Virtuoso - Power Speartuoso Roamer

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on February 24, 2025 and is up to date for the August 19, 2025 patch.

Overview

A Power Shatter Virtuoso build for WvW roaming that makes use of the most recent addition to Mesmer's arsenal, the spear.

Skill Bar

Spear

Dagger/Shield

Utility

Skill Variants

Weapons

• Pistol over Shield - better damage in exchange for lower sustain. If however you don't have the Secrets of the Obscure expansion to unlock Weaponmaster Training, you'll have to play with Pistol or even Torch.

• Sword over Dagger - more defensive option with better mobility, but the build becomes a lot more melee focused with this.

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Equipment

Head
Demolisher

Shoulders
Demolisher

Chest
Demolisher

Hands
Demolisher

Legs
Demolisher

Feet
Demolisher

Backpiece
Dragon

Accessory
Dragon

Accessory
Dragon

Amulet
Demolisher

Ring
Demolisher

Ring
Demolisher

Spear
Dragon

Sigil

Sigil

Dagger
Dragon

Shield
Dragon

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Equipment Variants

Sigils

Spear

If you can afford to give up some survivability for better bursts, take the following sigils:

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Rage - the Quickness makes it easier to land Mind the Gap.

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Hydromancy - the sigil itself can do a lot of damage, but one of the main reasons for taking this is that it can instantly proc Sigil of Rage (if you hit something in melee with the weapon swap).

Relics

• Relic of Fireworks - this will increase your damage, but gives up a mobility boost for it, which makes it harder to stick to targets on Spear or disengage in general.

Consumables

Food

• - great offensive stats and some direct damage mitigation.
  • - a bit more defensive but equally viable option.

• - highest damage option, no damage mitigation but the life steal procs still provide some sustain.

• - this food provides some defense against condition damage without sacrificing damage.

• - active damage mitigation via more frequent access to dodging, and the Might generation has synergy with various traits.
  • Budget version:

• or - cheap precision bump and armor ignoring damage procs that also heal you.

Utility

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Usage

To be added

Related Builds

• Virtuoso - Power Speartuoso - sPvP version of the build.