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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

Sword/Pistol

Dagger/Torch

Utility

Variants

Utility

• Arcane Thievery can be replaced with Mantra of Resolve if the build struggles with condition cleanse.

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Specializations

Variants

• Mirage Mantle can be replaced with Desert Distortion for more sustain and additional ambush attacks.

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

Sword
Celestial

Pistol
Celestial

Sigil

Sigil

Dagger
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 playstlye:

• Relic of Evasion - higher Vigor uptime which is the most important boon in the build.
• 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

• While the offhand weapons could be swapped, Pistol offers a quick way for Sword to get into combat at 1200 range. This matters as you can't get clones from dodging while out of combat. While Illusionary Leap + Swap could be used as your opener, this leaves you with no way to instantly get to three clones again, since Phantasmal Mage takes a long time to turn into a clone.

• The playstyle of this build changes significantly depending on the weapon set you are in:
  • When using Sword/Pistol most of your damage comes from rappidly generating and then shattering clones. Since both dodging and Mirage Thrust each generate a clone, you essentially get two clones per dodge. To maximize shatter damage you want to follow either Phantasmal Duelist or Illusionary Leap with a dodge + Mirage Thrust to get a total of three clones.
  • When using Dagger/Torch you want to keep your clones alive to take advantage of Infinite Horizon. If possible you want to use Illusionary Ambush while in this weapon set and with three clones active.

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 the enemy on the defensive simply by going full speed ahead without having to worry about your own health. Just be sure not to waste ambush attacks into blocks or dodges of an opponent that starts the fight in a defensive stance. This mistake will make you a sitting duck, since you wasted not just your offensive but also your defensive potential.

• 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 enemy you want to hold it back until you really need the cleanse.

Damage

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

• The build offers a surprising amount of sustained pressure through constant shatters and ambush attacks. Since ambush attacks in both weapon sets also Daze it becomes very difficult for the enemy to get any counter measures through.

Combo examples

Sword/Pistol:

1. Phantasmal Duelist
2. Magic Bullet
3. Dodge
4. Mirage Thrust
5. Cry of Frustration
6. Illusionary Leap
7. Dodge
8. Swap for Immobile
9. Mirage Thrust
10. Mind Wrack

Dagger/Torch:

1. The Prestige
2. Phantasmal Mage
3. Dodge
4. Phantom Razor (Phantom Razor)
5. Bladecall
6. Dodge, if no dodge is needed defensively use Unstable Bladestorm before dodging
7. Phantom Razor (Phantom Razor)
8. Illusionary Ambush, wait until Phantasmal Mage has turned into a clone
9. Cry of Frustration