Build:Mirage - Condi Mirage

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: Condition damage

Designed for: Open World, Open World General and [[|]]

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on March 29, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Condi Staff-Staff Mirage is a very simple yet effective build that revolves around spamming 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 very high Torment, Bleeding, and Confusion damage.

It is currently one of the strongest open world builds, capable of soloing champions and bosses with ease thanks to its damage, its evasiveness, clones tanking for you, and its mobility. Its only weakness is the lack of burst damage.

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Skill Bar

Staff

Staff

Utility

Weapon Variants

This particular build requieres two staves to function.

When tagging events, you can consider swapping one staff for a Greatsword with Sigil of Superior Sigil of Fire and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Stamina. This provides low damage but great tagging potential by spamming Split Surge, but you will need gear with significant Power and Crit, such as Viper or Celestial, to ensure tag credit. Gear such as Trailblazer will not work for this purpose.

Additionally, an Axe and Torch can be used if desired, however this version of the build is considerably weaker and not recommended for open world.

Skill Variants

• Signet of Midnight and Signet of Domination provide the highest sustained damage through their passive, so you only use them in emergencies. If damage is not a concern, you could sometimes use different utility skills.

Utility skills

• Sand Through Glass - evade, stunbreak, and Mirage Mirror.
• Mantra of Resolve - if conditions are a problem.
• Feedback - to reflect projectiles.
• Mimic - situationally powerful.
• Portal Entre - can be useful, especially when zerging.
• Blink - stunbreak and movement.
• Arcane Thievery - steals boons, sends conditions, gives Quickness, and does some CC through Slow.

Elite skill

• Mass Invisibility - 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

• Mirage Mantle - extra defense.
• On fights against boses where your clones can stay alive just fine so Deceptive Evasion is wasted, you can instead use Blinding Dissipation + Ineptitude for more Confusion.
• On the topic of Dueling vs. Illusions traitlines, Dueling is always better due to the synergy of several traits.
  • Critical Infusion provides Vigor for more Chaos Vortex and more condition damage thanks to Nomad's Endurance.
  • Master Fencer + Phantasmal Fury + Sharper Images provide even more Bleeding damage.
  • Deceptive Evasion removes the need for Self-Deception, allowing use of Renewing Oasis which provides superb synergy with Illusionary Membrane and Chaotic Persistence.

Equipment

This set uses the same gear as Build:Mirage_-_Alacrity_Support_Condi_DPS, making it a good option for general PVE. 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

Infusion
x13

Infusion
x5

• Full Viper gear is enough to maintain permanent Regeneration, 25 Might, Fury, and Alacrity since the duration of boons from Chaos Vortex scales with the number of clones that use this skill thanks to Infinite Horizon.
• Additional boon duration is not required, however if you feel that you need more, use consumables to gain additional duration rather than altering gear.

Consumables

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
• - farming
• - dps
• - budget DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• - dps
• , - budget dps
• - dps if using gear with high toughness

Usage

Mirage Cloak

Mirage Cloak is the profession mechanic of the mirage. Whever 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, or even during the effects of crowd control.

Clone generation

• 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 inmediatly use Chaos Vortex 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.

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.

Damage

• The bast majority of your damage comes from auto attacking and casting Chaos Vortex with 3 clones up, thanks to Infinite Horizon.
• You should always have 3 clones up. Check the clone generation section above.
• Since clones are so important for your damage, this build only uses Cry of Frustration when you can inmediatly generate 3 clones again.
• If your target is about to die you can finish them off with Mind Wrack.
• Weapon swap any time you're under 50% endurance.

Defense

• You can use your dodge Mirage Cloak at any time, even during other actions, even while under crowd control.
• Use Jaunt to reposition and cleanse 1 condition.
• Abuse your Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy for frequent dodges.
• Sand Through Glass can provide a strong stunbreak.
• You dodge very often, so you'll dodge some attacks without even trying.
• 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.

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)

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