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Focused on: Mobility, Hybrid damage and Interrupts

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Difficulty:

TBD

Overview

A WvW celestial Mirage roaming build dealing both power and condition damage, focusing on constant pressure and interrupts.

Skillbar

Dagger/Pistol

Sword/Torch

Utility

Variants

Utility

• Arcane Thievery
  can be replaced with
  Mantra of Resolve
  if you struggle with condition cleanse.

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Specializations

Variants

• Desert Distortion
  can be replaced with
  Mirage Mantle
  for boon strip on
  Mirage Thrust
  .

Equipment

Head
Celestial

Shoulders
Celestial

Chest
Celestial

Hands
Celestial

Legs
Celestial

Feet
Celestial

Backpiece
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Amulet
Celestial

Ring
Celestial

Ring
Celestial

Dagger
Celestial

Pistol
Celestial

Sigil

Sigil

Sword
Celestial

Torch
Celestial

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Equipment Variants

Relics

The following Relics are good alternatives, depending on the situation and prefered playstyle:

• Relic of the Mirage
  - additional Torment for more Damage.
• Relic of Akeem
  - higher burst than
  Relic of the Mirage
  but less consistent condition application.
• Relic of the Nightmare
  - adds a CC to
  Jaunt
  .

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 over its duration:
  Phantom Razor
  for Dagger and
  Mirage Thrust
  for Sword. Ambush skills replace the autoattack of the weapons for 1.5 seconds.

• You can dodge while casting skills and performing actions such as rezing or stomping, but NOT while CC'd.

General

• With this build you want to keep your clones alive to take advantage of
  Infinite Horizon
  . Your offensive weapon set is Dagger/Pistol, if possible you want to use
  Illusionary Ambush
  while in this weapon set and with three clones active. You also want to prefere dodging over
  Illusionary Ambush
  whenever possible, since it is a pseudo stunbreak. When using Sword/Torch you want to take a more defensive stance, using
  Mirage Thrust
  as a mobility tool. It is up to you to judge if your opponent is weak enough to finish him off or if you should play defensively until you switch back to dagger.

Mobility

• Between
  Mirage Thrust
  ,
  Jaunt
  and
  Blink
  this build is highly mobile and should be able to keep up with any opponent.
  Illusionary Ambush
  and
  Swap
  can be used as additional mobility tools if necessary.

Surviving

• The ability of Mirage to be offensive while dodging is already an excellent survivability tool as such. You most likely will be able to put your opponent on the defensive simply by going full speed ahead, without having to worry about your own health. Just be sure not to waste your dodges. Ideally you want to actually dodge something, rather than using it to just get your ambush skills.

• Remember that getting away to fight another day is better than to die trying. You have the mobility to disengage from bad fights, use it.

• Keep
  Arcane Thievery
  until you really need it. While this skill could be used offensively to rip boons, against a condition based opponent you want to hold it back until you actually need the cleanse.

Damage

• Cry of Frustration
  is your primary damage shatter skill, followed by
  Mind Wrack
  .

• While the burst combos below include shatters for maximum damage, often times you want to keep your clones alive if you can't finish your opponent. This alows for more damage in the long run because of
  Infinite Horizon
  .

Burst Combo examples

Dagger/Pistol:

1. Phantasmal Duelist
2. Magic Bullet
3. Bladecall
4. Dodge
5. Phantom Razor
   (Phantom Razor)
6. Jaunt
7. Cry of Frustration

Sword/Torch:

1. The Prestige
2. Phantasmal Mage
3. Illusionary Leap
4. Dodge
5. Swap
6. Mirage Thrust
7. Jaunt
8. Cry of Frustration