Build: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:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on December 09, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Staff-staff mirage is a very simple yet effective build that revolves around spamming the Ambush Chaos Vortex 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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Skill Bar

Staff

Staff

Utility

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 Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy.

• 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 Sigil of Superior Sigil of Stamina and spam Split Surge.

Skill Variants

Utility skills

Signet of Midnight and Signet of Domination provide the highest sustained damage through their passive, so only use their active skill in emergencies.
Crystal Sands provides damage and more Ambushes. Crystal Sands can be replaced by other skills if the need arises:

• Sand Through Glass - evade, stunbreak, and Mirage Cloak. Removes Immobile which prevents you from dodging.
• Mantra of Resolve - if conditions are a problem.
• Feedback - to reflect projectiles.
• Mimic - situationally powerful.
• Portal Entre - can be useful, especially when playing in groups.
• Blink - stunbreak and movement.

Elite skill

Jaunt deals good damage, can teleport you out of danger, cleanses 1 condition, and is a leap finisher (See also:Guide:What are Combo Fields).

• Signet of Humility - sacrifices damage for the ability to delete a defiance bar.
• Mass Invisibility - very situational to run past enemies or commune with Hero Points in stealth, use together with Prismatic Understanding 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 Deceptive Evasion is wasted. In these scenarios you can instead use Blinding Dissipation + Ineptitude for more damage through Confusion.
• Illusionary Defense - you don't Shatter too often with this build, but some occasional Protection can be useful.
• When playing staxe, use Mirrored Axes and Duelist's Discipline. 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.

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Staff
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Trapper can only be crafted. If you can't acquire them right away, you can use Rune of Superior Rune of the Afflicted 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 Renewing Oasis provides permanent Regeneration to enable Chaotic Persistence 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 Mirrored Axes 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

Mirage Cloak is the profession mechanic of the mirage. Whenever you dodge or pick up a Mirage Mirror, 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 Phantasmal Warlock will summon 2 clones.
• Phase Retreat 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 Deceptive Evasion, and it will immediately use its Ambush skill due to Infinite Horizon.
• Since your clones are very important in this build, you can time your dodges to make your clones dodge dangerous attacks thanks to Infinite Horizon. This trait also stunbreaks your clones when you dodge.
• For staxe, Phantasmal Duelist and Lingering Thoughts summon 1 clone.

Damage

The vast majority of your damage comes from auto attacking and casting Chaos Vortex with 3 clones up, thanks to Infinite Horizon. Try to always have 3 clones attacking.

• You should allow yourself and your clones to use one Winds of Chaos inbetween each Chaos Vortex, as it does more damage than spamming Chaos Vortex. Infinite Horizon 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 Axes of Symmetry.
• Since clones are so important for your damage, this build only uses Cry of Frustration when you can immediately generate 3 clones again. If your target is about to die, you can finish them off with Mind Wrack.
• Use Chaos Armor, Crystal Sands and False Oasis off cooldown.
• Weapon swap any time you're under 50% endurance to restore endurance thanks to Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy. 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 Illusionary Membrane. Increase your Chaos Aura uptime by using combo finishers such as Phase Retreat and Jaunt inside ethereal combo fields such as Chaos Storm or Lesser Chaos Storm from Method of Madness. (see also: Guide:What are Combo Fields)

Boons

• This build provides permanent 25 Might and Alacrity to yourself and nearby allies through Chaos Vortex. The duration of these boons scales with the number of clones that use this skill (which is only possible thanks to Infinite Horizon), so try to maintain 3 clones up.
• Winds of Chaos will also provide Might and Fury to allies it bounces to. Master Fencer also helps with fury. And the increased critical chance enables Sharper Images.
• Renewing Oasis provides permanent self Regeneration. This enables Chaotic Persistence.

Priority

1. Phantasmal Warlock
2. Dodge + Chaos Vortex + Winds of Chaos
3. Chaos Armor
4. Chaos Storm
5. Phase Retreat - only if clones are needed

Defense

• You can use your dodge Mirage Cloak at any time, even during other actions, but not while under the effects of hard crowd control.
• Use Jaunt to reposition and cleanse 1 condition.
• Abuse your Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy for frequent dodges. You dodge so often that you'll dodge some attacks without even trying.
• Distortion sacrifices your clones for invulnerability.
• Chaos Armor blinds trash mobs.
• Against enemies with projectiles, hide behind your clones.
• Thanks to Bountiful Disillusionment, your Shatters provide stability. However, do not rely on this as this build wants to have high clone uptime.
• Phase Retreat - to reposition or gain distance
• Sand Through Glass can provide a strong stunbreak.

Crowd Control

• Chaos Storm - 1 second Daze
• Diversion - 1 second Daze from you AND each clone shattered, so up to 4 seconds of Daze.
• Signet of Domination - 3 seconds of Stun (as a last resort)
• Magic Bullet - 2.5 seconds of Stun (staxe only)
• Signet of Humility - (variant option)

Video examples

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