Build:Mirage - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

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 and Support

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on May 08, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A condition DPS Mirage build that also provides permanent Alacrity and 25 stacks of Might to 5 players by spamming the ambush skill Chaos Vortex. It excels against bosses that attack a lot due to a large portion of its damage coming from Confusion. It is also highly survivable and can easily avoid boss attacks because it is in Mirage Cloak for most of its rotation. Also incidentally provides Fury, Aegis and Resolution to party members through Winds of Chaos and Master Fencer.

Skill Bar

Staff

Staff

Utility

Weapon Variants

One of your staffs may be swapped for Axe/Pistol. This will be a significant increase in damage but severely reduces your Alacrity generation dependent on how many staff clones you maintain, so you will need another source of Alacrity to make it permanent. Two mirages running Staff & Axe/Pistol will provide more damage than one Staff mirage and one DPS mirage.

Skill Variants

• Feedback over Signet of Domination if you need reflects.

Template Code

[&DQcBJS0dOxnuFSMP4BV/AYEBgQGDAYMBRhe8AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=]

Copy Template Code

Specializations

Trait Variants

• Take Duelist's Discipline and Mirrored Axes if you are using the Axe variant.
• Bountiful Disillusionment if your uptime of Vigor or Regeneration isn't permanent. Use Distortion immediately after another shatter to not waste any clones.
• Self-Deception is used to cover more mistakes, or instances where clones die unexpectedly. If you are confident that it will not be needed, Riddle of Sand is more damage, and Renewing Oasis could be used if Regeneration uptime is not permanent.
  • If running the Axe variant, it is important not to run Self-Deception as you don't want to generate any staff clones when you don't want to.

Equipment

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Ritualist

Chest
Ritualist

Hands
Ritualist

Legs
Ritualist

Feet
Ritualist

Backpiece
Ritualist

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Ritualist

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Staff
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x5

Infusion
x13

• This setup has ~17% boon duration (not including the extra from Chaotic Persistence)

Boon Duration Variants

The minimum boon duration (not including the extra from Chaotic Persistence) required is ~10%, but in practise it is recommended to go higher. The recommended setup uses ~17%, which can be achieved in several ways.

If you do not have access to Ritualist stats gear:

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Traveler provides the required boon duration, but also gives you +36 toughness, which could be a problem in raids.
  • To make up for the lower condi duration, use (or alternatives).
• and/or is also an option.
  • will get you to the minimum boon duration, but it is not recommended to go this low unless you're very confident.

In fractals, the extra concentration and endurance regeneration from mobility potions may allow you to run with less boon duration on your gear, or play the Axe/Pistol variant without compromising Alacrity.

Consumables

Food

• or ascended alternatives

Utility

• or

Usage

Rotation

Opener

1. Phantasmal Warlock
2. Phase Retreat
3. Jaunt
4. False Oasis
5. Crystal Sands
6. Dodge and cast Chaos Vortex
7. Chaos Storm
8. Cry of Frustration just before your Phantasms transform into clones (approximately 4 seconds after your cast Phantasmal Warlock)
9. Jaunt to regain your third clone

Rest of the Rotation

After the opener above you want to be dodging as often as you can to trigger Chaos Vortex.

• Try to cast Cry of Frustration off cooldown, and immediately recover three clones.
  • The best way to recover clones on this build is using Phase Retreat, then immediately using Jaunt back into position and casting either False Oasis or Crystal Sands.
  • It is worth slightly delaying skills that generate clones in order to guarantee you can get back to three as soon as possible.
• Use Chaos Storm off cooldown, but don't prioritize it over Chaos Vortex.
• Use Chaos Armor off cooldown.
• Use Crystal Sands off cooldown.
  • Be mindful of your where you place the Mirage Mirror, as you will want to be able to access them later.
  • The Mirage Mirror spawns in the center of the skill's AoE marker.
• Keep a charge or two of Jaunt for mobility or in case you run out of clones for some reason.

Video example

Video example (Riddle of Sand)

Video example (Staff + Axe/Pistol)

General Tips

• Make sure to collect the Mirage Mirrors from False Oasis and Crystal Sands for extra casts of Chaos Vortex.
• Dodge as much as possible while leaving yourself endurance to evade attacks. Be sure to only weapon swap when below 50% endurance so as not to waste any of the endurance gained from Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy.
• Jaunt and Chaos Armor can be cast during other skills' channels.
  • Make sure to never use Jaunt during Chaos Vortex as this will create new clones due to the Self-Deception and will cancel the clone attacks.
• Make sure to never Weapon swap during the animation of Chaos Vortex as this will cancel the Ambush attack.
• If your target is about to attack, you can slightly delay Chaos Storm in order to trigger Chaotic Interruption. This trait will trigger even against foes with defiance bars, provided they are using a skill.
• If you're not comfortable with timing Cry of Frustration to your phantasms in the opening rotation, you can simply delay it a few seconds until Phase Retreat is off cooldown for easier timing at a very small DPS loss.
• False Oasis and Cry of Frustration have the same cooldown, so you may find it easy to always use False Oasis after shattering for clone recovery.
• Phantasmal Warlock is a DPS loss if used regularly in your rotation, but can be useful to apply vulnerability if your squad is lacking other sources.