The breakdown of the rotation is amazingly explained!! The little animations alongside your voiceover makes the guide even more clear for anyone ^^ you did an incredible job!! Thank you so much for this excellent guide! :D ^^

Going over the principles is such a good way to do this. Literally will recommend out of ten

Wow, this type of build explanation is soooooo awesome! Explaining the basics first, then add in some more stuff. Makes it so much easier than having to remember "5, 1, 1, ... 2, 3, 5, swap, 1, 1, 2, F1, ..." even on the "easier" builds. I mean, yeah, after a while you get the idea with the other tutorials as well, but your way of explaining it makes so much more sense and makes it so much more easy to follow along! I feel like I could even pull off good weaver rotations when they're explained like that :) PLEASE more of this!

You made this explanation simple, without making it wrong. Great job, this is what a build guide should look like! I want to comment one thing about the priority of Dagger 3 over Dagger 2 - I am kind of unhappy the way it is worded on snowcrows because priority is much more complicated than this simple rule. Fact: Dagger 3 does more damage than Dagger 2 while having the same cast time. It makes the skill more efficient. But: Dagger 2 has a shorter cooldown. When two skills come off CD exactly at the same time (their cooldowns "collide"), you have to delay one of them for 0.44s (the cast time of the other skill that you press first). If this happens to your Dagger 2, you're actually more likely to lose an extra cast of Dagger 2 in a phase / fight due to delaying it every time. Dagger 3 with its longer CD might be less mad at you for leaving it to wait for 0.44s once in a while. Sooo... in the end you should press them in a way that causes fewer cooldown collisions, and when you watch the benchmark very attentively you'll actually find I use my Dagger 2 in very peculiar priority sometimes just to make it "dance around" cooldown collisions 30 seconds down the line. This is a golem thing though, I wouldn't ever expect to do that in a real fight. So, after this longwinded and confusing comment, all I want to say is "well sometimes I also put Dagger 2 first :D" Maybe you see now why I am a bit unhappy with the absolute statement on SC. It refers to the fact Dagger 3 is stronger than Dagger 2 damage wise - but does that actually result in higher priority? Who knows, it depends. Anyway, I love this video, your animations and editing make this awesome in ways I would never have the nerve, talent or editing tools to do. I hope you have a good day.

Now that cVirt has shined in Cerus CM, and asserted its dominance over other dps builds, there’s no way Anet won’t nerf it in future patches

@kalebriss

4 ай бұрын

Anet watching this: "Well, it seems like Mirage needs another nerf"

@LaHuguu

4 ай бұрын

@@kalebriss « And Untamed as well, just for good measure »

@chester1882

4 ай бұрын

Because it doesn’t have E-L-E in its name

@HaseoDanette

4 ай бұрын

@@LaHuguu”and buff our baby boy guardian because we love guardian”

@Apoz

4 ай бұрын

@@HaseoDanette Wasn't guardian low dps for the past 3 years though?

This was great, I would love to see more builds explained this way

Thank you, Lara! I have been waiting for this release since you first mentioned it during one of your streams, haha. Reading the guides is a little confusing at first, but the way you explained the actions made everything so much easier to learn. Please, make more videos like this one.

The play explanation was very clear. I would love to see more of these. ❤

I absolutely loved the way you explain how to play the build, so much easier to understand. Thank you!

Man you made that so simple. Ive read the snowcrows guide about a dozen times and you distilled it so much more simply. Ty 🙏

The way you explain the rotation is super easy to follow, great job with the animations! Please do more of this 😊

After avoiding playing Mesmer at all costs because I thought it wasn't for me, I tried this and it may actually be my favorite setup in the entire game. Now I'm wishing I just tried Mesmer when I started playing.

Wow. That is it... That is beautiful simple you create this and make me understand how to do with my virtuosos. Thank you, Lara!

I like how your guide prioritizes getting people to the point where they are contributing before trying to optimize. I appreciate the benchmarkers and the in-depth high level guides they provide, but when I'm starting out I really just want a priority list to master and fine tune as I do content.

Great guide video. Especially how well the voice over and highlighting of the skills and order of button pushing, very well explained.

Ofc we need more build videos like this. The explanations are insane ❤

Great video. I've been looking for a good tutorial that walks through a rotation clearly. Just watching people play is difficult to follow, so I appreciate how you structured the video. Would welcome more like this.

@Raazael

4 ай бұрын

Totally agree; I don't know why this is hard to find. Really helpful when there's a breakdown.

Earned a sub started playing two weeks ago. Your videos are clear and concise. You've really helped me a lot.

This is a great guide. I have played this build for a few months, and still learned a few things!! Would love to see something similar for boon support Chrono.

This is the type of thing I really struggle with. Even with it writen out it helps so much to be able to see it. Please make more of these!

This was so much better than trying to figure it out through just the snow crows site. Thank you!

What a fantastic guide Lara ❤

This is exactly the type of content that I need! I'm always looking for li/easy rotation builds that feels rewarding to play without a 40 step piano rotation XD I would love to see more videos like this!

That is quite the build. Did that on my Virtuoso, and wow! It changed my gameplay with my character big time. Went and started tweaking up my Reaper, and brought my cc from 24 percent, to an amazing 54 percent. I just went and listened to what you did here, and applied some of the mechanics here to my Reaper. Thank you.

Such a nice explanation! Would be great to have more content like that :D

Such a great and clear guide! Thanks so much! 💜

I love your explanations! So easy to follow

Fantastic explanation, you really have a knack for breaking down concepts into concise, easy to understand parts. Great editing as well! 😃 Even though I have around 1k hours on this build, I managed to learn something new: I didn't actually know dagger 3 had priority over dagger 2! There's always more to learn in this game 😂 Keep up the good work, the quality of your videos lately has been outstanding 🤩

@Chibeagle

4 ай бұрын

nerf

I recently play GW2 but I'm not really a gamer, just want something to put my stress out, I do play it before but not that much into it and now my classmates play it so I did again and now I choose Mesmer, this kind of explanation is lit! So easy to understand especially for me who is not that good. I have skill issue 🤣

I like the rotation breakdown. It lets you add complexity as you get comfortable.

We need more of this!

Very nice guide, thank you!

Lara please do other specs ( even harder ones ) in this format. This is very good to learn

Love these build guides! Pls do more! I like easy to play stuff.

I recently returned to gw2 this year and swapped to this build to take a break from my ele and it has been so refreshing to not play a piano rotation!! It's simple and mesmer is so rewarding to play! Thank you for this video

Fantastic explanation, please more guides!!! you are awesomeeee

I love this sort of content - brb gonna go try this out! Thanks for explaining it to the smooth brains like me

Great video! More of these, please!

great video. loved the extra graphics .. i will be changing my mesmer over.. TY :)

Awesome vid first and foremost. This makes me wonder though about anet and their design of dps professions (rotations). If the “best” players of the game have to use the simplest dps rotation to beat the hardest content, for me it confirms that most dps rotations are a convoluted mess that lack intuitiveness and flow. I wish anet would consider that

another banger of a guide!

This video is very helpful for a new player like me. The breakdowns are very useful. It always confuses me about the complicated rotation tables on build websites.

Nice build, you convinced me to play Mesmer more now. Thank you 🙏🏾 lol

I wish most of snowcrow videos would have this kind of break down... thank you for making this.

Its a very nice build! good vid about it!

thank you. very easy to follow. i give this build 3 months before it get nerf.

Another great Video. Please do more of these videos!

I just love your videos. Thank you for explaining things so thoroughly especially for us who are new to game. I was wondering if you could make a video on keybinds, not sure if that’s the correct term.

I just started GW and boosted a character to 80 not undestanding anything about my build xD Yesterday I unlocked Virtuoso and this video explained everything I need to know as I was clueless. TY!

If u could do this with a few support dps’ that’d b great! Your simple build explanation made the build so easy to understand

Condi Virtuoso has insane DPS. I think it’s time to nerf Mirage.

Pog finally i got a piano sheet for my virtu thanks Lara 🥳

@didoma73

4 ай бұрын

what's a pog

I love this build. I've been using it since EoD as my open world build. It helps me tag enemies during events and metas and cleave mobs in Rift events, as well as pile on the damage to Champs and big bosses.

okay, I ran this build for convergence and it was fun, but man I was SO squishy! I went down like a hundred times, no health at all, just the ground effects would down me from full health (18k ish), so that's something to be aware of, and staying at distance didn't help with that, maybe in strikes or fractals it's easier, but I definitely need to practice with it too. thanks for the great guide!

Lara... Please do more builds videos. You're awesome at It.

I never really was a dps player I was always on the support trap xD And actually, this guide helped me, at least at the golem, to so much more damage than I had managed with snowcrows, so thank you so much xD

I rarely play Mesmer and haven’t unlocked Virtuoso yet, but this video has motivated me to get Virtuoso unlocked asap.

Rampager trinkets are available for just some Laurels, so I was able to get a full set super easily.

It also has versatile utilities, like blink and portals, and front loaded condi burst, often outperforming on power encounters. *You should be melee for F5 to hit.

What a cool and helpful video! Thank you :) And btw. what a sweet little asura girlie (i love asura ;D) Could you do a video about condi wilbender too? I would love that!

Laranity - Harbringer of CMC’s nerf Hammer

you should do a series on how to do rotation with other classes as well! It's great!!

You do a great job breaking down the rotation. Please post one for Boon Chrono. I need some help.

Thank you for breaking it down so easily.

Thanks L!

what would be the set up if i don't want to use viper's weapons pls. can i just put more vipers in armors?

Great guide Lara! Please do one for condi pistol Willbender (Firebender)!

You just convinced me to give Mesmer another try. Also that elementalist dance. lmao

Oh, yeah, I saw one of the DPS of Snowcrows playing it on Febe CM, and I was dumbfounded to see how button-mashing-like this build was. I remember Arena Net saying, some time ago: "We'll make sure that the more a build is hard to play, the more powerful it will be". I guess they got struck by some form of selective memory loss..? Anyway, thank you for the guide.

a 9 min video so u can now do CM CM Cerus XD But in all serious this is really a good guide and simple-to-understand breakdown in one of the best endgame PVE content

Although i main rev, cVirt carried my needs for condi CMs since EoD release. Feels incredible and like no other.

These ELI5 videos are so great to learn how to do good dps. Sometimes it's not that easy to follow a written guide and watch a video at full speed.

I would love to have fun with this build but somehow I'm extremely squishy and I die pretty fast...

I sometimes trouble where should my eyes be. On cooldowns or the boss maybe on my character?

how u go to that place where you summon golem and see dps ?

So that’s why there were two condi virts in my raid group last Saturday

why does the snowcrow guide says to use viper amulet?

i hope they won't nerf it to the ground - it allows me to be somewhat competent even though i am not very good at the game

Do i have to use precision infusions to get to 100% crit chance?

Out of curiosity, where do you get the fury effect from for the extra 40% crit? I was unaware of this.

i'm a newborn lvl 80 and just maxed out my necro and ranger, and insta 80 my guardian, and currently training my mesmer. I know that virtuoso is all around great for pve (which i intend to focus on mostly for my gameplay), but is mirage and chronomancer fun to play too?

Hello!! im new in the game i dont undertand how you used x2 sword phantasma first? i cant maybe is sword 5 > swap >focus 5 > heal > focus 5 again > swap? or im wrong? thank you for the video it help me so much. :)

Let's all pray Anet does not nerf this build! Been playing "bleeder" virtuoso since EoD and loving it.

@jurare89

4 ай бұрын

yeah, when i saw the video being released i immediately thought: "that´s unfortunate timing, since we have literally a balance-patch coming up in a week". Though in that case, considering the preview-notes the patch isn´t gonna change much, at least for now. Unfortunately you never know what last-minute adjustments ANet does before the actual patch, so this video may be outdated next week already (or not, we can´t tell until the actual patch drops...)

Man, I wanna try this build, but I love mesmer greatsword too much lol

As a newbie - is this also good in the open world /story instances?

Me: "Too dumb for complex rotations" Lara: "Here's an eli5 for you" Thanks a lot. ^^

Ohh cool, I've not touched my Mes for a while. I wanted to ask, I'm getting 99% crit chance including food but with not infusions. Would there any reason why it's not 100%?

What do you do for healing?

Hi. Do more of this. Ty

why virtuoso always with one dagger why not 2 dagger i don't get it:

It seems my big boy with purple blades is a big start ATM.

New players here how do you get all those buffs? The orange boxes

I think that's probably my biggest issue with playing GW2 non casually, is that some of us struggle with the 40 ability rotation and so having a more simple rotation or a priority list (or even a rotation that isn't as punishing) is much better than how it currently is for most specs. Great video and easy to understand.

could Relic of Zakiros be ok for this build for extra sustain or is it pointless because this is a condi build?

Very good guide. There is only one reason why I don't play the class - pink. It makes me nauseous for some reason

Not sure why I didn't get to see this video sooner but, yes, more video's like this one. But one question, can signet of midnight be swapped for signet of inspiration for the added boons it gives or no?

@joyboy6067

16 күн бұрын

You can but its unnecessary, its someone elses job to provide it to you,unless you running solo ow,but thats different build and we already have jadebot buff for that

Where does that extra small window above your F5 come from? I have seen in in other players UI as well and always wondered what it is respectively where it is coming from? Thanks for the explanations and the break down of the rotation. Very nicely focused on the main stuff and then adding the fillers, so helpful to understand it.

@Laranity

4 ай бұрын

This is a special skill you get access to in the training area! It lets you reset your skill cooldowns when you’re practicing

@Janalysiert

4 ай бұрын

Oh lol ok - thank you so much, I was looking at addons and all kinds of things to figure it out....lol. /stupid-moments-in-time ^^

@hilanddoug

4 ай бұрын

Its usually a situation specific skill that sometimes requires mastery points in something local to the area. If that makes sense...

is all this shiny thing a skin or a legendary weapon?

Every time I see a video like this, I'm worried that ArenaNet sees it and goes: "Yeah... Too OP. We're gonna nerf this. Too much fun."

Thumbs up :)