shines without your teammates I think signative humility on virtuoso by itself is very weak it's very hard to combo off your emoas because most of the time you're gonna Muller someone you're gonna give them two defensives they're going to kite around and live for a while and then after that you can kind of play so it's decent tempo the passive is actually slightly relevant and sometimes I do just play it for the minus 20 duration decrease on CC that's not terrible um but ultimately I think that mass is my favorite and it lets me live the longest and do what I need to do when I'm on sun so that's that's the build that's basically every variation that should be played that I see relevant for power now a little bit of usage so the first tip and trick I'm gonna get into is the most important one and it's all about movement so unlike most respects where the mechanics come down to high APM and variations of bursts on this stuff virtuoso is pretty simple it's pretty linear in that regard however the clean aspects of virtuoso is a lot of movement so obviously if I'm facing away from my target so I'm gonna Target this column and I'm gonna run away if I spam shutters I can't actually shatter from behind as you see it goes on it goes on cooldown but what you can do is when you're running away if you let go of your movement key for a second and hold left click on your mouse you can click your shatter and the game will turn your character for you and then you right click and you can keep running away and it it'll actually give you like really clean movement so it looks like I can cast the shutter behind me but in reality um it's just really really clean really really fast movement and that is probably like the high high skill ceiling for this class it's it's pretty cool I actually really enjoyed a lot um now there's also a couple different variations and ways to do it another example is you can let's say you're not running away and you're in someone you want to shatter but you want to like keep really clean movement don't be afraid to about Fizz and about Fizz for those who don't know I'll just go over it for the players this key man keep on right here when you click just about face it does this you know 180 your character when you hold down right click it will it when you when you hold movement or right click what the oh left click I'm sorry hold left click it'll turn your character like this and then what you can do is you can hold W key and then alternate so you hold W key and you hold your left click and then you alternate right click about face right click about face and this is how I do this movement um and again I'm holding W key and the left click on my mouse and then I'm about facing and right clicking and you can just goof off with this and get comfortable with it and what it lets you do is it lets you it lets you get really really clean pristine movement with a lot of your stuff and it just feels very good so I can like when I shatter I can like about fist at the beginning of the cast and that's also how I do stuff like the mirror blade 180s you just turn up the end of it um so you can get used to it and and learn for yourself what skills you can use while not facing your time because good movement is one of those things on Mesmer that's really really going to help distinguish you from better players right there that's the mirror blade really Niche not that good but it can come up so don't don't be afraid to come hit the Golems practice about chasing now let's talk about blade management because a lot of people think that virtuoso struggles in Blade management and I think it really depends on you know how you play a role and and how you play the class so Mesmer power Minister specifically is usually a Roamer still Roamer you can take 1v1s if you have good 1v1 confident in winning your fights however virtuoso I play very differently I don't like playing virtuoso as a rumor primarily due to the low mobility and it's not that virtuoso lacks Mobility it's just that the metagame is very fast you give you have classes like Harold Thief a scrapper has a ton of super speed paddle This has a ton of super speed Perma swiftness on a lot of these classes and you don't have that so even if I you know start changing my spec to have more super speed or not super speed mobility and swiftness I don't think that it matters enough because you're still going to be slower than everyone else so the way that I think that vert plays best is dominating side notes I think that you have really good matchups into everything in the metagame except Bell breaker is a very tough matchup to win just too much unblockable full counter is really hard because the the spell breaker has a majority of the the outplayed decision making so he gets to kind of decide the tempo and because you have cast times on everything and your cast times are very slow and all all of your damage is very very telegraphed a lot of the counter plays actually on the warrior side instead of your side because they have things like full counter which they can play very reactive very hard to play reactively with virtuoso with things like F3 sniping heels like normally work you've kind of lost that play style so spell breaker is a bad matchup in my opinion I haven't really played it at a high level but I'm gonna assume it's not Catalyst you absolutely on every variant hammer and scepter don't Greed for the node too much stuff like that um I'm not gonna try and take it too far but I do think that powerbird played well has a lot of good matchups against a very good player now talking about how to you know play this as a side noteer I'm going to put a link in the description of this video and it's basically a guide on like side noting basics for people who don't know how to like side note and I don't know how to rotate or I don't know how to apply that I'm not playing the same build obviously but I'm going to link that for those that are curious now let's talk about blade gen a lot of people play way too much like the old Mesmer builds where you want to like sit really far out this is a brawler you want to Skirmish the build has a lot of Aegis and the Synergy of virtuoso is trading and the reason that vert is so appealing to me right now and the reason that I'm so pleased with it is it trades very profitably very consistently when you have things like a lot of Aegis a lot of unblockable damage and you have signature midnight you have a lot of resources to trade very positively into your enemies and because you're playing Inspirations and you have the power creep of uh EOD you keep very high dam for playing you know Inspirations which typically Mesmer doesn't have so you know if this is a 1v1 uh one thing I want people to remember is each shatter when the duels have flow pay for themselves and usually virtuosos die when they stop kind of refunding their their resources and the way to compensate that is you use those like mirror blade your phantasms to kind of refill your blade reserves if the other person counter plays so you know it it there's levels so if I'm starting a 1v1 the most value shatter that I like to go is you just start off with F1 F2 just damage if they Spike into you I like to start with F5 don't be afraid to use your F5 proactively now that virtuoso has Distortion you kind of have like three really really really King defensive skills outside of your evasion outside of your blink outside of your blurred your prestigious you have three ocean buttons that are just insane later Noel zero counter player involved you can reposition it's going to restock your balls or whatever when you get out um stick it into midnight it's gonna stun break you it's gonna cleanse five colonies it's gonna be an unblockable 360 blind it just literally does everything yo Carolyn thank you for the rate I appreciate it um this is this is literally just one of the best things uh for Mesmer it's the it's the get out of jail free card no matter what um and then finally a distortion obviously very good so when I when I love trading with this early I see a lot of Mesmer players people play they really hold their blatron Requiem I think it's optimal just to use this and trade so you know I'll just like play a little bit and you shatter I get Aegis the engine hits me I have five blades five three blades so blade turn Requiem at the end of it I get Aegis he hits me I use my phantasms make some blades look and if you notice as you like play you have this constant flow where your goal is just to constantly like kind of like a spell breaker where a lot of your sustain comes from continuous aggression this is a class where you want to be continuously trading you you want to maintain pressure and a lot of the time you know the secret is one and two blade shatters that are low value offensively for damage but it's going to maintain that Tempo it's going to maintain I'm healing a little bit because of The Inspirations middle trait you know every blade I'm healing a little bit I'm cleansing a Condi I'm getting Aegis and that ages is going to proc off of this uh and get your three blades back so it's just it's constantly paying for the next one constantly going again and again again and that's kind of the flow of how I like playing virtuoso again same thing you're just playing very reactively like this Phantasm is going to cover the blade so if I get the Aegis approx I can start again I can I can go for another aggressive shatter passive proc again and all your blades literally just come from blocking and then after each block you spike and then they trade and then you spike and it just comes again and then you spike and this is just the constant flow of Legion so when people are complaining about Legion virtuoso does feel very bad when you are chasing targets and they are not attacking you so when you're like in a mid fight and you're chasing someone yeah it feels really bad it's hard to make blades but when you go and you start side noting it feels really good it's it's too difficult not to trade now a couple final mentions because like that's I mean that's the majority of it in my opinion like not too much more to it others other than just doing it yourself um don't don't forget your synergies make sure when you play the builds dude like read all your make sure you understand what the class does because again I'm talking about trading it's really important to like use to like take take advantage of your synergies like duelist reversal after you dodge you're gonna get quickness you're gonna get fear you're gonna get regen you're gonna you're gonna get three blades so basically after you evade you're gonna have quickness Aegis and unblockable so that's just a great lineup to trade with the next bearish trade so and that's that's how I play against stuff like Kata you basically just wait Dodge instantly shatter another thing that I do actually that I'll mention because I think it's pretty important is weakness make sure to use signature midnight to trade profitably if I'm dueling as a Revenant or a hollow Smith nades anything like that some of the key interactions and a lot of the duels are things like nade barrage and face reversal where they're really pumping damage into you and instead of trading what you do is use signal midnight in the middle of your offense and when the two of you trade one of you is involved simultaneously while doing a lot of damage so kind of get used to this remember it's a Connie cleanse it's a reflect like a big big counter play against Ranger all the time like wait for them to cast along before on you which is the knockback reactively signal to midnight knock them back you can Spike off of it there's just a ton of counter so I'm going to that's basically it I don't think I need to explain two to Too Much More later this week I'm going to try and put out more content I posted a video today on gameplay of this build and right um no I posted a Chrono built it so I do have a vert game and Montage that I'm gonna post later this week I'll link that when it's out this is the build video thrown on my twitch so we'll follow there that's where most of my content is right that's that's basically it

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Published: Fri Mar 10 2023