Mirage - Greatsword Farmer

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Part of the current metagame.

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great.

Focused on: Tagging, Events, Aoe, Direct damage.

Designed for:

Open World

Expansions required:

This build is up to date as of October 13, 2019.

Overview

A Mirage build specialized for farming loot from enemies in large group events. This build is highly mobile and able to tag a lot of enemies at once with . It is easily in the top 3 for Tagging builds and is one of the easiest ways to farm in holiday events or LS4 trains.

Skill Bar

GreatswordHealingUtilityElite

Greatsword

Skill Variants

Utility Skills

• can be taken over Mantras if it is needed.
• You can run any of the Mantras in the first slot, Pain is just the best "general" use.

Elite Skills

• - if CC is needed.
• - tags a lot of enemies, and increases your tagging speed, but has a very long cooldown.

Weapon Variants

• Greatsword is absolutely core to this build and should always be used.
• Your second weapon set is flexible - you can run whatever you want there.

Equipment

Your gear should feature a mixture of defense and offense. You don't want to go all out on damage because you will steal kills from others in your zerg. You can ultimately run whatever Power gear you want. The gear listed below is an optimal set created specifically for zerg farming.

6x

Superior Rune of Vampirism

Variants

• Try not to run full Berserker gear because if you deal too much damage you will steal tags from your zerg. This is generally considered poor behavior.
• You can run any Power-stat gear you want. Soldier and Knight are both excellent choices. Feel free to mix and match - For example Berserker's armor with Soldier's trinkets is good.

Consumables

Food

• Bring https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Plate_of_Sesame-Crusted_Coq_Au_Vin if you are supplying Ascended food for the zerg.
• Use
  for general farming.
• for maxing out magic find.
• if you need more healing.

Utility:

• Lump of Crystallized Nougat

Usage

Farming

• Spam dodge and to tag mobs for loot (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง
• Use to tag enemies whenever there are 2 charges available. You can also use and off cooldown.
• Place and to passively tag more enemies and get more loot (if you're using them)
• Use to get around quickly.
• Use to break stun and move around quickly.

I Got Separated And Now Have To Fight Mobs

• Use the burst damage skills of Greatsword and sustained damage of Sword/Sword to quickly kill enemies.
• You have essentially infinite dodges from , and all of your dodges grant superspeed. Abuse this to survive enemy attacks.

Crowd Control

• Illusionary Riposte

  2¼

  12

  Illusionary Riposte

  Clone. Block your foe and create an illusion when attacked.

  Damage: 734

  Block Duration: 2½ seconds

  Range: 900
    
  Counter Blade

  ¾

  Counter Blade

  Shoot out a bolt that dazes foes in a line.

  Damage: 37

  Daze: 1 second

  Number of Targets: 5

  Range: 900
• if running it