Blue Protocol: Star ResonanceBeat Performer Concerto Spec GuideBest build and how to play the class.

Basic ATK

String Strike

Skill

Healing Beat

Ultimate

Concert Circuit

Slot 1 - Mandatory

Fivefold Crescendo

Slot 2 - Mandatory

Passion Burst

Slot 3 - Mandatory

Healing Melody

Slot 4 - Mandatory

Encore

Performance Energy - Performance Energy is our energy bar, which we will consume to use our major healing ability, Heroic Melody. We have a base amount of 50 Energy and a regeneration rate of 1 per second, but both values can be increased in our talent tree. Energy is very important for this Spec because our goal is to maintain Healing Melody.

Performance Passion - Performance Passion is another resource, this time required for using certain abilities of this class, both damage-oriented and healing. At a baseline, we have 5 notes and regenerate 1 every 5 seconds.

Fixed Skills

• 

  String Strike
  - Our 4-part Basic Attack, useful for activating additional healing and damage effects between ability casts. It also helps us reset our Healing Beat Special, making it essential to weave in during the downtime of the abilities.
• This ability can be enhanced, evolving into Piercing Strike when certain talents trigger.
• Healing Beat - Replaces our Special Skill in the Concerto Spec, a healing ability that has no cooldown but must consume Performance Passion to be activated. Will gain several reset effects and buffs in our Spec’s talent tree.
• 

  Rock the Stage
  - Our Ultimate heals nearby allies and attacks nearby enemies on top of letting us hit 12 Performance Passion points momentarily. We will instead opt to use the enhanced version “Concert Circuit" once the key talent is activated, which improves our damage and healing frequency scaling on the number of allies or enemies hit. This improved ability also lets us move during casting.

Mandatory Skills

• 

  Fivefold Crescendo
  - A high hit count ability and the skill with our highest healing output. It also cleanses our allies’ debuffs. This ability and all of its effects are repeated by
  

  Healing Melody
  ’s Speaker mechanic.
• 

  Passion Burst
  The only damaging ability of Concerto Spec with several tiers, gained from channeling the ability and which has different effects. This ability will be mostly used in its Tier 1 mode rather than others because of its fast cast time, allowing us to instead prioritize performing more actions within our rotations. There is also an enhanced version of this ability with a talent node that deals damage over time from an instant cast rather than a channel.
• 

  Healing Melody
  - Our most important ability, thanks to effects granted later in the Spec’s talent tree. At its base, it will summon a Speaker in the battle, which will continuously heal all allies. The Speaker also has a powerful mechanic of repeating all healing abilities cast by you when nearby (
  

  Rock the Stage
  , Healing Beat,
  

  Fivefold Crescendo
  ).
• As explained later, it’s recommended to enable Free Cast mode in Settings to allow us to place the Speaker manually.
• 

  Encore
  - While this buff is active, we deal additional damage to enemies and provide additional healing to allies (prioritizing the lowest HP ally). This will also grant Super Armor to 10 allies, protecting them from knockback caused by enemies. Later talent nodes significantly enhance its utility and cement it as a mandatory ability.

Skill Priority

Fivefold Crescendo

> Healing Beat >

Healing Melody

>

Rock the Stage

=

Encore

>

Passion Burst

=

String Strike

For skill advancement, we recommend starting with

Fivefold Crescendo

Healing Melody

Encore

Rock the Stage

String Strike

Passion Burst

If you want to create your own Talent tree, check our tool:

Talent Planner

Important!

All gear & talent related info is based on extensive in-game testing, parsing, theory crafting and simulations. If you want to learn more about how damage works to understand our decisions, check out our Damage Formula Guide.

Stat Priority

Crit Rate

     

Haste

    

Luck

  

Mastery

 

Versatility

   

Main Stats

1. Crit Rate - Our most important stats for the following reasons:
• Many of our Encore Strings triggers are based on Crit Chance
• The regeneration of Performance Energy on Crit of Fivefold Crescendo and Healing Melody.
• Our goal is to have as much crit as possible, with a minimum of 1850 points. The suggested amount is any value between 40% to 50% crit. Every excess point should also be placed in this stat.
2. Haste - Haste is an essential stat for reducing the time between healing intervals in Healing Melody as well as decreasing the animation time for our abilities. It’s strongly advised to reach 20% Haste (1140 Haste); however, this stat also scales badly from this breakpoint onwards and is not recommended to further invest into.
3. Versatility - This stat is always beneficial, providing an extra multiplicative boost on top of everything else to healing. Stats suffer diminishing returns, so building a bit of Versatility can help a lot more for damage than overcommitting to one or two other stats.
4. Luck - An okay choice as it can empower our healing by a more significant margin than if we overinvested in Versatility. It is still a low priority versus previous stats, due to us having no other benefits to taking Luck.
5. Mastery - A very particular stat, which, for our Spec, will slow down Healing Melody’s Performance Energy consumption, at a ratio of 0.35% for 1% of mastery. It is great in the early game when our Crit is on the low end, butit is weak in the late game once we have reached satisfactory amounts of more optimal stats.

Bonus Stats

In gear slots you’re not using Set Gear in and which aren’t taken up by your class's signature Class weapon (if you have it), prioritize the following Purple Stats:

Helmet, Armour, Gloves, Boots

Intellect%

Weapons & Accessories

ATK% = Healing% > Cast Speed%

Set Gear

Concerto’s 2P and 4P set bonuses are both definitely worth equipping as soon as you’re able to complete Raids and are better than Purple Bonuses. Here is what they do:

2-piece SET

The Healing of Healing Beat +20%.

4-Piece SET

When the

Healing Melody

is not active, grants 2 points of Performance Energy every 3s.

Class weapon

Our Class Weapon is also definitely worth using over purple stats. Instead of a purple stat, it grants:

• 15% Crit Heal .
• Increased stats .

Here are the best modules for Beat Performer - Concerto - listed in priority order:

1. 

   Healing Enhance
   - Provides Magic Attack and INT - two great stats. It also boosts most of our healing capabilities from Expertise abilities. Our biggest burst heals are from Expertise skills, making this our best option.
2. 

   Healing Boost
   - Provides Magic Attack and INT, two great stats. It also boosts most of our healing capabilities from Specials. Our second-best choice, due to how often we will be casting Healing Beat.
3. 

   Crit Focus
   - The Crit buffs are powerful, benefitting both our healing and damage.
4. 

   Cast Focus
   - Grants Magic Attack, along with Cast Speed, which makes our ability animations faster.
5. 

   Intellect Boost
   - A good module for additional Magic Attack, along with some INT, which increases our party buffs slightly. Even if it appears on the DPS nodes, it is still worth considering till we unlock Extreme modules.

Attention!

We have divided the Imagines into 2 different categories: one for amplifying the team's damage, and one for survivability/quality of life. The first category is our general recommendation, for its team-wide buffing capabilities, but the second can’t be underestimated.

Premium Offensive

Tina

+

Brigand Leader

/

Inferno Goblin Mage [A5]

Premium Defensive

Tina

+

Muku King

/

Airona

Top Imagines - Universal

• 

  Tina
  - Tina is the best supportive Imagine in the game and is usually expected to be run by sustains. Tina grants the party a 50% cooldown reduction for 20 seconds. This allows us and our party to regain their cooldowns more quickly, improving survivability, healing, and most importantly, group damage significantly.
• Once a party member is affected by this effect, they can’t be affected again for 60 seconds.

Top Imagines - Party Damage

• 

  Brigand Leader
  - Brigand Leader increases your and your team’s Attack %, allowing for more damage. It also scales very well with Luck. Every Lucky Strike will now apply a DoT, with the catch being that DoT will immediately tick every Luck application, allowing it to serve as an on-hit effect as well. Despite not stacking luck, it is still good to time using the active of this Imagine to maximize your party's damage. .
• The ATK buff is unique and cannot be stacked, meaning in high party count content, you may want to use a variety of support Imagines.
• 

  Inferno Goblin Mage [A5]
  - Grants us a permanent 10% Intellect with an additional 20% during its activation effect. This significantly enhances our ally buffing power through the Intellect conversion and makes it our best Imagine option, whilst also being cheaper than most. Be sure to try to time your 32% damage buff while the +20% INT buff is active.
• 

  Venobzzar Incubator
  - This Imagine pulses damage in a large area, applying up to an 8% generic damage taken debuff on enemies hit for the whole party. This debuff isn’t that strong as it only lasts 8 seconds, and stacks additively with all other sources of non-elemental DMG%, resulting in it usually being heavily diluted. Mostly useful in 20-man content; otherwise, Brigand Leader will perform better.

Top Imagines - Defensive

• 

  Airona
  - When cast, summons Airona who performs a short prayer before reviving up to 4 downed teammates. Airona is powerful in standard play to resurrect teammates and can be used as a part of resurrection cheese strategies as well. While very useful, this Imagine is frequently run on tanks, meaning you won't always need to run it unless you’re running strategies that require 2 or more Airona.
• Allies resurrected by Airona can’t be resurrected by her again for 60 seconds
• 

  Muku King
  - Upon use, Muku King joins the battle and provides healing and 10% healing received for up to 10 allies and dispels debuffs from them during his channel duration. Passively, he provides an 8% Healing buff and a shield that triggers when allies are healed. The shield is based on our attack and is relatively small. However, it is one of the only ways we can provide shielding to our teammates for extra effective HP.

• Ruby - Intelligence (Crit) - The most Magic ATK we can get from a food buff, empowering both the damage and the healing we can do.
• Sapphire - Intelligence (Haste) - Decent alternative if you are lacking Haste.

Our first goal is to maintain Healing Melody and the Passion Burst bonus constantly during the fight. During the burst windows of our allies, we additionally want to activate Encore for an even larger share of the party buff effect ( 32% of our Intellect ).

Using Encore again when up results in around a 50% uptime of this buff.

Imagines

Note

Our Imagines are not always needed, as some provide certain utility rather than helping the team deal more damage. Buff-oriented Imagines (like

Inferno Goblin Mage [A5]

) should be preserved for DPS burst windows rather than activating them whenever. Survivability-oriented Imagines, on the other hand, should only be used defensively. If we are lacking Performance Energy or missing impactful ability cooldowns, then you can use these to help bridge the gap.

Opening Rotation during Burst

• Use Available Imagines
• Activate
  

  Healing Melody
  if not up
• 

  Encore
• 

  Passion Burst

After opening our rotation with these abilities, we then want to follow a set of rules rather than a fixed rotation. Here is the priority system:

• Position our Speaker from
  

  Healing Melody
  near the boss or allies. Deactivate it during scenarios where damage or healing isn’t possible.
• Prioritize using
  

  Encore
  in coordination with DPS burst windows.
• 

  Passion Burst
  should be used every 10 seconds. Always use the Tier 1 form for a faster cast.
• The enhanced version of
  

  Passion Burst
  doesn't share a CD with the base version, and can also be canceled for a short animation if needed to keep this 10s buff up.
• 

  Fivefold Crescendo
  has to be used on cooldown to refill Performance Energy. Keep one Performance Passion ready for this ability, for 3 total when considering other generation effects.
• Healing Beat and its discounted version can be used between the usage of other abilities to heal.
• 

  Rock the Stage
  , whilst enhanced as “Concert Circuit”, can be used for burst healing in dire situations
• 

  String Strike
  s if doing nothing else

Gameplay Tip

By enabling the Free Cast Mode in Settings, we’ll be able to use the

Healing Melody

Can Concerto be played on auto?

When playing Concerto on Autoplay, there are a variety of problems. It is not recommended to do this when trying to heal the party effectively. Concerto Beat Performer focuses a lot on pressing the right buttons at the right time to help out the party with buffs and heals. The autoplay has no regard for this and will just press everything as soon as it comes up. We also need to use our camera to face towards enemies when casting enhanced Passion Burst, which the autoplay will never do.

There isn’t a good way to play semi-auto to help resolve this, either, since if you were to disable all of the skills that contribute to the big buff, you would simply be playing manually.