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    Celestial Virtuoso Open World Build

    By Jen28 February, 2022Updated:13 April, 202517 Comments2 Mins Read Open World Builds

    GW2. Best Open World Build. Celestial Virtuoso Open World. Mesmer PvE.


    The Celestial Virtuoso Open World build is a Mesmer that applies profuse bleeding and the dagger skills to stock blades extremely fast to send out as many bladesongs as possible which generates more blades and bleeds. It is an aggressive build that survives while dealing damage by using long-range and positioning as well as distortion to go invulnerable.

    Despite lacking mobility, this build can easily traverse through maps because you don’t rely on clones to do your damage which allows you to frontload your damage every encounter.

    Clones are replaced by blades as a virtuoso, but you stock blades very quickly when hitting with dagger attacks which cause bleeding on critical hitting. The dagger allows so much generation that you can stay on the dagger/pistol set and continually fire bladesong skills while filling the gap with dagger skills and using Signet of Illusions when you run out of shatters. You can swap to focus to pull enemies together to more easily pierce them with your dagger and bladesong shatter skills, but this is mostly useful in the opener when your weapon swap cooldown won’t stop your damage too much.


    Burst Rotation:

    • Focus 5 > 4 > 4 > Swap
    • Pistol 4 > F2 > Dagger 3 > Dagger 2 > F1 > Pistol 5 > 111

    Difficulty
    25%

    ItemStatRune / Sigil
    Helm
    Celestial
    Shoulders
    Celestial
    Coat
    Celestial
    Gloves
    Celestial
    Leggings
    Celestial
    Boots
    Celestial

    Dagger
    Celestial
    Pistol
    Celestial

    Main Hand
    Empty
    Focus
    Celestial
    ItemStat
    Amulet
    Celestial
    Ring
    Celestial
    Ring
    Celestial
    Accessory
    Celestial
    Accessory
    Celestial
    Backpiece
    Celestial



    Optional
    x18

    Alternatives

    • Sigil: instead of Celerity

    Dagger / PistolHeal / Utility / Elite
    Dagger / Focus

    Alternatives

    • Utility: instead of Blink if you don’t want the mobility


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    17 Comments

    1. Kay Dub on 4 March, 2022 12:24 pm

      This is a really good open world build. I tried power variations but it just didn’t do enough damage. I’m handling open world content well with Celestial Exotic gear.

      Reply
    2. Sven DL on 12 March, 2022 8:29 pm

      Hi, what is the skill rotation? I made the build but am looking for a rotation 🙂 Good job btw!

      Reply
    3. Sven DL on 12 March, 2022 8:34 pm

      Never mind my first comment ^^ I found the rotation, looked over it!

      Reply
    4. Jo on 13 March, 2022 4:33 am

      I’m having a blast with this build, slightly different utility skills but barely need to swap to the scepter/torch so far. Really fun, and much better than the suggested build on metabattle.

      Reply
    5. V on 14 March, 2022 3:15 am

      This build is just so freaking fun. Celestial on a Mesmer. YAS! Thank you so much for this.

      Reply
    6. Estranged on 7 May, 2023 9:22 am

      is this build still viable ?

      Reply
      • Jen on 15 May, 2023 12:27 pm

        It is yes

        Reply
    7. Riskless on 15 June, 2023 5:34 pm

      can you run GS with this instead of scepter+torch?

      Reply
      • Jen on 15 June, 2023 11:48 pm

        You can sure

        Reply
    8. HenrykCzerwony on 11 September, 2023 5:40 am

      Hi! I found myself that Axe/Shield on backbar is pretty interesting (torment, bleeding, block and mobility in combat), in addition I use runes of Tormenting instead of Traveler. Unfortunately I’m still using Relic of the Thief but it will be changed to Fractal/Akeem

      Reply
    9. Iaybab on 4 November, 2023 3:38 am

      What would be the best small/rechargable burst combo to deal with eg. completing hearts during world completion?

      Reply
    10. Potato on 7 March, 2024 7:54 pm

      how bad would it be to use a sword instead of focus?

      Reply
      • Jen on 8 March, 2024 3:01 pm

        That’s totally fine you can use it

        Reply
    11. Anthony Gray on 9 January, 2025 2:57 am

      Any other relics instead of wayfinder? I don’t have it yet.

      Reply
      • Jen on 26 January, 2025 10:56 pm

        Fractal relic

        Reply
    12. Ze Claudio on 23 February, 2025 11:43 pm

      Does Spear also work on this build?

      Reply
      • Jen on 24 February, 2025 8:32 pm

        Not really, Spear is power oriented weapon.

        Reply
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