Build:Mirage - Condi Daze Spammer

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Focused on: Condition damage, Control and Mobility

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

Overview

A PvP condition Mirage build designed to roam the map and +1 fights. The build uses its boon removal and constant stream of CC to shut down and finish off enemies.

Archival note: Dagger ambush rework killed the build. Trying to salvage it would just give us Carrion Axe

Skill Bar

Dagger/Pistol

Sword/Torch

Utility

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Specializations

Variants

• Self-Deception could improve your clone generation at the expense of defense against conditions.

Equipment

Dagger

Pistol

Sigil

Sigil

Sword

Torch

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Relics

• Relic of Evasion - this makes your condi variety worse and gives up valuable healing reduction via Poison, but Vigor is the single most important boon on Mirage. With this relic you gain better survivability, extra condi damage stats and get to spam your ambush attacks more often.

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 the duration: Mirage Thrust for sword and Phantom Razor for dagger. Ambush skills replace the autoattack of the weapons for 1.5 seconds.

• Pressing dodge grants increased movement speed and Regeneration, which reduces incoming condition duration while it lasts thanks to Renewing Oasis. Infinite Horizon makes it so that whenever you gain Mirage Cloak, your clones are also going to receive it with all benefits including access to ambush attacks - it can even make your clones evade skills such as Full Counter, denying your opponent various bonuses.

• You can dodge while casting skills or stomping/rezing, but you can't dodge while CC'd.

Mobility

• Sword's Mirage Thrust is perfect for moving around the map or disengaging from fights (when used without a target). Consider using Mind Wrack while roaming between capture points for the Vigor from Nomad's Endurance, as endurance fuels your ambush attacks.

General

• The gameplan is quite simple: dodge rolling summons a clone and makes all of your clones unload ambush attacks. Your goal is to build up your clone count and spam ambushes on enemies in order to score interrupts.

• The entire build was built around Dagger's Phantom Razor - it stacks conditions while making it hard for opponents to get any skill casts off with the Daze spam. While the daze has an extremely short duration all we really care about here are interrupts to proc Power Block and Relic of the Demon Queen. Eventually you'll lock enemies out of most of their important skills with Power Block while spamming them with conditions.

• On Dagger/Pistol open with Phantasmal Duelist and Magic Bullet, interrupts reduce the CD of pistol skills so spamming dagger ambush attacks is going to recharge them in no time.

• Shatter skills remove boons, which is a great way of getting rid of Stability and opening up targets for more Daze spam.

• Sword's ambush skill also dazes targets but in terms of damage it lags behind Dagger. It's quite good at softening up targets however as it removes boons.

• On Sword Torch the 2 best defensive skills are Blurred Frenzy for avoiding attacks and The Prestige for condition removal/blind/stealth.

Burst combo examples

Dagger/Pistol

1. Unstable Bladestorm
2. Phantasmal Duelist
3. Magic Bullet
4. Bladecall to summon a clone.
5. Dodge
6. Phantom Razor
7. Illusionary Ambush
8. Use your Pistol skills once again if they got recharged by the interrupts.

Sword/Torch

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

Related Builds

• Celestial Daze Spammer Roamer - WvW version of the build.