Power Boonstrip Virtuoso

October 2024

Introduction

Power Boonstrip Virtuoso is a strong build with great utility with the ability to deal a lot of damage both at range and in close combat.

Build Fundamentals

Your main role is to burst enemies and remove their boons. Your Shatters remove boons thanks to and removes boons when they hit. Additionally, makes create an extra Phantasm.

Once a Phantasm dies, it turns into a blade instead of a clone. You can only have a maximum of 5 blades at the same time.

will restock your blades and briefly give you .

Due to your Shatters becoming projectiles, Dodge or block an attack to activate before using or , rendering them unblockable. You can see if the trait is active if you currently have the buff.

Use Sword of Decimation to enemies, which can be deadly.

Use to reduce the cooldowns of and / Phantasmal Lancer.

Build Specifics

Greatsword

Use and as much as possible to deal damage and generate Blades.

Be aware of locking your character in place when used – mindlessly casting it can get you into troublesome situations.

Spear

Spear brings strong melee damage but you lose the survivability options of Sword & Shield.

Using Mind the Gap grants Clarity, enhancing your next Spear skill.

Whilst affected by Clarity, it’s important to know that:

• Mental Collapse applies .
• Phantasmal Lancer summons an additional Phantasm.
• Imaginary Inversion heals yourself for a larger amount.

Regardless of whether you are affected by Clarity, Imaginary Inversion grants Blur, allowing you to evade incoming damage.

Sword / Shield

Save for survivability, it grants you Blur, allowing you to evade incoming damage.

NOTE: Blur and share the same icon but are very different! Blur evades, is immunity.

Use as your primary defense to block incoming damage. If you block an attack, you gain access to a secondary blocking skill , which is a duplicate of the first skill. Your Illusionary Avenger phantasm will either spawn at the end of ‘s duration or instantly when an enemy skill is blocked.

will targets on impact. It can impact twice, on its’ way out and when it comes back to the player. The skill’s cooldown can be reduced if the player is touched by the skill’s returning part.

Alternatives

Traits

You can equip over to remove boons whenever you hit an enemy with Crowd Control skills such as , and etc.

Skills

You can swap Sword of Decimation for if you want a and movement skill.

If preferred, you can also swap for .

and are a possibility for some extra boon removal.