Mirage - Condi Mirage
The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: 
Overview
Staff-staff mirage is a very simple yet effective build that revolves around spamming the Ambush to both deal damage and generate boons. The build provides permanent 25 
Might, 
Fury and 
Alacrity to yourself and nearby allies, while dealing good 
Torment, 
Bleeding, and 
Confusion damage.
While the build has a very prominent lack of burst damage, staff-staff mirage is very simple to play, capable of soloing champions and bosses with ease thanks to its evasiveness, clones tanking for you, and its mobility.
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Weapon Variants
In order to play staff-staff mirage you must equip one staff in your first weapon set, and a second staff on your second weapon set. Both staves must have a .
Axe+
Pistol can replace one staff, this build is called staxe mirage (staff+axe). It sacrifices boon generation and ranged damage in exchange for better burst. When playing in groups providing boons, staxe will outperform staff-staff. But staff-staff is better for solo content.
Greatsword can replace staff to provide long range tagging (hitting enemies for weak damage to earn kill credit) when playing in groups farming events. Equip the greatsword with a and spam .
Skill Variants
Utility skills
and provide the highest sustained damage through their passive, so only use their active skill in emergencies.
provides damage and more Ambushes. Crystal Sands can be replaced by other skills if the need arises:
- - evade, stunbreak, and Mirage Cloak. Removes
Immobile which prevents you from dodging. - - if conditions are a problem.
- - to reflect projectiles.
- - situationally powerful.
- - can be useful, especially when playing in groups.
- - stunbreak and movement.
Elite skill
deals good damage, can teleport you out of danger, cleanses 1 condition, and is a leap finisher (See also:Guide:What are Combo Fields).
- - sacrifices damage for the ability to delete a defiance bar.
- - very situational to run past enemies or commune with Hero Points in stealth, use together with for longer stealth, but change the trait afterwards.
Specializations
Variants
- On fights against boses, you will not be constantly changing target so you require less clone generation and is wasted. In these scenarios you can instead use + for more damage through Confusion.
- - you don't Shatter too often with this build, but some occasional
Protection can be useful. - When playing staxe, use and . You sacrifice boon generation and ranged damage in exchange for better burst. When playing in groups providing boons, staxe will outperform staff-staff. But staff-staff is better for solo content.
Equipment
This build uses the same gear as Mirage - Alacrity Support Condi DPS. Infusions are not mandatory.
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- can only be crafted. If you can't acquire them right away, you can use while you work on acquiring the much better Trapper runes.
- If you require extra defense, a few pieces of
Trailblazer can be used. - Note that you require 0% boon duration from your gear to provide permament Alacrity. This is because provides permanent
Regeneration to enable and gain 250 concentration (16.66% boon duration), which is all you need.
- You will not generate permanent alacrity when playing staxe, which is why you use instead.
Consumables
Food
If you or another player shares an ascended feast, eat the Flatbread food. For normal open world you can use cheap basic food:
Utility
There's no budget utility items. If you need them, use:
- /
Farming
- + (and variants)
Usage
Mirage Cloak
is the profession mechanic of the mirage. Whenever you dodge or pick up a , you enter Mirage Cloak for 0,75 seconds, dodging incoming attacks. You also gain access to Ambush skills for 1,5 seconds, which replace your first weapon skill. Mirage Cloak does not have a cast time, allowing mirages to dodge at any time, such as when casting a skill, when reviving someone, but cannot be used while under the effects of hard crowd control or immobilization.
Clone generation
Clones are essential to playing condition mirage. Try to always have 3 clones attacking. These are your sources of clones:
- Phantasms become clones after attacking, so will summon 2 clones.
- summons 1 clone, but be mindful of the forced teleport, don't teleport into enemy AoEs.
- Dodging while in combat will summon 1 clone at your location that attacks the nearest target due to , and it will immediately use its Ambush skill due to .
- Since your clones are very important in this build, you can time your dodges to make your clones dodge dangerous attacks thanks to . This trait also stunbreaks your clones when you dodge.
- For staxe, and summon 1 clone.
Damage
The vast majority of your damage comes from auto attacking and casting with 3 clones up, thanks to . Try to always have 3 clones attacking.
- You should allow yourself and your clones to use one inbetween each , as it does more damage than spamming Chaos Vortex. forces the clone to cast the Ambush, interrumpting whatever they might be doing, so the player casting one auto attack after each Ambush also prevents the clone's Ambush from getting interrupted by casting another Ambush. For staxe, be careful to not interrupt .
- Since clones are so important for your damage, this build only uses when you can immediately generate 3 clones again. If your target is about to die, you can finish them off with .
- Use , and off cooldown.
- Weapon swap any time you're under 50% endurance to restore endurance thanks to . If you are at full endurance, dodge before weapon swapping. This can be done even with autoattack on, but you have to be fast to not interrupt your character automatically using Chaos Vortex.
- Having
Chaos Aura increases your damage thanks to . Increase your Chaos Aura uptime by using combo finishers such as and inside ethereal combo fields such as or Lesser Chaos Storm from . (see also: Guide:What are Combo Fields)
Boons
- This build provides permanent 25 Might and Alacrity to yourself and nearby allies through . The duration of these boons scales with the number of clones that use this skill (which is only possible thanks to ), so try to maintain 3 clones up.
- will also provide Might and Fury to allies it bounces to. also helps with fury. And the increased critical chance enables .
- provides permanent self Regeneration. This enables .
- Priority
- Dodge + +
- - only if clones are needed
Defense
- You can use your dodge at any time, even during other actions, but not while under the effects of hard crowd control.
- Use to reposition and cleanse 1 condition.
- Abuse your for frequent dodges. You dodge so often that you'll dodge some attacks without even trying.
- sacrifices your clones for invulnerability.
- blinds trash mobs.
- Against enemies with projectiles, hide behind your clones.
- Thanks to , your Shatters provide
stability. However, do not rely on this as this build wants to have high clone uptime. - - to reposition or gain distance
- can provide a strong stunbreak.
Crowd Control
- - 1 second
Daze - - 1 second Daze from you AND each clone shattered, so up to 4 seconds of Daze.
- - 3 seconds of
Stun (as a last resort) - - 2.5 seconds of Stun (staxe only)
- - (variant option)
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