Mirage - Power Spear Mirage

Part of the current tournament metagame

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

Focused on: Strike damage, Mobility and Control

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Hard

This build was last updated on April 22, 2026 and is up to date for the April 14, 2026 patch.

Overview

A high damage Power Mirage PvP build utilizing the Spear.

Skill Bar

Spear

Sword/Shield

Utility

Skill Variants

Heal

• Ether Feast - strong healing and condition cleansing, swap to this in condition heavy match-ups.

• False Oasis - more Vigor and an additional evade.

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Specializations

Variants

• Wandering Mind adds some extra sustain + mobility at the expense of damage.

Equipment

Spear

Sigil

Sigil

Axe

Shield

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Relic

• Relic of Zakiros - potential secondary source of healing.

• Relic of the Claw - a good alternative to Fireworks. You could have higher uptime on this, but slightly lower burst damage.

• Relic of the Wayfinder - if you struggle with kiting or keeping up with your targets.

Rune

• Rune of Infiltration - better consistency via higher crit chance.

• Rune of Vampirism - vitality alternative, best used in condition based match ups.

• Rune of Scholar - full glass option.

Usage

Elite specialization basics

• Dodge rolling is replaced by Mirage Cloak, which is more or less the same thing but allows you to cast skills and grants access to ambush attacks for its duration: Fractured Glass for Spear and Imaginary Axes for Axe. Ambush skills replace the autoattack of the weapons for 1.5 seconds and can only be used once per Mirage Cloak activation.

• You can dodge while casting skills and performing actions like rezing or stomping, but not while CC'd.

General

• Both weapon sets offer a mix of defense and offense, but Spear is your main burst set while Axe serves as a backup.
  • Axe offers 2 gapclosers that could help you get in range for Spear's Mind the Gap.

• Feel free to use Phantasmal Lancer while roaming between capture points, it's a mobility skill with Swiftness.

• Using shatter skills with 3 active clones grants you Mirage Cloak and access to Ambush attacks via Dune Cloak.
  • You'd often use shatters along with Ambushes for burst damage anyways, so it's important to keep track of your clone count, because if you have 3 clones you don't have to waste a dodge for Ambush access.
  • This has defensive applications too, since any random shatter like Mind Wrack with 3 clones will give you an evade frame, even while CC'd.
  • Spear is especially good at raising your clone count, as Phantasmal Lancer summons 2 phantasms that turn into clones later.

• You can build clones instantly with the help of 2 traits:
  • Deceptive Evasion summons a clone whenever you dodge.
  • Self-Deception creates a clone IF you already had an active clone and use a Deception skill like Jaunt.

• Mind the Gap on Spear or Lingering Thoughts on Axe + dodge + Jaunt can quickly bring you up to 3 clones.

• The active of Signet of the Ether drastically cuts the recharge of your phantasm skills. Always try to make sure that the phantasm skill of your current weapon has been used before touching your healing skill, otherwise you'll miss out on valuable CD reductions.

Damage

• CC skills are an important part of your bursts because they increase your damage via various traits:
  • Power Block grants a strong damage modifier.
  • Furious Interruption stacks Might and even Quickness.
  • Dazzling + Illusion of Vulnerability apply Vulnerability, which is something even your team can benefit from.

Spear

• Mind the Gap (MTG) is the bread and butter of spear, it's both the main burst skill and its central mechanic.

• Whenever you score a hit with MTG you gain Clarity, which empowers your next skill. Therefore MTG should almost always be the first skill you use on Spear.

• MTG does more damage and has a higher crit chance if the target is near the outer edge of the skill. Try to use it from just outside melee range!

• Phantasmal Lancer isn't just a Phantasm skill. If you can hit an enemy with the leap itself, you'll remove some boons too.
  • Clarity: summon 2 Phantasms.

• The main purpose of Mental Collapse is to reset the CD of MTG and serve as a gap closer for it.
  • Clarity: stuns the target.

• While Imaginary Inversion is mainly a defensive skill on this set, it does quite high damage in melee and can be used to safely counterpressure enemies.

Spear burst rotation

1. Mind the Gap while trying to hit enemies with the outer ring.
2. Mental Collapse which is now empowered and stuns targets.
3. Mind the Gap again. Try to walk away from the stunned target while casting it in order to put them inside the outer ring of MTG.
4. Phantasmal Lancer which should now summon 2 Phantasms due to having Clarity.

Sustain

• Condition cleansing is a weakpoint of the build. You don't have any mass cleanses, only a bunch of smaller ones you can chain together: Sigil of Cleansing on weapon swap, Jaunt (elite) and Imaginary Inversion on Spear.
  • Distortion could act as a time-out button too.
  • Most of these are instant, which at least makes them easier to chain.

• Power Mirage in general is one of the squishiest specs in PvP. Your best defense is a good offense, try to CC enemies and keep them pressured when you're in melee. Use your mobility to bail at the first sign of trouble, and re-engage when you're feeling safe. Don't hesitate to use your bigger CDs either, it's a very aggressive build that wants short fights anyways.

• You should abuse the fact that you can attack while dodging. Oftentimes your dodges will be used to limit windows of vulnerability when you're pressuring targets in melee, and since dodging opens up Ambush attacks, you have an opportunity to counterpressure targets whenever you dodge something, putting enemies on the backfoot and creating some breathing room for yourself.

• Instant CCs like Power Spike and Diversion are key parts of your sustain along with teleport skills such as Blink and Jaunt.

• Blink is your only stunbreak, but you still have several other options for dealing with stunlocks. You can teleport away with Jaunt, hit them with Diversion, buy time with Distortion - just to mention a few options.

• Axe/Shield is the far stronger defensive set.

• Axe has Axes of Symmetry for breaking enemy targeting or repositioning by targeting an enemy that isn't focusing you (or they're on a highground and the others aren't). You can even use it on a Necromancer's Flesh Wurm or objects like a Trebuchet to escape.

• On Shield you've got Echo of Memory for blocking attacks. If any attack is blocked, you can use its chain skill Deja Vu for another block.
  • Always make sure that you block something with EoM! Move into hostile AoE spells if necessary, tank enemy pets, etc.
  • Both of these are phantasm skills, which means that you can reduce their CD with Signet of the Ether in case you need to block but the skill isn't ready yet.

• Tides of Time can also be used defensively, since it's a (double) CC. It stuns targets in the direction you're aiming, and then once more as it comes back to you.

• Spear only really has Imaginary Inversion, but it's basically a stronger version of the Shield block since it gives Blur, and Blur is like a discount version of Distortion. You have to cast it and it won't prevent condition damage, but it's stronger than a block because it's unaffected by unblockables.

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